Panamerican Championship should not be confused with Pan American Games.
| Panamerican Championship | |
| Organiser: | Panamerican Football Confederation |
| Region: | Americas |
| Number Of Teams: | 6 (1952-1956) 4 (1960) |
| Last Champions: | (1960) |
| Most Successful Team: | (2 titles) |
| Top Goalscorer: | Valeriano López (7 goals) |
| American: | yes |
The Panamerican Championship was an international official football tournament orginazed by the Panamerican Football Confederation every four years with three editions held from 1952 through 1960.[1] [2] as an attempt to create an Americas-wide, each winners of NAFC Championship (Until 1949), CCCF Championship (Until 1960), South American Championship (later Copa America) and the Host would qualified to the Tourment, since the Americas' premier tournament, Copa América, was restricted to South American teams.
| Panamerican Football Confederation | |
| Size: | 200px |
| Abbreviation: | PFC |
| Type: | Sports organization |
| Membership: | 32 members associations |
The Panamerican Football Confederation (Spanish; Castilian: Confederación Panamericana de Fútbol) (Portuguese: Confederação Panamericana de Futebol) (French: Confédération Panaméricaine de football) (Dutch; Flemish: 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 with the exit of CONMEBOL, both NAFC and CCCF were merged to form CONCACAF on 1961.
The Panamerican Football Confederation organized three Panamerican Championships The winners were:
| width= px | Ed. | width=50px | Year | width= px | Host city | width=120px | Champions | width=120px | Runners-up | width=120px | Third place | width=120px | Fourth place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1952 | Santiago, Chile | |||||||||||
| 2 | 1956 | Mexico City, Mexico | |||||||||||
| 3 | 1960 | San José, Costa Rica |
| width=120px | Team | Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Appearances |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 (1952, 1956, 1960) | ||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 (1956, 1960) | ||
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 (1952, 1956) | ||
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 (1956, 1960) | ||
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 (1952, 1956, 1960) | ||
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 (1952) | ||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (1952, 1956) | ||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1952) |
| Rank | Nat. | Player | Goals | Played |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Septién | ||||
| Juarez | ||||
| Elton |
| Edition | Coach | |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Zezé Moreira | |
| Teté | ||
| 1960 | Guillermo Stábile |
| width=20 | Rank | width=20 | Team | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 34 | 15 | +19 | 25 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 9 | +11 | 16 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 3 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 30 | -12 | 10 | - | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 16 | +4 | 9 | - | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 17 | +3 | 9 | - | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 25 | -10 | 9 | - | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 10 | +6 | 6 | - | |||||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 28 | -23 | 0 | - |
More that 5 goals are concidered largest goals on the tourment, 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 tourment history.
The largest scores were:
| Team | Store | Team | Edition | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |