After the Qatar 2022 World Cup, the Copa America will be the next big event for the national teams of North, South and Central America.
Will Argentina defend their title? Will the other countries on the continent win back the trophy?
Those are just some of the questions that will be answered when the tournament takes place in the United States during the Northern Hemisphere summer.
The Sporting News gives you all the information you need on the 2024 edition of the Copa America.
Copa America 2024 full schedule of matches and updated results
This edition of the Copa America will be held in June and July 2024. It was originally scheduled for mid-2023, but FIFA required that the tournament go hand-in-hand on the calendar with the European Championship, so it was postponed.
The opening date of the competition will be June 20, 2024 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, while the final will be on July 14 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami .
On Friday, January 27, and after much speculation, South American governing body CONMEBOL, together with North and Central American equivalent CONCACAF, confirmed that the Copa America 2024 will be held in the United States.
Initially, CONMEBOL had stated thatEcuador would be the host of the tournament, which it last held in 1993. However, in 2020 Alejandro Dominguez, the president of CONMEBOL, clarified that Ecuador had only made an application to host.
In November 2022, Francisco Egas, the president of the Ecuadorian Football Federation, expressed that his country would not be in a position to host the Copa America, after having hosted the final of the 2022 Copa Libertadores.
Since then, several different possible venues have been mentioned, both South American countries and even members of
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