2024 Copa América facts for kids

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2024 Copa América

CONMEBOL Copa América USA 2024
Vibra el Continente (Vibra o Continente) English: Rocking the Continent French: Vibre le Continent
Tournament details
Host country	United States
Dates	June 20 – July 14
Teams	16 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	14 (in 13 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Argentina (16th title)
Runners-up	Colombia
Third place	Uruguay
Fourth place	Canada
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	70 (2.19 per match)
Attendance	1,571,878 (49,121 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lautaro Martínez (5 goals)
Best player	James Rodríguez
Best goalkeeper	Emiliano Martínez
Fair play award	Colombia
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The 2024 Copa América was the 48th edition of the Copa América, the quadrennial international men's soccer championship organized by South America's football ruling body CONMEBOL. The tournament was held in the United States from June 20 to July 14, 2024, and was co-organized by CONCACAF.

This was the second time that the United States hosted the tournament, having hosted the Copa América Centenario in 2016. Argentina was the defending champion, and successfully won a record sixteenth title after defeating Colombia 1–0 after extra time in the final, which was played on July 14, 2024, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.

Host selection

The 2024 Copa América had been expected to be hosted by Ecuador because of CONMEBOL's host rotation order. However, it was run by America because CONMEBOL president Alejandro Domínguez said Ecuador had been nominated but not yet chosen to organize the edition. In November 2022, the country declined to host the tournament. Peru and the United States had both expressed interest in organizing the tournament.

On January 27, 2023, it was announced that, as part of CONCACAF and CONMEBOL's new strategic partnership, the United States would host the tournament with six CONCACAF guest teams qualifying through the 2023–24 CONCACAF Nations League. The tournament also acted as a prelude to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, of which the United States was a joint host along with Canada and Mexico.

Venues

All of the venues were existing venues. The opening match was held at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, while the final was held at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Both venues were announced on November 20, 2023. All other venues were selected and announced on December 4, 2023, two weeks after the opening and final venues were confirmed.

2024 Copa América venues Arlington, Texas (Dallas/Fort Worth area) Atlanta, Georgia Austin, Texas AT&T Stadium Mercedes-Benz Stadium Q2 Stadium Capacity: 80,000 Capacity: 71,000 Capacity: 20,730 Charlotte, North Carolina East Rutherford, New Jersey (New York City area) Houston, Texas Bank of America Stadium MetLife Stadium NRG Stadium Capacity: 74,860 Capacity: 82,560 Capacity: 72,220 Inglewood, California (Los Angeles area) Santa Clara, California (San Francisco Bay Area) Glendale, Arizona (Phoenix area) SoFi Stadium Levi's Stadium State Farm Stadium Capacity: 70,240 Capacity: 68,500 Capacity: 63,400 Paradise, Nevada (Las Vegas area) Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Kansas Allegiant Stadium Arrowhead Stadium Children's Mercy Park Capacity: 61,000 Capacity: 76,410 Capacity: 18,460 Miami Gardens, Florida (Miami area) Orlando, Florida Hard Rock Stadium Inter&Co Stadium Capacity: 64,760 Capacity: 25,500

Teams

Map of the participant countries.

Qualification

The tournament included sixteen teams: ten from CONMEBOL and six from CONCACAF. All ten CONMEBOL national teams were eligible to enter.

The six CONCACAF participants qualified through the 2023–24 CONCACAF Nations League. The teams were the four League A quarterfinal winners, and two play-off round winners between the four losing quarterfinalists. Unlike the Copa América Centenario, the United States did not qualify automatically despite being the hosts, but still secured a berth as one of League A quarterfinal winners, following a 4–2 aggregate win against Trinidad and Tobago.

Draw

The group stage draw was held on December 7, 2023, at 19:30 EST (UTC−5) in the James L. Knight Center in Miami, Florida. The sixteen teams were drawn into four groups of four, by selecting one team from each of the four ranked pots.

For the draw, the four teams in Pot 1 were pre-seeded into their respective groups, determined as follows:

• The reigning Copa América champions, Argentina, were seeded into Group A
• The reigning CONCACAF Gold Cup champions, Mexico, were seeded into Group B
• The highest ranked CONCACAF team in the October 2023 FIFA World Rankings, the United States, was seeded into Group C
• The next-highest ranked CONMEBOL team in the October 2023 FIFA World Rankings, Brazil, was seeded into Group D

The remaining 12 teams were placed into Pots 2–4 according to their October 2023 World Rankings, with placeholders for the two CONCACAF participants yet to be determined at the time of the draw each being automatically placed into Pot 4.

For the draw, the competition rules stated that no group could have more than three CONMEBOL teams or more than two CONCACAF teams. If this condition was not met during the draw, the team moved to the next available group in alphabetical order.

Seeding

Pot 1

Team	Rank
Argentina	1
Mexico	14
United States (host)	12
Brazil	5

Pot 2

Team	Rank
Uruguay	11
Colombia	15
Ecuador	32
Peru	35

Pot 3

Team	Rank
Chile	40
Panama	41
Venezuela	49
Paraguay	53

Pot 4

Team	Rank
Jamaica	55
Bolivia	85
Canada	50
Costa Rica	54

Notes

Draw

Group A

Pos	Team
A1	Argentina
A2	Peru
A3	Chile
A4	Canada

Group B

Pos	Team
B1	Mexico
B2	Ecuador
B3	Venezuela
B4	Jamaica

Group C

Pos	Team
C1	United States
C2	Uruguay
C3	Panama
C4	Bolivia

Group D

Pos	Team
D1	Brazil
D2	Colombia
D3	Paraguay
D4	Costa Rica

Notes

Squads

The maximum squad size of the teams was increased from the original quota of 23 to 26 players. Teams had to provide the list containing a minimum of 23 players and a maximum of 26 by the deadline of June 15.

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 70 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 2.19 goals per match.

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Marketing

Sponsorships

• Absolut Sport
• Betano
• BYD Auto
• Coca-Cola
• Delta Air Lines (US) and LATAM Airlines (Latin America and Brazil)
• Decolar.com/Despegar.com
• Gran Centenario
• Inter Rapidísimo
• Lowe's
• Mastercard
• Mercado Livre/Mercado Libre
• Michelob ULTRA
• Puma
• TCL
• Unilever

Merchandise

Copa América content was added to EA Sports FC 24's Ultimate Team and EA Sports FC Mobile in June 2024, although a standalone tournament mode was not made available in the game.

The Panini Group produced thematic stickers and a sticker album for this edition of the Copa América. Stickers were produced for all the Copa América teams, as well as Honduras and Trinidad and Tobago, the teams that failed to qualify for the main draw through the playoffs.

Symbols

Mascot

The tournament's official mascot was unveiled on December 7, 2023, during the group stage draw. It was an eagle named "Capitán", the Spanish word for captain. The inspiration for the choice of an eagle as the mascot for the 2024 Copa América, was "born from the symbolism that this majestic animal has in various cultures of the Americas, illustrating strength, boldness, and excellence."

Match ball

The match balls of this tournament were provided by Puma for the first time after twenty years of partnership with Nike ended in 2023. The "Puma Cumbre" was unveiled during the draw for the group stage of the competition on December 7, 2023.

Music

Instead of one official song, multiple songs, in Spanish (the tournament's official language) and English (the main language of the host country), were used for the tournament. A customized version of "Puntería" by Colombian singer Shakira served as the Spanish-language official song of the tournament, with it also being used for TUDN's coverage.

See also

In Spanish: Copa América 2024 para niños

• 2024 Copa América qualifying play-offs
• UEFA Euro 2024
• 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup
• CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions