2021 Copa América

47th edition of the football backing

International football contest
The 2021 Copa América was the forty-seventh edition of the Copa América, the international men ‘s football backing organised by South America ‘s football regnant torso CONMEBOL. The tournament took position in Brazil from 13 June to 10 July 2021. The tournament was originally scheduled to take rate from 12 June to 12 July 2020 in Argentina and Colombia as the 2020 Copa América. On 17 March 2020, CONMEBOL announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic in South America, the tournament had been postponed for a year, in conjunction with UEFA ‘s decision to besides postpone UEFA Euro 2020 to 2021. [ 2 ] This was the first time since 1991 where no guest nation took part in the tournament.

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On 20 May 2021, Colombia was removed as co-host amid ongoing protests against President Iván Duque Márquez, and Argentina was then removed on 30 May due to COVID-19 issues. The surveil day CONMEBOL confirmed Brazil as the raw host of the tournament. [ 3 ] Hosts Brazil were the title holders, having won their one-ninth championship in 2019, which they besides hosted. Argentina won their fifteenth deed after defeating Brazil 1–0 in the final, their first senior style since the 1993 edition of the lapp tournament. [ 4 ] They besides equalled Uruguay ‘s overall record of Copa América titles. [ 5 ]

background [edit ]

In March 2017, CONMEBOL reportedly proposed that the Copa América take place in 2020 as function of a calendar change. [ 6 ] Following the 2019 edition in Brazil, the quadrennial tournament would move from odd to even years starting in 2020, with the follow version taking place in Ecuador in 2024. This would move the tournament in course with the UEFA European Championship, which is besides held in even years with a 2020 edition taking locate. [ 7 ] Reports suggested that the United States may host the tournament, having previously held the one-off Copa América Centenario in 2016, which celebrated the centennial of CONMEBOL and the Copa América. [ 8 ] On 18 September 2018, plans for a calendar change were confirmed by CONMEBOL president Alejandro Domínguez after submitting an official request to FIFA. [ 9 ] On 26 October 2018 at the FIFA Council meet in Kigali, Rwanda, the request was approved for the Copa América to take place in even years, starting with the 2020 edition. [ 10 ] The tournament was in the first place scheduled to take home between 12 June and 12 July 2020, the same dates as UEFA Euro 2020. [ 11 ] On 13 March 2019, CONMEBOL announced Argentina and Colombia as co-hosts of the 2020 consequence after the United States bid was rejected. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] It was formally announced the same day when CONMEBOL approved of the joint host. It was formally awarded on 9 April 2019 at the CONMEBOL Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [ 14 ] On 20 May 2021, due to security concerns amid protests against the politics of President Iván Duque Márquez, Colombia was dropped as co-host of the tournament. [ 15 ]

impact of the COVID-19 pandemic [edit ]

In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic in South America began impacting football. FIFA announced that the first two rounds of the confederacy american english qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, due to take set in March, were postponed, [ 16 ] while CONMEBOL temporarily suspended the Copa Libertadores. [ 17 ] On 17 March 2020, CONMEBOL announced that the Copa América would be postponed to the follow class, taking rate from 11 June to 11 July 2021, in order to protect the health and safety of the teams, media, visitors and host cities. [ 2 ] On the watch day, the Bureau of the FIFA Council approved the date change in the FIFA International Match Calendar. As a result, the expanded FIFA Club World Cup, which was due to take invest in June and July 2020, was rescheduled to 2021. [ 18 ] On 22 May 2021, Argentina went under a nine-day lockdown due to soaring COVID-19 cases, which included the suspension of all domestic football. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] On 30 May 2021, CONMEBOL announced that due to the current circumstances in the state, Copa América would be pulled from Argentina, and that they were looking at bids from early countries to host the tournament. This reportedly included a invite from the United States, after that invite was initially rejected. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] It was reported that the Argentine government had made increasing demands for biosecurity protocols that CONMEBOL found unreasonable. [ 15 ] On 31 May Brazil was confirmed as the modern host. [ 3 ] All matches in the tournament were held buttocks close doors, [ 23 ] except the final, where 10 % of Maracanã Stadium ‘s capability was allowed for guests with a negative COVID-19 test before entering. [ 24 ] All delegations, each limited to 65 members, were vaccinated, as were the match officials. [ 25 ]

Venues [edit ]

On 1 June 2021, the brazilian government and brazilian Football Confederation announced the cities of Brasília, Goiânia, Cuiabá and Rio de Janeiro as the host venues of the competition, [ 26 ] with the Maracanã, Mané Garrincha, Pantanal and the Olímpico stadiums used for matches. On 2 June, the CBF decided to use the Nilton Santos as the moment stadium in Rio de Janeiro. [ 27 ] The government besides allocated resources in the federal budget to provide the necessary support for the CONMEBOL ‘s tournament logistics and security. [ 28 ] Mané Garrincha hosted the opening match on 13 June, [ 27 ] and the final was held at the Maracanã on 10 July. [ 29 ]

original venues [edit ]

On 20 November 2019, CONMEBOL published a document confirming eight venues, Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes in Córdoba, Estadio Malvinas Argentinas in Mendoza, Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires and Estadio Ciudad de La Plata in La Plata for Argentina and Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero in Cali, Estadio Atanasio Girardot in Medellín, Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez in Barranquilla and Estadio El Campín in Bogotá for Colombia. furthermore, Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario in San Juan and Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas in Pereira were besides nominated but not confirmed, [ 30 ] being last dismissed. On 3 December 2019, anterior to the draw, it was known that Estadio Único in Santiago del Estero was included as one of the Argentine venues. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] On 15 March 2020, the Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, La Plata venue was ruled out as a solution of the schedule shortening. [ 33 ] Colombia would have hosted the North Zone group, while Argentina would have hosted the South Zone group. Each state would besides have hosted two quarter-finals and one semi-final. The third place catch and concluding would have been played in Colombia. [ 34 ]

Teams [edit ]

All ten CONMEBOL home teams participated in the competition, divided into two geographic zones for the group stage. [ 35 ] In June 2019, the CONMEBOL Council formally approved the participation of Australia and Qatar as the two invite teams, who were the previous two winners of the AFC asian Cup. [ 36 ] Australia would have made their debut appearance in the Copa América, while Qatar would be making their moment appearance, having participated in the former version. however, on 23 February 2021, Football Australia and the Qatar Football Association announced their withdrawal from the tournament, due to the postponement of the remainder of the AFC Second Round of 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification to June 2021. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] Following the withdrawals, a CONMEBOL spokesperson said that there was a calendar issue that stopped Australia and Qatar, that he had already seen concern from other national teams to play as guests in their invest and that he would like to have 12 teams. The spokesperson added that if no replacements were found, the tournament would be played with 10 teams ( for the first time since 1991 ). [ 39 ]

CONMEBOL North Zone

Brazil
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Venezuela

CONMEBOL South Zone

Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Paraguay
Uruguay

draw [edit ]

The team allocations of the CONMEBOL members, divided into North Zone and South Zone, were announced on 9 April 2019. [ 40 ] The group stage draw was held on 3 December 2019, 19:30 COT ( UTC−5 ), in Cartagena. [ 41 ] Original co-hosts Argentina and Colombia were automatically allocated to positions A1 and B1, respectively. After the draw, the zones for the two tempt nations and the positions of teams within the groups were as follows : [ 42 ]

Group stage schedule
Matchday	Dates	Group A matches	Group B matches
Matchday 1	13–14 June 2021	A1 v A5, A2 v A4, A6 v A3	B1 v B5, B2 v B4, B6 v B3
Matchday 2	17–18 June 2021	A1 v A4, A6 v A2, A5 v A3	B1 v B4, B6 v B2, B5 v B3
Matchday 3	20–21 June 2021	A1 v A6, A2 v A3, A4 v A5	B1 v B6, B2 v B3, B4 v B5
Matchday 4	23–24 June 2021	A2 v A1, A3 v A4, A5 v A6	B2 v B1, B3 v B4, B5 v B6
Matchday 5	27–28 June 2021	A3 v A1, A5 v A2, A4 v A6	B3 v B1, B5 v B2, B4 v B6

On 2 June 2021, Argentina and Brazil were allocated to positions A1 and B1, respectively, in the competition calendar update. [ 43 ]

Squads [edit ]

Each team had to submit a list of up to 28 players ( expanded from 23 ), including at least three goalkeepers. [ 44 ]

meet officials [edit ]

On 21 April 2021, CONMEBOL announced a sum of 14 referees, 22 assistant referees, 16 television adjunct referees ( VAR ), and 10 support referees appointed for the tournament. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] This version featured the engagement of a spanish referee team as region of the memo of understanding signed by CONMEBOL and UEFA in February 2020, which included a referee exchange course of study. [ 47 ]

Group stage [edit ]

The original schedule and kick-off times for the tournament were announced on 3 December 2019 and 4 March 2020 respectively. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] On 17 March 2020, the tournament was postponed until 2021 and the new schedule was announced on 13 August 2020. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] Following the withdrawals of Qatar and Australia, the agenda was shortened and it was announced on 15 March 2021. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] The concluding equal schedule with Brazil as host state was announced on 2 June 2021. [ 57 ] All match times listed are in BRT (UTC−3), as listed by CONMEBOL. Cuiabá is located in a different time zone, AMT (UTC−4), so the local time is also given. The top four teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals .

Tiebreakers

The rank of teams in the group stage was determined as follows ( Regulations Article 10.6 ) : [ 44 ]

Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat);
Goal difference in all group matches;
Number of goals scored in all group matches;
Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
- Yellow card: −1 points;
- Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
- Direct red card: −4 points;
- Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
Drawing of lots.

Group A ( South Zone ) [edit ]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	4	3	1	0	7	2	+5	10	Advance to knockout stage
2	Uruguay	4	2	1	1	4	2	+2	7
3	Paraguay	4	2	0	2	5	3	+2	6
4	Chile	4	1	2	1	3	4	−1	5
5	Bolivia	4	0	0	4	2	10	−8	0

Group B ( North Zone ) [edit ]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil ( H )	4	3	1	0	10	2	+8	10	Advance to knockout stage
2	Peru	4	2	1	1	5	7	−2	7
3	Colombia	4	1	1	2	3	4	−1	4
4	Ecuador	4	0	3	1	5	6	−1	3
5	Venezuela	4	0	2	2	2	6	−4	2

( H ) Host source : CONMEBOL Host

Knockout stage [edit ]

In the hard stage, if a match was tied after 90 minutes : [ 44 ]

In the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and third place play-off, extra time would not be played, and the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article 9.3).
In the final, extra time would be played. If still tied after extra time, the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article 9.4).

bracket [edit ]

one-third set play-off [edit ]

final [edit ]

Statistics [edit ]

Goalscorers [edit ]

2021 Copa América statistics

Final ranking [edit ]

As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time were counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out were counted as hook .

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Argentina	7	5	2	0	12	3	+9	17	Champions
2	Brazil	7	5	1	1	12	3	+9	16	Runners-up
3	Colombia	7	2	3	2	7	7	0	9	Third place
4	Peru	7	2	2	3	10	14	−4	8	Fourth place

5	Uruguay	5	2	2	1	4	2	+2	8	Eliminated in Quarter-finals
6	Paraguay	5	2	1	2	8	6	+2	7
7	Chile	5	1	2	2	3	5	−2	5
8	Ecuador	5	0	3	2	5	9	−4	3

9	Venezuela	4	0	2	2	2	6	−4	2	Eliminated in Group stage
10	Bolivia	4	0	0	4	2	10	−8	0	Eliminated in Group stage

Awards [edit ]

The take after awards were given at the decision of the tournament. [ 59 ]

team of the tournament [edit ]

The team of the Tournament was selected at the conclusion of the competition. [ 60 ]

official song [edit ]

A customize translation of “ La Gozadera ” by Cuban duet Gente de Zona was revealed as the official song of the tournament, ahead of its official reveal on 11 May. [ 61 ]

mascot [edit ]

Pibe, a brown frump, was selected as the official mascot for the tournament, making it the 14th officially selected mascot in Copa América history. [ 62 ]

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