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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)
← 19831989 →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.
Contents
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.
Uruguay qualified automatically as holders for the semifinal.
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'
July 2, 1987 Argentina 3 - 0 Ecuador
Estadio Monumental, Buenos Aires
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)Caniggia 50'
Maradona67' (pen.)
85'
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'
Morovic39' (o.g.)
Careca66'
Nelsinho72'
Romário89'
June 30, 1987 Chile 3 - 1 Venezuela
Estadio Olímpico Chateau Carreras, Córdoba
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Luis Barrancos (Bolivia)Letelier 17'
Contreras70'
Salgado83'
Acosta 24' (pen.)
July 3, 1987 Chile 4 - 0 Brazil
Estadio Olímpico Chateau Carreras, Córdoba
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Juan Daniel Cardellino (Uruguay)Basay 41'
68'
Letelier48'
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)
July 1, 1987 Colombia 2 - 0 Bolivia
Estadio Gigante de Arroyito, Rosario
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Gastón Castro (Chile)Valderrama 34'
Iguarán89'
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'
Vera108'
Redín 103' (pen.)
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'
Galeano27'
Caniggia 86'
Final
Main article: 1987 Copa América FinalJuly 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 titleIndividual scorers
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
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
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