How to watch Copa America 2023 Live and Online (The Comprehensive Guide)

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Watching Copa America online and live does not have to be hard. Just read our guide.

If you take out the FIFA World Cup competition, the biggest football tournament that you are left with is either the Euros or Copa America.If we only consider the American continent, then Copa America is the biggest tournament here.And it is all set to light the stage of world football in a couple of months.

What we want you to do is to make sure that you clear your schedule and get ready for the 2024 edition of Copa America.This time around the Copa America tournament will take place from the 10th of June to 12th of July. Ecuador and/or Peru are expected to host the entire tournament while splitting games between themselves. Argentina managed to beat Brazil in 2021 (the last edition of Copa America) and hence will attempt to retain the title.

With that said, what readers should also know is that a total of 12 teams usually participate in Copa America, ten of which are confirmed and are from CONMEBOL (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela) while an additional two are yet to be announced.

If that does not excite (which shouldn’t happen since you can expect to see Lionel Messi, arguably the greatest player of all time, participate in the tournament for Argentina) then you should probably wait a couple of years more for the FIFA World Cup to start again.

But if you are in a hurry and are searching for a way to watch Copa America live and online this year then this is the only guide that you need to read and follow.

List of official Copa America broadcasters.

The year of the 48th edition of Copa America is fast approaching.

In order to make sure that everyone has a good time following the whole tournament, we have gathered a list of channels who will most likely be broadcasting the entire tournament. But keep in mind that since Copa America 2024 is still years away, the list of channels is subject to change.

For the complete list refer to the table below.

Australia Fox Sports
Argentina TV Publica, TYC Sports, Multicanal
Azerbaijan ITV
Brazil SporTV, Rede Globo
Bolivia Bolivision, TV Boliviana
Chile Canal 13
Colombia Caracol Televisión, RCN
Canada CTV, Univision Canada
Costa Rica Teletica, Repretel
China CCTV, SMG, LeSports, PPTV, QQLive
Haiti Tele Haiti, CONATEL
Ecuador Ecuavisa, Gama TV
Indonesia Kompas TV
Iran IRIB 3
Japan DAZN, Sky PefecTV
Jamaica CVM TV
Latin America ESPN, DirecTV
Malaysia RTM, CNN Malaysia, Astro
Panama Telemetro, TV Max, RPC TV
Peru America Television
Paraguay Tigo Sports, Paraguay TV, CVC
Mexico TV Azteca, Televisa
Middle East beIN Sports
Philippines ABS-CBN
Russia Sport 1, Match TV
Montenegro, Romania, Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia Arena Sport
Caribbean Islands CVM TV
Spain Canal+, MovieStar +
Thailand Channel 3, True Visions
Turkey NTV Sport, A Haber, A Spor
United States Fox Sport, Telemundo Deportes, beINSports, Univision
Venezuela Venevision, Meridiano TV
Uruguay Teledoce, TVC, Nuevo, Equital, TCC, MVC
South Korea KBS, SBS
United Kingdom BT Sport, Premier Sports
India Sony Ten and Sony Six

Now, the one thing we would love for you to understand quickly is that all the channels that we have mentioned above have certain restrictions placed on them by different entities.That means, these channels do not have the rights to broadcast Copa America 2024 outside their original country.

To put it in simpler terms, what we mean to say is that if a given user does not live in the regions that these channels work in then that user would not have the option of streaming Copa America and all the epic matches it always brings to the people, even a little bit.

And that will remain true unless and until the user himself/herself decides to do something about it.The best and easiest way to do something about it is to sign up for an online tool that has the ability to unlock all channels in all countries.Yes.The tool that we want you to make use of is none other than a VPN service.

How to easily watch the whole of Copa America live and online in 2024 with the help of a VPN service.

The term VPN basically stands for a Virtual Private Network.VPN users make use of different technologies to spoof their online IP address and hence the location.Once they do that, they are able to make it appear to all websites and services as if they are accessing the internet and their services from a country that is different from their original country. Using a VPN service is as simple as it can be.

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All that the user has to do is to connect to a VPN server which is located in a country that the user desires.After that, the VPN service should do its thing and change the user’s IP address to another valid IP address which works in the region that the user desires.Once the user is able to do that, all of the restricted content in the region of interest becomes available to the user as it would to a person who is the resident of that region for real.

Let’s take a look at an example to further simplify things.We’ll assume that there is a user somewhere out there in the vastness of the world of the internet who wants to watch BT Sport.Now, if the user wants to watch BT Sport because he wants to consume Copa America tournament content by streaming it via the BT Sport channel, then the user would need to make use of an IP address in the UK.

In other words, the user will need to form a connection with a VPN server that is located in the UK.Once the user does that, he/she would have almost full access to the given streaming service’s entire content library or catalog.Let’s further simplify things by going through a step by step process of streaming Copa America live and online anywhere and everywhere in the world.

Step by step guide on how to watch Copa America anywhere with a VPN service

  1. The first step is always to go to the official website of a VPN service provider that you like and then sign up for a package that suits your needs.
    There are many choices here.
    Some feel NordVPN and ExpressVPN along with IPVanish are the best choices for watching Copa America abroad. But our research shows that it all depends on the user and the needs of the user. Besides, it is very difficult to recommend one single VPN service to one single user as a general rule.
    Instead, we let the readers decide on which VPN is the best to watch Copa America abroad on their own.We do that with the help of a guide. Click here to read that guide and know more about which VPN service providers are the best in the world for watching Copa America 2024 live and online. Our guide will only list out those VPN service providers that are highly reliable and have servers in all corners of the globe.
  2. After you are done with the first step, you need to download the official VPN application of the VPN service provider that you have signed up with.
    You can easily do that by going to the official website of the VPN service provider that you like and have signed up for.
    From there you need to download the VPN app for the platform or device that is your preferred streaming device.
    In this case, you should download the VPN app that will work on the device on which you plan to watch the whole of Copa America.
    Good VPN service providers offer dedicated and custom-built VPN apps for platforms and operating systems such as Amazon Fire Stick, Mac, PC, iOS and Android.
  3. Now, after you have successfully downloaded the VPN application, what we want you to do is to install the VPN application on the platform of your choice and then launch the application so that you are able to sign in to the app.
    Some modern VPN apps have started to require the user to send them a verification code for security reasons.
    If you get that prompt then look for the verification code in the email that your VPN service provider may have sent you beforehand.
  4. When that is done, what you need to do is to go to the page that shows the complete list of VPN servers on offer.
    From that list, we want you to pick just a single VPN server.
    The choice of VPN server will vary based on which channel you want to watch, where are you physically and in which country does that channel work the best.
    To take an example, if you want to stream something on BT Sport then you should make use of a server that is located in the UK.
    On the other hand, if you want to stream Copa America from channels such as Telemundo Deportes, NBC Sports and Fox Sports then you need to connect to a server that is located in the US.
    As a final example, if you want to stream Copa America from a channel that is only available to people living in Canada, such as TSN, then you need to connect to a server that is located in Canada.
    Pretty simple once you get the hang of it.
  5. After selecting the server and pressing the connect button, what you need to do is to wait for a bit before your VPN app gives you a notification of successful connection.
  6. Once that has taken place you need to launch the official website or app of the streaming service that you want to watch.
    Then it is all a matter of you watching Copa America live and online in 2024 from any location on earth.

As for the choice of VPN service, as mentioned before, there are lots of good candidates for the spot of best VPN for Copa America. But what we will say is that you should sign up for a VPN service that has credibility and offers reliability.

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If you only want to make use of a VPN service because you want to stream Copa America then you should go with a VPN that offers speed.This is where we would like you to know that VPN services that have a large number of VPN servers tend to offer more speeds because of the simple reason that their VPN servers rarely get overloaded.

More specifically, you should try to sign up for a VPN service that offers more than 2000 VPN servers placed strategically across the map. And make sure that the VPN service you sign up for has VPN servers available in regions that we have mentioned above.

With that said, you are free to sign up for any VPN service that you feel like signing up for.We do not want to make that choice for you.What we want to do is to give you enough knowledge to make the right call. Click here to check out some of the best VPN service providers available in the world right now.

The 2024 Copa America is the 47th edition of Copa America

Let’s take a look at a brief history of the tournament that is all set to bring in a lot of money for the organizers and a lot of entertainment for all those who are watching either from the stands (not likely given the pandemic) or from the TV screens in their homes.

Copa America is currently considered to be a premier football championship tournament. And it is organized by the prestigious South American organization by the name of CONMEBOL. The 2024 edition of the tournament will mark the 48th time top teams from the whole continent will take it to the ground to see who is the best on the continent.

If you are worried about star power then don’t be. Copa America always features some of the best and most popular football stars on the planet (since the majority of the most entertaining players in the world are from South America). We’re talking about players such as Luis Suarez, Lionel Messi, Angel Di Maria, Federico Valverde and Neymar. All of those superstar players have prepared for the vast majority of their adult life and probably before as well, to collide on a stage that is as big as Copa America.

As mentioned before, the action will start from June 10th and will run till July 12nth when the finals of Copa America 2024 will take place. Our research shows that all the matches related to the Copa America tournament will take place in 4 cities spread across Ecuador. The list of cities that will host all the matches of this edition of Copa America will be confirmed later.

On the other hand, you should also know that in the beginning, some felt that Ecuador should not host this tournament. More specifically, CONMEBOL president Alejandro Dominguez said that even though Ecuador had been nominated host the whole of the tournament, the country still had not given the green light in terms of accepting the invitation. In fact, we also heard about people holding meetings to expand the tournament to a total of 16 teams.

Previously, supposedly, the organizers wanted Spain to become a part of the non-CONMEBOL team to come in and join the rest of the pack back in 2019. So there is a possibility that CONMEBOL may be working on that for the future. You do not need to be a rocket scientist why organizers of Copa America wanted to include a team like Spain. Spain, as big as the team is and what this team has achieved, would have definitely raised the overall profile of the tournament.

However, as with most things in real life, everything did not go according to plan. And in the end, the organizers had to settle for a total of 2 additional teams. After the addition of those two teams, the total number of teams competing for the ultimate prize in Copa America reached 12. A mentioned before, the two foreign teams that were selected to join the 2021 edition of Copa America that year were Australia and Qatar. As mentioned before, both decided to not participate in the tournament this year because of other commitments.

If you think about it, the 2021 edition of Copa America could have been nothing short of historic. Why? Because Qatar would have become the absolute first team from the Middle East to participate in a Copa America tournament. With that said, one should also not forget about Japan either.

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Japan, unlike Qatar, has actually already participated in the Copa America tournament for the first time time in 1999 but the team won’t be there for this year’s edition. For those readers who have watched a good number of these Copa America tournaments, we want to let them know that the 2021 edition of Copa America did not feature some of the most traditional teams on the South American continent.

For example,in 2021, Mexico did not compete in the tournament. Why? Because the official football team for Mexico was not able to rack up enough points to compete in the tournament. You probably do not need us to tell you that Mexico has participated in Copa America for each user beginning from 1993. That is some achievement. Of course, Mexico is not the only team from the American continent that will not compete in Copa America this year.

Our research shows that the United States of America also did not make an appearance in the 2021 edition of Copa America. But enough about Copa America 2021, let’s take a look at the teams that will be competing in the tournament in 2024 and which team will take on which team to fight for the biggest football trophy after the World Cup and Euros.

List of teams playing in Copa America this year

The organizers of the tournament have decided to group the 10 teams into a total of 2 groups.

North Zone

  • Brazil
  • Ecuador
  • Peru
  • Venezuela
  • Colombia

South Zone

  • Argentina
  • Chile
  • Paraguay
  • Uruguay
  • Bolivia

Copa America 2024 Schedule

The full schedule of all the games that you will see in Copa America in 2024 will be confirmed by the end of 2023. All times are in Standard Eastern Time and subject to change because of the pandemic and other unforeseen events.

GROUP STAGE COPA AMERICA 2024

As mentioned before, the official list of matches in Copa America 2024 has still not been confirmed. One of the reasons is because the guest teams have not been confirmed neither has Copa America confirmed the total number of teams who would be participating in the tournament. The list of matches below are from the 2021 edition of Copa America. Copa America 2024 will most likely have similar dates and matches because of the small pool of teams in CONMEBOL.

June 13: Argentina vs Chile, 5 p.m.
June 13: Paraguay vs Bolivia, 8 p.m.
June 14: Brazil vs Venezuela, 7 p.m.
June 14: Colombia vs Ecuador, 10 p.m.
June 17: Chile vs Bolivia, 5 p.m.
June 17: Argentina vs Uruguay, 8 p.m.
June 18: Colombia vs Venezuela, 7 p.m.
June 18: Peru vs Brazil, 10 p.m.
June 20: Uruguay vs Chile, 4 p.m.
June 20: Argentina vs Paraguay, 7 p.m.
June 21: Venezuela vs Ecuador, 6 p.m.
June 21: Colombia vs Peru, 9 p.m.
June 23: Bolivia vs Uruguay, 5 p.m.
June 23: Chile vs Paraguay, 8 p.m.
June 24: Ecuador vs Peru, 6 p.m.
June 24: Colombia vs Brazil, 9 p.m.
June 27: Argentina vs Bolivia, 5 p.m.
June 27: Uruguay vs Paraguay, 5 p.m.
June 28: Ecuador vs Brazil, 9 p.m.
June 28: Venezuela vs Peru, 9 p.m.

KNOCKOUT STAGE

Quarterfinal 1

July 3: Argentina vs Ecuador, 5 p.m.

Quarterfinal 2

July 2: Uruguay Colombia, 8 p.m.

Quarterfinal 3

July 3: Brazil vs Chile, 6 p.m.

Quarterfinal 4

July 3: Peru vs Paraguay , 9 p.m.

Semifinal 1:

July 5, Argentina vs Colombia, 9 p.m.

Semifinal 2:

July 6, Brazil vs Peru, 7 p.m

Third-Place Match

July 9: Colombia vs Peru, 8 p.m.

Final

July 10: Argentina vs Brazil, 8 p.m. (edit: Argentina won 1-0)

Conclusion: How to watch 2024 Copa America online and live easily.

No one should be surprised to see Ecuador (or Peru if it comes to that) change its status as the host of the tournament in 2024. After all, Ecuador had the honor of hosting the 1993 edition of Copa America 30 years ago.

So it makes sense that Ecuador should get to host the Copa America tournament in 2024. We have already mentioned that Copa America is perhaps the most exciting tournament in the world in terms of players using skill to score goals rather than using tactics,science, and data.

Moreover, all the best individual players (not necessarily best teams) will be playing at this year’s Copa America if we exclude Ronaldo (add to the list Mbappe, Haaland, Pedri, Gavi, Salah, Kevin De Bryne as well). Most of the teams that compete in Copa America are also very competitive when they play in the FIFA World Cup tournament.

And it is just great to see them compete with each other one more time on their home turf. We will mention again that the 2024 Copa America is yet to confirm visiting teams (such as Qatar, Australia, Japan or others) announcing participation in the tournament and trying to go toe to toe with some of the biggest footballing nations in the world.

Neverthless, it should still be a great tournament and all you need to watch Copa America is a good VPN service.

Zohair A. Zohair is currently a content crafter at Security Gladiators and has been involved in the technology industry for more than a decade. He is an engineer by training and, naturally, likes to help people solve their tech related problems. When he is not writing, he can usually be found practicing his free-kicks in the ground beside his house.
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