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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 ^* (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 - 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.

Member Countries

- national team - first division - association (created in 1893, co-founded CONMEBOL in 1916)
- national team - first division - association (created in 1925, joined CONMEBOL in 1926)
- national team - first division - association (created in 1914, co-founded CONMEBOL in 1916)
- national team - Primera División - association (created in 1895, co-founded CONMEBOL in 1916)
- national team - first division - association (created in 1924, joined CONMEBOL in 1936)
- national team - first division - association (created in 1925, joined CONMEBOL in 1927)
- national team - Primera División - association (created in 1906, joined CONMEBOL in 1921)
- national team - first division - association (created in 1922, joined CONMEBOL in 1925)
- national team - first division - association (created in 1899, co-founded CONMEBOL in 1916)
- national team - first division - association (created in 1926, joined CONMEBOL in 1952)

Tournament organized by CONMEBOL

Copa América 1916 (National teams)
Copa Libertadores de América 1960
Copa Sudamericana 2002
Recopa Sudamericana 1989
Copa Mercosur ^* (defunct)
Copa Merconorte ^* (defunct)
Copa CONMEBOL ^* (defunct)
Supercopa Sudamericana ^* (defunct)
South American Youth Championship 1954 (National teams of young men)
Sudamericano Femenino (Women's national teams tournament)

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.

1930(-) - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay
1934(Q) - Argentina, Brazil
1938(Q) - Brazil
1950(Q) - Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
1954(Q) - Brazil, Uruguay
1958(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
1962(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay
1966(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay
1970(Q) - Brazil, Peru, Uruguay
1974(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay
1978(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Peru
1982(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru
1986(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
1990(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay
1994(Q) - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia
1998(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay
2002(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay
2006(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay

Total participations

18 -
14 -
10 -
7 - ,
4 - ,
3 -
2 -
0 -

CONMEBOL Presidents

Héctor Rivadavia Gómez (Uruguay) 1916-1936
Luis O. Salesi (Argentina) 1936-1939
Luis A. Valenzuela (Chile) 1939-1955
Carlos Dittborn Pinto (Chile) 1955-1957
José Ramos de Freitas (Brasil) 1957-1959
Fermín Sorhueta (Uruguay) 1959-1961
Raúl H. Colombo (Argentina) 1961-1966
Teófilo Salinas Fuller (Perú) 1966-1986
Nicolás Leoz (Paraguay) 1986 to date (As of April 2006)

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