2019 South American U-15 Championship
# 2019 South American U-15 Championship

The 2019 South American Under-15 Football Championship was the 9th edition of the South American Under-15 Football Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the CONMEBOL for the men's under-15 national teams of South America. The tournament was originally to be held in Bolivia between 23 November and 8 December 2019. However, on 8 November 2019, CONMEBOL announced the tournament would be moved to Paraguay due to the 2019 Bolivian protests.

The defending champions are Argentina.

## Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament. Moreover, two teams from UEFA will be invited to compete.

| Team | Appearance | Previous best top-4 performance |
| - | - | - |
| Argentina (holders) | 9th | Champions (2017) |
| Belgium (invitee) | 1st | None |
| Bolivia | 9th | Fourth place (2005) |
| Brazil | 9th | Champions (2005, 2007, 2011, 2015) |
| Chile | 9th | Fourth place (2007, 2013) |
| Colombia | 9th | Runners-up (2004, 2011, 2013) |
| Ecuador | 9th | Third place (2009) |
| Paraguay (hosts) | 9th | Champions (2004, 2009) |
| Peru | 9th | Champions (2013) |
| Poland (invitee) | 1st | None |
| Uruguay | 9th | Runners-up (2007, 2015) |
| Venezuela | 9th | None |

## Venues

| Asunción | Asunción | LuqueAsunciónVilla Elisa |
| - | - | - |
| Estadio Arsenio Erico | Estadio Defensores del Chaco | LuqueAsunciónVilla Elisa |
| Capacity: 5,000 | Capacity: 42,000 | LuqueAsunciónVilla Elisa |
| Luque | Luque | Villa Elisa |
| Cancha CONMEBOL | Estadio Adrián Jara | Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni |
| Capacity: ? | Capacity: 4,000 | Capacity: 11,000 |

Initially, Bolivia was designated as host of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 14 August 2018 in Luque, Paraguay. Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and Estadio Samuel Vaca Jiménez in Warnes had been chosen as the venues. However, due to the 2019 Bolivian protests, on 8 November 2019 CONMEBOL moved the tournament to Asunción, Paraguay.

The new venues were announced on 19 November 2019. Four stadiums in 3 cities were chosen, Cancha CONMEBOL and Estadio Adrián Jara in Luque, Estadio Arsenio Erico in Asunción and Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni in Villa Elisa. The Estadio Defensores del Chaco was added as venue for the final matchday (third place match and final).

## Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 22 October 2019, 19:00 BOT (UTC−4), in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. The twelve involved teams were drawn into two groups of six. The original hosts Bolivia and the defending champions Argentina were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 within their group, the remaining 8 CONMEBOL teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their final positions in the 2017 South American U-15 Championship (shown in brackets) and the two guests UEFA teams (Belgium and Poland) were placed in a last fifth pot.

| Seeded | Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 | Pot 5 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bolivia (10) (Original hosts, assigned to A1) Argentina (1) (Title holders, assigned to B1) | Brazil (2) Paraguay (3) | Peru (4) Chile (5) | Ecuador (6) Colombia (7) | Uruguay (8) Venezuela (9) | Belgium Poland |

The draw was led by Hugo Figueredo, competition director of CONMEBOL, who had the collaboration of Colombian coach Francisco Maturana and Juan Manuel Peña, former member of the Bolivia national football team.

## Match officials

The referees and assistants referees were:

## Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.

All times are local, PYT (UTC−3).

As a result of the change of host, the matches of Paraguay will be played on the last turn of each matchday of group B.

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Brazil | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 10 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Colombia | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 10 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Venezuela | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | |
| 4 | Belgium (G) | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 6 | |
| 5 | Peru | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 5 | |
| 6 | Bolivia | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 4 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Argentina | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 8 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Paraguay (H) | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Ecuador | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6 | |
| 4 | Uruguay | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 3 | |
| 5 | Chile | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 2 | |
| 6 | Poland (G, W) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew from the tournament. |

* ↑ On 13 November 2019, the Polish Football Association (PZPN) announced that its team would not participate due to Bolivia's unstable social and political situation and despite the fact that the tournament was moved to Paraguay.

## Knockout stage

The Third place match and the Final were moved from Estadio Arsenio Erico to Estadio Defensores del Chaco.

### Bracket

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| 5 December – Luque | 5 December – Luque |
| Argentina | 4 |
| Argentina | 4 | 8 December – Asunción | 8 December – Asunción |
| Colombia | 2 | 8 December – Asunción | 8 December – Asunción |
| Colombia | 2 | Argentina | 1 (3) |
| 5 December – Luque | 5 December – Luque | | Argentina | 1 (3) |
| 5 December – Luque | 5 December – Luque | Brazil | 1 (5) |
| Brazil | 2 | Brazil | 1 (5) |
| Paraguay | 0 | | |
| Paraguay | 0 | Third place | Third place |
| | | 8 December – Asunción | 8 December – Asunción |
| | | Colombia | 1 |
| | | Paraguay | 2 |

### Final

* 2019 South American Under-15 Football champions
* Brazil Fifth title

## Goalscorers

There were 78 goals scored in 29 matches, for an average of 2.69 goals per match.

7 goals

* Ricardo Caraballo

4 goals

* Matheus Nascimento
* Sávio

3 goals

* Valentín Barco
* Robinho
* Sebastián Girado
* Nicolás Siri

2 goals

* Santiago Castro
* Axel Encinas
* Misael Jaime
* Luka Romero
* Abdul Karim Camara
* Rhenzo Alcón
* Andrey
* Lucas Assadi
* Justin Cuero
* Kevin Pereira
* Anderson Duarte

1 goal

* Fernando Álvarez
* Thomas Fretes
* Federico Sosa
* Bilal El Khannouss
* Léandre Kuavita
* Arthur
* Daniel Silva
* Vinicius
* Cristian Palma
* Bastián Silva
* Jesús Manuel Díaz
* Breider Villalobos
* Christian Gallardo
* Yaimar Medina
* Orlando Herrera
* Víctor Benítez
* Juan Cardozo
* Julio César Enciso
* Antonio Mercado
* Francisco Vera
* Jorge del Castillo
* Leonardo Díaz
* Jorge Tandazo
* Juan Manuel Jorge
* Álex Custodio
* Nicolás Granadino
* Carlos Rojas
* Deivid Teguez

1 own goal

* Nicolás Granadino (playing against Belgium)
