Panamerican Championship
Organizing body | Panamerican Football Confederation |
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Founded | 1952 |
Abolished | 1960 |
Region | Americas |
Number of teams | 4 (1960) |
Related competitions | |
Last champion(s) | Argentina (1960) |
Most successful team(s) | Brazil (2 titles) |
The Panamerican Championship was an international football tournament held by the Panamerican Football Confederation every four years with three editions held from 1952 through 1960.[1]
The competition was similar to the Copa América but included nations from the North American Football Confederation (NAFC) and the Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol (CCCF) (which merged to form CONCACAF in 1961).
History
Panamerican Football Confederacion
The Panamerican Football Confederation (Spanish: Confederación Panamericana de Fútbol) was an confederation founded in 1946 to unify the three existing confederations, CONMEBOL, NAFC, and CCCF. the confederation only competition was Panamerican Championship, the championship had 3 editions which the champions were only Brazil having two titles and one for Argentina. The Panamerican Championship was organized by Panamerican Football Confederation [2][3] as an attempt to create an Americas-wide, each winners of NAFC, CCCF, Copa America and the Host would qualified to the Tourment, since the Americas' premier tournament, Copa América, was restricted to South American teams, The confederation was dissolved on 1961 with the exit of CONMEBOL, both NAFC and CCCF were merged to form CONCACAF on 1961.
Members
NAFC
CCCF
- Aruba
- Costa Rica
- Cuba (Former NAFC member 1946-1955)
- Curaçao (Later Netherlands Antilles)
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Suriname
Conmebol
Participants
NAFC
CCCF
CONMEBOL
Results
Ed. | Year | Host city | Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place |
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1 | 1952 | Santiago, Chile | Brazil | Chile | Uruguay | Peru |
2 | 1956 | Mexico City, Mexico | Brazil | Argentina | Costa Rica | Peru |
3 | 1960 | San José, Costa Rica | Argentina | Brazil | Mexico | Costa Rica |
Performance by nation
Team | Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Appearances |
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Brazil | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 (1952, 1956, 1960) |
Argentina | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 (1956, 1960) |
Chile | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 (1952, 1956) |
Costa Rica | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 (1956, 1960) |
Mexico | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 (1952, 1956, 1960) |
Uruguay | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 (1952) |
Peru | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (1952, 1956) |
Panama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1952) |
All-time top scorers
Rank | Nat. | Player | Goals | Played |
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1 |
Valeriano López | 7 |
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2 |
Andrés Prieto | 6 |
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3 |
Oscar Míguez | 5 |
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Omar Sívori | 5
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Julio Abbadie | 5
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4 |
Chinesinho | 4 |
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Carlos Septién | 5
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Larry | 5
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Baltazar | 5
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Rodrigues Tatu | 5
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Pinga | 5
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Jorge Monge | 5
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5 |
Humberto Maschio | 3 |
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Osvaldo Nardiello | 5
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Juarez | 5
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Raúl Belén | 6
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Sigifredo Mercado | 6
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Elton | 6
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See also
- CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions
- AFC–OFC Challenge Cup
- Afro-Asian Cup of Nations
- 1993 Copa América
- Copa América Centenario
- 2024 Copa América
References
- ^ Panamerican Championship Archived 2023-04-09 at the Wayback Machine by Macario Reyes on the RSSSF
- ^ Memoria y Balance AFA 1946, p. 29 Archived 2022-03-08 at the Wayback Machine on AFA website
- ^ Triunfos y Tristezas del equipo Tricolor: Historia de la Selección Mexicana de Fútbol- México: EDAMEX. pp. 26-36 - ISBN 968-409-832-4
- Panamerican Championship
- Sports competitions in the Americas
- Defunct international association football competitions in South America
- Defunct international association football competitions in North America
- International association football competitions in Central America
- Recurring sporting events established in 1952
- Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1960
- 1952 establishments in North America
- 1960 disestablishments in North America
- 1952 establishments in South America
- 1960 disestablishments in South America