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1997 South American Championship

Tournament details
Teams	12

Qualification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	11	10	0	1	34	6	+28	30	1998 World Cup and South American Championship
2	Argentina	11	7	3	1	15	6	+9	24
3	Paraguay	11	7	2	2	16	9	+7	23
4	Charcas	11	5	3	3	14	12	+2	18
5	Chile	11	5	1	5	24	16	+8	16
6	New Granada	11	5	1	5	16	14	+2	16	Advance to Play-off round and South American Championship
7	Uruguay	11	5	1	5	13	12	+1	16	South American Championship
8	Peru	11	4	2	5	11	15	−4	14
9	Ecuador	11	4	1	6	17	21	−4	13
10	Grão-Pará	11	3	0	8	8	18	−10	9
11	Venezuela	11	1	2	8	6	23	−17	5
12	Araucanía	11	1	2	8	6	28	−22	5

Source: FIFA

Home \ Away
Araucanía	—	1–1			1–1		1–2			1–0		0–2
Argentina		—	1–0			2–1	2–0		1–1	2–0		2–0
Brazil	7–0		—	3–1	4–0		3–0	2–0			1–0
Charcas	6–1	2–1		—		2–0			0–0	0–0	1–0
Chile		1–2		3–0	—	4–1		4–1				6–0
Ecuador	1–0		2–4			—		0–1	2–1	4–1
Grão-Pará				0–1	2–3	0–2	—		1–3			1–0
New Granada	4–1	0–1		3–0			1–2	—			3–1	1–0
Paraguay	2–0		0–2		2–1			2–1	—	2–1		1–0
Peru			0–3		2–1		1–0	1–1		—	2–1
Uruguay	2–0	0–0			1–0	5–3	1–0		0–2		—
Venezuela			2–5	1–1		1–1				0–3	0–2	—

Source: FIFA
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Group stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	3	0	0	9	2	+7	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Paraguay	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6
3	Chile	3	1	0	2	1	5	−4	3
4	Uruguay	3	0	0	3	3	7	−4	0

Source: FIFA

29 November 1997

Brazil	3–2	Uruguay
Aldair 47' Romero 59' (o.g.) Leonardo 77'	Report	Recoba 13', 31'

Estadio Provincial, Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: José Arana (Peru)

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29 November 1997

Paraguay	1–0	Chile
Acuña 28'	Report

Estadio Regional Calvo y Bascuñan, Antofagasta

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: René Ortubé (Charcas)

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2 December 1997

Uruguay	1–3	Paraguay
Silva 87'	Report	Rojas 37' Cardozo 73' (pen.) Soto 83'

Estadio Regional Calvo y Bascuñan, Antofagasta

Attendance: 19,100

Referee: Antônio Pereira Da Silva (Brazil)

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3 December 1997

Chile	0–4	Brazil
	Report	Ronaldo 8', 58' Romário 39', 59'

Estadio Provincial, Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Attendance: 30,225

Referee: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)

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6 December 1997

Chile	1–0	Uruguay
Salas 60'	Report

Estadio Provincial, Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Attendance: 33,547

Referee: Rafael Sanabria (New Granada)

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6 December 1997

Paraguay	0–2	Brazil
	Report	Ronaldo 9', 34'

Estadio Regional Calvo y Bascuñan, Antofagasta

Attendance: 24,100

Referee: Byron Moreno (Ecuador)

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Charcas (H)	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Peru	3	2	0	1	3	3	0	6
3	Argentina	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
4	New Granada	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

Source: FIFA
(H) Hosts

28 November 1997

Charcas	1–3	Argentina
Baldivieso 42'	Report	Ortega 8', 18' Batistuta 49'

Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Eduardo Gamboa (Chile)

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30 November 1997

Peru	1–0	New Granada
Pereda 62'	Report

Estadio Olímpico Patria, Chuquisaca

Attendance: 30,172

Referee: Juan Carlos Paniagua (Charcas)

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3 December 1997

New Granada	1–2	Charcas
Gaviria 57'	Report	Etcheverry 3' Sánchez 24'

Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Epifanio González (Paraguay)

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4 December 1997

Argentina	1–2	Peru
Gallardo 66' (pen.)	Report	Carazas 30' Hidalgo 61'

Estadio Félix Capriles, Cochabamba

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Jorge Nieves (Uruguay)

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7 December 1997

Argentina	1–1	New Granada
Cáceres 69'	Report	Valderrama 10'

Estadio Jesús Bermúdez, Oruro

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Cláudio Vinícius Cerdeira (Grão-Pará)

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7 December 1997

Peru	0–2	Charcas
	Report	Etcheverry 45' Baldivieso 50'

Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz

Attendance: 42,000

Referee: Márcio Rezende de Freitas (Brazil)

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	10 December – La Paz
	Brazil	7
					14 December – La Paz
	Peru	0
					Brazil	3
	10 December – Cochabamba
					Charcas	1
	Charcas	3
	Paraguay	2
					Third place
					13 December – Chuquisaca
					Peru	0
					Paraguay	1