Copa América 1995
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The 1995 Copa América
Copa América
The Copa América —previously known as South American Championship—is an international football competition contested between the men's national teams of CONMEBOL, the sport's continental governing body...

football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 tournament was staged in Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

. It was won by Uruguay
Uruguay national football team
The Uruguayan national football team represents Uruguay in international association football and is controlled by the Uruguayan Football Association, the governing body for football in Uruguay. The current head coach is Óscar Tabárez...

, who beat Brazil
Brazil national football team
The Brazil national football team represents Brazil in international men's football and is controlled by the Brazilian Football Confederation , the governing body for football in Brazil. They are a member of the International Federation of Association Football since 1923 and also a member of the...

 5-3 in the penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw in the final. All 10 CONMEBOL
CONMEBOL
The South American Football Confederation , commonly known as CONMEBOL , is the continental governing body of association football in South America and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations...

 members took part, with Mexico
Mexico national football team
The Mexican national football team represents Mexico in association football and is governed by the Mexican Football Federation , the governing body for football in Mexico. Mexico's home stadium is the Estadio Azteca and their head coach is José Manuel de la Torre...

 and the USA
United States men's national soccer team
The United States men's national soccer team represents the United States in international association football competitions. It is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation and competes in CONCACAF...

 invited in order to reach 12 teams.

The USA were the surprise of the tournament, beating defending champion Argentina
Argentina national football team
The Argentina national football team represents Argentina in association football and is controlled by the Argentine Football Association , the governing body for football in Argentina. Argentina's home stadium is Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti and their head coach is Alejandro...

 3-0 and winning its group. The USA went on to defeat Mexico on penalty kicks in the second round but then lost to Brazil 1-0 in the semifinals. They then fell to Colombia
Colombia national football team
The Colombian national football team represents Colombia in international football competitions and is controlled by the Colombian Football Federation. It is a member of the CONMEBOL...

 4-1 in the third place game, finishing fourth overall.

In this edition of the tournament, extra time was never played if a match was drawn after 90 mins. Instead it went straight to a penalty shootout.

Venues

City Stadium name Map Capacity
Maldonado
Maldonado, Uruguay
Maldonado is the capital of Maldonado Department of Uruguay. It is located on Route 39 and shares borders with Punta del Este to the south, Pinares - Las Delicias to the south and to the east and suburb La Sonrisa to the north. Together they all for a unified metropolitan area. East of the city...

Estadio Campus Municipal
Estadio Domingo Burgueño
Estadio Domingo Burgueño is a multi-use stadium in Maldonado, Uruguay. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 22,000 people and was built in 1994....

34.914564°N 54.954815°W 22,000
Montevideo
Montevideo
Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...

Estadio Centenario
Estadio Centenario
Estadio Centenario is a stadium in Parque Batlle, Montevideo, Uruguay, used primarily for football. The stadium was built between 1929 and 1930 to host the 1930 FIFA World Cup, as well as to commemorate the centennial of Uruguay's first constitution...

34.894661°N 56.15284°W 65,235
Paysandú
Paysandú
-Transportation:The city is served by Tydeo Larre Borges International Airport.-Climate:Paysandú has a humid subtropical climate, described by the Köppen climate classification as Cfa. Summers are warm to hot and winters are cool, with the occurrence of frosts and fog...

Estadio Parque Artigas
Estadio Parque Artigas
Estadio Parque Artigas is a multi-use stadium in Paysandú, Uruguay. It is currently used mostly for football matches of Paysandú FC. The stadium holds 25,000 and was built in 1994. It hosted matches during the 1995 Copa America....

32.322961°N 58.072593°W 25,000
Rivera
Rivera
Rivera is the capital of Rivera Department of Uruguay. It is located at the north end of Route 5, on the border with Brazil. The Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento is right across the border, only a street away of it...

Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera
Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera
Estádio Atilio Paiva Olivera is a multi-use stadium in Rivera, Uruguay. It is currently used mostly for football matches.The stadium holds 28,000 people. It was used for the 1995 Copa América and the 1999 South American Under-17 Football Championship...

30.908521°N 55.548377°W 30,000

Match officials

  Argentina
  • Javier Castrilli
    Javier Castrilli
    Javier Castrilli is a former football referee from Buenos Aires, Argentina.He worked as a referee from 1980 to 1998, earning the nickname El Sheriff due to his character and decisions on the field by strictly imposing the rules of the game...




  Bolivia
  • Pablo Peña
    Pablo Peña
    Pablo Peña Duran is a former Bolivian football referee. He is best known for having supervised two matches during the Copa América : Uruguay vs. Venezuela and Colombia vs. Ecuador .-References:*...




  Brazil
  • Márcio Rezende de Freitas
    Márcio Rezende de Freitas
    Márcio Rezende de Freitas is a former Brazilian football referee. He has refereed more than 1100 games, 269 of these in national championships, between 1989 and 2005. He was present in the World Championship and at the Olympic Games. He was considered, in 2004, one of the 10 best referees in the...




  Chile
  • Salvador Imperatore



  Colombia
  • Óscar Ruiz
    Oscar Ruiz
    Óscar Julián Ruiz Acosta is a Colombian football referee. He is also a lawyer.He has been a referee since 1 January 1995, and his international debut was on 12 July 1995 . He officiated in the 2002, 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cups.His decision was criticized in the Netherlands vs...




  Ecuador
  • Alfredo Rodas


  Mexico
  • Marco Antonio Rodríguez
    Marco Antonio Rodríguez
    Marco Antonio Rodríguez Moreno is a Mexican football referee. In his homeland, he is commonly nicknamed "Chiquidrácula" due to his resemblance to a Mexican TV character of child Count Dracula, portrayed by Carlos Espejel...

  • Arturo Brizio Carter
    Arturo Brizio Carter
    Arturo Brizio Carter . Is a former football referee from Mexico. He is mostly known for supervising 6 matches in the FIFA World Cup. Three in both 1994 and 1998. He gave seven expulsions and 29 yellow cards in those six matches.-External links:*...




  Paraguay
  • Félix Benegas



  Peru
  • Alberto Tejada



  Uruguay
  • Ernesto Filippi
    Ernesto Filippi
    Ernesto Filippi Cavani is a former Uruguayan football referee. He is known for supervising one match during the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States.-References:*...

  • Eduardo Dluzniewski
    Eduardo Dluzniewski
    Eduardo Dluzniewski is a former Uruguayan football referee. He is known for having supervised two matches during the 1995 Copa América in Uruguay: Argentina vs. Bolivia and Ecuador vs. Peru .-References:*...




  United States
  • Raúl Domínguez



  Venezuela
  • Paolo Borgosano


First round

The teams were divided into three groups of four teams each.

Each team plays one match against each of the other teams within the same group. Three (3) points are awarded for a win, one (1) point for a draw and zero (0) points for a defeat.

First and second placed teams, in each group, advance to the quarter-finals.
The best third placed team and the second best third placed team, also advance to the quarter-finals.
  • Tie-breaker
    • If teams finish leveled on points, the following tie-breakers are used:
    1. greater goal difference in all group games;
    2. greater number of goals scored in all group games;
    3. winner of the head-to-head match between the teams in question;
    4. drawing of lots.

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners, runners-up, and best two third-placed teams advance to the quarter-finals

Group A

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
7 3 2 1 0 6 2
4
6 3 2 0 1 5 4
1
4 3 1 1 1 5 4
1
0 3 0 0 3 4 10 −6

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Group B

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
9 3 3 0 0 6 0
6
4 3 1 1 1 2 4 −2
3 3 1 0 2 2 3 −1
1 3 0 1 2 2 5 −3

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Group C

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
6 3 2 0 1 5 2
3
6 3 2 0 1 6 4
2
4 3 1 1 1 4 4 0
1 3 0 1 2 3 8 −5

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Ranking of third-placed teams

At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third-placed teams of each group. The two third-placed teams with the best results advanced to the quarter-finals.
Group Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
A 4 3 1 1 1 5 4
1
C 4 3 1 1 1 4 4 0
B 3 3 1 0 2 2 3 −1

Bracket

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Third-place match

Final

Individual scorers

4 goals Gabriel Batistuta
Gabriel Batistuta
Gabriel Omar Batistuta , nicknamed Batigol, is a former professional footballer. The prolific Argentine striker played most of his club football at Fiorentina in Italy, and he is the tenth top scorer of all-time in the Italian Serie A league, with 184 goals in 318 matches...

 Luis García

3 goals Abel Balbo Túlio
Túlio Costa
Túlio Humberto Pereira Costa , sometimes simply referred as Túlio or Túlio Maravilha for his great creativity on the field and for his charisma, is a former Brazilian international football forward. He has scored more than 900 goals and intends to score the 1000th with Botafogo...

 Freddy Rincón Eric Wynalda
Eric Wynalda
Eric Boswell Wynalda is a retired American soccer player, and former sports broadcaster. He was the co-host of Fox Football Fone-In on Fox Soccer Channel and is currently employeed as the president of international operations at Mexican third division club Murcielagos.Wynalda scored the first goal...

 Marcelo Otero
Marcelo Otero
Marcelo Alejandro Otero Larzábal is a retired Uruguayan football player. He was nicknamed "Marujo" during his career, and is the younger brother of Raul Otero....



2 goals Edmundo
Edmundo
Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto , better known simply as Edmundo, is a retired Brazilian footballer.Edmundo played for Brazil at the 1998 World Cup. For Palmeiras, he won the Campeonato Brasileiro in the beginning of the Nineties. For Vasco da Gama he won 1997's Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, scoring...

 Ivo Basay
Ivo Basay
Ivo Alexis Basay Hatibovic is a retired football striker from Chile, who played professional football for seventeen years...

 Faustino Asprilla
Faustino Asprilla
Faustino Hernán "Tino" Asprilla Hinestroza is a former Colombian football player. He was known by his supporters in his home country as The Octopus for his voracious appetite...

 José Cardozo
José Cardozo
José Saturnino Cardozo Otazú is a former Paraguayan football striker.-Club career:Cardozo began his professional career in 1988, making his debut for River Plate of Paraguay. After four years in River, he moved to Swiss club FC St. Gallen, where he played from 1990 to 1992...

 Juan Villamayor Daniel Fonseca
Daniel Fonseca
Daniel Fonseca Garis is an Uruguayan former footballer, now a football agent . As a forward, he played for Italy's S.S.C Napoli, A.S. Roma and Juventus....

 Enzo Francescoli
Enzo Francescoli
Enzo Francescoli Uriarte is a former uruguayan football player of Italian and Spanish origin, who retired in 1997. An elegant and highly skillful dribbler, passer, and goal-scorer, Francescoli was nicknamed El Príncipe or Le Prince...

 José Luis Dolgetta

Own goals René Higuita
René Higuita
José René Higuita Zapata is a former Colombian football goalkeeper nicknamed El Loco...

 Iván Hurtado
Iván Hurtado
Iván Jacinto Hurtado Angulo is an Ecuadorian professional football central defender for Barcelona as well as captaining the Ecuadorian national team. He is currently one of the most capped male footballers of all time....

 Jorge Campos
1 goal Diego Simeone Demetrio Angola
Demetrio Angola
Demetrio Angola Langaveri is a former Bolivian soccer striker who played at the 1995 Copa América for the Bolivian national team. He wore the No.7 shirt and scored one goal against Argentina. He spent most of his career playing for Club Jorge Wilstermann.-References:**...

 Marco Etcheverry
Marco Etcheverry
Marco Antonio Etcheverry Vargas is a retired Bolivian footballer, considered one of the greatest Bolivian players of all time.-Career:...

 Miguel Mercado
Miguel Mercado
Miguel Ángel Mercado Melgar , is a former Bolivian football striker who spent most of his career playing for Bolívar....

 Mauricio Ramos
Mauricio Ramos
Mauricio J. Ramos Méndez is a retired Bolivian football midfielder. He played 35 international matches and scored 1 goal for the Bolivia national team, including an appearance in the 1994 FIFA World Cup....

 Carlos Sánchez Aldair Leonardo
Leonardo Araújo
Leonardo Nascimento de Araújo, known as Leonardo , is a football manager and a former midfielder. He is currently active as director of football of French club Paris Saint-Germain....

 Ronaldão
Ronaldo Rodrigues de Jesus
Ronaldo Rodrigues de Jesus is a former Brazilian national team defensive football player, better known on the football pitch as Ronaldo and Ronaldão ....

 Zinho
Crizam César de Oliveira Filho
Crizam César de Oliveira Filho, better known as Zinho , is a retired Brazilian footballer.He was a member of the 1994 FIFA World Cup winning team, Brazil. He was capped 57 times between March 1989 and February 1998...

 Sebastián Rozental
Sebastián Rozental
Sebastián Rozental Igualt is a retired Chilean-Israeli professional football player.On the club level, Rozental has played for Universidad Católica , Colo-Colo , and Unión Española in his native Chile, Rangers in Scotland, where he became the first player from South America to play for the...

 Luis Quiñónez Carlos Valderrama Energio Díaz
Energio Díaz
Energio Díaz is a retired footballer from Ecuador, who played as a striker during his career. He obtained five caps for the Ecuador national football team in 1995, scoring three goals, including one at the 1995 Copa América....

 José Mora
José Mora
José Mora was a Spanish sculptor and pupil of Alonzo Cano. He died in Granada in 1725 and was buried in the Albaicin church. His work can be usefully studied in the eight statues in the Capella del Cardenal...

 Eduardo Espinoza
Eduardo Espinoza
Eduardo Espinoza Ramos is a Peruvian politician. He is currently a Congressman representing Cajamarca for the period 2006-2011, and belongs to the Union for Peru party.-References:...

 Carlos Gamarra
Carlos Gamarra
Carlos Alberto Gamarra Pavón is a former football player. He captained the Paraguay national team at international level, playing at Centre back, and is the most capped player in Paraguayan football history, having made 110 international appearances and scoring 12 goals.Gamarra is known for his...

 Adriano Samaniego
Adriano Samaniego
Adriano Samaniego Giménez ; is a former football striker.-Club:Samaniego started his football career in the youth divisions of Club Olimpia of Paraguay. His debut in the first team squad was in 1981...

 Roberto Palacios
Roberto Palacios
Roberto Carlos Palacios Mestas is a Peruvian football midfielder from the district of Chorrillos in Lima, the capital of Peru.-Biography:...

 Edgardo Adinolfi
Edgardo Adinolfi
Edgardo Alberto Adinolfi Duarte is a Uruguayan football player. He has played club football in Uruguay, Israel, Argentina, Cyprus and Spain.-International career:...

 Pablo Bengoechea
Pablo Bengoechea
Pablo Javier Bengoechea Dutra is a Uruguayan former professional footballer. A midfielder of exquisite technique, he played for several clubs in Uruguay and Spain. He was the captain of the club C.A. Peñarol and the Uruguay national team.He did also play at 1990 World Cup...

 Gustavo Poyet
Gustavo Poyet
Gustavo Augusto Gus Poyet Domínguez is a former Uruguay international footballer and current manager of English side Brighton & Hove Albion.During his playing career, Poyet featured for teams including Real Zaragoza, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur....

 Marcelo Saralegui Frank Klopas
Frank Klopas
Fotios "Frank" Klopas is a retired Greek-American soccer forward and midfielder. Klopas is currently the Head Coach for the Chicago Fire...

 Alexi Lalas
Alexi Lalas
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 Joe-Max Moore
Joe-Max Moore
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 Gabriel Miranda
Gabriel Miranda
Gabriel Antonio Miranda is an Uruguayan - Venezuelan football midfielder who made a total number of seventeen appearances for the Venezuela national team between 1994 and 1997. He started his professional career at Caracas FC, and also played in Argentina, Ecuador and Mexico.-External links:...



Final positions

Team
1 6 4 2 0 11 4
7
14 77.8%
2 6 4 2 0 10 3
7
14 77.8%
3 6 2 2 2 7 8
8 44.4%
4 6 2 1 3 6 7
7 38.9%
Eliminated in the Quarterfinals
5 4 2 1 1 8 6
2
7 58.3%
6 4 2 1 1 6 5
1
7 58.3%
7 4 1 2 1 5 4
1
5 41.7%
8 4 1 1 2 5 6
4 33.3%
Eliminated in the First Stage
9 3 1 0 2 2 3
3 33.3%
10 3 0 1 2 2 5
1 25.0%
11 3 0 1 2 3 8
1 25.0%
12 3 0 0 3 4 10
0 0.0%

See also

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