1949 South American Championship Final

The **1949 South American Championship Final** was the final match to determine the winner of the 1949 South American Championship, the 21st. edition of this continental competition. It was held on May 11, 1949, in Estádio São Januário of Rio de Janeiro. Brazil hosted the tournament after 27 years.

Brazil had won all its previous matches, thrashing their rivals in all of them (totalising 36 goals in 5 games). Nevertheless, the 2–1 loss to Paraguay caused both teams tied on points so a final match had to be played to crown a champion.

On the other hand, the Paraguay side had a strong team with such notable players, regarded by some journalists as the best of its history. In fact, the Paraguayan side achieved some notable results such as the 2nd place in the previous edition.

Brazil won the match against Paraguay, thrashing them by 7–0 and winning its 3rd. continental title.

## Qualified teams

|width=150px|Team|width=150px|Previous final app.|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
||**1919, 1922**, 1937|||
||(None)|||

## Route to the final

|colspan=2 style="width:1*"|Brazil|Round|colspan=2 style="width:1*"|Paraguay|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Opponent|Result|Group stage|Opponent|Result|||||||
||9–1|Match 1||3–0|||||||
||10–1|Match 2||1–0|||||||
||2–1|Match 3||3–1|||||||
||5–0|Match 4||1–2|||||||
||7–1|Match 5||4–2|||||||
||5–1|Match 6||7–0|||||||
||1–2|Match 7||2–1|||||||
|colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"||||||||||
|align=left||7|6|0|1|39|7|+32|**12**||
|align=left||7|6|0|1|21|6|+15|**12**||
|align=left||7|5|0|2|20|13|+7|**10**||
|align=left||7|4|0|3|13|24|−11|**8**||
|align=left||7|2|1|4|10|14|−4|**5**||
|align=left||7|2|1|4|14|20|−6|**5**||
|align=left||7|1|0|6|7|21|−14|**2**||
|align=left||7|0|2|5|4|23|−19|**2**|}|

- Notes:
- _Brazil and Paraguay finished tied on points so a playoff match had to be played to decide the champion._

## Match details

||||
| --- | --- | --- |
|GK||Barbosa|
|RB||Augusto|
|LB||Mauro|
|RH||Ely|
|CH||Danilo|
|LH||Noronha|
|OR||Tesourinha|
|IR||Zizinho|
|CF||Ademir|
|IL||Jair|
|OL||Simão|
|colspan=3|**Substitutions:**||
|colspan=3|**Manager:**||
|colspan=3|Flávio Costa||

||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|GK||Sinforiano García|||
|RB||Alberto González|||
|LB||Casiano Céspedes|||
|RH||Manuel Gavilán|||
|CH||Pedro Nardelli|||
|LH||Castor Cantero|||
|OR||Pedro Fernández|||
|IR||César López Fretes|||
|CF||Dionisio Arce|||
|IL||Jorge D. Benítez|||
|OL||Félix Vázquez|||
|colspan=4|**Substitutions:**||||
|FW||Marcial Barrios|||
|FW||Estanislao Romero|||
|colspan=5|**Manager:**||||
|colspan=5|Manuel Fleitas Solich||||

## Infobox (football match)

- **title**: 1949 South American Championship Final
- **image**: Estadio sao januario cropp.jpg
- **image size**: 250
- **caption**: Estadio Sao Januario, venue
- **event**: 1949 South American Championship
- **team1**: Brazil national football team, Brazil
- **team1score**: 7
- **team2**: Paraguay national football team, Paraguay
- **team2score**: 0
- **date**: May 11, 1949
- **stadium**: Estádio São Januário
- **city**: Rio de Janeiro
- **referee**: Cyril J. Barrick (The Football Association, England)
- **attendance**: 55,000
- **previous**: 1937 South American Championship Final, 1937
- **next**: 1953 South American Championship Final, 1953