1956 South American Championship
Appearance
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Tournament details | |
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Host country | Uruguay |
Dates | 21 January – 15 February |
Teams | 6 (from 1 confederation) |
Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Third place | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 15 |
Goals scored | 38 (2.53 per match) |
Attendance | 568,000 (37,867 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() (4 goals) |
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.
Venues
[change | change source]Montevideo |
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Estadio Centenario |
Capacity: 65,235 |
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Squads
[change | change source]Final round
[change | change source]Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 9 |
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5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 6 |
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5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 6 |
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5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 6 |
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5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 2 |
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5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | −5 | 1 |
Uruguay ![]() | 4–2 | ![]() |
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Óscar Míguez ![]() Guillermo Escalada ![]() Walter Roque ![]() |
Máximo Rolón ![]() Antonio Gómez ![]() |
Argentina ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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Omar Sívori ![]() Federico Vairo ![]() |
Roberto Drago ![]() |
Chile ![]() | 4–1 | ![]() |
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Enrique Hormazábal ![]() René Meléndez ![]() Leonel Sánchez ![]() |
Maurinho ![]() |
Uruguay ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
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Guillermo Escalada ![]() Óscar Míguez ![]() |
Argentina ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
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Ángel Labruna ![]() |
Brazil ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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Alvaro ![]() Zezinho ![]() |
Roberto Drago ![]() |
Argentina ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Carlos Cecconato ![]() |
Paraguay ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Máximo Rolón ![]() |
Isaac Andrade ![]() |
Uruguay ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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Óscar Míguez ![]() Carlos Borges ![]() |
Ramírez Banda ![]() |
Chile ![]() | 4–3 | ![]() |
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Enrique Hormazábal ![]() Manuel Muñoz ![]() José Fernández ![]() Leonel Sánchez ![]() |
Félix Castillo ![]() Máximo Mosquera ![]() Gómez Sánchez ![]() |
Chile ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
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Enrique Hormazábal ![]() Ramírez Banda ![]() |
Uruguay ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Javier Ambrois ![]() |
Result
[change | change source]1956 South American Championship champions |
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![]() Uruguay 9th title |
Goalscorers
[change | change source]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
1 Goal