Football at the 2023 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

The Men's football tournament at the 2023 Pan American Games was held in Valparaíso and Viña del Mar from 23 October to 4 November 2023.

Football – Men's tournament at the 2023 Pan American Games
Venue	Estadio Sausalito (Viña del Mar) Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander (Valparaíso)
Dates	23 October – 4 November
Medalists
Brazil    Chile    Mexico
«2019 2027»

Qualification

A total of eight men's teams qualified to compete at the games, four CONMEBOL teams and four CONCACAF teams. For CONMEBOL, the best three teams at the 2023 South American U-20 Championship qualified,^[1] while Chile automatically qualified as hosts. For CONCACAF, the champion team and the best team from each of the three zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean) at the 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualified.^[2]

Qualified teams

Event		Dates	Location	Quota(s)	Qualified
Host nation		—	—	1	Chile
2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship	Champions	June 18 − July 3	Honduras	1	United States
	Top Caribbean team			1	Dominican Republic
	Top Central American team			1	Honduras[3]
	Top North American team			1	Mexico
2023 South American U-20 Championship		19 January – 12 February	Colombia	3	Brazil  Uruguay  Colombia
Total				8

Venues

Viña del Mar	Valparaíso
Estadio Sausalito	Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander
Capacity: 23,423	Capacity: 20,575
Valparaíso Viña del Mar

Draw

The draw for the group stage was first scheduled to 31 March 2023^[4] and postponed to 18 August 2023, into the studios of TV station Chilevisión. Chile, the host nation, was allocated as the seed in group A. Subsequently, the teams belonging to CONCACAF were drawn, with two in each of the groups. Finally the remaining teams, members of CONMEBOL, were allocated.^[5][6]

Squads

Further information: Football at the 2023 Pan American Games – Men's team squads

Players must be born on or after 1 January 2000, three overage players are allowed.^[7]

Match officials

Country	Referees	Assistants	Matches assigned
Chile	Fernando Véjar Díaz	Gabriel Ureta Alfaro Carlos Enrique Poblete	Colombia v Honduras, Group B Colombia v United States, Group B Mexico v United States, Bronze medal match
	Manuel Vergara	Cláudio Rios Alan Sandoval	United States v Honduras, Group B Uruguay v Colombia, Fifth place match
Ecuador	Bryan Loayza	David Vacacela Danny Ávila	Chile v Mexico, Group A Chile v Dominican Republic, Group A Brazil v Mexico, Semi-finals
Juan Andrade	Luzmilla González Edison Vasquez	Dominican Republic v Honduras, Seventh place match
Paraguay	Juan López	Júlio Aranda Luis Onieva	Uruguay v Dominican Republic, Group A Uruguay v Mexico, Group A Chile v United States, Semi-finals
Peru	Jesús Cartagena	José Alberto Castillo Leonar Soto Rengifo	Mexico v Dominican Republic, Group A
Uruguay	José Burgos	Agustín Berisso Edison Vasquez (Ecuador)	Brazil v Colombia, Group B
Venezuela	José Matos Uzcategui	Erizon Nieto Díaz Antoni García Brito	Brazil v United States, Group B Brazil v Honduras, Group B
	Yender Herrera Toledo		Chile v Uruguay, Group A Chile v Brazil, Gold medal match

Group stage

All times are local (UTC−3).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Chile (H)	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9	Semi-finals
2	Mexico	3	1	1	1	1	1	0	4
3	Uruguay	3	1	0	2	1	2	−1	3	Fifth place match
4	Dominican Republic	3	0	1	2	0	6	−6	1	Seventh place match

Source: Santiago2023
(H) Host

23 October 2023 (2023-10-23)

15:00

Uruguay	1–0	Dominican Republic
Rodríguez 35'	Report

Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar

Referee: Juan López (Paraguay)

23 October 2023 (2023-10-23)

20:00

Chile	1–0	Mexico
Guerrero 28'	Report

Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar

Referee: Bryan Loayza (Ecuador)

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26 October 2023 (2023-10-26)

13:00

Mexico	0–0	Dominican Republic
	Report

Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, Valparaíso

Referee: Jesús Cartagena (Peru)

26 October 2023 (2023-10-26)

18:00

Chile	1–0	Uruguay
Aravena 45+1'	Report

Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, Valparaíso

Referee: Yender Herrera Toledo (Venezuela)

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29 October 2023 (2023-10-29)

13:00

Uruguay	0–1	Mexico
	Report	Saldivia 28' (o.g.)

Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, Valparaíso

Referee: Juan López (Paraguay)

29 October 2023 (2023-10-29)

18:00

Chile	5–0	Dominican Republic
Fuentes 15' Alfaro 28' Assadi 75' Montes 90+2' Aravena 90+5'	Report

Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar

Referee: Bryan Loayza (Ecuador)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	3	0	0	6	0	+6	9	Semi-finals
2	United States	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
3	Colombia	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3	Fifth place match
4	Honduras	3	0	0	3	1	7	−6	0	Seventh place match

Source: Santiago2023

23 October 2023 (2023-10-23)

13:00

Colombia	2–0	Honduras
Ruiz 16' Cortés 41'	Report

Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, Valparaíso

Referee: Fernando Véjar Diaz (Chile)

23 October 2023 (2023-10-23)

18:00

Brazil	1–0	United States
Miranda 86'	Report

Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, Valparaíso

Referee: José Matos Uzcategui (Venezuela)

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26 October 2023 (2023-10-26)

15:00

United States	2–1	Honduras
Leyva 72' Ku-DiPietro 90'	Report	García 19'

Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar

Referee: Manuel Vergara (Chile)

26 October 2023 (2023-10-26)

20:00

Brazil	2–0	Colombia
Biro 16' Pirani 51'	Report

Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar

Referee: José Burgos (Uruguay)

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29 October 2023 (2023-10-29)

13:00

Brazil	3–0	Honduras
Ronald 50' Martins 54' Lara 79'	Report

Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar

Referee: José Matos Uzcategui (Venezuela)

29 October 2023 (2023-10-29)

18:00

Colombia	0–2	United States
	Report	Ikoba 63' Neri 76'

Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, Valparaíso

Referee: Fernando Véjar Diaz (Chile)

Placement stage (5th–8th place)

7th place         1 November — Viña del Mar      Dominican Republic 1      Honduras 3

5th place         1 November — Valparaíso      Uruguay (p) 0 (4)      Colombia 0 (3)

Seventh place match

1 November 2023 (2023-11-01)

14:00

Dominican Republic	1–3	Honduras
Ciriaco 40'	Report	Miranda 11' Carter 45' Ochoa 88'

Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar

Referee: Juan Andrade (Ecuador)

Fifth place match

1 November 2023 (2023-11-01)

12:00

Uruguay	0–0	Colombia
	Report
Penalties
O'Neil Nandín Cruz de los Santos Lavega Piñeiro	4–3	Palacios Castilla Rojas Mosquera Ruiz

Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, Valparaíso

Referee: Manuel Vergara (Chile)

Knockout stage

Medal round

	Semifinals				Final
	1 November — Valparaíso
	Chile	1
					4 November — Viña del Mar
	United States	0
					Chile	1 (2)
	1 November — Viña del Mar
					Brazil (p)	1 (4)
	Mexico	0
	Brazil	1
					Third place
					4 November — Viña del Mar
					United States	1
					Mexico	4

Semi-finals

1 November 2023 (2023-11-01)

17:00

Chile	1–0	United States
Pérez 57'	Report

Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, Valparaíso

Referee: Juan López (Paraguay)

1 November 2023 (2023-11-01)

20:00

Mexico	0–1	Brazil
	Report	Leone 2' (o.g.)

Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar

Referee: Bryan Loayza (Ecuador)

Bronze medal match

4 November 2023 (2023-11-04)

15:00

United States	1–4	Mexico
Ikoba 23'	Report	Carrillo 42', 72' Fulgencio 50' Ávila 88'

Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar

Referee: Fernando Véjar Diaz (Chile)

Gold medal match

4 November 2023 (2023-11-04)

20:00

Chile	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Brazil
Guerrero 42'	Report	Ronald 83'
Penalties
Zaldivia Villagra Fuentes Montes	2–4	Nascimento Ronald Figueiredo Miranda Mycael

Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar

Referee: Yender Herrera Toledo (Venezuela)

2023 Pan American Games Men's football tournament winners
Brazil 5th title

Final standings

Rank	Team
	Brazil
	Chile
	Mexico
4	United States
5	Uruguay
6	Colombia
7	Honduras
8	Dominican Republic

Goalscorers

There were 35 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 1.94 goals per match.

2 goals

• Ronald
• Alexander Aravena
• Maximiliano Guerrero
• Jordan Carrillo
• Tega Ikoba

1 goal

• Guilherme Biro
• Thauan Lara
• Gustavo Martins
• Miranda
• Gabriel Pirani
• Julián Alfaro
• Lucas Assadi
• César Fuentes
• Clemente Montes
• César Pérez
• Carlos Manuel Cortés
• Daniel Ruiz
• Alex Ciriaco
• Daniel Carter
• Antony García
• Jeffry Miranda
• David Ochoa
• Alí Ávila
• Raymundo Fulgencio
• Theodore Ku-DiPietro
• Danny Leyva
• Rodrigo Neri
• Emiliano Rodríguez

1 own goal

• Antonio Leone (against Brazil)
• Alan Saldivia (against Mexico)

Source: Santiago2023

Discipline

The following suspensions were served during the tournament:

Player	Offence(s)	Suspension
Daniel Carter	United States v Honduras, Group B	Brazil v Honduras, Group B
Antonio Leone	Mexico v Dominican Republic, Group A	Uruguay v Mexico, Group A
Omry Bello	Mexico v Dominican Republic, Group A	Chile v Dominican Republic, Group A
Ramiro Méndez Diego Hernández	Uruguay v Mexico, Group A	Uruguay v Colombia, Fifth place match