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1956 South American Championship
Football tournament
Football tournament
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| tourney_name | |
| year | 1956 |
| country | Uruguay |
| dates | 21 January – 15 February |
| num_teams | 6 |
| confederations | 1 |
| venues | 1 |
| cities | 1 |
| champion | Uruguay |
| count | 9 |
| second | Chile |
| third | Argentina |
| fourth | Brazil |
| fourth-flagvar | 1889 |
| matches | 15 |
| goals | 38 |
| attendance | 568000 |
| top_scorer | CHI Enrique Hormazábal |
| (4 goals) | |
| prevseason | [1955](1955-south-american-championship) |
| nextseason | [1957](1957-south-american-championship) |
| fourth-flagvar = 1889 (4 goals)
South American Championship 1956 was a football tournament held in Uruguay, who won it. Chile were runners-up. Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador withdrew from the tournament. Enrique Hormazábal from Chile became top scorer of the tournament with 4 goals.
Venues
| Montevideo | |
|---|---|
| Estadio Centenario | |
| Capacity: **65,235** | |
| [[File:Stad de centario uruguay1930 montevideo.jpg | 150px]] |
Squads
Main article: 1956 South American Championship squads
Final round
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | **9** | |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 8 | +3 | **6** | |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | +2 | **6** | |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | **6** | |
| 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | −5 | **2** | |
| 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | −5 | **1** |
Escalada
Roque
Gómez
Vairo
Meléndez
Sánchez
Míguez
Zezinho
Borges
Muñoz
Fernández
Sánchez
Mosquera
Gómez Sánchez
Ramírez Banda
Result
Goalscorers
A total of 26 different players scored 38 goals in the tournament. None of the goals are credited as own goal.
4 Goals
- CHI Enrique Hormazábal
3 Goals
- URU Guillermo Escalada
- URU Óscar Míguez
2 Goals
- ARG Ángel Labruna
- CHI Jaime Ramírez Banda
- CHI Leonel Sánchez
- PAR Máximo Rolón
- PER Roberto Drago
1 Goal
- ARG Carlos Cecconato
- ARG Omar Sívori
- ARG Federico Vairo
- BRA Álvaro
- BRA Luizinho
- BRA Maurinho
- BRA Zezinho
- CHI José Fernández
- CHI Manuel Muñoz
- CHI René Meléndez
- PAR Antonio Gómez
- PER Isaac Andrade
- PER Félix Castillo
- PER Gómez Sánchez
- PER Máximo Mosquera
- URU Javier Ambrois
- URU Carlos Borges
- URU José Walter Roque
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