With 15 titles, Argentina and Uruguay are the most successful Copa Amrica teams. Brazil has nine. The other former champions are Paraguay, Peru and Chile, with two titles each, and Bolivia, and Colombia, who have each won one.

Brazil have won the tournament nine times, which makes them the third-most successful team in tournament history behind Argentina and Uruguay (15 each). Brazil withdrew from Copa America for almost ten years between 1926 and 1935.