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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 - for historical and cultural 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.
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Member countries
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Between clubs
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Defunct
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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.
1934(Q) - Argentina, Brazil
1950(Q) - Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
1954(Q) - Brazil, Uruguay
1958(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
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
2006(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay
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CONMEBOL presidents
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