Number of played matches : 29
Number of players : 758
Number of differents players : 157
Number of differents strikers : 58
Number of penalties : 11
Total of goals 1949 : 135
Average 1949 : 4.66 goals by match
Better attack 1949 : Brazil with 46 goals
Better striker 1949 : Jair (Brazil) with 9 goals
Benitez.Jorge (Paraguay) marked 4 goals during the match of 1st turn Bolivia-Paraguay (0-7) in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Saturday april 30, 1949
Nininho (Brazil) marked 3 goals during the match of 1st turn Bolivia-Brazil (1-10) in Sao Paulo (Brazil) Sunday april 10, 1949
Arce.D (Paraguay) marked 3 goals during the match of 1st turn Chile-Paraguay (2-4) in Sao Paulo (Brazil) Wednesday april 27, 1949
Ademir (Brazil) marked 3 goals during the final Brazil-Paraguay (7-0) in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Wednesday may 11, 1949
The 100th goal of Chile in the Copa America was marked by Cremaschi.A at the 88' of the 1st turn Chile-Uruguay (3-1) Sunday May 8, 1949 in Belo Horizonte
The 100th goal of Paraguay in the Copa America was marked by Benitez.Jorge at the 67' of the 1st turn Chile-Paraguay (2-4) Wednesday April 27, 1949 in Sao Paulo
The st turn Argentina-Ecuador (12-0) of Thursday January 22, 1942 in Montevideo (Uruguay) constitutes the to date highest score: 12 goals. Three matches finished with 11 goals : 1st turn Brazil-Ecuador (9-2) of Wednesday February 21,1945 in Santiago (Chile), 1st turn Boliva-Brazil (1-12) of Sunday April 10,1949 in Sao Paulo (Brazil) and the 1st turn Argentina-Venezuela (11-0) of Sunday August 10,1975 in Rosario (Argentina)
The greatest number of goals marked in a final is 7 Wednesday May 11, 1949 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), between Brazil and Paraguay (7-0) : Ademir (17', 27' and 48'), Tesourinha (43' and 70') and Jair (72' and 89')
Mendez.N (Argentina) and Zizinho (Brazil) with for Mendez.N (6 in 1945, 5 in 1946 and 6 in 1947) and for Zizinho (2 in 1942, 2 in 1945, 5 in 1946, 5 in 1949, 1 in 1953 and 2 in 1957) are the best strikers in Copa America with 17 goals
Better strikers in only one Copa America Jair (Brazil) in 1949, Ambrois.J (Uruguay) in 1957 and Maschio.U (Argentina) in 1957 with 9 goals
Brazil in 1949 (Brazil) is the team which marked the most goals in a world cup with 46 goals including 9 goals of Jair which finishes better striker of the Copa America
Ademir (Brazil) is the only player to date to have marked 3 goals at the time of a final : Brazil-Paraguay (7-0) Wednesday May 11, 1949
Zizinho (Brazil) had marked in 6 different Copa America (1942, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1953, 1957)