2017 South American U-20 Championship

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2017 South American Youth Football Championship
Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20
“Juventud de America” Ecuador 2017
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Tournament details
Host country Ecuador
Dates 18 January – 11 February
Teams 10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Uruguay (8th title)
Runners-up  Ecuador
Third place  Venezuela
Fourth place  Argentina
Tournament statistics
Matches played 35
Goals scored 91 (2.6 per match)
Top scorer(s) Uruguay Rodrigo Amaral
Ecuador Bryan Cabezas
Argentina Lautaro Martínez
Argentina Marcelo Torres
(5 goals each)
2015
2019

The 2017 South American Youth Football Championship (Spanish: ''Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 Juventud de América Ecuador 2017'', Portuguese: ''Campeonato Sul-Americano Sub-20 Juventude da América Equador 2017'') 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.[1][2]

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.[3]

Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.

Team Appearance Previous best performance
 Argentina (holders) 26th Champions (5 times, most recent 2015)
 Bolivia 23rd Fourth place (2 times, most recent 1983)
 Brazil 27th Champions (11 times, most recent 2011)
 Chile 28th Runners-up (1 time, 1975)
 Colombia 26th Champions (3 times, most recent 2013)
 Ecuador (hosts) 23rd Third place (3 times, most recent 2011)
 Paraguay 26th Champions (1 time, 1971)
 Peru 27th Third place (2 times, most recent 1971)
 Uruguay 27th Champions (7 times, most recent 1981)
 Venezuela 24th Third place (1 time, most recent 1954)

Squads

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Each team may register a squad of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).[4]

Venues

A total of eight venues in seven cities were proposed by FEF in July 2016,[5] days later Latacunga was added as a possible venue.[6] Tulcán was also nominated,[7] 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.[8][2][9] However, on 5 January 2017, Estadio La Cocha in Latacunga was dropped as refurbishment work was not completed in time.[10]

Ambato Ibarra Quito Riobamba
Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba
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Capacity:16,467 Capacity:17,260 Capacity:35,258 Capacity:14,400

Match officials

The referees were:[11]

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.[2] It was rescheduled to be held on 7 December 2016, 11:00 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay.[12] 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).[9]

Seeded Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
  •  Ecuador (7) (Hosts, assigned to A1)
  •  Argentina (1) (Title holders, assigned to B1)

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:[4]

  1. goal difference
  2. goals scored
  3. head-to-head result between tied teams (two teams only)
  4. drawing of lots

All times local, ECT (UTC−5).[13]

Group A

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Group B

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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.[4]

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Winners

 2017 South American Youth Football champions 

Uruguay
8th title

Goalscorers

5 goals

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4 goals

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3 goals

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2 goals

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1 goal

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Own goal

Source: CONMEBOL.com[14]

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1
 Uruguay 5 February 2017[15] 13 (1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015)
 Ecuador 11 February 2017[16] 2 (2001, 2011)
 Venezuela 11 February 2017[16] 1 (2009)
 Argentina 11 February 2017[16] 14 (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.

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