Copa America Top Scorers
Article date: 21/6/2019
The hosting of the Copa America tournament returns to Brazil for the first time since 1989. And whilst it's 30 years since they last hosted the tournament it's also 12 years since they last won it, their 3:0 victory over arch-rivals Argentina making it the 8th time they'd lifted the trophy, still way behind Uruguay's fifteen tournament triumphs and Argentina's fourteen. 2007 is also the last time the Brazilian's topped the goalscoring charts, with Robinho's 6 goal haul in Venezuela seeing him surpass the Argentinian great Juan Román Riquelme (5 goals) and Mexico's Nery Castillo (4 goals). Since then two players have dominated the top of goalscoring charts at the following three tournaments: Peru legend Paolo Guerrero topped the charts at the 2011 tournament in Argentina, and then did the same at Chile 2015 where he was joint winner with home favourite Eduardo Vargas. One year later at the Copa América Centenario in the United States Vargas was the star man again, his six goals helping fire Chile to their second victory in a row. Given his recent goalscoring form in the competition it would be foolish to bet against Vargas topping the charts again, but it's the usual suspects who expected to challenge him for the golden boot title - Argentinian legend Lionel Messi, Uruguay's strike partnership of Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani, Brazil's Gabriel Jesus and Roberto Firminho, and another class act from Argentina, Sergio Aguero.
Full details on all the highest goalscorers from the previous tournament are below, with some genuine legends of the game topping the charts at various stages of the Copa America's history...
Copa America Top Scorers
Year | Goals | Top Scorer | Country |
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1916 | 3 | Isabelino Gradín | Uruguay |
1917 | 4 | Ángel Romano | Uruguay |
1919 | =4 | Arthur Friedenreich | Brazil |
=4 | Neco | Brazil | |
1920 | =3 | José Pérez | Uruguay |
=3 | Ángel Romano | Uruguay | |
1921 | 3 | Julio Libonatti | Argentina |
1922 | 4 | Julio Francia | Argentina |
1923 | =3 | Vicente Aguirre | Argentina |
=3 | Pedro Petrone | Uruguay | |
1924 | 4 | Pedro Petrone | Uruguay |
1925 | 6 | Manuel Seoane | Argentina |
1926 | 7 | David Arellano | Chile |
1927 | =3 | Alfredo Carricaberry | Argentina |
=3 | Segundo Luna | Argentina | |
=3 | Roberto Figueroa | Uruguay | |
=3 | Pedro Petrone | Uruguay | |
=3 | Héctor Scarone | Uruguay | |
1929 | 5 | Aurelio González | Paraguay |
1935 | 4 | Herminio Masantonio | Argentina |
1937 | 7 | Raúl Toro Julio | Chile |
1939 | 7 | Teodoro Fernández | Peru |
1941 | 5 | Juan Marvezzi | Argentina |
1942 | =7 | Herminio Masantonio | Argentina |
=7 | José Manuel Moreno | Argentina | |
1945 | =6 | Norberto Méndez | Argentina |
=6 | Heleno de Freitas | Brazil | |
1946 | 7 | José María Medina | Uruguay |
1947 | 8 | Nicolás Falero | Uruguay |
1949 | 9 | Jair da Rosa Pinto | Brazil |
1953 | 7 | Francisco Molina | Chile |
1955 | 8 | Rodolfo Micheli | Argentina |
1956 | 4 | Enrique Hormazábal | Chile |
1957 | =9 | Humberto Maschio | Argentina |
=9 | Javier Ambrois | Uruguay | |
1959 | 8 | Pelé | Brazil |
1959 | 6 | José Sanfilippo | Argentina |
1963 | 6 | Carlos Alberto Raffo | Ecuador |
1967 | 5 | Luis Artime | Argentina |
1975 | =4 | Leopoldo Luque | Argentina |
=4 | Ernesto Díaz | Colombia | |
1979 | =4 | Jorge Peredo | Chile |
=4 | Eugenio Morel | Paraguay | |
1983 | =3 | Jorge Burruchaga | Argentina |
=3 | Roberto Dinamite | Brazil | |
=3 | Carlos Aguilera | Uruguay | |
1987 | 4 | Arnoldo Iguarán | Colombia |
1989 | 6 | Bebeto | Brazil |
1991 | 6 | Gabriel Batistuta | Argentina |
1993 | 4 | José Luis Dolgetta | Venezuela |
1995 | =4 | Gabriel Batistuta | Argentina |
=4 | Luis García | Mexico | |
1997 | 6 | Luis Hernández | Mexico |
1999 | =5 | Rivaldo | Brazil |
=5 | Ronaldo | Brazil | |
2001 | 6 | Víctor Aristizábal | Colombia |
2004 | 7 | Adriano | Brazil |
2007 | 6 | Robinho | Brazil |
2011 | 5 | Paolo Guerrero | Peru |
2015 | =4 | Eduardo Vargas | Chile |
=4 | Paolo Guerrero | Peru | |
2016 | 6 | Eduardo Vargas | Chile |