Copa America 2024: Full list of title winners from 1916 to 2024 after Messi & Co. win 16th title
Uruguay is the second most successful team in Copa America history, winning the crown 15 times.
Published : Jul 15, 2024 10:24 IST , CHENNAI - 1 MIN READ
Argentina’s Lionel Messi lifts up the trophy as he celebrates winning the Conmebol 2024 Copa America tournament. | Photo Credit: AFP
The 48th edition of the Copa America, the South American continental football showpiece ended with Lionel Messi’s Argentina beating Colombia in the final to become the most successful team in the tournament’s history with 16 trophies.
The competiton has been running since 1916 but was rebranded into its current form in 1975.
Over the more-than-century long history of the tournament, before the tournament began, Argentina and Uruguay were the two most successful teams, winning the crown 15 times each. Brazil is next in the order with nine titles.
Most successful teams in Copa America:
- Argentina - 16
- Uruguay - 15
- Brazil - 9
- Chile - 2
- Paraguay - 2
- Peru 2
- Bolivia - 1
- Colombia - 1
Sportstar brings you the edition-wise list of champions in Copa America.
| Year | Winner | Runner-up |
| 1916 | Uruguay | Argentina |
| 1917 | Uruguay | Argentina |
| 1919 | Brazil | Uruguay |
| 1920 | Uruguay | Argentina |
| 1921 | Argentina | Brazil |
| 1922 | Brazil | Paraguay |
| 1923 | Uruguay | Argentina |
| 1924 | Uruguay | Argentina |
| 1925 | Argentina | Brazil |
| 1926 | Uruguay | Argentina |
| 1927 | Argentina | Uruguay |
| 1929 | Argentina | Paraguay |
| 1935 | Uruguay | Argentina |
| 1937 | Argentina | Brazil |
| 1939 | Peru | Uruguay |
| 1941 | Argentina | Uruguay |
| 1942 | Uruguay | Argentina |
| 1945 | Argentina | Brazil |
| 1946 | Argentina | Brazil |
| 1947 | Argentina | Paraguay |
| 1949 | Brazil | Paraguay |
| 1953 | Paraguay | Brazil |
| 1955 | Argentina | Chile |
| 1956 | Uruguay | Chile |
| 1957 | Argentina | Brazil |
| 1959 | Argentina | Brazil |
| 1959 | Uruguay | Argentina |
| 1963 | Brazil | Paraguay |
| 1967 | Uruguay | Argentina |
| 1975 | Peru | Colombia |
| 1979 | Paraguay | Chile |
| 1983 | Uruguay | Brazil |
| 1987 | Uruguay | Chile |
| 1989 | Brazil | Uruguay |
| 1991 | Argentina | Brazil |
| 1993 | Argentina | Mexico |
| 1995 | Uruguay | Brazil |
| 1997 | Brazil | Bolivia |
| 1999 | Brazil | Uruguay |
| 2001 | Colombia | Mexico |
| 2004 | Brazil | Argentina |
| 2007 | Brazil | Argentina |
| 2011 | Uruguay | Paraguay |
| 2015 | Chile | Argentina |
| 2016 | Chile | Argentina |
| 2019 | Brazil | Peru |
| 2021 | Argentina | Brazil |
| 2024 | Argentina | Colombia |