| Year: | 1956 |
| Country: | Uruguay |
| Dates: | 21 January – 15 February |
| Num Teams: | 6 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champion: | Uruguay |
| Count: | 9 |
| Second: | Chile |
| Third: | Argentina |
| Fourth: | Brazil |
| Fourth-Flagvar: | 1889 |
| Matches: | 15 |
| Goals: | 38 |
| Attendance: | 568000 |
| Top Scorer: | Enrique Hormazábal (4 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 1955 |
| Nextseason: | 1957 |
South American Championship 1956 was a football tournament held in Uruguay, who won it. Chile were runners-up. Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador withdrew from the tournament. Enrique Hormazábal from Chile became top scorer of the tournament with 4 goals.
| Montevideo | |
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| Estadio Centenario | |
| Capacity: 65,235 | |
See main article: 1956 South American Championship squads.
| width=165 | Team | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | ||||||||
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| align=left | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 9 | |||||||||
| align=left | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 6 | |||||||||
| align=left | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 6 | |||||||||
| align=left | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 6 | |||||||||
| align=left | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 2 | |||||||||
| align=left | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | −5 | 1 |
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A total of 26 different players scored 38 goals in the tournament. None of the goals are credited as own goal.
4 Goals
3 Goals
2 Goals
Ángel Labruna
Roberto Drago1 Goal
Carlos Cecconato Omar Sívori Federico Vairo
Álvaro Luizinho Maurinho Zezinho Isaac Andrade Félix Castillo Gómez Sánchez Máximo Mosquera