CONMEBOL:
CONMEBOL or CSF (Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol, South American Football Confederation) is the governing body of football (soccer) in most of South America and one of FIFA's six continental confederations. It was founded by Uruguayan Héctor Rivadavia Gómez. 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, whereas Europe 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 also 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).
CONMEBOL has produced more world club champions than Europe, and has also won the first three out of four editions of the FIFA Club World Cup.
Even though they are located in South America, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas department of French Guiana are not members of Conmebol - for historical, cultural and mainly sporting reasons their national associations are members of CONCACAF.
Among the tournaments conducted by CONMEBOL are the Copa Libertadores de América (analogous to the UEFA Champions League) and the Copa Sudamericana (analogous to the UEFA Cup), both for club teams, and Copa América for men's national teams.
[edit] Member countries
 Argentina - national team - first division - association (created in 1893, co-founded CONMEBOL in 1916) Bolivia - national team - first division - association (created in 1925, joined CONMEBOL in 1926) Brazil - national team - first division - association (created in 1914, co-founded CONMEBOL in 1916) Chile - national team - first division - association (created in 1895, co-founded CONMEBOL in 1916) Colombia - national team - first division - association (created in 1924, joined CONMEBOL in 1936) Ecuador - national team - first division - association (created in 1925, joined CONMEBOL in 1927) Paraguay - national team - first division - association (created in 1906, joined CONMEBOL in 1921) Peru - national team - first division - association (created in 1922, joined CONMEBOL in 1925) Uruguay - national team - first division - association (created in 1899, co-founded CONMEBOL in 1916) Venezuela - national team - first division - association (created in 1926, joined CONMEBOL in 1952)
[edit] Tournaments organized by CONMEBOL
[edit] Between nations
[edit] Between clubs
[edit] 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: Europe (1958), South America (1962), North America (1970, 1994) and Asia (2002).
[edit] 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
| Year |
Q |
Winner |
Runner-up |
Third place |
Fourth place |
Other |
| 1930 |
— |
Uruguay |
Argentina |
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Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru |
| 1934 |
Q |
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Argentina, Brazil |
| 1938 |
Q |
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Brazil |
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| 1950 |
Q |
Uruguay |
Brazil |
|
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Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay |
| 1954 |
Q |
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Uruguay |
Brazil |
| 1958 |
Q |
Brazil |
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Argentina, Paraguay |
| 1962 |
Q |
Brazil |
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Chile |
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Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay |
| 1966 |
Q |
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Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay |
| 1970 |
Q |
Brazil |
|
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Uruguay |
Peru |
| 1974 |
Q |
|
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Brazil |
Argentina, Chile, Uruguay |
| 1978 |
Q |
Argentina |
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Brazil |
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Peru |
| 1982 |
Q |
|
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|
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Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru |
| 1986 |
Q |
Argentina |
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Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay |
| 1990 |
Q |
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Argentina |
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Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay |
| 1994 |
Q |
Brazil |
|
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Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia |
| 1998 |
Q |
|
Brazil |
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Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay |
| 2002 |
Q |
Brazil |
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Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay |
| 2006 |
Q |
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Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay |
| 2010 |
Q |
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[edit] Totals (current members)
| Appearances |
Country |
Wins |
Runners-Up |
Third |
Fourth |
| 18 |
Brazil |
5 (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002) |
2 (1950*, 1998) |
2 (1938, 1978) |
1 (1974) |
| 14 |
Argentina |
2 (1978*, 1986) |
2 (1930, 1990) |
|
|
| 10 |
Uruguay |
2 (1930*, 1950) |
|
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2 (1954, 1970) |
| 7 |
Chile |
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1 (1962*) |
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| 7 |
Paraguay |
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| 4 |
Colombia |
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| Peru |
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| 3 |
Bolivia |
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| 2 |
Ecuador |
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| 0 |
Venezuela |
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[edit] 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 Leoz
[edit] Rankings
[edit] National teams
| Zonal Ranking |
IFFHS Ranking |
Club |
Points |
| 1 |
5 |
Boca Juniors |
250,0 |
| 2 |
12 |
LDU Quito |
212,0 |
| 3 |
13 |
São Paulo |
211,0 |
| 4 |
14 |
Estudiantes |
204,0 |
| 5 |
19 |
San Lorenzo |
186,0 |
| 6 |
23 |
Arsenal |
181,0 |
| 7 |
30 |
Cruzeiro |
172,0 |
| 8 |
31 |
River Plate |
171,0 |
| 9 |
32 |
170,0 |
| 10 |
35 |
Flamengo |
169,0 |
| 11 |
48 |
Universidad Católica |
150,0 |
| 12 |
51 |
Santos |
147,0 |
| 13 |
55 |
Colo-Colo |
143,5 |
| 14 |
56 |
Lanús |
143,0 |
| 15 |
58 |
Botafogo |
142,0 |
[edit] External links
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