1993 Copa América

The 1993 Copa América was the 36th Copa América, CONMEBOL's football tournament for national teams. It was held in Ecuador between 15 June and 4 July. All 10 CONMEBOL members took part, but for the first time two nations from outside CONMEBOL were invited to take part in the tournament, to round out the format. Mexico and the United States, both of CONCACAF, were the invited teams for this tournament. Argentina defeated Mexico in the final 2–1 to win their record 14th continental championship,^[2] also their last senior title until 2021.^[3]

1993 Copa América

Official poster
Tournament details
Host country	Ecuador
Dates	15 June – 4 July
Teams	12 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	7 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Argentina (14th title)
Runners-up	Mexico
Third place	Colombia
Fourth place	Ecuador
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	64 (2.46 per match)
Attendance	633,040 (24,348 per match)
Top scorer(s)	José Luis Dolgetta (4 goals)
Best player(s)	Sergio Goycochea[1]
← 1991 1995 →

It was the first edition of the Copa América in which neither Brazil nor Uruguay finished in the top four.^[4] This next occurred in 2015.

Venues

Quito	Ambato Cuenca Guayaquil Machala Portoviejo Quito	Ambato
Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa		Estadio Bellavista
Capacity: 40,948		Capacity: 22,000
Portoviejo		Cuenca
Estadio Reales Tamarindos		Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar
Capacity: 21,000		Capacity: 22,000
Machala	Guayaquil
Estadio 9 de Mayo	Estadio Monumental Isidro Romero Carbo	Estadio George Capwell
Capacity: 17,800	Capacity: 59,932	Capacity: 21,594

Squads

For a complete list of all participating squads: 1993 Copa América squads

Group stage

The teams were divided into three groups of four teams each. Each team plays one match against each of the other teams within the same group. Two points are awarded for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a defeat. First and second placed teams, in each group, advance to the quarter-finals. The two best third place teams also advance to the quarter-finals.

• Tie-breaker
  • If teams finish leveled on points, the following tie-breakers are used:
  1. greater goal difference in all group games;
  2. greater number of goals scored in all group games;
  3. winner of the head-to-head match between the teams in question;
  4. drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ecuador (H)	3	3	0	0	10	2	+8	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Uruguay	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	3
3	Venezuela	3	0	2	1	6	11	−5	2
4	United States	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(H) Hosts

15 June 1993

Ecuador	6–1	Venezuela
Muñoz 19' Noriega 32' Fernández 57', 81' E. Hurtado 65' Aguinaga 84'		Dolgetta 79'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Francisco Lamolina (Argentina)

16 June 1993

Uruguay	1–0	United States
Ostolaza 51'

Estadio Bellavista, Ambato

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Alberto Tejada (Peru)

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19 June 1993

Uruguay	2–2	Venezuela
Saralegui 23' Kanapkis 79'		Dolgetta 10' Rivas 72'

Estadio Bellavista, Ambato

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Pablo Peña (Bolivia)

19 June 1993

Ecuador	2–0	United States
Avilés 11' E. Hurtado 35'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Iván Guerrero (Chile)

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22 June 1993

Venezuela	3–3	United States
Dolgetta 68', 80' Echenausi 89'		Henderson 21' Lalas 37' Kinnear 52'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Alberto Tejada (Peru)

22 June 1993

Ecuador	2–1	Uruguay
Avilés 28' Aguinaga 87'		Kanapkis 64'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Francisco Lamolina (Argentina)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Peru	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	Brazil	3	1	1	1	5	3	+2	3
3	Paraguay	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	3
4	Chile	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

18 June 1993

Paraguay	1–0	Chile
Cabañas 6'

Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar, Cuenca

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: José Torres (Colombia)

18 June 1993

Brazil	0–0	Peru
	Report

Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar, Cuenca

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Arturo Carter (Mexico)

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21 June 1993

Paraguay	1–1	Peru
Monzón 37'		Del Solar 77'

Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar, Cuenca

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Ángel Guevara (Ecuador)

21 June 1993

Chile	3–2	Brazil
Sierra 15' Zambrano 51', 59'	Report	Müller 36' Palhinha 55'

Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar, Cuenca

Attendance: 23,000

Referee: Alfredo Rodas (Ecuador)

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24 June 1993

Peru	1–0	Chile
Del Solar 14' (pen.)

Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar, Cuenca

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: José Torres (Colombia)

24 June 1993

Brazil	3–0	Paraguay
Palhinha 15', 72' Edmundo 62'	Report

Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar, Cuenca

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Arturo Carter (Mexico)

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Colombia	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	Argentina	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	4
3	Mexico	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
4	Bolivia	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

16 June 1993

Colombia	2–1	Mexico
Valencia 35' Aristizábal 87'		Zague 57'

Estadio 9 de Mayo, Machala

Attendance: 10,065

Referee: Jorge Nieves (Uruguay)

Team details

Colombia Mexico GK 1 Óscar Córdoba RB 4 Luis Fernando Herrera CB 3 Alexis Mendoza CB 15 Luis Carlos Perea LB 18 Diego Osorio RM 6 Gabriel Gómez CM 10 Leonel Álvarez  80' CM 19 Freddy Rincón LM 10 Carlos Valderrama CF 11 Adolfo Valencia  78' CF 9 Víctor Aristizábal Substitutes: MF 16 John Harold Lozano  80' DF 2 Óscar Cortés MF 5 Hermán Gaviria FW 7 Orlando Maturana MF 8 Alexis García GK 12 Farid Mondragón MF 13 Víctor Pacheco FW 17 Faustino Asprilla DF 20 Wilson Pérez DF 21 Ricardo Pérez GK 22 José María Pazo Manager: Francisco Maturana GK 1 Jorge Campos RB 21 Raúl Gutiérrez CB 2 Claudio Suárez CB 3 Ramirez Perales LB 6 Miguel Herrera RM 8 Alberto García Aspe CM 4 Ignacio Ambríz LM 5 Ramón Ramírez RW 15 Luis Flores  52' CF 9 Hugo Sánchez  45' LF 10 Luis García Substitutes: RM 7 David Patiño LF 11 Luís Roberto Alves  45' GK 12 Alejandro García CM 13 Miguel España CM 14 Carlos Turrubiates RB 16 Juan Hernández LM 17 Benjamín Galindo  52' LB 18 Guillermo Muñoz RF 19 Daniel Guzmán CB 20 Abraham Nava GK 22 Nicolás Navarro Manager: Miguel Mejía Barón

17 June 1993

Argentina	1–0	Bolivia
Batistuta 53'

Estadio George Capwell, Guayaquil

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Arturo Angeles (United States)

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20 June 1993

Argentina	1–1	Mexico
Ruggeri 28'		Patiño 14'

Estadio George Capwell, Guayaquil

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Juan Escobar (Paraguay)

Team details

Argentina Mexico GK 1 Sergio Goycochea RB 4 Fabián Basualdo CB 6 Oscar Ruggeri (c) CB 2 Sergio Vázquez LB 14 Néstor Craviotto RM 17 Gustavo Zapata CM 10 Diego Simeone CM 5 Fernando Redondo  81' LM 20 Leonardo Rodríguez  56' CF 9 Gabriel Batistuta CF 16 Claudio García Substitutions: DF 3 Ricardo Altamirano FW 7 Ramón Medina Bello MF 8 Néstor Gorosito  81' GK 12 Luis Islas DF 13 Fernando Cáceres DF 15 Jorge Borelli FW 18 Alberto Acosta FW 19 Julio Alberto Zamora GK 21 Norberto Scoponi MF 22 Alejandro Mancuso  56' MF 23 Jose Basualdo Manager: Alfio Basile GK 1 Jorge Campos RB 6 Miguel Herrera CB 2 Claudio Suarez CB 3 Ramírez Perales LB 5 Ramón Ramírez RM 7 David Patiño  72' CM 4 Ignacio Ambríz CM 8 Garcia Aspe LM 17 Benjamín Galindo RF 9 Hugo Sánchez (c) LF 11 Luís Roberto Alves Substitutes: LF 10 Luis García GK 12 Alejandro García MF 13 Miguel España MF 14 Carlos Turrubiates RF 15 Luis Flores RB 16 Juan Hernandez  72' LB 18 Guillermo Muñoz LF 19 Daniel Guzmán CB 20 Abraham Nava LB 21 Raúl Gutiérrez GK 22 Nicolás Navarro Manager: Miguel Mejía Barón

20 June 1993

Colombia	1–1	Bolivia
Maturana 18' (pen.)		Etcheverry 14'

Estadio 9 de Mayo, Machala

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Márcio Rezende (Brazil)

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23 June 1993

Mexico	0–0	Bolivia

Estadio Reales Tamarindos, Portoviejo

Attendance: 4,530

Referee: Jorge Nieves (Uruguay)

Team details

Mexico Bolivia GK 1 Jorge Campos RB 6 Miguel Herrera CB 2 Claudio Suárez  65' CB 3 Juan Ramírez Perales LB 5 Ramón Ramírez RM 7 David Patiño CM 4 Ignacio Ambríz LM 8 Alberto García Aspe RW 15 Luis Flores  67' CF 9 Hugo Sánchez (c) LW 10 Luis García Substitutes: FW 11 Luís Roberto Alves GK 12 Alejandro García MF 13 Miguel España MF 14 Carlos Turrubiates DF 16 Juan Hernández MF 17 Benjamín Galindo  67' DF 18 Guillermo Muñoz FW 19 Daniel Guzmán DF 20 Abraham Nava DF 21 Raúl Gutiérrez  65' GK 22 Nicolás Navarro Manager: Miguel Mejía Barón GK 1 Dario Rojas RB 2 Juan Manuel Peña CB 5 Gustavo Quinteros CB 3 Marco Sandy LB 16 Luis Cristaldo RM 6 Carlos Borja CM 8 José Melgar CM 20 Ramiro Castillo  56' LM 22 Julio César Baldivieso CF 9 Álvaro Peña  71' CF 10 Marco Etcheverry Substitutes: DF 4 Miguel Rimba FW 7 Johnny Villarroel [it] FW 11 Jaime Moreno  71' GK 12 Marcelo Torrico DF 13 Modesto Soruco MF 14 Juan Carlos Ríos MF 15 Roberto Pérez FW 17 William Ramallo DF 18 Miguel Ángel Noro FW 19 Iván Castillo FW 21 Erwin Sánchez  56' Manager: Xabier Azkargorta

23 June 1993

Argentina	1–1	Colombia
Simeone 2'		Rincón 5'

Estadio George Capwell, Guayaquil

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Márcio Rezende (Brazil)

Ranking of third-placed teams

At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third-placed teams of each group. The two third-placed teams with the best results advanced to the quarter-finals.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	B	Paraguay	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	3	Advance to knockout stage
2	C	Mexico	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
3	A	Venezuela	3	0	2	1	6	11	−5	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	26 June – Quito
	Ecuador	3
					30 June – Quito
	Paraguay	0
					Ecuador	0
	27 June – Quito
					Mexico	2
	Mexico	4
									4 July – Guayaquil
	Peru	2
									Mexico	1
	26 June – Guayaquil
									Argentina	2
	Colombia (p)	1 (5)
					1 July – Guayaquil
	Uruguay	1 (3)
					Colombia	0 (5)
	27 June – Guayaquil
					Argentina (p)	0 (6)			Third place
	Argentina (p)	1 (6)
									3 July – Portoviejo
	Brazil	1 (5)
									Colombia	1
									Ecuador	0

Quarter-finals

26 June 1993

Ecuador	3–0	Paraguay
E. Hurtado 33' Ramírez 43' (o.g.) Avilés 81'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Márcio Rezende (Brazil)

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26 June 1993

Colombia	1–1	Uruguay
Perea 88'		Saralegui 63'
Penalties
Asprilla Mendoza Valderrama W. Pérez Valencia	5–3	Pelletti Saralegui Moas Siboldi

Estadio Monumental, Guayaquil

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Juan Escobar (Paraguay)

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27 June 1993

Argentina	1–1	Brazil
Rodríguez 69'	Report	Müller 37'
Penalties
Gorosito Simeone Rodríguez Acosta Medina Bello Borelli	6–5	Zinho Cafu Müller Roberto Carlos Luisinho Boiadeiro

Estadio Monumental, Guayaquil

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Alberto Tejada (Peru)

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27 June 1993

Mexico	4–2	Peru
García Aspe 22' (pen.), 44' Zague 43' Patiño 49'		Del Solar 55' (pen.) Reynoso 82'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Attendance: 17,340

Referee: Iván Guerrero (Chile)

Team details

Mexico Peru GK 1 Jorge Campos RB 21 Raúl Gutiérrez CB 2 Claudio Suárez CB 3 Juan Ramírez Perales LB 5 Ramón Ramírez RM 7 David Patiño  69' CM 4 Ignacio Ambríz CM 8 Alberto García Aspe LM 17 Benjamín Galindo  68' RF 9 Hugo Sánchez (c) LF 11 Luís Roberto Alves Substitutes: LB 6 Miguel Herrera RF 10 Luis García  68' GK 12 Alejandro García CM 13 Miguel España CM 14 Carlos Turrubiates RF 15 Luis Flores  69' RB 16 Juan Hernández CB 18 Guillermo Muñoz LF 19 Daniel Guzmán CB 20 Abraham Nava GK 22 Nicolás Navarro Manager: Miguel Mejía Barón GK 1 Miguel Miranda RB 16 César Charún CB 3 Juan Reynoso CB 5 José Soto LB 4 Percy Olivares RM 18 Alvaro Barco CM 8 José del Solar CM 14 Roberto Martínez  45' LM 10 Pablo Zegarra CF 11 Julio César Rivera CF 7 Flavio Maestri  53' Substitutes: MF 19 Germán Carty  53' MF 15 Roberto Palacios  45' DF 9 Andrés González GK 12 Juan Carlos Zubczuk FW 13 Mario Rodríguez DF 2 Jorge Soto MF 6 José Luis Carranza FW 20 Waldir Sáenz GK 21 Agapito Rodríguez Manager: Vladimir Popović

Semi-finals

30 June 1993

Mexico	2–0	Ecuador
Sánchez 23' R. Ramírez 54'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Attendance: 45,105

Referee: Alberto Tejada (Peru)

Team details

Mexico Ecuador GK 1 Jorge Campos RB 21 Raúl Gutiérrez DF 2 Claudio Suárez DF 3 Juan Ramírez Perales LB 5 Ramón Ramírez RM 7 David Patiño  65' CM 4 Ignacio Ambríz CM 8 Alberto García Aspe LM 17 Benjamín Galindo  57' RF 9 Hugo Sánchez (c) LF 11 Luís Roberto Alves Substitutes: LB 6 Miguel Herrera  57' RF 10 Luis García GK 12 Alejandro García CM 13 Miguel España CM 14 Carlos Turrubiates RF 15 Luis Flores  65' RB 16 Juan Hernández LB 18 Guillermo Muñoz LF 19 Daniel Guzmán CB 20 Abraham Nava GK 22 Nicolás Navarro Manager: Miguel Mejía Barón GK 1 Jacinto Espinoza RB 20 Iván Hurtado CB 22 Raúl Noriega CB 6 Luis Capurro LB 7 Carlos Muñoz RM 5 Héctor Carabalí CM 8 Nixon Carcelén LM 10 Álex Aguinaga RF 11 Ángel Fernández  68' CF 9 Eduardo Hurtado LF 14 Raúl Avilés  55' Substitutes: DF 2 Jimmy Montanero DF 3 Hólger Quiñónez DF 4 Byron Tenorio GK 12 Víctor Mendoza DF 13 Máximo Tenorio FW 15 José Gavica  68' MF 16 Kléber Chalá  55' MF 17 Eduardo Zambrano DF 18 Dannes Coronel MF 19 Luis Chérrez DF 21 José María Guerrero Manager: Dušan Drašković

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1 July 1993

Argentina	0–0	Colombia
Penalties
Gorosito Batistuta Simeone Rodríguez Acosta Borelli	6–5	Rincón Asprilla Mendoza W. Pérez Valderrama Aristizábal

Estadio Monumental, Guayaquil

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Jorge Nieves (Uruguay)

Third-place match

3 July 1993

Ecuador	0–1	Colombia
		Valencia 86'

Estadio Reales Tamarindos, Portoviejo

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Álvaro Arboleda (Venezuela)

Final

Main article: 1993 Copa América Final

4 July 1993

Argentina	2–1	Mexico
Batistuta 63', 74'		Galindo 67' (pen.)

Estadio Monumental, Guayaquil

Attendance: 41,000

Referee: Márcio Rezende (Brazil)

Goal scorers

With four goals, José Luis Dolgetta was the top scorer in the tournament. There were 64 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.46 goals per match.

4 goals

• José Luis Dolgetta

3 goals

• Gabriel Batistuta
• Palhinha
• Ney Avilés
• Eduardo Hurtado
• José del Solar

2 goals

• Müller
• Richard Zambrano
• Adolfo Valencia
• Álex Aguinaga
• Ángel Fernández
• Zague
• Alberto García Aspe
• David Patiño
• Fernando Kanapkis
• Marcelo Saralegui

1 goal

• Leonardo Rodríguez
• Oscar Ruggeri
• Diego Simeone
• Marco Etcheverry
• Edmundo
• José Luis Sierra
• Víctor Aristizábal
• Orlando Maturana
• Luis Carlos Perea
• Freddy Rincón
• Carlos Antonio Muñoz
• Raúl Noriega
• Benjamín Galindo
• Ramón Ramírez
• Hugo Sánchez
• Roberto Cabañas
• Luis Monzón
• Juan Reynoso
• Santiago Ostolaza
• Alexi Lalas
• Chris Henderson
• Dominic Kinnear
• Miguel Echenausi
• Stalin Rivas

1 own goal

• Mario Ramírez (against Ecuador)

Final positions

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Eff
1	Argentina	6	2	4	0	6	4	+2	8	66.7%
2	Mexico	6	2	2	2	9	7	+2	6	50.0%
3	Colombia	6	2	4	0	6	4	+2	8	66.7%
4	Ecuador	6	4	0	2	13	5	+8	8	66.7%
Eliminated in the Quarterfinals
5	Brazil	4	1	2	1	6	4	+2	4	50.0%
6	Uruguay	4	1	2	1	5	5	0	4	50.0%
7	Peru	4	1	2	1	4	5	−1	4	50.0%
8	Paraguay	4	1	1	2	2	7	−5	3	37.5%
Eliminated in the First Stage
9	Chile	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	2	33.3%
10	Bolivia	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2	33.3%
11	Venezuela	3	0	2	1	6	11	−5	2	33.3%
12	United States	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1	16.7%