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Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol South American Football Confederation
Formation	9 July 1916
Type	Sports organization
Headquarters	Luque, Gran Asunción, Paraguay
Membership	10 member associations
Secretary General	Eduardo de Luca
President	Nicolás Leoz
Website	www.conmebol.com

The South American Football Confederation (Spanish: Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol; Portuguese: Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol), known by the acronym CONMEBOL or CSF, is the governing body of football (soccer) in most of South America and is one of FIFA's six continental confederations.

CONMEBOL was founded in 1916 under the initiative of Uruguayan Héctor Rivadavia Gómez, but approved by the football associations of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. Over the years, the other football associations in South America joined, with the last being Venezuela in 1952. Guyana, Suriname, and the French overseas department of French Guiana, while geographically in South America, are not part of CONMEBOL. These three territories are part of CONCACAF, mainly due to historical, cultural, and sporting reasons. At ten member nations, CONMEBOL is the smallest FIFA confederation.

CONMEBOL is one of the two dominant confederations in FIFA, along with UEFA. CONMEBOL teams have won nine of the eighteen FIFA World Cup tournaments, while only having hosted the tournament four times. CONMEBOL is also the only confederation in FIFA to have won the World Cup outside its own continent and on every single continent that the tournament has been hosted (mainly due to Brazil), whereas a European team has never been able to win the tournament outside of the European continent. Two of the top seven teams in the FIFA World Rankings are CONMEBOL members (Brazil and Argentina). CONMEBOL is the only confederation in the world to have three teams that have won the FIFA World Cup at least two times each (Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay), and has in its ranks the most successful national team in World Cups (Brazil, with a leading five World Cups). The confederation has also fared well in club tournaments. CONMEBOL clubs have won 22 Intercontinental Cups and three FIFA Club World Cups, one trophy more than UEFA clubs.

Among the tournaments conducted by CONMEBOL are the Copa Libertadores (analogous to the UEFA Champions League) and the Copa Sudamericana (analogous to the UEFA Europa League), both for club teams, and Copa América for men's national teams.

Members

Country	Association	Founded	Joined	National team	Top division
Argentina	AFA	1893	1916	ARG (M,W)	Primera División
Bolivia	FBF	1925	1926	BOL (M,W)	Liga Profesional
Brazil	CBF	1914	1916	BRA (M,W)	Série A
Chile	FFC	1895	1916	CHI (M,W)	Primera División
Colombia	FCF	1924	1936	COL (M,W)	Primera A
Ecuador	FEF	1925	1927	ECU (M,W)	Serie A
Paraguay	APF	1906	1921	PAR (M,W)	División Profesional
Peru	FPF	1922	1925	PER (M,W)	Primera División
Uruguay	AUF	1899	1916	URU (M,W)	Primera División
Venezuela	FVF	1926	1952	VEN (M,W)	Primera División

Tournaments organized by CONMEBOL

Between nations

• Copa América (since 1916)
• Sudamericano Femenino (women's championship, since 1991)
• Copa América de Futsal
• South American Under 20 Football Championship
• South American Under 17 Football Championship
• South American Under 15 Football Championship
• South American Under 20 Women's Championship
• South American Under 17 Women's Championship
• South American Under 20 Futsal Championship
• South American Women's Futsal Championship
• CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament (defunct)

Between clubs

• Copa Libertadores
• Copa Libertadores de Fútbol Femenino (women's Copa Libertadores, since 2009)
• Copa Sudamericana
• Recopa Sudamericana
• Suruga Bank Championship
• South American Club Championship (defunct)
• Supercopa Sudamericana (defunct)
• Copa CONMEBOL (defunct)
• Copa Mercosur (defunct)
• Copa Merconorte (defunct)
• Copa Ganadores de Copa (defunct)
• Copa Oro (defunct)
• Supercopa Masters (defunct)
• Copa Masters Conmebol (defunct)

World Cup qualifiers

Although CONMEBOL countries represent only a small fraction of the world, their teams have won half of the World Cup tournaments. They have won tournaments in all 4 continents that the FIFA World Cup has so far been held in, this is mostly due to Brazil, although Argentina won Mexico '86. Brazil have won World Cups in all 4 continents where it's been held (Africa's first hosting will be South Africa 2010): Europe (1958), South America (1962), North America (1970, 1994) and Asia (2002).

Performance at World Cup finals

This is the list of the teams that participated of each World Cup. For further information on the qualification process and withdrawals, see the (Q) corresponding links (the first World Cup of 1930 didn't have any qualification process).

Marked in bold are host countries

Men's World Cup Finals

Legend

• 1st – Champion
• 2nd – Runner-up
• 3rd – Third place
• 4th – Fourth place
• SF – Semifinals (only in 1930, when no third-place match was held)^[1]
• QF – Quarterfinals (1934–1938, 1954–1970, and since 1986: knockout round of 8)
• R2 – Round 2 (1974–1978, second group stage, final 8; 1982: second group stage, final 12; since 1986: knockout round of 16)
• R1 – Round 1
•    — Hosts

Team	1930	1934	1938	1950	1954	1958	1962	1966	1970	1974	1978	1982	1986	1990	1994	1998	2002	2006	2010	2014	Total
Argentina	2nd	R1				R1	R1	QF		R2	1st	R2	1st	2nd	R2	QF	R1	QF	•		15
Bolivia	R1			R1											R1						3
Brazil	R1	R1	3rd	2nd	QF	1st	1st	R1	1st	4th	3rd	R2	QF	R2	1st	2nd	1st	QF	•		19
Chile	R1			R1			3rd	R1		R1		R1				R2			•		8
Colombia							R1							R2	R1	R1					4
Ecuador																	R1	R2			2
Paraguay	R1			R1		R1							R2			R2	R2	R1	•		8
Peru	R1								QF		R2	R1									4
Uruguay	1st			1st	4th		R1	QF	4th	R1			R2	R2			R1		•		11
Venezuela																					0
Total	7	2	1	5	2	3	5	4	3	4	3	4	4	4	4	5	5	4	5	TBD	74

Women's World Cup Finals

The following table shows the CONMEBOL representatives at each edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, sorted by alphabetical order.

Team	1991	1995	1999	2003	2007	2011	Total
Argentina				R1	R1		2
Bolivia							0
Brazil	R1	R1	3rd	QF	2nd		5
Chile							0
Colombia							0
Ecuador							0
Paraguay							0
Peru							0
Uruguay							0
Venezuela							0
Total	1	1	1	2	2	TBD	7

Men's Confederations Cup Finals

Team	1992	1995	1997	1999	2001	2003	2005	2009	2013	Total
Argentina	1st	2nd					2nd			3
Bolivia				R1						1
Brazil			1st	2nd	4th	R1	1st	1st		6
Chile										0
Colombia						4th				1
Ecuador										0
Paraguay										0
Peru										0
Uruguay			4th							1
Venezuela										0

CONMEBOL presidents

Headquarters of CONMEBOL in Luque, Paraguay

• 1916-1936 Héctor Rivadavia Gómez
• 1936-1939 Luis O. Salesi
• 1939-1955 Luis Valenzuela Hermosilla
• 1955-1957 Carlos Dittborn Pinto
• 1957-1959 José Ramos de Freitas
• 1959-1961 Fermín Sorhueta
• 1961-1966 Raúl H. Colombo
• 1966-1986 Teófilo Salinas Fuller
• 1986-0000 Nicolás Léoz

Rankings

National teams

Zonal Ranking	FIFA Ranking	Country	Points
1	2	Brazil	1568
2	8	Argentina	1085
3	15	Chile	936
4	20	Uruguay	909
5	29	Paraguay	806
6	37	Ecuador	738
7	39	Colombia	736
8	50	Venezuela	646
9	56	Bolivia	573
10	68	Peru	471

As of Dec. 17, 2009.^[2]

Clubs

Zonal Ranking	IFFHS Ranking	Club	Points
1	8	Estudiantes	239,0
2	9	Cruzeiro	235,0
3	12	Grêmio	210,0
4	15	LDU Quito	195,0
5	22	Palmeiras	181,0
6	26	Universidad de Chile	177,5
7	35	Boca Juniors	165,0
8	37	San Lorenzo	164,0
9	41	Libertad	156,0
10	45	Fluminense	154,0

As of Dec. 2, 2009.^[3]

See also

• IFFHS South America's best clubs of the 20th century

References

External links

• (Spanish) Conmebol Official Website
  • (English) Official English version

• (English) South American Futbol: Soccer News dedicated to South America

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