CONMEBOL

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Image:Conmebol logo.png CONMEBOL or CSF (CONfederación sudaMEricana de FútBOL, South American Football Confederation) is the governing body of football in 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 after a successful South American football tournament played in Buenos Aires. Later on 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 mentioned 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 in the are located in South America, Guyana, Suriname and the French département d'outre-mer of French Guiana are not members of CONMEBOL - 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 Members Countries
2 Tournament organized by CONMEBOL
3 CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifiers
4 CONMEBOL Presidents
5 External link

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Members Countries

Template:ARG - national team - first division - association (created in 1893, joined CONMEBOL in 1916)
Template:BOL - national team - first division - association (created in 1925, joined CONMEBOL in 1926)
Template:BRA - national team - first division - association (created in 1914, joined CONMEBOL in 1916)
Template:CHI - national team - first division - association (created in 1895, joined CONMEBOL in 1916)
Template:COL - national team - first division - association (created in 1924, joined CONMEBOL in 1936)
Template:ECU - national team - first division - association (created in 1925, joined CONMEBOL in 1927)
Template:PAR - national team - first division - association (created in 1906, joined CONMEBOL in 1921)
Template:PER - national team - first division - association (created in 1922, joined CONMEBOL in 1925)
Template:URU - national team - first division - association (created in 1899, joined CONMEBOL in 1916)
Template:VEN - national team - first division - association (created in 1926, joined CONMEBOL in 1952)

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Tournament organized by CONMEBOL

Copa América [since 1916] (National teams)
Copa Libertadores de América [since 1960]
Copa Sudamericana [since 2002]
Recopa Sudamericana [since 1989]
Copa Mercosur [1998~2001] (defunct)
Copa Merconorte [1998~2001] (defunct)
Copa CONMEBOL [1992~1999] (defunct)
Supercopa Sudamericana [1988~1997] (defunct)

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CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifiers

This is the list of the teams that participated of each Word 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).