page_title: United States at the Copa América
section_title: Record Players
hierarchical_section_title: United States at the Copa América / Record Players
caption_attribution_description: Alexi Lalas, football player.
context_page_description: The Copa América is South America's major tournament in senior men's soccer and determines the continental champion. Until 1967, the tournament was known as South American Championship. It is the oldest continental championship in the world.
  The USA are not members of the South American football confederation CONMEBOL. But because CONMEBOL only has ten member associations, guest nations have regularly been invited since 1993. With four participations, the United States are the second-most regular invitee behind Mexico.
  In 2016, the USA were hosts of the Copa América Centenario, which celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the tournament with a larger competition, co-organized by CONCACAF and CONMEBOL. This makes them the only non-South American country to ever host a Copa-match. Before, they have been invited guests in 1993, 1995 and 2007.
caption: Alexi Lalas is the only US-American to score in two separate Copa Américas, and one of three players to appear in all nine matches in 1993 and 1995.
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