The 2017 South American Youth Football Championship (, ) was the 28th edition of the South American Youth Football Championship, a football competition for the under-20 national teams in South America organized by CONMEBOL. It was held in Ecuador from 18 January to 11 February 2017.
Uruguay were crowned champions, and together with Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, which were the top four teams of this tournament, qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea.
Teams All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.
TeamAppearancePrevious best performance (holders)26th (5 times, most recent 2015)23rd (2 times, most recent 1983)27th (11 times, most recent 2011)28th (1 time, 1975)26th (3 times, most recent 2013) (hosts)23rd (3 times, most recent 2011)26th (1 time, 1971)27th (2 times, most recent 1971)27th (7 times, most recent 1981)24th (1 time, most recent 1954)
Squads
Each team may register a squad of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).
Venues
A total of eight venues in seven cities were proposed by FEF in July 2016, days later Latacunga was added as a possible venue. Tulcán was also nominated, but was finally dismissed along with Cuenca, Machala and Portoviejo. Eventually, five venues were confirmed to host the matches, Estadio Bellavista in Ambato, Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba in Riobamba and Estadio La Cocha in Latacunga for the Group A; Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra in Ibarra for the Group B while the final stage took place at Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa in Quito. However, on 5 January 2017, Estadio La Cocha in Latacunga was dropped as refurbishment work was not completed in time.
Ambato Ibarra Quito Riobamba Estadio Bellavista Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba Capacity:16,467 Capacity:17,260 Capacity:35,258 Capacity:14,400
Match officials The referees were:
Darío Herrera Assistants: Diego Bonfá and Cristian Navarro Gery Vargas Assistants: Juan Pablo Montaño and José Antelo Anderson Daronco Assistants: Rodrigo Correa and Guilherme Dias Camilo Roberto Tobar Assistants: Raúl Orellana and José Retamal Gustavo Murillo Assistants: Humberto Clavijo and John Alexander León
Carlos Orbe Assistants: Juan Carlos Macías and Flavio Nall Mario Díaz de Vivar Assistants: Milcíades Saldívar and Darío Gaona Diego Haro Assistants: Raúl López Cruz and Víctor Ráez Jonhatan Fuentes Assistants: Richard Trinidad and Gabriel Popovits Jesús Valenzuela Assistants: Jorge Urrego and Franchescoly Chacón
Draw Originally, the draw was scheduled for 30 November 2016 in Montevideo but had to be postponed due to crash of LaMia Flight 2933 that occurred on 28 November 2016. It was rescheduled to be held on 7 December 2016, 11:00 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. Ecuador (hosts) and Argentina (title holders) were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their results in the 2015 South American U-20 Championship (shown in brackets).
SeededPot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4
First stage The top three teams in each group advanced to the final stage.
Tiebreakers When teams finished level of points, the final rankings were determined according to: goal difference goals scored head-to-head result between tied teams (two teams only) drawing of lots
All times local, ECT (UTC−5).
Group A
Group B
Final stage When teams finished level of points, the final rankings were determined according to the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage.
Winners
Goalscorers
5 goals
Lautaro Martínez Marcelo Torres Bryan Cabezas Rodrigo Amaral
4 goals
Felipe Vizeu Pervis Estupiñán
3 goals
Éver Valencia Jordy Caicedo Nicolás de la Cruz Nicolás Schiappacasse Yeferson Soteldo
2 goals
Brian Mansilla Guilherme Arana Richarlison Damir Ceter Juan Camilo Hernández Herlin Lino Pedro Báez Jesús Medina Roberto Siucho Joaquín Ardaiz Ronaldo Chacón Yangel Herrera
1 goal
Tomás Conechny Lucas Rodríguez Bruno Miranda Ronaldo Monteiro Ramiro Vaca Matheus Sávio Maycon Ignacio Jara José Luis Sierra Jorge Obregón Washington Corozo Renny Jaramillo Joel Quintero Jordan Sierra Sebastián Ferreira Cristhian Paredes Rodrigo Bentancur Mathías Olivera Agustín Rogel Matías Viña Facundo Waller Sergio Córdova Josua Mejías
Own goal Agustín Rogel (playing against Argentina)
Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament1 (1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015) (2001, 2011) (2009) (1979, 1981, 1983, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015) 1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
References
External links
Sudamericano Sub 20 Ecuador 2017