2023 South American U-17 Championship
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| CONMEBOL Sub 17 Ecuador 2023 | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Ecuador |
| Dates | 30 March – 23 April |
| Teams | 10 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue | 5 (in 2 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Brazil (13th title) |
| Runners-up |  Ecuador |
| Third place |  Argentina |
| Fourth place |  Venezuela |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 35 |
| Goals scored | 93 (2.66 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Claudio Echeverri Kauã Elias Rayan (5 goals each) |
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The 2023 South American U-17 Championship was the 19th edition of the South American U-17 Championship (Spanish: CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-17), the biennial international youth football championship organized by CONMEBOL for the men's under-17 national teams of South America. It was held in Ecuador between 30 March and 23 April 2023.[1][2] This was the first U-17 championship in four years due to the COVID-19 pandemic forcing CONMEBOL to cancel the tournament in 2021.[3]
Like previous editions, the tournament served as the CONMEBOL qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The top four teams of the tournament qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Indonesia as the CONMEBOL representatives.[4] Brazil won their thirteenth South American U-17 title after finishing first in the final stage's group and a spot at the World Cup. They were joined by the other top four teams in Ecuador, Argentina and Venezuela.[5]
All ten CONMEBOL member national teams were eligible to enter the tournament.
| Team | Appearance | Previous best performance |
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| Argentina (holders) | 19th | Champions (4 times, most recent 2019) |
 Bolivia | 19th | Champions (1 time, 1986) |
| Brazil | 19th | Champions (12 times, most recent 2017) |
 Chile | 19th | Runners-up (3 times, most recent 2019) |
 Colombia | 19th | Champions (1 time, 1993) |
| Ecuador (hosts) | 18th | Third place (4 times, most recent 2015) |
 Paraguay | 18th | Runners-up (1 time, 1999) |
 Peru | 19th | Fourth place (1 time, 2007) |
 Uruguay | 19th | Runners-up (3 times, most recent 2011) |
| Venezuela | 19th | Runners-up (1 time, 2013) |
Venues
Ecuador was originally chosen to host the 2021 South American U-17 Championship.[6] Although the tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ecuador maintained its right to hold the South American U-17 Championship in 2023.[1] It was the fourth time that Ecuador hosted the tournament, having previously done so in 1988 (under-16 edition), 2007 and 2011.
Guayaquil and Quito were selected as host cities.[7] Originally, Guayaquil would host the first stage matches in two venues, the Christian Benítez Betancourt and George Capwell stadiums.[8][9] Subsequently, the Estadio Monumental Isidro Romero Carbo was added as a venue to host four matches of Group A.[10] The matches in the final stage were played in Quito in two venues, the Olímpico Atahualpa and Rodrigo Paz Delgado stadiums.[8][9]
| Quito | ||
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| Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa | Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado | |
| Capacity: 35,258 | Capacity: 41,575 | |
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| Guayaquil | ||
| Estadio Christian Benítez Betancourt | Estadio George Capwell | Estadio Monumental Isidro Romero Carbo |
| Capacity: 10,152 | Capacity: 40,020 | Capacity: 57,267 |
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Match officials
On 23 February 2023, CONMEBOL announced a total of 11 referees and 22 assistant referees appointed for the tournament,[11][12] included a UEFA refereeing team which was later confirmed to be Italian.[13] For the first time, a UEFA refereeing team participated in the South American U-17 Championship as part of the UEFA–CONMEBOL memorandum of understanding signed in February 2020, which included a referee exchange programme.[14]
Chilean referee Nicolás Gamboa was replaced by his fellow countryman Felipe González.[15][16]
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Squads
Players born between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2010 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 23 and a minimum of 19 players, including at least 3 goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 46 and 49).[4]
Draw
The draw of the tournament was held on 24 February 2023, 12:00 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay.[17] The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Ecuador and defending champions Argentina 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 2019 South American U-17 Championship (shown in brackets).[17]
| Seeded | Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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From each pot, the first team drawn was placed into Group A and the second team drawn was placed into Group B. In both groups, teams from pot 1 were allocated in position 2, teams from pot 2 in position 3, teams from pot 3 in position 4 and teams from pot 4 in position 5.[18]
The draw resulted in the following groups:[7]
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First stage
The top three teams in each group will advance to the final stage.
- Tiebreakers
In the first stage, teams were ranked according to points earned (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 21):[4]
- Head-to-head result between tied teams;
- Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Fewest red cards received;
- Fewest yellow cards received;
- Drawing of lots.
All match times are in ECT (UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL.[19]
Group A
On 1 April, CONMEBOL announced that matches played on Matchday 3 and 4 in Group A would be moved to the Estadio Monumental Isidro Romero Carbo due to the poor conditions of the field at the Estadio Christian Benítez Betancourt, the original venue for these matches.[10]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Brazil |
4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 10 | Final stage |
| 2 | Chile |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 7 | |
| 3 | Ecuador (H) |
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 5 | |
| 4 | Uruguay |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 4 | |
| 5 | Colombia |
4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 1 |
| Ecuador | 2–2 | Brazil |
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| Report | Kauã Elias  23', 36' |
| Brazil | 3–0 | Chile |
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| Uruguay | 0–3 | Brazil |
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Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Argentina |
4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 10 | Final stage |
| 2 | Paraguay |
4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 8 | |
| 3 | Venezuela |
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| 4 | Bolivia |
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 3 | |
| 5 | Peru |
4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 1 |
| Argentina | 4–2 | Venezuela |
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| Venezuela | 2–0 | Bolivia |
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| Paraguay | 4–0 | Peru |
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| Peru | 0–3 | Argentina |
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Final stage
Winners
| 2023 South American U-17 Football champions |
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 Brazil Thirteenth title |
Goalscorers
There were 93 goals scored in 35 matches, for an average of 2.66 goals per match.
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Valentino Acuña- Juan Giménez
- Kevin Gutiérrez
Braian Mamani- Moisés Paniagua
- Marcelo Torrez
Lorran- Luiz Gustavo
- Matheus Reis
- Ricardo
Benjamín Ampuero- Víctor Campos
- Alejandro Hales
- Benjamín Riquelme
- Iván Román
William López
Jairo Reyes- Juan Rodríguez
Ángel Aguayo- Axel Balbuena
- Jorge Mora
Bassco Soyer
Deivis Barone- Edison González
Mayken González- Rai Hidalgo
- Enmanuel Meléndez
- Lucciano Reinoso
1 own goal
- Marcelo Torrez (against Paraguay)
- Víctor Campos (against Argentina)
- Jair Collahuazo (against Brazil)
- Rodrigo Gómez (against Brazil)