South American Cricket Championship

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South American Championship
AdministratorICC Americas
FormatLimited-overs cricket
First editionMen: 1995
Women: 2007
Latest editionMen: 2025
Women: 2025
Current championMen:  Panama (2024 – 1st title)
Women:  Brazil (2025 – 7th title)
Most successfulMen:  Argentina[a] (12 titles)
Women:  Argentina and  Brazil (7 titles each)

The South American Cricket Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Sudamericano de Críquet; Portuguese: Campeonato Sul-Americano de Críquete) is an international limited-overs cricket tournament featuring national teams from South America and other invited national sides from outside South America, currently played annually but until 2013 was usually played every two years. The first men's event was held in 1995 and a women's tournament started in 2007.

The Argentine national team won the first three championships without losing a game, and subsequently the country was represented by a development squad, Argentina A, between 2000 and 2018.[1] Guyana, the only Test-playing country in South America (as part of the West Indies cricket team), had sent a team four times, winning twice, but this has generally been a "masters" team consisting of past players.[2] Colombia were going to send a team to the 2000 tournament, but in fact did not debut until 2015.[3] The non-South American teams invited to the tournament have been Panama (in 2000), Puerto Rico (in 2004), Costa Rica (in 2018) and Mexico (since 2014). The thirteenth edition of the tournament was held in Itaguaí, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, in October 2016.[4] Chile won the men's tournament and Brazil won the women's tournament.[5] The 2018 Championships were awarded to Colombia for the first time, and took place over 4 days in August with Mexico emerging as champions for the second time. Mexico won the men's event for the second time in 2018, and Argentina won again in 2019.[6] Panama are the current champions, having won the 2024 edition.[3]

Argentina also dominated the women's event by winning on seven occasions. From 2018, all women's matches between ICC member nations have the Twenty20 International (T20I) status after the ICC decided to grant T20I status to all matches involving its members from 1 January 2019.[7] Brazil's women team won the first edition with this enhanced status.[8] Starting from the 2019 edition, the same status would apply to the men's event. The only non-ICC playing nations in 2019 were Colombia and Uruguay.

Results (Men's)

Year Host(s) Venue(s) Result
Winner Margin Runner-up
1995 Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina
12 points
Argentina won on points
table
 Chile
8 points
1997 Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina
12 points
Argentina won on points
table
 Brazil
4 points
1999 Peru Lima  Argentina
135/2 (28.3 overs)
Argentina won by 8 wickets
scorecard
 Guyana[b]
134 (38.4 overs)
2000 Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina[a]
77/2 (16 overs)
Argentina won by 8 wickets
report
 Chile
75 (? overs)
2002 Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina[a]
196/8 (28.3 overs)
Argentina won by 2 wickets
scorecard
 Chile
194 (40 overs)
2004 Chile Santiago  Guyana[b]
323/3 (40 overs)
Guyana won by 117 runs
scorecard
 Puerto Rico
206/7 (40 overs)
2007 Peru Lima  Guyana[b]
204 (39.1 overs)
Guyana won by 150 runs
scorecard
 Argentina[a]
54 (28.4 overs)
2009 Brazil São Paulo  Argentina[a]
12 points
Argentina won on points
table
 Chile
8 points
2011 Chile Santiago  Chile
173/6 (20 overs)
Chile won by 47 runs
report
 Argentina[a]
126/9 (20 overs)
2013 Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina[a]
12 points
Argentina won on points
report
 Chile
8 points
2014 Peru Lima  Mexico
154/4 (20 overs)
Mexico won by 20 runs
report
 Chile
134 (19.1 overs)
2015 Chile Santiago  Argentina[a]
137/2 (14.2 overs)
Argentina won by 8 wickets
scorecard
 Brazil
135/6 (20 overs)
2016 Brazil Itaguaí  Chile
164/8 (19.4 overs)
Chile won by 2 wickets
scorecard
 Argentina
163/7 (20 overs)
2017[9] Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina[a]
138/3 (15.3 overs)
Argentina won by 7 wickets
scorecard
 Chile
132/8 (20 overs)
2018[10] Colombia Bogota - Mosquera  Mexico
45/4 (10 overs)
Mexico won by 6 wickets
scorecard
 Uruguay
44/10 (17 overs)
2019[11] Peru Lima  Argentina
111/6 (18.4 overs)
Argentina won by 4 wickets
scorecard
 Mexico
105/9 (20 overs)
2022 Brazil Itaguaí  Argentina
227/5 (20 overs)
Argentina won by 10 runs
scorecard
 Brazil
217 (20 overs)
2023 Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina
116/8 (20 overs)
Argentina won by 34 runs
scorecard
 Uruguay
82 (19 overs)
2024 Brazil Itaguaí  Panama
128 (19.1 overs)
Panama won by 26 runs
scorecard
 Brazil
102/9 (20 overs)
2025 Brazil Itaguaí  Mexico
9 points
Mexico won on points
table
 Panama
8 points

Performance by team (Men's)

Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • GS – Group stage
  • Q – Entered
  •      Hosts
Team Argentina
1995
Argentina
1997
Peru
1999
Argentina
2000
Argentina
2002
Chile
2004
Peru
2007
Brazil
2009
Chile
2011
Argentina
2013
Peru
2014
Chile
2015
Brazil
2016
Argentina
2017
Colombia
2018
Peru
2019
Brazil
2022
Argentina
2023
Brazil
2024
Brazil
2025
Total
20
Andean Masters 4thGS4th3
 Argentina[a] 1st1st1st1st1st3rd2nd1st2nd1st5th1st2nd1st7th1st1st1st3rd19
 Brazil 4th2ndGS3rd3rdGS4th3rd3rd3rd2nd4th3rd6th6th2nd5th2nd3rd19
 Chile 2nd4th3rd2nd2nd4th3rd2nd1st2nd2nd3rd1st2nd8th7th3rd8th6th19
Chile A GS1
 Colombia 4th5th7th4th4th6th3rd7th4th9
 Costa Rica 3rd1
 Ecuador GS1
 Guyana[b] 2nd5th1st1st4
 Mexico 1st5th6th6th1st2nd4th4th4th1st10
 Panama 4th7th1st2nd4
 Peru 3rd3rd4th6thGSGS4th3rd4th4th6th3rd5th 5th3rd7th6th5th6th19
 Puerto Rico 2nd1
 Uruguay 4th2nd5th5th2nd8th5th7
 Venezuela GS7th2

Performance by team (Women's)

Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • P – Participated, position not known
  • T – Participated, but games not counted towards the South American Championship
  • Q – Entered
  •      Hosts
Team Brazil
2007
Argentina
2009
Chile
2010
Brazil
2011
Argentina
2013
Peru
2014
Chile
2015
Brazil
2016
Argentina
2017
Colombia
2018
Peru
2019
Brazil
2022
Argentina
2023[c]
Brazil
2024
Brazil
2025
Total
15
 Argentina 1st1st1st1st1st1st2nd2nd1st2nd2nd1st2nd2nd[d]14
 Brazil 2nd2nd2ndPPP1st1st2nd1st1st1st[e]1st1st14
 Canada T[f]1
 Cayman Islands 3rd1
 Chile 3rdPP3rd3rd2nd3rd2nd8
 Mexico 4th4th4th3
 Peru PP4th3rd4th3rd5th3rd8

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 From 2000 to 2018, Argentina was represented by its A team (development team).
  2. 1 2 3 4 When Guyana (who play Test cricket as part of the West Indies Cricket Board) have featured in the tournament, they have been represented by an overage team – the Guyana Masters.
  3. The 2023 series between Argentina and Chile was not officially an edition of the Women's South American Championship.Category:All articles with unsourced statementsCategory:Articles with unsourced statements from October 2025[citation needed]
  4. In 2025, Argentina was represented by its A team.
  5. Brazil won the South American Championship before losing to Canada in the final of the Americas Championship.
  6. Canada's matches did not have T20I status, and were only counted towards the Americas Championship. Canada won the Americas Championship, defeating Brazil in the final.

References

  1. "South American Championships: Argentina gambles and wins at successful tournament" – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  2. "2023 Men's South American Cricket Championship", Wikipedia, 6 October 2024, retrieved 9 October 2024
  3. 1 2 "2023 SAMC".
  4. "Rio’s Carioca Cricket Club Launches 2016 Season", The Rio Times, 3 February 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  5. South American Championships, CricHQ. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  6. "South American Championships Wrap". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  7. "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  8. "South American Championship: Tournament round-up". Women's CricZone. 2 September 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  9. "SAC Mens 2017". CricHQ. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  10. "SAC Mens 2018". CricHQ. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  11. "SAC Mens 2019". CricHQ. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
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