2017 South American U-15 Championship
# 2017 South American U-15 Championship

The 2017 South American Under-15 Football Championship was the 8th 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 held in Argentina between 5 and 19 November 2017.

Each match has a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time. Up to five substitutions may be made for each team in a match.

Host team Argentina won their first South American U-15 title by defeating the defending champions Brazil 3–2 in the final.

## Teams

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

| Team | Appearance | Previous best top-4 performance |
| - | - | - |
| Argentina (hosts) | 8th | Runners-up (2005) |
| Bolivia | 8th | Fourth place (2005) |
| Brazil (holders) | 8th | Champions (2005, 2007, 2011, 2015) |
| Chile | 8th | Fourth place (2007, 2013) |
| Colombia | 8th | Runners-up (2004, 2011, 2013) |
| Croatia (invited team) | 1st | None |
| Czech Republic (invited team) | 1st | None |
| Ecuador | 8th | Third place (2009) |
| Paraguay | 8th | Champions (2004, 2009) |
| Peru | 8th | Champions (2013) |
| Uruguay | 8th | Runners-up (2007, 2015) |
| Venezuela | 8th | None |

## Venues

Argentina was named as host of the tournament at the 67th Ordinary CONMEBOL Congress held on 26 April 2017 in Santiago, Chile. San Juan and Mendoza were chosen as host cities and ratified by CONMEBOL on 11 October 2017.

The matches were originally scheduled to be played in two stadiums. Due to the semi-final of the Copa Argentina played at Estadio Malvinas Argentinas on 12 November 2017, two matches were moved to Estadio Víctor Antonio Legrotaglie.

| Mendoza | MendozaSan Juan |
| - | - |
| Estadio Malvinas Argentinas | MendozaSan Juan |
| Capacity: 42,500 | MendozaSan Juan |
| Estadio Víctor Antonio Legrotaglie | MendozaSan Juan |
| Capacity: 11,500 | MendozaSan Juan |
| San Juan | MendozaSan Juan |
| Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario | MendozaSan Juan |
| Capacity: 25,286 | MendozaSan Juan |

## Draw

The draw was held on 13 October 2017, 17:30 ART (UTC−3), at the Salón Cruce de los Andes in the Civic Center of the Province of San Juan. The 12 teams were drawn into two groups of six teams. The hosts Argentina were seeded into Group A, while the title holders Brazil were seeded into Group B. The remaining teams were seeded based on the results in the 2015 South American Under-15 Football Championship.

## Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team has to submit a squad of 22 players, including a minimum of three goalkeepers (Regulations Article 5.2).

## Match officials

The referees and assistants referees were:

## Group stage

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

### Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order (Regulations Article 18.1):

* Goal difference in all games;
* Goals scored in all games;
* Head-to-head result in games between tied teams;
* Drawing of lots.

All times are local, ART (UTC−3).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Argentina (H) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 11 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Paraguay | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | +5 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Chile | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 8 | |
| 4 | Colombia | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 8 | +11 | 7 | |
| 5 | Uruguay | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | +6 | 6 | |
| 6 | Czech Republic (G) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 43 | −38 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Brazil | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | +16 | 15 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Peru | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 8 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Ecuador | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 8 | |
| 4 | Venezuela | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | −2 | 5 | |
| 5 | Bolivia | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 16 | −8 | 4 | |
| 6 | Croatia (G) | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 1 | |

## Knockout stage

If tied after regulation time, extra time is not played, and the penalty shoot-out is used to determine the winner (Regulations Article 18.3).

### Bracket

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| 17 November – Malvinas Argentinas | 17 November – Malvinas Argentinas |
| Brazil | 2 |
| Brazil | 2 | 19 November – Bicentenario | 19 November – Bicentenario |
| Paraguay | 1 | 19 November – Bicentenario | 19 November – Bicentenario |
| Paraguay | 1 | Brazil | 2 |
| 17 November – Bicentenario | 17 November – Bicentenario | | Brazil | 2 |
| 17 November – Bicentenario | 17 November – Bicentenario | Argentina | 3 |
| Argentina | 4 | Argentina | 3 |
| Peru | 1 | | |

### Final

* 2017 South American Under-15 Football champions
* Argentina First title

## Goalscorers

There were 142 goals scored in 33 matches, for an average of 4.3 goals per match.

10 goals

* Juan Alegría

8 goals

* Diego Duarte

5 goals

* Exequiel Zeballos
* Andrés Arroyo
* Matías Arezo

4 goals

* Matías Godoy
* Kaio Jorge
* João Peglow
* Gonzalo Tapia
* Juan Manuel Gutiérrez

3 goals

* Matías Palacios
* Juan Sforza
* Georginton Romero
* Carlos Ruiz

2 goals

* Bruno Amione
* Valentín Benítez
* Juan Pablo Krilanovich
* Franco Orozco
* José Miguel Briceño
* Matias Romero
* Robson Tomé de Araujo
* Kaká
* Pedro Arthur
* Diego Rosa
* Reinier
* Gabriel Silva
* Luciano Arriagada
* Kennan Sepúlveda
* Bartol Barišić
* Diego Torres
* Sebastián Cavero
* Yuriel Celi
* Matías Ocampo
* Daniel Pérez

1 goal

* Francisco Flores
* Federico Versaci
* José Alfredo Flores
* Luis Zeballos
* Cadu
* Ivonei
* Gabriel Veron
* Yeiko Cartagena
* Rodrigo Cisterna
* César Pérez
* Vicente Pizarro
* Jesús Manuel Cuesta
* Camilo Mena
* Yoni Mosquera
* Daniel Saer
* Ivan Šaranić
* Adam Karabec
* Štěpán Kozel
* Filip Nízký
* Filip Vecheta
* Jáchym Šíp
* Néicer Acosta
* Johan Mina
* Jordan Morán
* Erick Plúas
* Basilio Duarte
* Rodrigo López
* Walter Velázquez
* Wilder Viera
* Pedro De la Cruz
* José Huayhua
* Máximo Alonso
* Joaquín Sosa
* Yorlen Cordero
* Darluis Paz
* Luis Ángel Peña

1 own goal

* Óscar Jiménez (playing against Croatia)
