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1952 Panamerican Championship

Field	Value
title	Panamerican Championship
year	1952
image	Campeonato panamericano futbol 1952 poster.jpg
image_size	200
caption	Official poster
country	Chile
dates	16 March – 20 April
venue	Estadio Nacional
num_teams	6
winners
count	1
second
third
fourth
matches	15
goals	72
scoring_leader	Valeriano López
(7 goals)
next_season	[1956](1956-panamerican-championship)

(7 goals) The 1952 Panamerican Championship was the first edition of the Panamerican Championship, an association football tournament featuring national teams from North, Central and South America. Organized by the Panamerican Football Confederation, this first edition was held in Santiago, Chile, between March 16 and April 20, in 1952.

The competition, contested by six teams, was played in a round-robin format, and won by Brazil. All the matches were played at Estadio Nacional.

Participating teams

6 teams participated in the championship, qualifying by various means:

Confederation	Team	Qualification Path
Host		Tournament organizer
FIFA		1950 FIFA World Cup Champion
Conmebol (South America)
[1949 South American Championship](1949-south-american-championship) Champion
Third Place
NAFC (North America)		[1949 NAFC Championship](1949-nafc-championship) Champion
CCCF (Central America and the Caribbean)		[1951 CCCF Championship](1951-cccf-championship) Champion

Squads

Main article: 1952 Panamerican Championship squads

Venue

Santiago
Estadio Nacional
Capacity: 70,000
[[File:Estadio Nacional Copa América 2015 (18463071841).jpg	200px]]

Referees

Godfrey Sunderland
William Crawford
John Aldbridge
Charles Mckenna
Walter Manning
Charles Dean

Results

Match details

Prieto Muñoz Meléndez

Barbadillo Morales

Míguez Abbadie

Prieto Díaz

Míguez Pérez López

Meléndez Cremaschi López

Britos Tejada Loureiro

Molina Rangel

Rodrigues Julinho Pinga

Muñoz

Rodrigues Baltazar Pinga Cancela

Drago Torres

Pinga

Table

Awards

Top goalscorer

Peruvian Valeriano López, top scorer of the competition

Valeriano López
Andrés Prieto
Óscar Míguez
Julio Abbadie
Carlos Septién
Baltazar

Team of the Tournament

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Antonio Carbajal	Héctor Vilches
Pinheiro	Ramiro Cortés
Brandãozinho
Víctor Rodríguez Andrade	Guillermo Díaz
Julio Abbadie
Valeriano López
Didi
Alcides Ghiggia

References

[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/panamch52.html I. Panamerican Championship 1952] by Erik Lugo and Eduardo Mendoza on the RSSSF
[https://dechalaca.com/hemeroteca/producto-peruano/el-tanque-de-parque-patricios Valeriano López en Huracán: El tanque de Parque Patricios] by Roberto Gando, 27 Apr 2017
"I. Panamerican Championship 1952 - Match Details".

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