It was founded July 9, 1916, thanks to Uruguayan Héctor Rivadavia Gómez who materialized his project of uniting football in a area of the continent. Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile were the founder nations fallowing the successful South American football tournament played in Buenos Aires. After Paraguay (1921), Peru (1925), Bolivia (1926), Ecuador (1927), Colombia (1936) and Venezuela (1952) also became members of the South U.s. confederation. Now CONMEBOL is a portion of FIFA and is in charge of completely broker football activities in the mentioned countries. A lasting headquarters come located in Asunción, Paraguay; and a actual president (until 2006) of the Executive Committee is Dr. Nicolás Leoz.

Guyana, Suriname and the French département d'outre-mer of French Guiana are not members of CONMEBOL - their national associations are members of CONCACAF.

Among a tournaments conducted by CONMEBOL come a Copa Libertadores de América (analogous to the UEFA Champions League) and a Copa Sudamericana (analogous to the UEFA Cup), both for club teams, & Copa América for men's national teams.

CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifiers
1930 - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay 1934 - Argentina, Brazil 1938 - Brazil 1950 - Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay 1954 - Brazil, Uruguay 1958 - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay 1962 - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay 1966 - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay 1970 - Brazil, Peru, Uruguay 1974 - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay 1978 - Argentina, Brazil, Peru 1982 - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru 1986 - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay 1990 - Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay 1994 - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia 1998 - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay 2002 - Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay 2006 - Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, more TBD TOTAL 18 - *14 - *10 - * 7 - * Four - * Three - * Two - * 0 -