1917 South American Championship

In 1910, the Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA) organised a tournament to mark the 100th anniversary of the May Revolution. The Copa Centenario Revolución de Mayo was contested by the national teams of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay and is considered to be a precursor to the South American Championship. Six years later, the AFA organised a second tournament, this time to celebrate the centenary of the Argentine Declaration of Independence. Alongside the three who had contested the Copa Centenario Revolución de Mayo, Brazil were invited to compete and the South American Championship was born. During the competition, the four associations of the competing teams met on 9 July 1916 and founded the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL). Uruguay were the defending champions having won the inaugural championship after drawing with Argentina in the final and decisive match. ==Format==

The tournament was played as a round-robin where each team would play all of the others once. The winner would be decided by the total number of points obtained across all matches played. Participants • • • • ==Squads==

All matches were held at the Parque Pereira in Montevideo. ==Summary==

The competition began on 30 September when hosts Uruguay began the defence of their title with a 4–0 win against Chile. Three days later, Argentina came from behind to defeat Brazil 4–2. On 6 October, Argentina defeated Chile 1–0. With half the matches played, Argentina were top of the table with four points, two ahead of Uruguay who had a game in hand. The following day, Uruguay defeated Brazil 4–0 to set up a winner-takes-all final match against Argentina. In the meantime, on 12 October, Brazil defeated Chile 5–0 in their final game. Two days later, Héctor Scarone scored the only goal of the match as Uruguay defeated Argentina 1–0 to successfully defend their title. ==Table==

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