CONMEBOL

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Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol South American Football Confederation
CONMEBOL logo
Formation	9 July 1916
Type	Sports organization
Headquarters	Luque, Paraguay
Membership	10 member associations
Secretary General	Eduardo de Luca
President	Nicolás Leoz
Website	http://www.conmebol.com/

CONMEBOL or CSF (Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol, South American Football Confederation) is the governing body of football in most of South America.

It was founded July 9, 1916, thanks to Uruguayan Héctor Rivadavia Gómez who materialized his project of uniting football around the continent. Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile were the founder nations, during the course of a successful South American football tournament that was taking place in Buenos Aires as part of the commemorations of Argentina's independence centenary [1] (later on, this tournament was retrospectively acknowledged as the first Copa América). Paraguay (1921), Peru (1925), Bolivia (1926), Ecuador (1927), Colombia (1936) and Venezuela (1952) also became members of the South American confederation. Nowadays CONMEBOL is part of FIFA and is in charge of all professional football activities in the aforementioned countries. The permanent headquarters are located in Luque, Paraguay (near Asunción); and the actual president (until 2006) of the Executive Committee is Dr. Nicolás Leoz.

Even though they are located in South America, Guyana, Suriname and the French département d'outre-mer 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.

1 Member countries
2 Tournaments organized by CONMEBOL
- 2.1 Between nations
- 2.2 Between clubs
  - 2.2.1 Defunct
3 CONMEBOL World Cup qualifiers
4 CONMEBOL presidents
5 External links

[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

Copa América [since 1916]
South American Youth Championship [since 1954]
CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament
Sudamericano Femenino [women's championship, since 1991]
South American Under 17 Football Championship

[edit] Between clubs

[edit] Defunct

Copa Mercosur [1998~2001]
Copa Merconorte [1998~2001]
Copa CONMEBOL [1992~1999]
Supercopa Sudamericana [1988~1997]

[edit] CONMEBOL World Cup qualifiers

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). Names marked in bold represent occasions when a CONMEBOL member won the tournament.