The 2019 South American U-17 Championship (, ) was the 18th edition of the South American U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONMEBOL for the men's under-17 national teams of South America. It was held in Peru from 21 March to 14 April 2019.

The top four teams, champions Argentina, which won their fourth title, Chile, Paraguay, and Ecuador, qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil as the CONMEBOL representatives, besides Brazil who qualified automatically as hosts replacing Peru, despite failing to qualify out of the first stage as defending champions for the first time.

Teams All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.

TeamAppearance Previous best performance 18th (3 times, most recent 2013) 18th (1 time, 1986) (holders) 18th (12 times, most recent 2017) 18th (2 times, most recent 2017) 18th (1 time, 1993) 17th (4 times, most recent 2015) 17th (1 time, 1999) (hosts) 18th (1 time, 2007) 18th (3 times, most recent 2011) 18th (1 time, 2013)

Venues

Peru was confirmed as host of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 22 January 2019 in Rio de Janeiro. All games were scheduled to be played in Lima at the Estadio Universidad San Marcos.

Lima Estadio Universidad San MarcosCapacity: 22,000

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to compete. Each team can register a squad of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).

Draw The draw of the tournament was held on 27 February 2019, 12:00 PET (UTC−5), at the Peruvian Football Federation headquarters in Lima, Peru. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The host Peru and the 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 placed into four "pairing pots" according to their final positions in the 2017 South American U-17 Championship (shown in brackets).

SeededPot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

Match officials The referees and assistants referees were:

Fernando Espinoza Assistants: Maximiliano Del Yesso and Pablo González Ivo Méndez Assistants: Reluy Vallejos and Ariel Guizada Rodolpho Toski Assistants: Fabricio Vilarinho and Guilherme Dias Camilo Cristian Garay Assistants: Alejandro Molina and Claudio Urrutia Carlos Herrera Assistants: Sebastián Vela and John Gallego

Luis Quiroz Assistants: Edwin Bravo and Flavio Nall Juan Gabriel Benítez Assistants: Rodney Aquino and Carlos Cáceres Kevin Ortega Assistants: Coty Carrera and Jesús Sánchez Andrés Matonte Assistants: Horacio Ferreiro and Martín Soppi Ángel Arteaga Assistants: Lubin Torrealba and Alberto Ponte

Support Referees

Juan Nelio García (Final stage) Bráulio da Silva Machado (Final stage) Nicolás Gallo (Final stage)

Franklin Congo (First stage) Derlis López (First stage) Juan Soto (Final stage)

First stage The top three teams in each group advance to the final stage.

All times local, PET (UTC−5).

Group A

Group B

Final stage The schedule of the final matchday was modified based on which teams were possible to be champions.

Winners

Goalscorers

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup, including Brazil who qualified automatically as host.

Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1 16 (1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) 13 (1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015) 4 (1993, 1997, 2015, 2017) 4 (1999, 2001, 2015, 2017) 4 (1987, 1995, 2011, 2015) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

External links Sudamericano Sub 17 Perú 2019 , Official Web Sudamericano Sub 17 Perú 2019, CONMEBOL.com