Most Goals in Copa America — All Time

About This Dataset

Most Goals in Copa America — All Time
Players ranked by total goals scored across all editions of the Copa America, South America's continental football championship. Norberto Mendez of Argentina and Zizinho of Brazil jointly hold the all-time Copa America scoring record with 17 goals each — records set in the 1940s and 1950s that have lasted for over seven decades without being broken.
Analysis

Norberto Mendez (Argentina) and Zizinho (Brazil) are level at the top on 17 Goals in Copa America. Lolo Fernandez (Peru) follows on 15. Neither of them dominates the field: each holds 14.7% of the combined total of all 8. Places 3 to 8 are close together, spanning 15 to 13 Goals in Copa America.

Source:  Wikipedia

Key Findings

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Norberto Mendez (Argentina) and Zizinho (Brazil) are level at the top on 17 Goals in Copa America.
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Average Goals in Copa America: 15  ·  median: 14.
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Gap: Norberto Mendez (Argentina) is 1.3× larger than Lionel Messi (Argentina).

Most Goals in Copa America — All Time

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Data Insights

Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart

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Data Points
8
8 categories  ·  1 year
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Top Value
17
Norberto Mendez (Argentina)
Goals in Copa America · All Time
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Period
All Time
Single year snapshot

Methodology & source

Data source
Wikipedia
Coverage
8 entities · 8 observations
Measure
Goals in Copa America
Last updated
6 September 2026
Compiled by
The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
  • Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
  • Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.

Rankings & Full Data

8 records · Goals in Copa America · ranked by All Time

✓ 8 sourced
# Category All Time Source
🥇 Norberto Mendez (Argentina) 17
🥈 Zizinho (Brazil) 17
🥉 Lolo Fernandez (Peru) 15
4 Teodoro Fernandez (Peru) 15
5 Jair (Brazil) 13
6 Hector Scarone (Uruguay) 13
7 Ademir (Brazil) 13
8 Lionel Messi (Argentina) 13

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