Copa América awards

This is a list of awards presented to players and teams that have distringuished themselves at the end of each Copa América final tournament.

Awards
There are currently five post-tournament awards:
 * the Golden Ball for most valuable player, first awarded in 1987;
 * the Golden Boot for most prolific goal scorer;
 * the Golden Glove for most outstanding goalkeeper, first awarded in 2011;
 * the Team of the Tournament for best combined team of players at the tournament, first awarded in 2004;
 * the Fair Play Award for the team with the best record of fair play, first awarded in 2011.

In addition, the Best Young Player award has been given out intermittently.

Golden Ball
The current Golden Ball award was introduced in the 1987 Copa América. The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation provides a list of the best players from the first edition in 1916, who are listed below as unofficial recipients.

Unofficial
This is an unofficial list of the recipients of the best player award provided by the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.

Golden Boot
The Golden Boot is assigned to the top scorer of each edition.

Best Young Player
This award has been given out only in the 2007, 2011, and 2015 editions.