Copa América Will Return to U.S. in 2024
The Copa América, South America’s largest soccer championship, will return to the United States in 2024 as a part of a broad collaboration settlement between soccer officers within the Americas that additionally contains at the least one new event in addition to expanded intercontinental competitions for golf equipment and ladies’s nationwide groups.
Concacaf, the confederation that governs the game in North and Central America and the Caribbean, and Conmebol, which guidelines the sport in South America, introduced their settlement on Friday.
In 2024, the ten South American nations that might usually contest the Copa América, the century-old South American championship, will probably be joined by six groups from the Concacaf area.
The Copa América was beforehand performed within the United States in 2016, the one different time it was held exterior South America and likewise the one earlier time it included as many as 16 groups.
It shouldn’t be unusual for the Copa América to incorporate “guest teams” from different areas. But for 2024 the groups from Concacaf will qualify by the 2023-24 Concacaf Nations League, moderately than by invitation. A visitor group has by no means gained the Copa América, though Mexico made the ultimate in 1993 and 2001. The United States has appeared within the event 4 occasions, making two semifinal appearances.
The federations stated the expanded Copa América would serve, partially, as an important window of top-level preparation within the Western Hemisphere forward the 2026 World Cup, which is to be co-hosted within the United States, Mexico and Canada. The event will probably be held from mid-June to mid-July 2024, concurrently with that summer season’s European Championship, a tent-pole occasion on the soccer calendar that’s held each 4 years.
Argentina gained the latest Copa América in 2021, a profession spotlight for Lionel Messi, and his first main nationwide group title. He and Argentina adopted that with a World Cup win in 2022. In all, Argentina and Uruguay have gained 15 Copa Américas every and Brazil 9.
The federations additionally introduced that the 2024 girls’s Concacaf Gold Cup will embrace the highest 4 South American groups alongside eight groups from Concacaf, a uncommon (and welcome) little bit of heightened event competitors for the area’s finest groups exterior the Women’s World Cup or the Olympics.
A brand new males’s membership competitors for the area can be deliberate, to incorporate two membership groups from every confederation. The federations stated they hoped to launch that event in 2024 as nicely. The event comes because the Club World Cup, for membership groups all over the world, is in flux, with FIFA planning to develop it however maintain it much less steadily.
