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...