With two games still to play, the Copa America Centenario is already the most successful edition of the world’s oldest international soccer tournament, having smashed records for attendance, television viewership, digital and social media engagement and revenue.
“It is beyond, certainly, all of our expectations,” U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati, chairman of the tournament’s local organizing committee, said Thursday. “It’s been a tremendous success on all fronts.”
The 32-game, 10-city tournament, the first Copa America to be played in the U.S., ends with the U.S. playing Colombia in the third-place game Saturday in the Phoenix area before Chile and Argentina meet in Sunday’s final in East Rutherford, N.