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Football association: Brazilian Football Confederation; Top-level league: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A; Campeonato Brasileiro was created in 1959 as a knockout tournament between state champions. From 1967 to 1987 the best clubs of each state championships were separated in several groups with final play-offs or a final group stage.
The following clubs participate in Major League Soccer, the top-division football league of the United States. They contest the Canadian Championship for the Voyageurs Cup , along with Canadian Premier League teams and lower-level clubs to determine one of Canada's three entrants into the CONCACAF Champions Cup .
Night view of Maracanã Stadium, June 2013.. Football is considered one of the greatest sports in South America. [1] [2] Football was first introduced to the continent during the nineteenth century, as part of the worldwide diffusion of British culture initiated by the British diaspora and subsequent acceptance of the sport by the region's Anglophile elite.
The clashes for the Copa Aldao between the champions of Argentina and Uruguay kindled the idea of continental competition in the 1930s. [1] In 1948, the South American Championship of Champions (Spanish: Campeonato Sudamericano de Campeones), the most direct precursor to the Copa Libertadores, was played and organized by the Chilean club Colo-Colo after years of planning and organization. [1]
The South American Football Confederation (Spanish: Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol; [a] Portuguese: Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol), [b] known by the acronym CONMEBOL (/ ˈ k ɒ n m ɪ b ɒ l / KON-mib-ol) or CSF, is the continental governing body of football in South America [c] and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations.
Suriname Major League (1 C, 1 P) U. ... Pages in category "Top level football leagues of South America" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
South American national under-20 association football teams (12 P) South American national under-23 association football teams (1 C, 10 P) South American women's national association football teams (14 C, 17 P)
The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) is the administrative and controlling body for South American association football. It currently organizes four club competitions: the Copa Libertadores, the Copa Sudamericana, the Recopa Sudamericana, as well as the Suruga Bank Championship (in conjunction with the Japan Football Association ...