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Continental Competition

European Championship

Held every four years since 1960. Officially, the European Football Championship. Winners receive the Henri Delaunay trophy, named for the Frenchman who first proposed the idea of a European Soccer Championship in 1927. The first one would not be played until five years after his death in 1955.

Multiple winners: Germany/West Germany (3); France (2).

Year
1960	Soviet Union
1964	Spain
1968	Italy
1972	West Germany
1976	Czechoslovakia
1980	West Germany
1984	France
1988	Netherlands
1992	Denmark
1996	Germany
2000	France
2004	Greece

Copa America

Held irregularly since 1916. Unofficially, the Championship of South America.

Multiple winners: Argentina and Uruguay (14); Brazil (7); Paraguay and Peru (2).

Year
1916	Uruguay
1917	Uruguay
1919	Brazil
1920	Uruguay
1921	Argentina
1922	Brazil
1923	Uruguay
1924	Uruguay
1925	Argentina
1926	Uruguay
1927	Argentina
1929	Argentina
1935	Uruguay
1937	Argentina
1939	Peru
1941	Argentina
1942	Uruguay
1945	Argentina
1946	Argentina
1947	Argentina
1949	Brazil
1953	Paraguay
1955	Argentina
1956	Uruguay
1957	Argentina
1958	Argentina
1959	Uruguay
1963	Bolivia
1967	Uruguay
1975	Peru
1979	Paraguay
1983	Uruguay
1987	Uruguay
1989	Brazil
1991	Argentina
1993	Argentina
1995	Uruguay
1997	Brazil
1999	Brazil
2001	Colombia
2004	Brazil

African Nations Cup

Contested since 1957 and held every two years since 1968.

Multiple winners: Cameroon, Egypt and Ghana (4); Congo/Zaire (3); Nigeria (2).

Year
1957	Egypt
1959	Egypt
1962	Ethiopia
1963	Ghana
1965	Ghana
1968	Zaire
1970	Sudan
1972	Congo
1974	Zaire
1976	Morocco
1978	Ghana
1980	Nigeria
1982	Ghana
1984	Cameroon
1986	Egypt
1988	Cameroon
1990	Algeria
1992	Ivory Coast
1994	Nigeria
1996	South Africa
1998	Egypt
2000	Cameroon
2002	Cameroon
2004	Tunisia

CONCACAF Gold Cup

The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Football Championship. Contested irregularly from 1963-81 and revived as CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1991.

Multiple winners: Mexico (7); Costa Rica (2).

Year
1963	Costa Rica
1965	Mexico
1967	Guatemala
1969	Costa Rica
1971	Mexico
1973	Haiti
1977	Mexico
1981	Honduras
1991	United States
1993	Mexico
1996	Mexico
1998	Mexico
2000	Canada
2003	Mexico

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Through The Years

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