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Continental CompetitionEuropean Championship Held every four years since 1960. Officially, the European Football Championship. Winners receive the Henri Delaunay trophy, named for the Frenchman who first proposed the idea of a European Soccer Championship in 1927. The first one would not be played until five years after his death in 1955. Multiple winners: Germany/West Germany (3); France (2). | Year | |
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| 1960 | Soviet Union | | 1964 | Spain | | 1968 | Italy | | 1972 | West Germany | | 1976 | Czechoslovakia | | 1980 | West Germany | | 1984 | France | | 1988 | Netherlands | | 1992 | Denmark | | 1996 | Germany | | 2000 | France | | 2004 | Greece |
Copa America Held irregularly since 1916. Unofficially, the Championship of South America. Multiple winners: Argentina and Uruguay (14); Brazil (7); Paraguay and Peru (2). | Year | |
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| 1916 | Uruguay | | 1917 | Uruguay | | 1919 | Brazil | | 1920 | Uruguay | | 1921 | Argentina | | 1922 | Brazil | | 1923 | Uruguay | | 1924 | Uruguay | | 1925 | Argentina | | 1926 | Uruguay | | 1927 | Argentina | | 1929 | Argentina | | 1935 | Uruguay | | 1937 | Argentina | | 1939 | Peru | | 1941 | Argentina | | 1942 | Uruguay | | 1945 | Argentina | | 1946 | Argentina | | 1947 | Argentina | | 1949 | Brazil | | 1953 | Paraguay | | 1955 | Argentina | | 1956 | Uruguay | | 1957 | Argentina | | 1958 | Argentina | | 1959 | Uruguay | | 1963 | Bolivia | | 1967 | Uruguay | | 1975 | Peru | | 1979 | Paraguay | | 1983 | Uruguay | | 1987 | Uruguay | | 1989 | Brazil | | 1991 | Argentina | | 1993 | Argentina | | 1995 | Uruguay | | 1997 | Brazil | | 1999 | Brazil | | 2001 | Colombia | | 2004 | Brazil |
African Nations Cup Contested since 1957 and held every two years since 1968. Multiple winners: Cameroon, Egypt and Ghana (4); Congo/Zaire (3); Nigeria (2). | Year | |
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| 1957 | Egypt | | 1959 | Egypt | | 1962 | Ethiopia | | 1963 | Ghana | | 1965 | Ghana | | 1968 | Zaire | | 1970 | Sudan | | 1972 | Congo | | 1974 | Zaire | | 1976 | Morocco | | 1978 | Ghana | | 1980 | Nigeria | | 1982 | Ghana | | 1984 | Cameroon | | 1986 | Egypt | | 1988 | Cameroon | | 1990 | Algeria | | 1992 | Ivory Coast | | 1994 | Nigeria | | 1996 | South Africa | | 1998 | Egypt | | 2000 | Cameroon | | 2002 | Cameroon | | 2004 | Tunisia |
CONCACAF Gold Cup The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Football Championship. Contested irregularly from 1963-81 and revived as CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1991. Multiple winners: Mexico (7); Costa Rica (2). | Year | |
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| 1963 | Costa Rica | | 1965 | Mexico | | 1967 | Guatemala | | 1969 | Costa Rica | | 1971 | Mexico | | 1973 | Haiti | | 1977 | Mexico | | 1981 | Honduras | | 1991 | United States | | 1993 | Mexico | | 1996 | Mexico | | 1998 | Mexico | | 2000 | Canada | | 2003 | Mexico |
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