Copa América Centenario
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| 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) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 29 |
| Goals scored | 88 (3.03 per match) |
| Attendance | 1,317,365 (45,426 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Eduardo Vargas(6 goals) |
The Copa América Centenario (English: Centennial Copa America)[2] is an international men's association football tournament being held in the United States in 2016. The competition is a celebration of the centenary of CONMEBOL and the Copa América, and is the first Copa América hosted outside of South America.[3]
The tournament is the 45th edition of Copa América since its inception in 1916. It is being 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 features an expanded field of 16 teams (an increase from the usual 12), with all ten teams from CONMEBOL and six teams from CONCACAF. The winner of this tournament will not receive an invitation to the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, as Chile has already qualified by winning the 2015 Copa América.
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[hide]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're 100 years old 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 had been added to the FIFA International Match Calendar, meaning that clubs had to release players called up to the competition.[7]
The tournament is scheduled for June 2016, along with UEFA Euro 2016.
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 pled guilty to "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]
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