2017 South American U-20 Championship
# 2017 South American U-20 Championship

The 2017 South American Youth Football Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 Juventud de América Ecuador 2017, Brazilian Portuguese: Campeonato Sul-Americano Sub-20 Juventude da América Equador 2017) was the 28th edition of the South American Youth Football Championship, a football competition for the under-20 national teams in South America organized by CONMEBOL. It was held in Ecuador from 18 January to 11 February 2017.

Uruguay were crowned champions, and together with Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, which were the top four teams of this tournament, qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea.

## Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.

| Team | Appearance | Previous best performance |
| - | - | - |
| Argentina (holders) | 26th | Champions (5 times, most recent 2015) |
| Bolivia | 23rd | Fourth place (2 times, most recent 1983) |
| Brazil | 27th | Champions (11 times, most recent 2011) |
| Chile | 28th | Runners-up (1 time, 1975) |
| Colombia | 26th | Champions (3 times, most recent 2013) |
| Ecuador (hosts) | 23rd | Third place (3 times, most recent 2011) |
| Paraguay | 26th | Champions (1 time, 1971) |
| Peru | 27th | Third place (2 times, most recent 1971) |
| Uruguay | 27th | Champions (7 times, most recent 1981) |
| Venezuela | 24th | Third place (1 time, most recent 1954) |

## Squads

Each team may register a squad of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).

## Venues

A total of eight venues in seven cities were proposed by FEF in July 2016, days later Latacunga was added as a possible venue. Tulcán was also nominated, but was finally dismissed along with Cuenca, Machala and Portoviejo. Eventually, five venues were confirmed to host the matches, Estadio Bellavista in Ambato, Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba in Riobamba and Estadio La Cocha in Latacunga for the Group A; Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra in Ibarra for the Group B while the final stage took place at Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa in Quito. However, on 5 January 2017, Estadio La Cocha in Latacunga was dropped as refurbishment work was not completed in time.

| Ambato | Ibarra | Quito | Riobamba |
| - | - | - | - |
| Estadio Bellavista | Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra | Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa | Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba |
| 1°14′41″S 78°37′24″W﻿ / ﻿1.244610°S 78.623205°W﻿ / -1.244610; -78.623205﻿ (Estadio Bellavista) | 0°21′35″N 78°07′06″W﻿ / ﻿0.359607°N 78.118313°W﻿ / 0.359607; -78.118313﻿ (Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra) | 0°10′39″S 78°28′36″W﻿ / ﻿0.177508°S 78.476683°W﻿ / -0.177508; -78.476683﻿ (Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa) | 1°39′59″S 78°39′38″W﻿ / ﻿1.666265°S 78.660430°W﻿ / -1.666265; -78.660430﻿ (Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba) |
| Capacity:16,467 | Capacity:17,260 | Capacity:35,258 | Capacity:14,400 |

## Match officials

The referees were:

## Draw

Originally, the draw was scheduled for 30 November 2016 in Montevideo but had to be postponed due to crash of LaMia Flight 2933 that occurred on 28 November 2016. It was rescheduled to be held on 7 December 2016, 11:00 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. Ecuador (hosts) and Argentina (title holders) were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their results in the 2015 South American U-20 Championship (shown in brackets).

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

## First stage

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

### Tiebreakers

When teams finished level of points, the final rankings were determined according to:

* goal difference
* goals scored
* head-to-head result between tied teams (two teams only)
* drawing of lots

All times local, ECT (UTC−5).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Ecuador (H) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 7 | Final stage |
| 2 | Colombia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 7 | Final stage |
| 3 | Brazil | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 7 | Final stage |
| 4 | Paraguay | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 4 | |
| 5 | Chile | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 2 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Uruguay | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 8 | Final stage |
| 2 | Argentina | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 6 | Final stage |
| 3 | Venezuela | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | Final stage |
| 4 | Bolivia | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 4 | |
| 5 | Peru | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 2 | |

## Final stage

When teams finished level of points, the final rankings were determined according to the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage.

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Uruguay | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 12 | 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup |
| 2 | Ecuador (H) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 7 | 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup |
| 3 | Venezuela | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 7 | 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup |
| 4 | Argentina | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 7 | 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup |
| 5 | Brazil | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| 6 | Colombia | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 2 | |

## Winners

* 2017 South American Youth Football champions
* Uruguay 8th title

## Goalscorers

### 5 goals

* Lautaro Martínez
* Marcelo Torres
* Bryan Cabezas
* Rodrigo Amaral

### 4 goals

* Felipe Vizeu
* Pervis Estupiñán

### 3 goals

* Éver Valencia
* Jordy Caicedo
* Nicolás de la Cruz
* Nicolás Schiappacasse
* Yeferson Soteldo

### 2 goals

* Brian Mansilla
* Guilherme Arana
* Richarlison
* Damir Ceter
* Juan Camilo Hernández
* Herlin Lino
* Pedro Báez
* Jesús Medina
* Roberto Siucho
* Joaquín Ardaiz
* Ronaldo Chacón
* Yangel Herrera

### 1 goal

* Tomás Conechny
* Lucas Rodríguez
* Bruno Miranda
* Ronaldo Monteiro
* Ramiro Vaca
* Matheus Sávio
* Maycon
* Ignacio Jara
* José Luis Sierra
* Jorge Obregón
* Washington Corozo
* Renny Jaramillo
* Joel Quintero
* Jordan Sierra
* Sebastián Ferreira
* Cristhian Paredes
* Rodrigo Bentancur
* Mathías Olivera
* Agustín Rogel
* Matías Viña
* Facundo Waller
* Sergio Córdova
* Josua Mejías

### Own goal

* Agustín Rogel (playing against Argentina)

Source: CONMEBOL.com

## Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament |
| - | - | - |
| Uruguay | 5 February 2017 | 13 (1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015) |
| Ecuador | 11 February 2017 | 2 (2001, 2011) |
| Venezuela | 11 February 2017 | 1 (2009) |
| Argentina | 11 February 2017 | 14 (1979, 1981, 1983, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015) |

    $^1$ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
