| Year: | 1999 |
| Size: | 200px |
| Country: | Paraguay |
| Dates: | 29 June – 18 July |
| Num Teams: | 12 |
| Confederations: | 3 |
| Venues: | 5 |
| Cities: | 4 |
| Champion: | Brazil |
| Count: | 6 |
| Second: | Uruguay |
| Third: | Mexico |
| Fourth: | Chile |
| Matches: | 26 |
| Goals: | 74 |
| Top Scorer: | Ronaldo Rivaldo (5 goals each) |
| Player: | Rivaldo[1] |
| Prevseason: | 1997 |
| Nextseason: | 2001 |
The 1999 Copa América was a football tournament held in Paraguay, from 29 June to 18 July. It was organized by CONMEBOL, South America's football governing body.
In order to bring the number of competing teams to twelve, CONMEBOL invited CONCACAF's Mexico, accepting their fourth invitation, and AFC's Japan, who made their debut at the tournament. Japan thus became the first country outside of Americas to participate at the Copa América. Uruguay fielded a youth team.
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 (accepting their fourth invitation) from the CONCACAF and Japan from the AFC.
A total of four host cities hosted the tournament. The opening and final game were hosted by Estadio Defensores del Chaco.
| Pedro Juan Caballero | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Monumental Río Parapití | |||
| Capacity: 30,000 | |||
| Ciudad del Este | |||
| Estadio Antonio Oddone Sarubbi | |||
| Capacity: 28,000 | |||
| Asunción | Luque | ||
| Estadio Defensores del Chaco | Estadio General Pablo Rojas | Estadio Feliciano Cáceres | |
| Capacity: 36,000 | Capacity: 32,910 | Capacity: 25,000 | |
For a complete list of participating squads: 1999 Copa América squads
Paraguay was chosen to be the venue by defeating Colombia by seven votes to three.
The teams were divided into three groups of four teams each. The formation of the groups was made by CONMEBOL, in a public drawing of lots.
Each team plays one match against each of the other teams within the same group. Three points are awarded for a win, one point for a draw and zero 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.
See main article: 1999 Copa América Group A.
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See main article: 1999 Copa América Group B.
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See main article: 1999 Copa América Group C.
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At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third-placed teams of each group. The two best third-placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals.
See main article: 1999 Copa América knockout stage.
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See main article: 1999 Copa América final.
With five goals apiece, Ronaldo and Rivaldo were the tournament's top scorers.
| width=20 | width=165 | Team | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | ||||||||||
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| 1 | align=left | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 2 | +15 | 18 | 100.0% | |||||||||||
| 2 | align=left | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 5 | 27.8% | |||||||||||
| 3 | align=left | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 10 | 55.6% | |||||||||||
| 4 | align=left | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 7 | 38.9% | |||||||||||
| Eliminated in the Quarterfinals | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | align=left | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 9 | 75.0% | |||||||||||
| 6 | align=left | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 8 | 66.7% | |||||||||||
| 7 | align=left | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 7 | 58.3% | |||||||||||
| 8 | align=left | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 50.0% | |||||||||||
| Eliminated in the First Stage | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | align=left | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 | 22.2% | |||||||||||
| 10 | align=left | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 1 | 11.1% | |||||||||||
| 11 | align=left | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 0 | 0.0% | |||||||||||
| 12 | align=left | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 13 | −12 | 0 | 0.0% | |||||||||||
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