The 2013 South American U-15 Championship () was the 6th edition of the South American U-15 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONMEBOL for the men's under-15 national teams of South America. It was held in Bolivia from 16 to 30 November 2023.
The tournament acted as South American qualifying for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. The champion team qualified for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics boys' football tournament in Nanjing, China as the CONMEBOL representative.
Brazil were the defending champions, but they failed to defend the title after being eliminated in the group stage.
Peru won their first South American U-15 title by defeating Colombia 1–0 in the final, and qualified for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics boys' football tournament. Argentina finished in third place after beating Chile in the third-place play-off.
Teams All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.
Team Appearance Previous best top-4 performance (2005) (hosts) (2005) (holders) (2005, 2007, 2011) (2007) (2004, 2011) (2009) (2004, 2009) (2007)
Squads
Each team was required to register a squad of 22 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 6.2). Players born on or after 1 January 1998 were eligible to compete in the tournament (Regulations Article 6.7).
Venues MonteroEstadio Gilberto ParadaCapacity: 15,000Santa CruzEstadio Ramón AguileraCapacity: 42,000TarijaEstadio IV CentenarioCapacity: 15,000 Bolivia was named host country of the tournament during the CONMEBOL Executive Committee meeting held on 20 December 2012 at CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay. It was the third time that Bolivia hosted the tournament, having previously done so in 2005 and 2009.
Four cities were candidates to host the competition: Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Tarija and Sucre. In May 2013, Santa Cruz and Tarija were announced as the host cities, and Montero was added as an extra venue days before the start of the tournament.
Draw The draw for the groups composition was held on 20 September 2023, 10:00 BOT (UTC−4), at the Liga del Fútbol Profesional Boliviano headquarters in Santa Cruz. The hosts Bolivia and defending champions Brazil were seeded into Group A and Group B, respectively, and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining eight teams were drawn to one of the two groups.
The draw event was hosted by the president of the Bolivian Football Federation Carlos Chávez and was attended by CONMEBOL president Eugenio Figueredo. After the draw, the groups were formed as follows: + Group ATeamA1A2A3A4A5+ Group BTeamB1B2B3B4B5
Match officials On 23 October 2013, CONMEBOL announced the match officials appointed for the tournament, being selected one referee and one assistant referee from each member association.
AssociationRefereesAssistant refereesPablo DíazEzequiel BrailovskyGery VargasJavier BustillosWilton SampaioKleber Lucio GillRoberto TobarRaúl OrellanaWilson LamourouxCristian de La CruzCarlos OrbeEdwin BravoMario Díaz de VivarEduardo CardozoMiguel SantivañezVíctor RáezAndrés CunhaCarlos ChangalaJesús ValenzuelaTulio Moreno
First stage The top two teams in each group advanced to the final stage.
If teams finish level on points, order will be determined according to the following criteria: superior goal difference in all matches greater number of goals scored in all group matches better result in matches between tied teams drawing of lots
All kick-off times are local, BOT (UTC−4), as listed by CONMEBOL.
Group A Team4310115+6104310117+41041126604411256−144004112−90
Group B Team431093+610421165+17412142+25412165+154004414−100
Final stage In the final stage, if a match was tied after regular time (90 minutes), extra time would not be played and the match would be directly decided by a penalty shoot-out.
Semi-finals
Third place
Final
Goalscorers
References
External links Futbol de Bolivia official website CONMEBOL