1987 Copa América

1987 Copa América

Tournament details
Host country	Argentina
Dates	June 27 - July 12
Teams	10 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Uruguay (13th title)
Runners-up	Chile
Third place	Colombia
Fourth place	Argentina
Tournament statistics
Matches played	13
Goals scored	33 (2.54 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Arnoldo Iguarán (4)
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The 1987 Copa América was 33rd edition of the Copa América, CONMEBOL's national team competition. It was the first Copa América under the new rotational hosting system. Argentina, as the first country alphabetically, hosted the tournament between June 27 to July 12, 1987. Uruguay successfully defended their title, winning a record 13th Copa América.

First round

The teams were drawn into three groups, consisting of three teams each. Each team plays once against the other teams in their group and would receive 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss. The winner of each group advances to the semi-finals. Defending champions Uruguay received a bye into the semi-finals.

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Uruguay qualified automatically as holders for the semifinal.

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Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Argentina	2	1	1	0	4	1	+3	3
Peru	2	0	2	0	2	2	0	2
Ecuador	2	0	1	1	1	4	-3	1

June 27, 1987	Argentina	1 - 1	Peru	Estadio Monumental, Buenos Aires Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Armando Pérez Hoyos (Colombia)
	Maradona  47'		Reyna  59'

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July 2, 1987	Argentina	3 - 0	Ecuador	Estadio Monumental, Buenos Aires Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)
	Caniggia  50' Maradona  67' (pen.)  85'

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July 4, 1987	Peru	1 - 1	Ecuador	Estadio Monumental, Buenos Aires Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Asterio Martínez (Paraguay)
	La Rosa  87'		Cuvi  72'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Chile	2	2	0	0	7	1	+6	4
Brazil	2	1	0	1	5	4	+1	2
Venezuela	2	0	0	2	1	8	-7	0

June 28, 1987	Brazil	5 - 0	Venezuela	Estadio Olímpico Chateau Carreras, Córdoba Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Elias Jácome (Ecuador)
	Edú Marangón  33' Morovic  39' (o.g.) Careca  66' Nelsinho  72' Romário  89'

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June 30, 1987	Chile	3 - 1	Venezuela	Estadio Olímpico Chateau Carreras, Córdoba Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Luis Barrancos (Bolivia)
	Letelier  17' Contreras  70' Salgado  83'		Acosta  24' (pen.)

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July 3, 1987	Chile	4 - 0	Brazil	Estadio Olímpico Chateau Carreras, Córdoba Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Juan Daniel Cardellino (Uruguay)
	Basay  41'  68' Letelier  48'  75'

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Colombia	2	2	0	0	5	0	+5	4
Bolivia	2	0	1	1	0	2	-2	1
Paraguay	2	0	1	1	0	3	-3	1

June 28, 1987	Paraguay	0 - 0	Bolivia	Estadio Gigante de Arroyito, Rosario Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Enrique Labó (Peru)

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July 1, 1987	Colombia	2 - 0	Bolivia	Estadio Gigante de Arroyito, Rosario Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Gastón Castro (Chile)
	Valderrama  34' Iguarán  89'

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July 5, 1987	Colombia	3 - 0	Paraguay	Estadio Gigante de Arroyito, Rosario Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Francisco Lamolina (Argentina)
	Iguarán  8'  34'  50'

Bracket

	Semifinals				Final
	July 8 - Córdoba
	Chile	2
	Colombia	1
					12 July - Buenos Aires
					Uruguay	1
					Chile	0
					Third place
	July 9 - Buenos Aires			11 July - Buenos Aires
	Uruguay	1		Colombia	2
	Argentina	0			Argentina	1

Semi-finals

July 8, 1987	Chile	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Colombia	Chateau Carreras, Córdoba Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Arppi Filho (Brazil)
	Astengo  106' Vera  108'		Redín  103' (pen.)

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July 9, 1987	Uruguay	1 – 0	Argentina	Monumental, Buenos Aires Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Jácome (Ecuador)
	Alzamendi  43'

Third-place match

July 11, 1987	Colombia	2 – 1	Argentina	Monumental, Buenos Aires Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Corujo (Venezuela)
	Gómez  8' Galeano  27'		Caniggia  86'

Final

Main article: 1987 Copa América Final

July 12, 1987	Uruguay	1 – 0	Chile	Monumental, Buenos Aires Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Arppi Filho (Brazil)
	Bengoechea  56'

Results

Copa América 1987 Champions
Uruguay 13th title

Individual scorers

4 goals Arnoldo Iguarán 3 goals Diego Maradona Juan Carlos Letelier 2 goals Claudio Caniggia Ivo Basay 1 goal Careca Edú Marangón Nelsinho Romário

Fernando Astengo Jorge Contreras Sergio Salgado Jaime Vera Juan Galeano Gabriel Jaime Gómez Bernardo Redín Carlos Valderrama Hamilton Cuvi Eugenio La Rosa Luis Reyna Antonio Alzamendi Pablo Bengoechea Pedro Acosta Own Goal Zdenko Morovic

External links

• RSSSF - full tournament details