The 2019 South American Under-15 Football Championship was the 9th edition of the South American Under-15 Football Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the CONMEBOL for the men's under-15 national teams of South America. The tournament was originally to be held in Bolivia between 23 November and 8 December 2019. However, on 8 November 2019, CONMEBOL announced the tournament would be moved to Paraguay due to the 2019 Bolivian protests.
The defending champions are Argentina.
Teams All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament. Moreover, two teams from UEFA will be invited to compete.
TeamAppearance Previous best top-4 performance (holders)9th (2017) (invitee)1st9th (2005)9th (2005, 2007, 2011, 2015)9th (2007, 2013)9th (2004, 2011, 2013)9th (2009) (hosts)9th (2004, 2009)9th (2013) (invitee)1st9th (2007, 2015)9th
Venues AsunciónEstadio Arsenio EricoEstadio Defensores del ChacoCapacity: 5,000Capacity: 42,000LuqueVilla ElisaCancha CONMEBOLEstadio Adrián JaraEstadio Luis Alfonso GiagniCapacity: ?Capacity: 4,000Capacity: 11,000 Initially, Bolivia was designated as host of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 14 August 2018 in Luque, Paraguay. Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and Estadio Samuel Vaca Jiménez in Warnes had been chosen as the venues. However, due to the 2019 Bolivian protests, on 8 November 2019 CONMEBOL moved the tournament to Asunción, Paraguay.
The new venues were announced on 19 November 2019. Four stadiums in 3 cities were chosen, Cancha CONMEBOL and Estadio Adrián Jara in Luque, Estadio Arsenio Erico in Asunción and Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni in Villa Elisa. The Estadio Defensores del Chaco was added as venue for the final matchday (third place match and final).
Squads
Draw The draw of the tournament was held on 22 October 2019, 19:00 BOT (UTC−4), in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. The twelve involved teams were drawn into two groups of six. The original hosts Bolivia and the defending champions Argentina were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 within their group, the remaining 8 CONMEBOL teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their final positions in the 2017 South American U-15 Championship (shown in brackets) and the two guests UEFA teams (Belgium and Poland) were placed in a last fifth pot.
SeededPot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4Pot 5
The draw was led by Hugo Figueredo, competition director of CONMEBOL, who had the collaboration of Colombian coach Francisco Maturana and Juan Manuel Peña, former member of the Bolivia national football team.
Match officials The referees and assistants referees were:
Nicolás Lamolina Assistants: Pablo González and Facundo Rodríguez Jordy Alemán Assistants: Carlos Tapia and Rubén Flores Flavio Rodríguez De Souza Assistants: Alessandro Rocha and Rafael Da Silva Angelo Hermosilla Assistants: José Retamal and Edson Cisternas Jhon Ospina Assistants: Miguel Roldán and John Gallego
Franklin Congo Assistants: Juan Rafael Aguiar and Dennys Guerrero José Méndez Assistants: Ródney Aquino and José Cuevas Kevin Ortega Assistants: Raúl López and Stephen Atoche Andrés Matonte Assistants: Santiago Fernández and Agustín Berisso Orlando Bracamonte Assistants: José Ponte and Francheskoly Chacón
Support Referees
Santiago Bismarks
Augusto Aragón
Group stage The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.
All times are local, PYT (UTC−3).
As a result of the change of host, the matches of Paraguay will be played on the last turn of each matchday of group B.
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage The Third place match and the Final were moved from Estadio Arsenio Erico to Estadio Defensores del Chaco.
Bracket
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Goalscorers
References
External links Sudamericano Sub 15 Paraguay 2019, CONMEBOL.com