Bundesliga
Bundesliga players at the 2024 Copa América
South America’s flagship competition has been expanded this year to include six teams from North and Central America, with the tournament being played in the USA between 20 June and 14 July and featuring six Bundesliga players going for continental gold.
The hosts, coached by former Energie Cottbus and 1860 Munich defender Gregg Berhalter, have included two Germany-based players in Borussia Mönchengladbach full-back Joe Scally and Union Berlin forward Brenden Aaronson.
Defending champions and World Cup holders Argentina have Bayer Leverkusen's Bundesliga-DFB Cup double winner Exequiel Palacios in their ranks.
Ex-RB Leipzig boss Jesse Marsch has named Bayern Munich's Alphonso Davies in Canada’s roster, with the left-sider set to reach 50 caps during the tournament.
Ecuador have two left-footed defenders from the Bundesliga, in Leverkusen’s Piero Hincapie and Eintracht Frankfurt’s Willian Pacho.
Watch: The best of Davies with Bayern
Teams qualified
All 10 South American nations in CONMEBOL qualified automatically as normal. Six additional teams have come from CONCACAF, in Nations League semi-finalists Panama, USA, Jamaica and Mexico. They were joined by Canada and Costa Rica after play-off wins over Trinidad & Tobago and Honduras respectively.
Group A
Argentina
Peru
Chile
Canada
Group B
Mexico
Ecuador
Venezuela
Jamaica
Group C
USA
Uruguay
Panama
Bolivia
Group D
Brazil
Colombia
Paraguay
Costa Rica
Watch: It's been a huge year for Palacios and Leverkusen
Venues
A total of 10 stadiums in the USA will host matches:
- AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas
- Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia
- Q2 Stadium, Austin, Texas
- Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, North Carolina
- MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
- NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas
- SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, California
- Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, California
- State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona
- Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri
- Children’s Mercy Park, Kansa City, Kansas
- Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida
- Inter&Co Stadium, Orlando, Florida
Watch: Bundesliga Beyond with Joe Scally
Schedule
Having been title rivals in the Bundesliga in 2023/24, Palacios and Davies met again in the opening game as Argentina beat Canada 2-0 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on 20 June.
The top two from each group advance to the quarter-finals. The final will be played at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium on 14 July (8pm EDT).
Group games: 20 June – 2 July
Quarter-finals: 4/5/6 July
Semi-finals: 9/10 July
Third place play-off: 13 July
Final: 14 July
>>> The Copa América is being played at the same time as UEFA Euro 2024 in Europe