2017 South American U-20 Championship

The 2017 South American Youth Football Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 Juventud de América Ecuador 2017, Brazilian 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]

2017 South American Youth Football Championship

Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 “Juventud de America” Ecuador 2017
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)	Rodrigo Amaral Bryan Cabezas Lautaro Martínez Marcelo Torres (5 goals each)
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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

See also: 2017 South American Youth Football Championship squads

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 Bellavista	Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra	Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa	Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba
1.244610°S 78.623205°W / -1.244610; -78.623205 (Estadio Bellavista)	0.359607°N 78.118313°W / 0.359607; -78.118313 (Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra)	0.177508°S 78.476683°W / -0.177508; -78.476683 (Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa)	1.666265°S 78.660430°W / -1.666265; -78.660430 (Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba)
Capacity:16,467	Capacity:17,260	Capacity:35,258	Capacity:14,400

Match officials

The referees were:^[11]

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.^[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)	Colombia (2)  Uruguay (3)	Brazil (4)  Peru (5)	Paraguay (6)  Venezuela (8)	Chile (9)  Bolivia (10)

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ecuador (H)	4	2	1	1	7	6	+1	7	Final stage
2	Colombia	4	2	1	1	6	5	+1	7
3	Brazil	4	2	1	1	4	3	+1	7
4	Paraguay	4	1	1	2	6	7	−1	4
5	Chile	4	0	2	2	2	4	−2	2

Source: CONMEBOL
(H) Hosts

18 January 2017 (2017-01-18)

17:00

Colombia	1–1	Paraguay
Ceter 88'	Report	S. Ferreira 80'

Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba, Riobamba

Referee: Diego Haro (Peru)

18 January 2017 (2017-01-18)

19:15

Ecuador	0–1	Brazil
	Report	Felipe Vizeu 51'

Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba, Riobamba

Referee: Jonhatan Fuentes (Uruguay)

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20 January 2017 (2017-01-20)

17:00

Brazil	0–0	Chile
	Report

Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba, Riobamba

Referee: Jesús Valenzuela (Venezuela)

20 January 2017 (2017-01-20)

19:15

Ecuador	4–3	Colombia
Estupiñán 40' Quintero 51' Cabezas 55' (pen.) Caicedo 90+1'	Report	Ceter 6' Obregón 37' Valencia 73'

Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba, Riobamba

Referee: Darío Herrera (Argentina)

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22 January 2017 (2017-01-22)

14:45

Brazil	3–2	Paraguay
Matheus Sávio 38' Richarlison 56' Felipe Vizeu 64'	Report	Medina 79' (pen.), 90'

Estadio Bellavista, Ambato

Referee: Darío Herrera (Argentina)

22 January 2017 (2017-01-22)

16:45

Ecuador	1–1	Chile
Sierra 6'	Report	Sierra 79'

Estadio Bellavista, Ambato

Referee: Diego Haro (Peru)

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24 January 2017 (2017-01-24)

17:00

Paraguay	2–1	Chile
Báez 32' Paredes 90'	Report	Jara 81'

Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba, Riobamba

Referee: Jonhatan Fuentes (Uruguay)

24 January 2017 (2017-01-24)

19:15

Colombia	1–0	Brazil
Valencia 86'	Report

Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba, Riobamba

Referee: Gery Vargas (Bolivia)

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26 January 2017 (2017-01-26)

17:00

Colombia	1–0	Chile
Valencia 4'	Report

Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba, Riobamba

Referee: Jesús Valenzuela (Venezuela)

26 January 2017 (2017-01-26)

19:15

Ecuador	2–1	Paraguay
Corozo 19' Lino 21'	Report	Báez 46'

Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba, Riobamba

Referee: Dario Herrera (Argentina)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uruguay	4	2	2	0	8	3	+5	8	Final stage
2	Argentina	4	1	3	0	9	5	+4	6
3	Venezuela	4	0	4	0	1	1	0	4
4	Bolivia	4	1	1	2	3	8	−5	4
5	Peru	4	0	2	2	2	6	−4	2

Source: CONMEBOL

19 January 2017 (2017-01-19)

17:00

Uruguay	0–0	Venezuela
	Report

Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra, Ibarra

Referee: Roberto Tobar (Chile)

19 January 2017 (2017-01-19)

19:15

Argentina	1–1	Peru
La. Martínez 89'	Report	Siucho 11'

Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra, Ibarra

Referee: Carlos Orbe (Ecuador)

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21 January 2017 (2017-01-21)

17:00

Peru	0–2	Bolivia
	Report	Monteiro 54' Miranda 88'

Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra, Ibarra

Referee: Gustavo Murillo (Colombia)

21 January 2017 (2017-01-21)

19:15

Argentina	3–3	Uruguay
Torres 23', 73' Rogel 88' (o.g.)	Report	Amaral 3' De la Cruz 45+2' (pen.) Schiappacasse 81'

Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra, Ibarra

Referee: Anderson Daronco (Brazil)

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23 January 2017 (2017-01-23)

17:00

Peru	1–1	Venezuela
Siucho 55'	Report	Herrera 88'

Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra, Ibarra

Referee: Anderson Daronco (Brazil)

23 January 2017 (2017-01-23)

19:15

Argentina	5–1	Bolivia
Torres 22', 42' Mansilla 35' Conechny 54' Rodríguez 68'	Report	R. Vaca 70'

Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra, Ibarra

Referee: Mario Díaz de Vivar (Paraguay)

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25 January 2017 (2017-01-25)

17:00

Venezuela	0–0	Bolivia
	Report

Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra, Ibarra

Referee: Carlos Orbe (Ecuador)

25 January 2017 (2017-01-25)

19:15

Uruguay	2–0	Peru
Amaral 8' (pen.) Schiappacasse 63'	Report

Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra, Ibarra

Referee: Roberto Tobar (Chile)

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27 January 2017 (2017-01-27)

17:00

Uruguay	3–0	Bolivia
Rogel 17' Bentancur 43' Amaral 82'	Report

Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra, Ibarra

Referee: Gustavo Murillo (Colombia)

27 January 2017 (2017-01-27)

19:15

Argentina	0–0	Venezuela
	Report

Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra, Ibarra

Referee: Mario Díaz de Vivar (Paraguay)

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]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uruguay	5	4	0	1	10	5	+5	12	2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2	Ecuador (H)	5	2	1	2	11	8	+3	7
3	Venezuela	5	2	1	2	8	6	+2	7
4	Argentina	5	2	1	2	6	9	−3	7
5	Brazil	5	1	3	1	6	6	0	6
6	Colombia	5	0	2	3	2	9	−7	2

Source: CONMEBOL
(H) Hosts

30 January 2017 (2017-01-30)

16:00

Colombia	1–1	Venezuela
Hernández 85' (pen.)	Report	Soteldo 35'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Jonhatan Fuentes (Uruguay)

30 January 2017 (2017-01-30)

18:15

Uruguay	3–0	Argentina
De la Cruz 37' Olivera 40' Amaral 61'	Report

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Diego Haro (Peru)

30 January 2017 (2017-01-30)

20:30

Ecuador	2–2	Brazil
Jaramillo 69' (pen.) Estupiñán 77' (pen.)	Report	Guilherme Arana 14' Maycon 24'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Mario Díaz de Vivar (Paraguay)

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2 February 2017 (2017-02-02)

16:00

Colombia	1–2	Argentina
Hernández 56'	Report	Torres 1' La. Martínez 90'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Anderson Daronco (Brazil)

2 February 2017 (2017-02-02)

18:15

Uruguay	2–1	Brazil
Amaral 59' Viña 90+1'	Report	Guilherme Arana 23'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Darío Herrera (Argentina)

2 February 2017 (2017-02-02)

20:30

Ecuador	2–4	Venezuela
Estupiñán 87' (pen.) Cabezas 90+7' (pen.)	Report	Herrera 39' Soteldo 52' (pen.) Chacón 55' Córdova 63'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Roberto Tobar (Chile)

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5 February 2017 (2017-02-05)

16:00

Brazil	1–0	Venezuela
Felipe Vizeu 88'	Report

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Diego Haro (Peru)

5 February 2017 (2017-02-05)

18:15

Uruguay	3–0	Colombia
Waller 40' Schiappacasse 64' De la Cruz 82' (pen.)	Report

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Mario Díaz de Vivar (Paraguay)

5 February 2017 (2017-02-05)

20:30

Ecuador	3–0	Argentina
Estupiñán 39' (pen.) Caicedo 57' Cabezas 62'	Report

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Gery Vargas (Bolivia)

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8 February 2017 (2017-02-08)

16:00

Ecuador	3–0	Colombia
Cabezas 49', 82' Caicedo 62'	Report

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Darío Herrera (Argentina)

8 February 2017 (2017-02-08)

18:15

Uruguay	0–3	Venezuela
	Report	Mejías 67' Soteldo 70' (pen.) Chacón 75' (pen.)

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Gery Vargas (Bolivia)

8 February 2017 (2017-02-08)

20:30

Brazil	2–2	Argentina
Richarlison 9' Felipe Vizeu 65' (pen.)	Report	Mansilla 25' La. Martínez 90+4'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Roberto Tobar (Chile)

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11 February 2017 (2017-02-11)

15:30

Argentina	2–0	Venezuela
La. Martínez 42', 45'	Report

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Mario Díaz de Vivar (Paraguay)

11 February 2017 (2017-02-11)

17:45

Colombia	0–0	Brazil
	Report

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Gery Vargas (Bolivia)

11 February 2017 (2017-02-11)

20:00

Ecuador	1–2	Uruguay
Lino 65'	Report	Ardaiz 4', 25'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Referee: Roberto Tobar (Chile)

Winners

2017 South American Youth Football champions
Uruguay 8th title

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)

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.