2024 Copa América Group A
Group A of the 2024 Copa América was one of four groups in the first stage of the tournament. The tournament involved national teams from CONMEBOL (South America) but also includes invited teams from the CONCACAF region (North, Central America and the Caribbean), that qualified via the 2023–24 CONCACAF Nations League.[1]
The group was made up of defending, eventual, and incumbent world champions Argentina, Peru and Chile, all three from CONMEBOL, and Canada from CONCACAF.[2] The draw for the groups was conducted on December 7, 2023, with Argentina being previously seeded into the group.[3] The group's matches, which include the opening match of the tournament between Argentina and Canada, took place from June 20–29 at six venues in six U.S. cities.[4]
The top two teams, following a round-robin of three matches per team, advanced to the quarterfinals.[5]
Teams
[edit]Draw position | Team | Pot | Confederation | Method of qualification |
Appearances | Previous best performance |
FIFA Rankings | ||
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Total | Last | November 2023[nb 1] | June 2024 | ||||||
A1 (seed) | 1 | CONMEBOL | Automatic qualifier | 44th | 2021 | Winners (Fifteen times, last in 2021) | 1 | 1 | |
A2 | 2 | CONMEBOL | Automatic qualifier | 34th | 2021 | Winners (1939 and 1975) | 35 | 31 | |
A3 | 3 | CONMEBOL | Automatic qualifier | 41st | 2021 | Winners (2015 and 2016) | 40 | 40 | |
A4 | 4[nb 2] | CONCACAF | CONCACAF play-in round winners | 1st | None | Debut | 48[nb 2] | 48 |
- Notes
- ^ The rankings of November 2023 were used for seeding for the final draw, except for certain cases.
- ^ a b As the identity of the CONCACAF 5 team was not known at the time of the groups draw, positions in the FIFA Rankings were not taken into account, and the placeholder in the draw was automatically seeded into pot 4.[6][7]
Standings
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | +5 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage | |
2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 4 | ||
3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | ||
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 1 |
In the quarterfinals:
- The winner of Group A, Argentina, advanced to play the runner-up of Group B, Ecuador.
- The runner-up of Group A, Canada, advanced to play the winner of Group B, Venezuela.
Matches
[edit]All kick-off times are local times, as listed by CONMEBOL.[8][4]
Argentina vs Canada
[edit]The match marked Canada's debut in the Copa América, becoming the 20th team (10th outside of CONMEBOL teams) to compete in the tournament.[9] The two teams had met only once before, a friendly match in May 2010 won 5–0 by Argentina.[10][11]
Argentina[13]
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Canada[13]
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Man of the Match:
Assistant referees:[15]
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Peru vs Chile
[edit]The two teams had faced each other in 84 previous matches,[16] including 21 times in the Copa América with eight wins for Chile, seven wins for Peru along with six draws.[17] Their most recent encounter was a 2–0 home win for Chile in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification in October 2023.[16]
Peru[19]
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Chile[19]
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Man of the Match:
Assistant referees:[15]
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Peru vs Canada
[edit]The two teams had met once before, a friendly match won 2–0 by Peru in September 2010.[20] Another precedent between both sides is a friendly match won 3–1 by Canada in 1988; however, this encounter was not considered an international "A" match by FIFA as Peru had fielded their U19 team.[21][22]
Shortly before the end of the first half, assistant referee Humberto Panjoj suffered a decompensation apparently due to the high temperatures in the stadium 32 degrees (91 °F) with a feels-like temperature of 38 (101 °F) with 51% humidity, so he had to leave for medical attention and was replaced by fifth official Ricardo Baren.[23][24] With the 1–0 win, Canada achieved their third ever victory over a CONMEBOL opponent, the last time being a 2–0 over Colombia in the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup final.[25]
Peru[27]
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Canada[27]
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Man of the Match:
Assistant referees:[28]
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Chile vs Argentina
[edit]The two teams had faced each other in 90 previous matches,[29] including 29 times in the Copa América with a wide advantage for Argentina who won 21 of those matches with 8 draws and no Chilean victories, although Chile won on penalties in the two finals they played in 2015 and 2016.[30][31] Their most recent meeting was a 2–1 home win for Argentina in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification in January 2022.[29]
Chile[33]
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Argentina[33]
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Man of the Match:
Assistant referees:[28]
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Argentina vs Peru
[edit]The two teams had faced each other in 54 previous matches,[34] including 17 times in the Copa América with 12 wins for Argentina, three wins for Peru along with two draws.[35][36] Their most recent meeting was a 2–0 away win for Argentina in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification in October 2023.[37]
With the 2–0 defeat, Peru was eliminated in the group stage for the first time since 1995, snapping a streak of 10 consecutive tournaments advancing to the knockout stage. Peru also left the tournament without scoring a goal for the first time in its history.[38]
Argentina | 2–0 | |
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Report (CONMEBOL) Report (CONCACAF) |
Argentina[40]
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Peru[40]
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Man of the Match:
Assistant referees:[42]
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Canada vs Chile
[edit]The two teams had met in four previous matches,[43] all of them friendlies, with two wins for Chile, one victory for Canada and one draw. The two most recent were the 2–1 and 2–0 Chilean victories in May and October 1995, respectively.[44][45][46]
With the scoreless draw, Canada secured its place in the quarterfinals and became the third CONCACAF team to advance to the knockout stage in its tournament debut.[47] For Chile, it was its first group stage exit since 2004 and the first time they left the tournament without scoring a goal since 1917.[48][49]
Canada[51]
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Chile[51]
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Man of the Match:
Assistant referees:[42]
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External links
[edit]- Official website
- 2024 CONMEBOL Copa América at CONMEBOL.com