Football at the 2019 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

The men's football tournament at the 2019 Pan American Games was held in Lima from 29 July to 10 August 2019.

Football – Men's tournament at the 2019 Pan American Games
Venue	Estadio Universidad San Marcos
Dates	29 July – 10 August[1]
Medalists
Argentina    Honduras    Mexico
«2015 2023»

Qualification

A total of eight men's teams qualified to compete at the games, four CONMEBOL teams and four CONCACAF teams.^[1] For CONMEBOL, the best three teams at the 2019 South American U-20 Championship qualified, while Peru automatically qualified as hosts. For CONCACAF, the best team from each of the three zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean) at the 2018 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualified, however, United States (best North American team) declined to participate and were replaced by Mexico. Honduras also qualified by decision of CONCACAF.^[2]

Qualified teams

Confederation	Region	Means of qualification	Teams qualified	Appearance	Previous best performance
CONCACAF	North American	2018 CONCACAF U-20 Championship (1–21 November 2018)	Mexico	15th	Gold medal (1967, 1975, 1999, 2011)
	Caribbean		Jamaica	5th	Silver medal (2007)
	Central American		Panama	2nd	Fourth place (2015)
		Last berth defined by CONCACAF	Honduras	5th	Silver medal (1999)
CONMEBOL	South American	Automatically qualified	Peru (hosts)	2nd	Group stage (2015)
		2019 South American U-20 Championship (17 January–10 February 2019)	Argentina	15th	Gold medal (1951, 1955, 1959, 1971, 1995, 2003)
			Uruguay	7th	Gold medal (1983, 2015)
			Ecuador	4th	Gold medal (2007)

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 12 April 2019, 12:00 PET (UTC−5), at the Peruvian Football Federation headquarters in Lima, Peru.^[3][4] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four and each group was conformed by two CONCACAF teams and two CONMEBOL teams. The hosts Peru were seeded into group B and assigned to position 4 in their group, while the remaining seven teams were placed into two pots according to the confederation which they belong.

CONCACAF pot	CONMEBOL pot
Jamaica  Honduras  Mexico  Panama	Argentina  Ecuador  Uruguay

The CONCACAF teams were drawn first and assigned to positions 1 and 2 in groups A and B. Then, the CONMEBOL teams were drawn and the first two teams occupied positions 3 and 4 in group A while the third team occupied the position 3 in group B. The draw resulted in the following groups:^[5]

Group A Pos Team A1  Panama A2  Mexico A3  Ecuador A4  Argentina

Group B Pos Team B1  Jamaica B2  Honduras B3  Uruguay B4  Peru

The draw was led by Hugo Figueredo, competition director of CONMEBOL, and had the help of Miriam Tristan and Cindy Novoa members of the Peru women's national football team

Squads

Further information: Football at the 2019 Pan American Games – Men's team squads

Players must be born on or after 1 January 1997, three overage players are allowed.

Match officials

The referees and assistant referees were:^[6]

• Fernando Echenique
  • Assistants: Cristian Navarro and Lucas Germanotta
• Wagner Magalhaes
  • Assistants: Emerson De Carvalho and Alessandro Rocha
• Felipe González
  • Assistants: Raúl Orellana and Edson Cisternas
• Gustavo Murillo
  • Assistants: Miguel Roldán and John Gallego
• Ulises Mereles
  • Assistants: Juan Zorrilla and Rodney Aquino
• Michael Espinoza
  • Assistants: Michael Orué and Stephen Atoche
• Miguel Santibañez
  • Assistants: Raúl López and Jesús Sánchez
• José Argote
  • Assistants: Franchescoly Chacón and Alberto Ponte

Group stage

Tie-breakers

All times are local, PET (UTC−5).^[7]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mexico	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7	Knockout stage
2	Argentina	3	2	0	1	7	5	+2	6
3	Panama	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2	Fifth place match
4	Ecuador	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1	Seventh place match

Source: Lima 2019
Rules for classification: Tie-breakers

29 July 2019 (2019-07-29)

10:00

Panama	0–0	Mexico
	Report

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: José Argote (Venezuela)

29 July 2019 (2019-07-29)

13:00

Ecuador	2–3	Argentina
Rezabala 75' Naula 89'	Report	Valenzuela 33' Gaich 40', 76'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Gustavo Murillo (Colombia)

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1 August 2019 (2019-08-01)

10:00

Panama	1–1	Ecuador
Zúñiga 27'	Report	Campana 53'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Miguel Santibañez (Peru)

1 August 2019 (2019-08-01)

13:00

Mexico	2–1	Argentina
Venegas 13' (pen.) Godínez 81' (pen.)	Report	Gaich 39'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Michael Espinoza (Peru)

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4 August 2019 (2019-08-04)

10:00

Panama	1–3	Argentina
Aguilar 45'	Report	Gaich 4' Lomonaco 14' Valenzuela 80'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Ulises Mereles (Paraguay)

4 August 2019 (2019-08-04)

13:00

Ecuador	0–2	Mexico
	Report	Vásquez 25' Lainez 90'+5'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Wagner Magalhães (Brazil)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uruguay	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9	Knockout stage
2	Honduras	3	1	1	1	5	6	−1	4
3	Jamaica	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3	Fifth place match
4	Peru (H)	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1	Seventh place match

Source: Lima 2019
Rules for classification: Tie-breakers
(H) Hosts

29 July 2019 (2019-07-29)

17:30

Jamaica	1–3	Honduras
Beckford 46'	Report	Vuelto 71', 80' Martínez 78'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Fernando Echenique (Argentina)

29 July 2019 (2019-07-29)

20:30

Uruguay	2–0	Peru
Núñez 6' Fernández 36'	Report

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Ulises Mereles (Paraguay)

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1 August 2019 (2019-08-01)

17:30

Jamaica	0–2	Uruguay
	Report	Fernández 61', 72'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Wagner Magalhães (Brazil)

1 August 2019 (2019-08-01)

20:30

Honduras	2–2	Peru
Vuelto 90'+2' Maldonado 90'+7'	Report	Quevedo 15' Guivin 62'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Felipe González (Chile)

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4 August 2019 (2019-08-04)

17:30

Uruguay	3–0	Honduras
Arriaga 34' (o.g.) Ramírez 75' (pen.) Fernández 84'	Report

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Gustavo Murillo (Colombia)

4 August 2019 (2019-08-04)

20:30

Jamaica	2–0	Peru
Beckford 55', 60'	Report

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Fernando Echenique (Argentina)

Placement stage (5th–8th place)

7th place         7 August – Lima      Ecuador 1 (2)      Peru (p) 1 (4)

5th place         7 August – Lima      Panama 4      Jamaica 0

Seventh place match

7 August 2019 (2019-08-07)

10:00

Ecuador	1–1	Peru
Vivar 88'	Report	Minda 83' (o.g.)
Penalties
Vallecilla Alcivar Porozo Minda	2–4	Barco Acuy Arakaki Pretell Rivera

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: José Argote (Venezuela)

Fifth place match

7 August 2019 (2019-08-07)

13:00

Panama	4–0	Jamaica
Aguilar 3' Carrasquilla 11' Ayarza 28' Zúñiga 58'	Report

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Miguel Santibañez (Peru)

Knockout stage

If necessary, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner.

	Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	7 August – Lima
	Mexico	1 (2)
					10 August – Lima
	Honduras (p)	1 (4)
					Honduras	1
	7 August – Lima
					Argentina	4
	Uruguay	0
	Argentina	3
					Bronze medal match
					10 August – Lima
					Mexico	1
					Uruguay	0

Semi-finals

7 August 2019 (2019-08-07)

17:30

Mexico	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Honduras
Venegas 40'	Report	Reyes 79'
Penalties
Govea Vásquez López Macías	2–4	Martínez Vuelto Reyes Maldonado

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Ulises Mereles (Paraguay)

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7 August 2019 (2019-08-07)

20:30

Uruguay	0–3	Argentina
	Report	Gaich 6', 85' Valenzuela 29'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Wagner Magalhães (Brazil)

Bronze medal match

10 August 2019 (2019-08-10)

17:30

Mexico	1–0	Uruguay
Yrizar 7'	Report

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Fernando Echenique (Argentina)

Gold medal match

10 August 2019 (2019-08-10)

20:30

Honduras	1–4	Argentina
Martínez 42'	Report	Urzi 7' Valenzuela 58' Necul 61' Vera 65'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima

Referee: Gustavo Murillo (Colombia)

Team details

Honduras Argentina GK 18 Alex Güity DF 2 Denil Maldonado DF 3 Elvin Oliva DF 4 Elison Rivas  32' DF 16 José García MF 7 Alejandro Reyes MF 8 Jorge Álvarez MF 13 Carlos Pineda FW 17 Kilmar Peña  80' FW 9 Douglas Martínez FW 11 Darixon Vuelto Substitutes: MF José Pinto  80' Manager: Fabián Coito GK 1 Facundo Cambeses DF 4 Marcelo Herrera DF 2 Leonel Mosevich DF 6 Joaquín Novillo DF 14 Facundo Medina MF 5 Fausto Vera  23'  80' MF 11 Santiago Colombatto MF 10 Nicolás González  18' FW 7 Carlos Valenzuela FW 9 Adolfo Gaich FW 16 Agustín Urzi  57' Substitutes: MF 17 Lucas Necul  57' MF 15 Aníbal Moreno  80' Manager: Fernando Batista

2019 Pan American Games Men's football tournament Winners
Argentina 7th title

Final standings

Rank	Team
	Argentina
	Honduras
	Mexico
4	Uruguay
5	Panama
6	Jamaica
7	Peru
8	Ecuador

Goalscorers

Argentine Adolfo Gaich, top scorer

There were 50 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 2.78 goals per match.

6 goals

• Adolfo Gaich

4 goals

• Carlos Valenzuela
• Leonardo Fernández

3 goals

• Darixon Vuelto
• Deshane Beckford

2 goals

• Douglas Martínez
• Francisco Venegas
• Jorman Aguilar
• Luis Zúñiga

1 goal

• Lucas Necul
• Agustín Urzi
• Fausto Vera
• Sebastián Lomonaco
• Leonardo Campana
• Anderson Naula
• Jordan Rezabala
• Janus Vivar
• Denil Maldonado
• José Reyes
• José de Jesús Godínez
• Mauro Lainez
• Johan Vásquez
• Paolo Yrizay
• Abdiel Ayarza
• Adalberto Carrasquilla
• Jordan Guivin
• Kevin Quevedo
• Darwin Núñez
• Ignacio Ramírez

1 own goal

• Kevin Minda (against Peru)
• Kervin Arriaga (against Uruguay)

Source: Lima 2019