| Tourney Name: | Copa América de Futsal |
| Year: | 2015 |
| City: | Portoviejo |
| Dates: | 23–30 August |
| Num Teams: | 9 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Count: | 2 |
| Matches: | 22 |
| Goals: | 110 |
| Top Scorer: | Juan Salas (10 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2011 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
The 2015 Copa América de Futsal was the 11th edition of the Copa América de Futsal, the international futsal championship under FIFA rules organised by CONMEBOL for the men's national teams of South America. The tournament was held in Portoviejo, Ecuador between 23–30 August 2015.[1]
A total of nine CONMEBOL member national teams participated in the tournament.[1] Bolivia did not participate due to financial problems.[2]
| Team | Previous best top-4 performance | |
|---|---|---|
| (2003) | ||
| (holders) | (1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2008, 2011)\ | |
| (2011) | ||
| (hosts) | (1992) | |
| (1998, 1999) | ||
| (1996, 2008) | ||
All matches were played in one venue: Complejo Deportivo La California in Portoviejo.[3]
The official referees for the tournament were announced on 10 August 2015.[4]
Darío Santamarina Leonardo Lorenzo
Henry Gutiérrez
Gean Telles
Hugo Camargo Gury García
Jaime Játiva José Hernández
Mario Espichan César Málaga
Félix RumbosThe nine teams were drawn into one group of five teams and one group of four teams. The hosts Ecuador were placed in Group A, plus each group contained one team from each of the four "pairing pots": Argentina–Brazil, Colombia–Paraguay, Peru–Uruguay, Chile–Venezuela.
The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals, while the teams in third and fourth advance to the fifth place and seventh place play-offs respectively. The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:[5] [6]
All times are local, ECT (UTC−5).
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In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.[6]
Per statistical convention in futsal, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out are counted as draws.
Alamiro Vaporaki Santiago Basile Matías Kruger Lucas Bolo Dieguinho Rodrigo Angellot Caro Gonzalo Abdala Gadeia Jackson Pito Simi Luis Alcívar Jimmy Espinales Martín Herrera Renzo Ramírez Xavier Tavera Rosward Manzanares Carlos Polo Lucho González Damián Stazzone Arthur Ciço Thiaguinho Xuxa Luis Barreneche Yulián Díaz Andrés Camilo Reyes Johan Vivares Darío Meza Jorge Aguilar Vladimir Falla Jorge Yuptun José Falcón Wilfredo Figueroa Johan Quinteros Kevin Rengifo Edgar Rodríguez Paolo Sánchez