Uruguay at the Copa América

The Copa América is South America's major tournament in senior men's soccer and determines the continental champion. Until 1967, the tournament was known as South American Championship. It is the oldest continental championship in the world with its first edition held in 1916.

Uruguayan players celebrating the 3-0 victory against Paraguay in the 2011 Copa América final.

The Uruguayan squad that won the inaugural South American Championship in 1916.

Uruguay won the inaugural tournament in Argentina, making them the first nation to hold an international football title worldwide. They are the most successful team in tournament history with 15 titles, leading their rivals from Argentina by one.

Until 1927, the South American Championship was held annually, and Uruguay were the dominating team during this early era, winning six out of eleven tournaments. Part of all six victorious squads was inside-forward Ángel Romano, who holds the record for most titles and for most tournament participations (9).

Record at the Copa América

South American Championship
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1916	Champions	1st	3	2	1	0	6	1
1917	Champions	1st	3	3	0	0	9	0
1919	Runners-up	2nd	4	2	1	1	7	5
1920	Champions	1st	3	2	1	0	9	2
1921	Third Place	3rd	3	1	0	2	3	4
1922	Third Place	3rd	4	2	1	1	3	1
1923	Champions	1st	3	3	0	0	6	1
1924	Champions	1st	3	2	1	0	8	1
1925	Withdrew
1926	Champions	1st	4	4	0	0	17	2
1927	Runners-up	2nd	3	2	0	1	15	3
1929	Third Place	3rd	3	1	0	2	4	6
1935	Champions	1st	3	3	0	0	6	1
1937	Third Place	3rd	5	2	0	3	11	14
1939	Runners-up	2nd	4	3	0	1	13	5
1941	Runners-up	2nd	4	3	0	1	10	1
1942	Champions	1st	6	6	0	0	21	2
1945	Fourth Place	4th	6	3	0	3	14	6
1946	Fourth Place	4th	5	2	0	3	11	9
1947	Third Place	3rd	7	5	0	2	21	8
1949	Sixth Place	6th	7	2	1	4	14	20
1953	Third Place	3rd	6	3	1	2	15	6
1955	Fourth Place	4th	5	2	1	2	12	12
1956	Champions	1st	5	4	1	0	9	3
1957	Third Place	3rd	6	4	0	2	15	12
1959	Sixth Place	6th	6	2	0	4	15	14
1959	Champions	1st	4	3	1	0	13	1
1963	Withdrew
1967	Champions	1st	5	4	1	0	13	2
Copa América
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1975	Semi-finals	4th	2	1	0	1	1	3
1979	Group Stage	6th	4	1	2	1	5	5
1983	Champions	1st	8	5	2	1	12	6
1987	Champions	1st	2	2	0	0	2	0
1989	Runners-up	2nd	7	4	0	3	11	3
1991	Group Stage	5th	4	1	3	0	4	3
1993	Quarter-finals	6th	4	1	2	1	5	5
1995	Champions	1st	6	4	2	0	11	4
1997	Group Stage	9th	3	1	0	2	2	2
1999	Runners-up	2nd	6	1	2	3	4	9
2001	Fourth Place	4th	6	2	2	2	7	7
2004	Third Place	3rd	6	3	2	1	12	10
2007	Fourth Place	4th	6	2	2	2	8	9
2011	Champions	1st	6	3	3	0	9	3
2015	Quarter-finals	7th	4	1	1	2	2	3
2016	Group stage	11th	3	1	0	2	4	4
2019	Quarter-finals	6th	4	2	2	0	7	2
2021	Eligible to enter
2024	Eligible to enter
Total	15 titles	44/46	200	110	36	54	406	219

* Draws include matches decided on penalties.

Winning Finals

In the era of the South American Championship, Round Robins were more commonly played than knock-out tournaments. Listed are the decisive matches which secured Uruguay the respective titles.

Year	Match Type	Opponent	Result	Manager	Goal Scorer(s)	Final Location
1916	Round Robin	Argentina	0-0	Alfredo Foglino		Avellaneda
1917	Round Robin	Argentina	1-0	Ramón Platero	H. Scarone	Montevideo
1920	Round Robin	Chile	2-1	Ernesto Fígoli	Á. Romano, J. Pérez	Vina del Mar
1923	Round Robin	Argentina	2-0	Leonardo De Lucca	P. Petrone, P. Somma	Montevideo
1924	Round Robin	Argentina	0-0	Ernesto Meliante		Montevideo
1926	Round Robin	Paraguay	6-1	Ernesto Fígoli	H. Castro (4), Z. Saldombide (2)	Santiago
1935	Round Robin	Argentina	3-0	Raúl Blanco	H. Castro, J. Taboada, A. Ciocca	Lima
1942	Round Robin	Argentina	1-0	Pedro Cea	B. Zapirain	Montevideo
1956	Round Robin	Argentina	1-0	Hugo Magnulo	J. Ambrois	Montevideo
1959	Round Robin	Argentina - Brazil	4-1	Juan Carlos Corazzo		Guayaquil
1967	Round Robin	Argentina	1-0	Juan Carlos Corazzo	P. Rocha	Montevideo
1983	Final, Second Leg	Brazil	1-1	Omar Borrás	C. Aguilera	Salvador da Bahia
1987	Final	Chile	1-0	Roberto Fleitas	P. Bengoechea	Buenos Aires
1995	Final	Brazil	1-1 (5-3 pen.)	Héctor Núñez	P. Bengoechea	Montevideo
2011	Final	Paraguay	3-0	Óscar Tabárez	L. Suárez, D. Forlán (2)	Buenos Aires

Record by Opponent

CONCACAF Championship/Gold Cup matches (by team)
Opponent	Wins	Draws	Losses	Total	Goals Scored	Goals Conceded
Argentina	13	4	14	31	36	42
Bolivia	12	1	2	15	48	6
Brazil	9	8	9	26	40	37
Chile	19	4	7	30	62	28
Colombia	6	2	3	11	18	9
Costa Rica	1	1	0	2	3	2
Ecuador	14	1	3	18	66	11
Honduras	0	1	1	2	2	3
Jamaica	2	0	0	2	4	0
Japan	0	1	0	1	2	2
Mexico	1	2	3	6	7	11
Paraguay	14	6	6	26	54	33
Peru	12	3	6	21	42	25
United States	1	0	0	1	1	0
Venezuela	6	2	1	9	21	6
TOTAL	110	36	55	201	406	220

Record Players

Ángel Romano is a sixtuple South American champion and Uruguay's record participant both in number of tournaments and in number of matches. In addition, he scored 12 goals during that time, ranking him Third in Uruguay's top scorer list at continental championships.

No.	Name	Matches	Tournaments
1	Ángel Romano	21	1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1924 and 1926
1	Schubert Gambetta	21	1941, 1942, 1945 and 1947
3	Roberto Porta	20	1939, 1941, 1942 and 1945
	Obdulio Varela	20	1939, 1941, 1942, 1945 and 1946
	Diego Pérez	20	2001, 2004, 2007 and 2011
6	Pascual Somma	19	1916, 1917, 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923
6	William Martínez	19	1953, 1955, 1956 and 1959 (ARG)
8	Héctor Scarone	18	1917, 1919, 1923, 1924, 1926 and 1927
	Diego Forlán	18	2004, 2007 and 2011
	Maxi Pereira	18	2007, 2011, 2015 and 2016

Top Goalscorers

Severino Varela scored five goals each at three separate continental championships, making him Uruguay's top scorer at continental championships.

No.	Name	Goals	Tournaments
1	Severino Varela	15	1937 (5), 1939 (5) and 1942 (5)
2	Héctor Scarone	13	1917 (2), 1919 (1), 1923 (1), 1926 (6) and 1927 (3)
3	Ángel Romano	12	1917 (4), 1920 (3), 1921 (2), 1924 (2) and 1926 (1)
3	Roberto Porta	12	1939 (3), 1941 (1), 1942 (5) and 1945 (3)
5	Pedro Petrone	10	1923 (3), 1924 (4) and 1927 (3)
	Héctor Castro	10	1926 (6), 1927 (2) and 1935 (2)
	Javier Ambrois	10	1956 (1) and 1957 (9)
8	Nicolás Falero	9	1945 (1) and 1947 (8)
9	José María Medina	7	1946
	Guillermo Escalada	7	1956 (3), 1959 [ARG] (2) and 1959 [ECU] (2)
	José Sasia	7	1957 (1), 1959 [ARG] (3) and 1959 [ECU] (3)

Players with several titles

No.	Name	Championships
1	Ángel Romano	6 (1916, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926)
2	Pascual Somma	4 (1916, 1917, 1920, 1923)
	Héctor Scarone	4 (1917, 1923, 1924, 1926)
	José Nasazzi	4* (1923, 1924, 1926, 1935)
5	Alfredo Foglino	3 (1916, 1917, 1920)
	José Pérez	3 (1916, 1917, 1920)
	Antonio Urdinarán	3 (1916, 1917, 1920)
	José Piendibene	3 (1916, 1917, 1920)
	Alfredo Zibechi	3 (1916, 1920, 1924)
	José Vanzzino	3 (1916, 1917, 1926)
	José Leandro Andrade	3 (1923, 1924, 1926)
	Alfredo Ghierra	3 (1923, 1924, 1926)
	Andrés Mazali	3 (1923, 1924, 1926)
	Santos Urdinarán	3 (1923, 1924, 1926)
	Enzo Francéscoli	3 (1983, 1987, 1995)
16	28 players	2

* Additionally, José Nasazzi won the title once as head coach of Uruguay in 1942.

Awards and Records

Team Awards

Champions 15x (1916, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1935, 1942, 1956, 1959 [ECU], 1967, 1983, 1987, 1995, 2011)
Second Place 6x (1919, 1927, 1939, 1941, 1989, 1999)
Third Place 8x (1921, 1922, 1929, 1937, 1947, 1953, 1957, 2004)
Fair Play Award 1x (2011)

Individual Awards[1]

MVP 1916: Isabelino Gradín
MVP 1917: Héctor Scarone
MVP 1920: José Piendibene
MVP 1923 and 1935: José Nasazzi
MVP 1924: Pedro Petrone
MVP 1926: José Leandro Andrade
MVP 1942: Obdulio Varela
MVP 1956: Oscar Míguez
MVP 1959 [ECU]: Alcides Silveira
MVP 1967: Pedro Rocha
MVP 1983 and 1995: Enzo Francéscoli
MVP 1989: Ruben Sosa
MVP 2011: Luis Suárez
MVP 2019: Dani Alves
Top scorer 1916: Isabelino Gradín (3 goals)
Top scorer 1917: Ángel Romano (4 goals)
Top scorer 1920: Ángel Romano+José Pérez (3 goals) (shared)
Top scorer 1923: Pedro Petrone (3 goals) (shared)
Top scorer 1924: Pedro Petrone (4 goals)
Top scorer 1927: Pedro Petrone+Héctor Scarone+Roberto Figueroa (3 goals) (shared)
Top scorer 1946: José María Medina (7 goals)
Top scorer 1947: Nicolás Falero (8 goals)
Top scorer 1957: Javier Ambrois (9 goals) (shared)
Top scorer 1983: Carlos Aguilera (3 goals) (shared)
Best Young Player 2011: Sebastián Coates

Team records

Most titles: 15
Most matches played: 201

Individual records

Most goals in one tournament: Javier Ambrois (9 goals in 1957, shared with Jair in 1949 and Humberto Maschio in 1957)
Most tournament participations: Ángel Romano (9, 1916-1926)

References

"The Copa América Archive". July 19, 2007. Retrieved April 4, 2019.

External links

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[1] "The Copa América Archive". July 19, 2007. Retrieved April 4, 2019.