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The Copa América Centenario, referred to in English as the 2016 Centennial Copa America,[2] is a scheduled international men's association football tournament due to be held in the United States in 2016. The competition is a celebration of the centenary of CONMEBOL and the Copa América, and is to be the first Copa América hosted outside of South America.[3]
The tournament, 100 years in the making, which will be the 45th edition of Copa América since its inception in 1916, will be held as part of an agreement between CONMEBOL (the South American football confederation) and CONCACAF (the football confederation for North and Central America and the Caribbean) as a special edition between the usual four-year cycle, and will feature an expanded field of 16 teams (an increase from the usual 12), with all ten teams from CONMEBOL and six teams from CONCACAF.
The tournament is purely ceremonial; the winner of this tournament will not receive an invitation to the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, as Chile have already qualified by winning the 2015 Copa América.
| Centennial Copa America[1] | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country |  United States |
| Dates | 3–26 June 2016 |
| Teams | 16 (from 2 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 10 (in 10 host cities) |
Planning
In February 2012, Alfredo Hawit, then Acting President of CONCACAF, announced that the competition would be expected to take place in 2016, as a celebration of CONMEBOL's centenary.[4] CONMEBOL President Nicolás Leoz said "Hopefully we can organize a big event, because we have 100 years and we want to celebrate big."[5]The tournament was announced by CONMEBOL on 24 October 2012[6] and confirmed by CONCACAF on 1 May 2014.[1]
On 26 September 2014, FIFA announced that the tournament has been added to the FIFA International Match Calendar, meaning that clubs must release players called up to the competition.[7]
Sports executive corruption
For more details on this topic, see 2015 FIFA corruption case.
The tournament was placed in doubt after several high profile sports executive arrests were made including people involved with media rights holder Datisa (using the trading name of "Wematch"), a partnership between three media rights companies; Full Play, Torneos and Traffic Sports Marketing. In December 2014, Brazilian José Hawilla, the owner and founder of Traffic Sports plead guilty "corruption charges including racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering". In an indictment, the FBI stated that officials were to receive bribes totalling US$20million for the 2016 event.[8][9] Datisa held agreements for the commercial rights with CONMEBOL and CONCACAF and had their bank account frozen placing the tournament in jeopardy.[10] On 21 October 2015 CONCACAF announced that they had terminated their agreement with Datisa.[11]On 23 October 2015, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL and the hosting association US Soccer Federation all confirmed that the tournament was going ahead as originally intended.[12][13][14]
Trophy
A new trophy was supposed to be created for the tournament and was to be unveiled on 4 July 2015 at the 2015 Copa América final.[15] No trophy was unveiled amidst the FIFA corruption scandal.[citation needed] However, CONMEBOL announced that in 28 April 2016, that a presentation for the trophy will take place in Bogota, Colombia.[16]Host selection
Luis Chiriboga, the President of the Ecuadorian Football Federation stated the United States and Mexico were potential hosts of at least one stage of the competition.[17] Hawit preferred the competition to be hosted in the United States for financial reasons, stating that "the market is in the United States, the stadiums are in the United States, the people are in the United States. The study that we have made [shows] that everything’s in the United States."[18] In July 2012, CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb stated there was much organizing to be done.[19]On 1 May 2014, it was announced that the tournament would be held in the United States from 3–26 June 2016.[1][20][21]
Venues
On 8 January 2015, CONCACAF and CONMEBOL announced the 24 U.S. metropolitan areas which had indicated interest in hosting matches.[22][23]The stadiums were chosen following a bidding process, with the minimum capacity to be 50,000. The final list of venues, anticipated to number between 8 and 13, was to be announced in May 2015. However, the list was not released and speculation regarding whether the tournament will be able to move forward arose because Interpol red notices were issued for the former presidents of the CONMEBOL and CONCACAF confederations in relation to the 2015 FIFA corruption case, including allegations that they accepted significant bribes in relation to the $112.5 million broadcasting deal for the event.[24] However, officials from CONMEBOL expressed a desire to move forward with the event despite the scandal.[25]
On 19 November 2015, the ten venues selected for the tournament were announced by CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, and US Soccer.[26][27][28]
| Seattle, WA | Chicago, IL | Foxborough, MA (Boston area) | East Rutherford, NJ (New York City area) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CenturyLink Field | Soldier Field | Gillette Stadium | MetLife Stadium |
| Capacity: 67,000 | Capacity: 63,500 | Capacity: 68,756 | Capacity: 82,566 |
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| Santa Clara, CA (San Francisco Bay area) | Philadelphia, PA | ||
| Levi's Stadium | Lincoln Financial Field | ||
| Capacity: 68,500 | Capacity: 69,176 | ||
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| Pasadena, CA (Los Angeles area) | Glendale, AZ (Phoenix area) | Houston, TX | Orlando, FL |
| Rose Bowl | University of Phoenix Stadium | NRG Stadium | Camping World Stadium |
| Capacity: 92,542 | Capacity: 63,400 | Capacity: 71,795 | Capacity: 60,219 |
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Participating teams[edit]
At the official announcement of the tournament, CONMEBOL and CONCACAF confirmed that all ten CONMEBOL members will be joined by six CONCACAF teams in the tournament. United States and Mexico will automatically qualify. The other four spots will be given to Costa Rica, the champions of the Central American Football Union by virtue of winning the 2014 Copa Centroamericana, Jamaica, the champions of the Caribbean Football Union by virtue of winning the 2014 Caribbean Cup, and Haiti and Panama, the two play-off winners among the four highest finishers in the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup not already qualified.[20]| CONMEBOL (10 teams) | CONCACAF (6 teams) |
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Draw
The group seeds and match schedule were announced on 17 December 2015.[29] The USA (Group A) were seeded as host, Argentina (Group D) were seeded as the highest FIFA-ranked team in the CONMEBOL region during December 2015. According to Soccer United Marketing, Brazil (Group B) and Mexico (Group C) were seeded as they were "the most decorated nations in the last 100 years in international competitions from their respective confederations".[30] However, there has been criticism for not including Uruguay, which won two World Cups and is the Copa América all-time leader with 15 championships, or Chile, which is the defending Copa América winner.[31][32]The 2016 Copa America Centenario Draw took place on Sunday, February 21 at 7:30 p.m. ET, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. Teams were seeded using the FIFA Ranking from December 2015.[33]
| [show]National team | FIFA Ranking | Pot |
|---|
| Pot 5 | A1 | B1 | C1 | D1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pot 6 | A2 | B2 | C2 | D2 |
| Pot 7 | A3 | B3 | C3 | D3 |
| Pot 8 | A4 | B4 | C4 | D4 |
Group stage
Group A
Main article: Copa América Centenario Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 |  Colombia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 |  Costa Rica | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 |  Paraguay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Group B
Main article: Copa América Centenario Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Brazil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 |  Ecuador | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 |  Haiti | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 |  Peru | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
First match(es) will be played on 4 June 2016. Source: CA2016.com
Group C
Main article: Copa América Centenario Group C
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Mexico | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 |  Uruguay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 |  Jamaica | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 |  Venezuela | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
First match(es) will be played on 5 June 2016. Source: CA2016.com
Group D[edit]
Main article: Copa América Centenario Group D
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Argentina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 |  Chile | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 |  Panama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 |  Bolivia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
First match(es) will be played on 6 June 2016. Source: CA2016.com
Knockout stage
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| June 16 – Seattle | ||||||||||
| Winner Group A | ||||||||||
| June 21 – Houston | ||||||||||
| Runner-up Group B | ||||||||||
| Winner Match 25 | ||||||||||
| June 18 – Foxborough | ||||||||||
| Winner Match 27 | ||||||||||
| Winner Group D | ||||||||||
| June 26 – East Rutherford | ||||||||||
| Runner-up Group C | ||||||||||
| Winner Match 29 | ||||||||||
| June 17 – East Rutherford | ||||||||||
| Winner Match 30 | ||||||||||
| Winner Group B | ||||||||||
| June 22 – Chicago | ||||||||||
| Runner-up Group A | ||||||||||
| Winner Match 26 | ||||||||||
| June 18 – Santa Clara | ||||||||||
| Winner Match 28 | Third Place | |||||||||
| Winner Group C | ||||||||||
| June 25 – Glendale | ||||||||||
| Runner-up Group D | ||||||||||
| Loser Match 29 | ||||||||||
| Loser Match 30 | ||||||||||
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Marketing
Sponsorship
- Nike
- Sprint
- State Farm
- Coca-Cola
- Anheuser-Busch (Brahma, Budweiser, Corona and Quilmes)
- Delta Air Lines
- Samsung
- TAG Heuer
- Makita
Theme songs
"Somos Uno" by Puerto Rican singer Yandel is the official song of the tournament. Yandel performed the song during the tournament draw."Lighthouse" by Croatian singer Nina Kraljić will also serve as an official anthem of the tournament.
"In My City" by Hindu-American actress and singer Priyanka Chopra will also serve as the Official Song.
Broadcasting rights[edit]
CONCACAF and CONMEBOL[edit]
| Country | Broadcaster | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina | TV Pública, Telefe, El Trece, TyC Sports | |
| Bolivia | Gigavision | |
| Brazil | Rede Globo (Brazil matches only), SporTV (all matches) | [15] |
 Canada | CTV (English), Univision Canada (Spanish), Ici Radio-Canada Télé (French) | |
| Chile | Canal 13, Fox Sports Chile | |
| Colombia | RCN TV, Caracol TV | |
| Costa Rica | Repretel | |
 Cuba | Cubavision International | |
| Ecuador | Ecuavisa | |
| Haiti | Tele-Haiti | |
| Jamaica | CVM TV | |
| Mexico | Televisa, TV Azteca | [15] |
| Panama | Telemetro, RPC-TV | |
| Paraguay | Paravisión, LaTele, Telefuturo, SNT | |
| Peru | América Televisión | |
| United States | Fox Sports (English), Univision (Spanish) | [35][36] |
| Uruguay | Teledoce | |
| Venezuela | Venevisión, IVC Network |
Rest of the world[edit]
| Country | Broadcaster | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
 Australia | Fox Sports Australia, SBS | [37] |
 Azerbaijan | İTV | |
 China | BTV, CCTV, SMG | |
 Equatorial Guinea | RTVGE | |
 France | France Televisions, beIN Sports, Canal+ | |
 Germany | ARD, ProSiebenSat.1, ZDF | |
 India | Sony Pictures Networks | |
 Indonesia | Kompas TV | |
 Italy | Sky Italia | [38] |
 Israel | Sport 1 | |
 Japan | NHK, TBS, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo, SKY PerfecTV! | |
 Malaysia | Astro, RTM | |
 Myanmar | Sky Net | |
 Netherlands | Fox Sports (Netherlands), NOS | [39] |
 Nigeria | Startimes | |
 Portugal | TVI | [40] |
 Philippines | ABS-CBN Sports and Action, GMA Network, Sports5 | |
 Russia | Channel One Russia, VGTRK, Match TV | |
 Singapore | Mediacorp, Singtel TV | |
 Spain | RTVE, Telecinco, Movistar+ | |
 South Africa | Startimes | |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | Startimes | |
 South Korea | KBS, SBS, MBC | |
 Sweden | Viasat Sport | [41] |
 Taiwan | CTV, TTV, CTi TV | |
 Thailand | GMM Grammy, MCOT | |
 Turkey | A Spor, A Haber | |
 United Kingdom | BBC, ITV, S4C, Sky plc | |
 Vietnam | VTV, VTC |
See also
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External links
- Official website
- Copa America Centenario, CONCACAF.com
- Copa America Centenario, CONMEBOL.com
- Copa America Centenario,
