Panamerican Championship Explained

Panamerican Championship should not be confused with Pan American Games.

Panamerican Championship
Organiser:Panamerican Football Confederation (PFC)
Founded:1949
Abolished:1960
Region:Americas
Number Of Teams:6 (1952-1956)
4 (1960)
Most Successful Team:
(2 titles)

The Panamerican Championship was an official continental competition of Association football organized by the Panamerican Football Confederation (PFC) every four years for senior national teams, with three editions held from 1952 through 1960.[1]

The competition was similar to the Copa América but included nations from the North American Football Confederation (NAFC) and the Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol (CCCF) (which merged to form CONCACAF in 1961).

History

Panamerican Championship and was a competition founded in 1949 by the Panamerican Football Confederation to unify the three existing confederations of the Americas: CONMEBOL, NAFC and CCCF.This tournament had 3 editions which the champions were Brazil having two titles and one for Argentina.[2] [3] as an attempt to create an Americas-wide, each winners of NAFC Championship (until 1949), CCCF Championship (until 1960), South American Championship (currently Copa América) and the host would qualified to the tournament, since the Copa América, was restricted to South American teams.

Panamerican Football Confederation

Panamerican Football Confederation
Size:200px
Formation:1946
Abbreviation:PFC
Dissolved:1961
Type:Football organization
Membership:32 members associations

The Panamerican Football Confederation (es|Confederación Panamericana de Fútbol) (pt|Confederação Panamericana de Futebol) (fr|Confédération Panaméricaine de football) (nl|Panamerikaanse voetbalconfederatie) and abbreviation (PFC) was a football confederation founded in 1946 in an attempt to unite all the countries of the Americas into a single confederation, It consisted of the North American Football Confederation (NAFC), the Central American and Caribbean Football Confederation (CCCF) and the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), the confederation was dissolved on 1961 when CCCF and NAFC were merged to from CONCACAF and with the exit of CONMEBOL.

Competitions

Results

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1 1952Santiago, Chile
2 1956Mexico City, Mexico
3 1960San José, Costa Rica

Performance by nation

width=120pxTeamChampionsRunners-upThird placeAppearances
2103 (1952, 1956, 1960)
1102 (1956, 1960)
0102 (1952, 1956)
0012 (1956, 1960)
0013 (1952, 1956, 1960)
0011 (1952)
0002 (1952, 1956)
0001 (1952)

Record and statistics

All-time top scorers

RankNat.PlayerGoalsPlayed
Carlos Septién
Juarez
Elton

Winning Coaches

EditionCoach
1952 Zezé Moreira
Teté
1960 Guillermo Stábile

Table Rankings

width=20Rankwidth=20Teamwidth=20width=20width=20width=20width=20width=20width=20width=20width=20width=20
131611323415+19252
2211641209+11161
33163491830-1210-
42103342016+49-
52104152017+39-
62113351525-109-
7153021610+66-
815005528-230-

Largest Goals

More that 5 goals are considered largest goals on the tournament, between the 1952 had the most scored goals of 69 goals on 15 matches, while the 1960 had the less scored goals, In the match of Peru vs Panama and Brazil vs Costa Rica were the matches were both 1952 and 1956 the scores were on both (7–1) becoming the most scores in the tournament history.

The largest scores were:

TeamStoreTeamEdition
7–1 1952 Panamerican Championship
7–1 1956 Panamerican Championship
6–1 1952 Panamerican Championship
6–1 1952 Panamerican Championship
5–0 1952 Panamerican Championship

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/panamch.html Panamerican Championship
  2. http://biblioteca.afa.org.ar/libros/libro_70/#29 Memoria y Balance AFA 1946, p. 29
  3. Triunfos y Tristezas del equipo Tricolor: Historia de la Selección Mexicana de Fútbol- México: EDAMEX. pp. 26-36 - ISBN 968-409-832-4