2019 South American U-17 Championship
# 2019 South American U-17 Championship

The 2019 South American U-17 Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-17 Perú 2019, Brazilian Portuguese: Campeonato Sul-Americano Sub-17 Peru 2019) was the 18th edition of the South American U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONMEBOL for the men's under-17 national teams of South America. It was held in Peru from 21 March to 14 April 2019.

The top four teams, champions Argentina, which won their fourth title, Chile, Paraguay, and Ecuador, qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil as the CONMEBOL representatives, besides Brazil who qualified automatically as hosts replacing Peru, despite failing to qualify out of the first stage as defending champions for the first time.

## Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.

| Team | Appearance | Previous best performance |
| - | - | - |
| Argentina | 18th | Champions (3 times, most recent 2013) |
| Bolivia | 18th | Champions (1 time, 1986) |
| Brazil (holders) | 18th | Champions (12 times, most recent 2017) |
| Chile | 18th | Runners-up (2 times, most recent 2017) |
| Colombia | 18th | Champions (1 time, 1993) |
| Ecuador | 17th | Third place (4 times, most recent 2015) |
| Paraguay | 17th | Runners-up (1 time, 1999) |
| Peru (hosts) | 18th | Fourth place (1 time, 2007) |
| Uruguay | 18th | Runners-up (3 times, most recent 2011) |
| Venezuela | 18th | Runners-up (1 time, 2013) |

## Venues

Peru was confirmed as host of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 22 January 2019 in Rio de Janeiro. All games were scheduled to be played in Lima at the Estadio Universidad San Marcos.

| Lima | Lima |
| - | - |
| Estadio Universidad San Marcos | Lima |
| Capacity: 22,000 | Lima |
| 12°03′25″S 77°04′30″W﻿ / ﻿12.057°S 77.075°W﻿ / -12.057; -77.075﻿ (Estadio Universidad San Marcos) | Lima |

## Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to compete. Each team can register a squad of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).

## Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 27 February 2019, 12:00 PET (UTC−5), at the Peruvian Football Federation headquarters in Lima, Peru. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The host Peru and the defending champions Brazil were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining eight teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their final positions in the 2017 South American U-17 Championship (shown in brackets).

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

## Match officials

The referees and assistants referees were:

## First stage

The top three teams in each group advance to the final stage.

All times local, PET (UTC−5).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Peru (H) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 8 | Final stage |
| 2 | Chile | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 7 | Final stage |
| 3 | Ecuador | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 | Final stage |
| 4 | Venezuela | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 5 | |
| 5 | Bolivia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 13 | −9 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Uruguay | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 7 | Final stage |
| 2 | Paraguay | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 7 | Final stage |
| 3 | Argentina | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 7 | Final stage |
| 4 | Brazil | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 7 | |
| 5 | Colombia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 0 | |

## Final stage

The schedule of the final matchday was modified based on which teams were possible to be champions.

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Argentina (C) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 10 | 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 2 | Chile | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 10 | 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 3 | Paraguay | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 6 | 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 4 | Ecuador | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 5 | 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 5 | Peru (H) | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 5 | |
| 6 | Uruguay | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | −1 | 4 | |

## Winners

* 2019 South American U-17 Football champions
* Argentina Fourth title

## Goalscorers

There were 106 goals scored in 35 matches, for an average of 3.03 goals per match.

6 goals

* Johan Mina

5 goals

* Matías Arezo

4 goals

* Alexander Aravena
* Luis Rojas

3 goals

* Matías Godoy
* Matías Palacios
* Reinier
* Gonzalo Tapia
* Fabrizio Peralta
* Yuriel Celi
* Nicolás Figueroa
* Óscar Manuel Pinto
* Cristian Olivera
* Jeriel De Santis

2 goals

* Bruno Amione
* Jeyson Chura
* Benjamín Osses
* John Mercado
* Pedro Vite
* Diego Ariel Duarte
* Rodrigo López
* Fernando Ovelar
* Fernando Presentado
* Juan Manuel Gutiérrez

1 goal

* Ignacio Fernández
* Juan Pablo Krilanovich
* Cristian Medina
* Juan Sforza
* Alan Velasco
* Exequiel Zeballos
* Adrián Peña
* Robson Tomé de Araujo
* Gabriel Veron
* Henri
* Patryck
* João Peglow
* Matías Belmar
* Patricio Flores
* Daniel González
* David Tati
* Andrés Arroyo
* Johan Campaña
* Juan Manuel Cuesta
* Yoni Mosquera
* Adrián Mejía
* Erick Plúas
* Orlando Colmán
* Junior Noguera
* Rafael Caipo
* Mathías Llontop
* Kevin Alaniz
* Santiago Cartagena
* Maximiliano Juambeltz
* Alexander Machado
* Pedro Milans
* Matías Ocampo
* Enzo Siri
* Wikelman Carmona
* Luis Ángel Peña
* Oswaldo Ruggieri

1 own goal

* Patrickson Delgado (playing against Uruguay)

## Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup, including Brazil who qualified automatically as host.

| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| - | - | - |
| Brazil | 15 March 2019 | 16 (1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) |
| Argentina | 11 April 2019 | 13 (1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015) |
| Chile | 11 April 2019 | 4 (1993, 1997, 2015, 2017) |
| Paraguay | 14 April 2019 | 4 (1999, 2001, 2015, 2017) |
| Ecuador | 14 April 2019 | 4 (1987, 1995, 2011, 2015) |

    $^1$ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
