1917 South American Championship

1917 South American Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Uruguay
Dates	30 September – 14 October
Teams	4 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Uruguay (2nd title)
Runners-up	Argentina
Third place	Brazil
Fourth place	Chile
Tournament statistics
Matches played	6
Goals scored	21 (3.5 per match)

The 1917 South American Championship was the second South American Championship and it took place in Uruguay. Uruguay won the tournament.

Teams

At the time, CONMEBOL only had four members:

• Argentina
• Brazil
• Chile
• Uruguay

Results

Rkn	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Uruguay	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	9
2	Argentina	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
3	Brazil	3	1	0	2	7	8	–1	3
4	Chile	3	0	0	3	0	10	–10	0

30 September 1917
Uruguay	4 – 0	Chile
3 October 1917
Argentina	4 – 2	Brazil
6 October 1917
Argentina	1 – 0	Chile
7 October 1917
Uruguay	4 – 0	Brazil
12 October 1917
Brazil	5 – 0	Chile
14 October 1917
Uruguay	1 – 0	Argentina

Statistics

Top scorers

4 goals

• Ángel Romano

3 goals

• Carlos Scarone

2 goals

• Alberto Ohaco
• Haroldo

• Neco
• Héctor Scarone

1 goal

• Antonio Blanco
• Pedro Calomino

• Amílcar
• Caetano

• Silvio Lagreca

Own goals

• Luis García (for Argentina)

Other websites

• South American Championship 1917 at RSSSF