Copa America is one of the biggest football tournament in the world. Copa America is older football tournament that the FIFA World Cup. Though Copa America i regarded as quadrennial tournament, it has been organized in irregular intervals from the past.

Copa America was started from 1916, and it used to be organized every year at that time. Sometimes, Copa America was organized after 2 years, sometimes after 4 years, five years. Till date, 45 editions of Copa America has been concluded.



Among those 46 editions, Argentina has hosted the most number of times, i.e. 9 times. Chile and Uruguay had hosted 7 times each, Peru 6 times and Brazil 5 times. Similarly, Ecuador had hosted 3 times and Bolivia has hosted in 2 occasions. Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela and US had hosted 1-1 time each. In three of the editions, the host nation was not fixed.

Uruguay is the most successful team in South America as they had won the Copa America 15 times, Argentina had won 14 times and Brazil have won 9 times. Similarly, Chile, Paraguay and Peru had won 2-2 times each. Colombia and Bolivia had won single time each.

S.no. YearsWinners
1.1916Uruguay
2.1917Uruguay
3.1919Brazil
4.1920Uruguay
5.1921Argentina
6.1922Brazil
7.1923Uruguay
8.1924Uruguay
9.1925Argentina
10.1926Uruguay
11.1927Argentina
12.1929Argentina
13.1935Uruguay
14.1937Argentina
15.1939Peru
16.1941Argentina
17.1942Uruguay
18.1945Argentina
19.1946Argentina
20.1947Argentina
21.1949Brazil
22.1953Paraguay
23.1955Argentina
24.1956Uruguay
25.1957Argentina
26.1959/ 1959Uruguay/ Argentina
28.1963Bolivia
29.1967Uruguay
30.1975Peru
31.1979Paraguay
32.1983Uruguay
33.1987Uruguay
34.1989Brazil
35.1991Argentina
36.1993Argentina
37.1995Uruguay
38.1997Brazil
39.1999Brazil
40.2001Colombia
41.2004Brazil
42.2007Brazil
43.2011Uruguay
44.2015Chile
45.2016Chile
46.2019Brazil