Panamerican Championship
- Copa América
- CONCACAF Gold Cup
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(2 titles)
The Panamerican Championship was an international official 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 Championship
Panamerican Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Panamericano de Fútbol) and (Portuguese: Campeonato Panamericano de futebol) was an tourment founded in 1949 to unify the three existing confederations, CONMEBOL, NAFC, and CCCF, the championship had 3 editions which the champions were Brazil having two titles and one for Argentina. [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.
Panamerican Football Confederation
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Formation | 1946; 78 years ago (1946) |
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Dissolved | 1961; 63 years ago (1961) |
Type | Sports organization |
Membership | 32 members associations |
The Panamerican Football Confederation (PFC) was a football confederation founded in 1946 in an attempt to unite all the countries of the Americas into a single confederation. It consisted of the North American Football Confederation (NAFC), the Central American and Caribbean Football Confederation (CCCF) and the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL).The confederation was dissolved on 1961 with the exit of CONMEBOL, both NAFC and CCCF were merged to form CONCACAF on 1961
Participants
NAFC
CCCF
CONMEBOL
Results
Ed. | Year | Host city | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Fourth place |
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1 | 1952 | Santiago, Chile | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2 | 1956 | Mexico City, Mexico | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
3 | 1960 | San José, Costa Rica | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Performance by nation
Team | Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Appearances |
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![]() | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 (1952, 1956, 1960) |
![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 (1956, 1960) |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 (1952, 1956) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 (1956, 1960) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 (1952, 1956, 1960) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 (1952) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (1952, 1956) |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1952) |
All-time top scorers
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Rank | Nat. | Player | Goals | Played |
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1 | ![]() | Valeriano López | 7 | 5 |
2 | ![]() | Andrés Prieto | 6 | 2 |
3 | ![]() | Oscar Míguez | 5 | 5 |
![]() | Omar Sívori | 5 | ||
![]() | Julio Abbadie | 5 | ||
4 | ![]() | Chinesinho | 4 | 3 |
![]() | Carlos Septién | 5 | ||
![]() | Larry | 5 | ||
![]() | Baltazar | 5 | ||
![]() | Rodrigues Tatu | 5 | ||
![]() | Pinga | 5 | ||
![]() | Jorge Monge | 5 | ||
5 | ![]() | Humberto Maschio | 3 | 4 |
![]() | Osvaldo Nardiello | 5 | ||
![]() | Juarez | 5 | ||
![]() | Raúl Belén | 6 | ||
![]() | Sigifredo Mercado | 6 | ||
![]() | Elton | 6 |
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
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