2011 South American U-20 Championship

The 2011 South American Youth Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 “Juventud de America” Perú 2011, Portuguese: Campeonato Sul-Americano Sub-20 “Juventude da America” Peru 2011) was a football competition for U-20 national teams in the South America (CONMEBOL). The tournament was held in Peru from 16 January to 12 February.

2011 South American U-20 Championship

Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 “Juventud de America” Perú 2011
Tournament details
Host country	Peru
Dates	16 January – 12 February
Teams	10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (11th title)
Runners-up	Uruguay
Third place	Argentina
Fourth place	Ecuador
Tournament statistics
Matches played	35
Goals scored	94 (2.69 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Neymar (9 goals)
Best player(s)	Pedro Franco
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The top 4 teams qualified for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia. In addition, the top 2 teams qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, to be held in London, United Kingdom. As hosts of the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup, Colombia automatically qualified.^[1]

Teams

•  Argentina
•  Bolivia
•  Brazil
•  Chile
•  Colombia
•  Ecuador
•  Paraguay
•  Peru (host)
•  Uruguay
•  Venezuela

Venues

Arequipa	Arequipa Moquegua Tacna
Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi de la UNSA
Capacity: 40,000
Moquegua
Estadio 25 de Noviembre
Capacity: 21,000
Tacna
Estadio Jorge Basadre
Capacity: 19,850

Squads

Main article: 2011 South American U-20 Championship squads

First stage

When teams finished level of points, the final order was determined according to:

1. superior goal difference in all matches
2. greater number of goals scored in all group matches
3. better result in matches between the tied teams
4. drawing of lots

All match times are in local Peruvian time (UTC−05:00).

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Argentina	4	3	1	0	8	4	+4	10
Chile	4	2	0	2	6	8	−2	6
Uruguay	4	1	1	2	6	5	+1	4
Peru	4	1	1	2	4	5	−1	4
Venezuela	4	0	3	1	4	6	−2	3

16 January 2011

15:00

Argentina	2–1	Uruguay
Hoyos 58' Iturbe 90'	Report	Polenta 37'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Wilmar Roldán (Colombia)

16 January 2011

17:10

Peru	0–2	Chile
	Report	Reyes 52' Martínez 60'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Antonio Arias (Paraguay)

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19 January 2011

17:30

Peru	1–2	Argentina
Callens 65'	Report	Funes Mori 2' Zuculini 86'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Wilson Seneme (Brazil)

19 January 2011

19:30

Venezuela	1–1	Uruguay
Reyes 19'	Report	F. Rodríguez 58'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Raúl Orosco (Bolivia)

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22 January 2011

15:00

Argentina	1–1	Venezuela
Araujo 55'	Report	Orozco 65'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Antonio Arias (Paraguay)

22 January 2011

17:10

Chile	0–4	Uruguay
	Report	Cepellini 10', 44' Luna 73' Polenta 77'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Omar Ponce (Ecuador)

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24 January 2011

18:00

Chile	1–3	Argentina
Márquez 69'	Report	Ferreyra 58', 67' Mosca 73'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Raúl Orosco (Bolivia)

24 January 2011

20:10

Peru	1–1	Venezuela
Noronha 15'	Report	Orozco 78'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Wilmar Roldán (Colombia)

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27 January 2011

18:00

Chile	3–1	Venezuela
Pinto 24' Gallegos 45' Márquez 86'	Report	Meza 14'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Wilson Seneme (Brazil)

27 January 2011

20:10

Peru	2–0	Uruguay
Ojeda 15' Donayre 71'	Report

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Omar Ponce (Ecuador)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	4	3	1	0	9	4	+5	10
Ecuador	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	7
Colombia	4	1	2	1	7	8	−1	5
Paraguay	4	1	1	2	6	8	−2	4
Bolivia	4	0	1	3	3	7	−4	1

17 January 2011

19:00

Colombia	1–1	Ecuador
Cardona 71' (pen.)	Report	Cazares 29' (pen.)

Estadio Jorge Basadre, Tacna

Referee: Víctor Hugo Carrillo (Peru)

17 January 2011

21:10

Brazil	4–2	Paraguay
Neymar 25' (pen.), 33', 60', 63'	Report	Viera 51' Montenegro 84'

Estadio Jorge Basadre, Tacna

Referee: Diego Abal (Argentina)

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20 January 2011

19:00

Bolivia	0–1	Paraguay
	Report	Torres 23'

Estadio Jorge Basadre, Tacna

Referee: Marlon Escalante (Venezuela)

20 January 2011

21:10

Colombia	1–3	Brazil
Cardona 65' (pen.)	Report	Casemiro 55' Willian José 63' Neymar 86'

Estadio Jorge Basadre, Tacna

Referee: Dario Ubriaco (Uruguay)

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23 January 2011

11:30

Brazil	1–1	Bolivia
Henrique 41'	Report	Rios 76'

Estadio 25 de Noviembre, Moquegua

Referee: Jorge Osorio (Chile)

23 January 2011

13:40

Ecuador	1–0	Paraguay
Montaño 60'	Report

Estadio 25 de Noviembre, Moquegua

Referee: Dario Ubriaco (Uruguay)

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25 January 2011

19:00

Colombia	2–1	Bolivia
Franco 21' Escobar 37'	Report	Rios 57'

Estadio Jorge Basadre, Tacna

Referee: Víctor Hugo Carrillo (Peru)

25 January 2011

21:10

Ecuador	0–1	Brazil
	Report	Henrique 24'

Estadio Jorge Basadre, Tacna

Referee: Diego Abal (Argentina)

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28 January 2011

19:00

Ecuador	3–1	Bolivia
Chalá 51' Caicedo 61' Montaño 83'	Report	Ríos 42'

Estadio Jorge Basadre, Tacna

Referee: Marlon Escalante (Venezuela)

28 January 2011

21:10

Colombia	3–3	Paraguay
Cardona 39', 87' Ortega 68'	Report	Correa 32' Ruiz 37', 57'

Estadio Jorge Basadre, Tacna

Referee: Jorge Osorio (Chile)

Final stage

Team qualified for both the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup and the 2012 Summer Olympics

Team qualified for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	5	4	0	1	15	3	+12	12
Uruguay	5	3	1	1	4	7	–3	10
Argentina	5	3	0	2	7	5	+2	9
Ecuador	5	2	2	1	3	2	+1	8
Chile	5	1	0	4	6	11	−5	3
Colombia	5	0	1	4	1	8	−7	1

1.^ As hosts of the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup, Colombia automatically qualified and did not need to finish in the top four to advance.

All match times are in local Peruvian time (UTC−05:00).

31 January 2011

16:50

Uruguay	1–0	Colombia
Luna 42'	Report

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Diego Abal (Argentina)

31 January 2011

19:00

Argentina	0–1	Ecuador
	Report	Montaño 46'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Wilson Seneme (Brazil)

31 January 2011

21:10

Chile	1–5	Brazil
Carrasco 19'	Report	Neymar 17', 47' Lucas 65' Diego Maurício 81' Willian José 89'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Omar Ponce (Ecuador)

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3 February 2011

16:50

Uruguay	1–1	Ecuador
Mayada 17'	Report	Montaño 59'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Antonio Arias (Paraguay)

3 February 2011

19:00

Chile	2–3	Argentina
Carrasco 15' Gallegos 90+1'	Report	Ferreyra 50' (pen.) Iturbe 62' Tagliafico 72'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Víctor Hugo Carrillo (Peru)

3 February 2011

21:10

Brazil	2–0	Colombia
Casemiro 3' Diego Maurício 89'	Report

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Raúl Orosco (Bolivia)

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6 February 2011

15:50

Uruguay	1–0	Chile
Luna 37'	Report

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Wilson Seneme (Brazil)

6 February 2011

18:00

Colombia	0–0	Ecuador
	Report

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Marlon Escalante (Venezuela)

6 February 2011

20:10

Argentina	2–1	Brazil
Funes Mori 7' (pen.) Iturbe 68'	Report	Willian José 55'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Wilmar Roldán (Colombia)

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9 February 2011

16:50

Colombia	1–3	Chile
Magaña 2' (o.g.)	Report	Gallegos 23' Bustos 42' Carrasco 47'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Antonio Arias (Paraguay)

9 February 2011

19:00

Uruguay	1–0	Argentina
Vecino 64'	Report

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Raúl Orosco (Bolivia)

9 February 2011

21:10

Ecuador	0–1	Brazil
	Report	Casemiro 8'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Víctor Hugo Carrillo (Peru)

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12 February 2011

16:50

Colombia	0–2	Argentina
	Report	Ferreyra 14' (pen.) Zuculini 32'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Marlon Escalante (Venezuela)

12 February 2011

19:00

Ecuador	1–0	Chile
Arroyo 72'	Report

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Wilmar Roldán (Colombia)

12 February 2011

21:10

Uruguay	0–6	Brazil
	Report	Lucas 40', 42', 80' Danilo 51' Neymar 57', 62'

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa

Referee: Antonio Arias (Paraguay)

Winners

2011 South American Youth Championship winners
Brazil Eleventh title

Goalscorers

9 goals Neymar 4 goals Facundo Ferreyra Lucas Moura Edwin Cardona Edson Montaño 3 goals Juan Iturbe Casemiro Willian José Darwin Rios Bryan Carrasco Felipe Gallegos Adrián Luna

2 goals Rogelio Funes Mori Bruno Zuculini Henrique Diego Maurício Alejandro Márquez Óscar Ruiz Pablo Ceppelini Diego Polenta Yohandry Orozco 1 goal Sergio Araujo Michael Hoyos Claudio Mosca Nicolás Tagliafico Danilo Ramsés Bustos José Martínez Yashir Pinto Lorenzo Reyes Andrés Ramiro Escobar Pedro Franco Michael Ortega

1 goal (cont.) Dixon Arroyo Marcos Caicedo Juan Cazares Walter Chala Cláudio Correa Brian Montenegro Iván Torres Diego Viera Alexander Callens Diego Donayre Osnar Noronha Angel Ojeda Camilo Mayada Federico Rodríguez Matias Vecino José Alí Meza José Miguel Reyes Own goal Cristian Magaña (for Colombia)

See also

• 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup
• 2011 South American Under-17 Football Championship