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SCORIGAMI: Argentina 11, Venezuela 0 is the first 11-0 game in Copa America history

Final · August 10, 1975

Copa America got a brand-new final score on August 10, 1975. Argentina beat Venezuela 11-0, and in every Copa America game since 1916, no game had ever ended that way before.

Where 11-0 sits among nearby Copa America scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 4-4, Bolivia over Ecuador on March 10, 1963, 12 years and 5 months earlier. This is Copa America's 1st new final score of the 1975 season, and the grid now holds 65.5 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 12-0 had happened 1 time and 11-1 had still never happened. It lands on the high-scoring frontier of the grid, the sparse territory that only fills in on the rare night the points pile up.

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