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2007 Copa América
Copa América Venezuela 2007
	; Copa América 2007 official logo;
Tournament details
Host country	Venezuela
Dates	26 June – 15 July
Teams	12 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	9 (in 9 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	; Brazil (8th title);
Runners-up	Argentina
Third place	Mexico
Fourth place	Uruguay
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	86 (3.31 per match)
Attendance	1,050,230 (40,393 per match)
Top scorer(s)	; Robinho (6 goals)
Best player(s)	; Robinho;
	; ← 2004 ; ; 2011 → ;

The 2007 Campeonato Sudamericano Copa América, known simply as the 2007 Copa América or 2007 Copa América Venezuela, was the 42nd edition of the Copa América, the South-American championship for international association football teams. The competition was organized by CONMEBOL, South America's football governing body, and was held between 26 June and 15 July in Venezuela, which hosted the tournament for the first time.

The competition was won by Brazil (they were also the defending champions), who beat Argentina 3–0 in the final.^[2]Mexico took third place by beating Uruguay 3–1 in the third-place match. Brazil thus won the right to represent CONMEBOL^[3] at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.^[4]

Competing nations

As with previous tournaments, all ten members of CONMEBOL participated in the competition. In order to bring the number of competing teams to twelve, CONMEBOL invited Mexico and the United States, the two highest ranking CONCACAF teams in the FIFA World Rankings. Just as in every tournament since 1993, Mexico accepted the invitation without reservation. The United States, on the other hand, rejected the invitation due to scheduling conflicts with the 2007 Major League Soccer season. CONMEBOL then proceeded to invite Costa Rica, the third highest CONCACAF team in FIFA's ranking.^[5] In the end, the United States accepted the invitation.^[6]

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil (holders)

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

Mexico (invitee)

Paraguay

Peru

United States (invitee)

Uruguay

Venezuela (hosts)

Venues

For this Copa América, the organizing committee decided to choose eight cities to hold the tournament. A total of 14 cities presented proposal before the committee, of which they rejected proposals from Barquisimeto, Maracay, Valencia, Valera, Portuguesa and Miranda for not meeting established requirements. The cities of Barinas, Caracas, Ciudad Guayana, Maracaibo, Maturín, Mérida, Puerto la Cruz and San Cristóbal were selected to host the tournament. Later on, the organizing committee reconsidered the candidacy of Barquisimeto, based on the proposal of a new stadium to be built for the city. With a final nine host cities, the 2007 edition broke the previous records for host cities set by the 2004 Copa América in Peru, which used seven.

Barinas	Barquisimeto	Caracas	Ciudad Guayana
Estadio Agustín Tovar	Estadio Metropolitano de Lara	Estadio Olímpico de la UCV	Estadio Polideportivo Cachamay
Capacity: 27,500	Capacity: 42,000	Capacity: 24,900	Capacity: 41,600

Maracaibo	Barinas Barquisimeto Caracas Maracaibo Maturín Mérida Puerto la Cruz Ciudad Guayana San Cristóbal		Maturín
Estadio José Pachencho Romero			Estadio Monumental de Maturín
Capacity: 40,000			Capacity: 52,000

Mérida			Puerto la Cruz
Estadio Metropolitano de Mérida			Estadio Olímpico Luis Ramos
Capacity: 42,000			Capacity: 38,000

San Cristóbal
Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo
Capacity: 40,000

Officials

On 30 May 2007, CONMEBOL announced the list of match officials for the competition. The list included one match official from every country (except Paraguay, which had two). From these thirteen, six officiated in the 2006 FIFA World Cup: Carlos Simon, Óscar Ruiz, Carlos Amarilla, Jorge Larrionda, and Armando Archundia.

Carlos Chandía

Sergio Pezzotta

René Ortubé

Carlos Simon

Óscar Ruiz

Mauricio Reinoso

Armando Archundia

Carlos Amarilla

Carlos Torres

Víctor Rivera

Jorge Larrionda

Baldomero Toledo

Manuel Andarcia

Squads

Each association had to present a list of twenty-three players to compete in the competition.

Group stage

The first round, or group stage, saw the twelve teams divided into three groups of four teams. Each group was a round-robin of six games, where each team played one match against each of the other teams in the same group. Teams were awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a defeat. The teams finishing first, second and two best-placed third teams in each group qualified for the Quarter-finals.

Tie-breaking criteria

Teams were ranked on the following criteria:

1. Greater number of points in all group matches

2. Goal difference in all group matches

3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches

4. Head-to-head results

5. Drawing of lots by the CONMEBOL Organising Committee

Key to colors in group tables
	Group winners, runners-up, and best two third-placed teams advance to the quarterfinals

All times are in Venezuela Standard Time (UTC-04:00).

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Venezuela	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
Peru	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
Uruguay	3	1	1	1	1	3	−2	4
Bolivia	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2

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26 June 2007

18:05

Uruguay	0–3	Peru
	(Report)	Villalta 27' Mariño 70' Guerrero 88'

Estadio Metropolitano de Mérida, Mérida

Attendance: 23,000

Referee: Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay)

26 June 2007