1995 Copa América

1995 Copa América

Tournament details
Host country	Uruguay
Dates	July 5 - July 23
Teams	12 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Uruguay (14th title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Colombia
Fourth place	United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	69 (2.65 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Gabriel Batistuta (4) Luis García (4)
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The 1995 Copa América football tournament was staged in Uruguay. It was won by Uruguay, who beat Brazil 5-3 in the penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw in the final. All 10 CONMEBOL members took part, with Mexico and the USA invited in order to reach 12 teams.

The USA were the surprise of the tournament, beating defending champions Argentina 3-0 and winning the group. The USA went on to defeat Mexico on penalties in the second round but then lost to Brazil 1-0 in the semi-finals. They then fell to Colombia 4-1 in the third-place game, finishing fourth overall.

In this edition of the tournament, extra time was never played if a match was drawn after 90 mins. Instead it went straight to a penalty shootout.

Venues

City	Stadium name	Map	Capacity
Maldonado	Estadio Campus Municipal	34.914564°S 54.954815°W / -34.914564; -54.954815	22,000
Montevideo	Estadio Centenario	34.894661°S 56.15284°W / -34.894661; -56.15284	65,235
Paysandú	Estadio Parque Artigas	32.322961°S 58.072593°W / -32.322961; -58.072593	25,000
Rivera	Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera	30.908521°S 55.548377°W / -30.908521; -55.548377	30,000

Squads

For a complete list of all participating squads see Copa América 1995 squads

Match officials

Argentina Javier Castrilli Bolivia Pablo Peña Brazil Márcio Rezende de Freitas Chile Salvador Imperatore Colombia Óscar Ruiz Ecuador Alfredo Rodas

Mexico Marco Antonio Rodríguez Arturo Brizio Carter Paraguay Félix Benegas Peru Alberto Tejada Uruguay Ernesto Filippi Eduardo Dluzniewski United States Raúl Domínguez Venezuela Paolo Borgosano

First round

The teams were divided into three groups of four teams each.

Each team plays one match against each of the other teams within the same group. Three (3) points are awarded for a win, one (1) point for a draw and zero (0) points for a defeat.

First and second placed teams, in each group, advance to the quarter-finals. The best third placed team and the second best third placed team, also advance to the quarter-finals.

• Tie-breaker
  • If teams finish leveled on points, the following tie-breakers are used:
  1. greater goal difference in all group games;
  2. greater number of goals scored in all group games;
  3. winner of the head-to-head match between the teams in question;
  4. drawing of lots.

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners, runners-up, and best two third-placed teams advance to the quarter-finals

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Uruguay	7	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4
Paraguay	6	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1
Mexico	4	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1
Venezuela	0	3	0	0	3	4	10	−6

July 5, 1995	Uruguay	4 – 1	Venezuela	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Imperatore (Chile)
	Fonseca  14' Otero  25' Francescoli  75' (pk) Poyet  84'		Dolgetta  53'

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July 6, 1995	Paraguay	2 – 1	Mexico	Estadio Campus Municipal, Maldonado Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Rodas (Ecuador)
	Cardozo  63' Samaniego  73'		García  44'

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July 9, 1995	Uruguay	1 – 0	Paraguay	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Rezende (Brazil)
	Francescoli  13'

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July 9, 1995	Mexico	3 – 1	Venezuela	Estadio Campus Municipal, Maldonado Attendance: 700 Referee: Domínguez (United States)
	García  41' (pk),  57' (pk) Espinoza  76'		Campos  65' (og)

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July 12, 1995	Paraguay	3 – 2	Venezuela	Estadio Campus Municipal, Maldonado Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Ruiz (Colombia)
	Cardozo  35' Villamayor  64' Gamarra  83'		Miranda  13' Dolgetta  68'

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July 13, 1995	Uruguay	1 – 1	Mexico	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Castrilli (Argentina)
	Saralegui  79'		García  67'

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Brazil	9	3	3	0	0	6	0	+6
Colombia	4	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2
Ecuador	3	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1
Peru	1	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3

July 7, 1995	Colombia	1 – 1	Peru	Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera, Rivera Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Filippi (Uruguay)
	Asprilla  68'		Palacios  80'

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July 7, 1995	Brazil	1 – 0	Ecuador	Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera, Rivera Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Castrilli (Argentina)
	Ronaldão  73'

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July 10, 1995	Colombia	1 – 0	Ecuador	Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera, Rivera Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Peña (Bolivia)
	Rincón  44'

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July 10, 1995	Brazil	2 – 0	Peru	Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera, Rivera Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Benegas (Paraguay)
	Zinho  77' (pk) Edmundo  82'

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July 13, 1995	Ecuador	2 – 1	Peru	Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera, Rivera Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Dluzniewski (Uruguay)
	Díaz  61' Mora  75'		I. Hurtado  82' (og)

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July 13, 1995	Brazil	3 – 0	Colombia	Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera, Rivera Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Filippi (Uruguay)
	Leonardo  30' Tulio  76' Higuita  85' (og)

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
United States	6	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3
Argentina	6	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2
Bolivia	4	3	1	1	1	4	4	0
Chile	1	3	0	1	2	3	8	−5

July 8, 1995	United States	2 – 1	Chile	Estadio Parque Artigas, Paysandú Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Tejada (Peru)
	Wynalda  14',  20'		Rozental  63'

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July 8, 1995	Argentina	2 – 1	Bolivia	Estadio Parque Artigas, Paysandú Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Dluzniewski (Uruguay)
	Batistuta  70' Balbo  81'		Angola  75'

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July 11, 1995	Bolivia	1 – 0	United States	Estadio Parque Artigas, Paysandú Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Borgosano (Venezuela)
	Etcheverry  23'

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July 11, 1995	Argentina	4 – 0	Chile	Estadio Parque Artigas, Paysandú Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Carter (Mexico)
	Batistuta  1',  51' Simeone  6' Balbo  54'

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July 14, 1995	Bolivia	2 – 2	Chile	Estadio Parque Artigas, Paysandú Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Tejada (Peru)
	Mercado  78' Ramos  87'		Basay  55',  61'

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July 14, 1995	United States	3 – 0	Argentina	Estadio Parque Artigas, Paysandú Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Rezende (Brazil)
	Klopas  20' Lalas  31' Wynalda  58'

Ranking of third-placed teams

At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third-placed teams of each group. The two third-placed teams with the best results advanced to the quarter-finals.

Group	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
A	Mexico	4	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1
C	Bolivia	4	3	1	1	1	4	4	0
B	Ecuador	3	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	16 July - Montevideo
	Colombia	1 (5)
					19 July - Montevideo
	Paraguay	1 (4)
					Colombia	0
	16 July - Montevideo
					Uruguay	2
	Uruguay	2
									23 July - Montevideo
	Bolivia	1
									Uruguay	1 (5)
	17 July - Paysandú
									Brazil	1 (3)
	United States	0 (4)
					20 July - Maldonado
	Mexico	0 (1)
					United States	0			Third place
	17 July - Rivera
					Brazil	1
	Brazil	2 (4)							Colombia	4
	Argentina	2 (2)							United States	1
									22 July - Maldonado

Quarter-finals

July 16, 1995	Colombia	1 – 1	Paraguay	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Referee: Imperatore (Chile)
	Rincón  53'		Villamayor  26'
		Penalties
	Rincón Mendoza Arboleda Cabrera Asprilla	5 – 4	Jara Acuña Samaniego Denis Gamarra

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July 16, 1995	Uruguay	2 – 1	Bolivia	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Rodas (Ecuador)
	Otero  1' Fonseca  30'		Sánchez  71'

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July 17, 1995	United States	0 – 0	Mexico	Estadio Parque Artigas, Paysandú Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Ruiz (Colombia)
		Penalties
	Wynalda Moore Caligiuri Klopas	4 – 1	García Hermosillo Coyote

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July 17, 1995	Brazil	2 – 2	Argentina	Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera, Rivera Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Tejada (Peru)
	Edmundo  9' Túlio  81'		Balbo  2' Batistuta  29'
		Penalties
	Roberto Carlos Túlio André Cruz Dunga Edmundo	4 – 2	Pérez Acosta Simeone Fabbri

Semi-finals

July 19, 1995	Uruguay	2 – 0	Colombia	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Benegas (Paraguay)
	Adinolfi  51' Otero  70'

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July 20, 1995	Brazil	1 – 0	United States	Estadio Campus Municipal, Maldonado Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Rodas (Ecuador)
	Aldair  13'

Third-place match

July 22, 1995	Colombia	4 – 1	United States	Estadio Campus Municipal, Maldonado Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Imperatore (Chile)
	Quiñónez  30' Valderrama  38' Asprilla  50' Rincón  76'		Moore  52' (pen.)

Final

Main article: 1995 Copa América Final

July 23, 1995	Uruguay	1 – 1	Brazil	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Brizio Carter (Mexico)
	Bengoechea  51'		Túlio  30'
		Penalties
	Francescoli Bengoechea Herrera Gutiérrez Martínez	5 – 3	Roberto Carlos Zinho Túlio Dunga

Result

Copa América 1995 Winners
Uruguay 14th title

Individual scorers

4 goals

• Gabriel Batistuta
• Luis García

3 goals

• Abel Balbo
• Túlio
• Freddy Rincón
• Eric Wynalda
• Marcelo Otero

2 goals

• Edmundo
• Ivo Basay
• Faustino Asprilla
• José Cardozo
• Juan Villamayor
• Daniel Fonseca
• Enzo Francescoli
• José Luis Dolgetta

Own goals

• René Higuita
• Iván Hurtado
• Jorge Campos

1 goal

• Diego Simeone
• Demetrio Angola
• Marco Etcheverry
• Miguel Mercado
• Mauricio Ramos
• Carlos Sánchez
• Aldair
• Leonardo
• Ronaldão
• Zinho
• Sebastián Rozental
• Luis Quiñónez
• Carlos Valderrama
• Energio Díaz
• José Mora
• Eduardo Espinoza
• Carlos Gamarra
• Adriano Samaniego
• Roberto Palacios
• Edgardo Adinolfi
• Pablo Bengoechea
• Gustavo Poyet
• Marcelo Saralegui
• Frank Klopas
• Alexi Lalas
• Joe-Max Moore
• Gabriel Miranda

Final positions

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Eff
1	Uruguay	6	4	2	0	11	4	+7	14	77.8%
2	Brazil	6	4	2	0	10	3	+7	14	77.8%
3	Colombia	6	2	2	2	7	8	-1	8	44.4%
4	United States	6	2	1	3	6	7	-1	7	38.9%
Eliminated in the Quarterfinals
5	Argentina	4	2	1	1	8	6	+2	7	58.3%
6	Paraguay	4	2	1	1	6	5	+1	7	58.3%
7	Mexico	4	1	2	1	5	4	+1	5	41.7%
8	Bolivia	4	1	1	2	5	6	-1	4	33.3%
Eliminated in the First Stage
9	Ecuador	3	1	0	2	2	3	-1	3	33.3%
10	Peru	3	0	1	2	2	5	-3	1	25.0%
11	Chile	3	0	1	2	3	8	-5	1	25.0%
12	Venezuela	3	0	0	3	4	10	-6	0	0.0%

See also

• Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Copa América 1995