2023 South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship
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| Sudamericano Sub-20 Futbol Playa Chile 2023 | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Chile |
| Dates | 6–13 August |
| Teams | 10 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Paraguay (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Brazil |
| Third place |  Chile |
| Fourth place |  Colombia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 27 |
| Goals scored | 221 (8.19 per match) |
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The 2023 CONMEBOL South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship was the third edition of the South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship (known natively in Spanish and Portuguese as the CONMEBOL Sub-20 Fútbol Playa), an international youth beach soccer tournament for South American men's national teams comprising players under the age of 20. A biennial event, the tournament took place for the first time in four years after being unable to take place in 2021 due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in South America.[1]
The event took place between 6 and 13 August in Iquique, Chile.[2] The championship was organised by CONMEBOL, the governing body for football in South America, in cooperation with the local organisers, the Football Federation of Chile (FFC).[3]
Argentina were the defending champions, but finished in the last position of the tournament. Paraguay won its first title in the championship.
Venue
Squads
- Squad size: Each team must submit a squad consisting of 12 players, including two goalkeepers (Regulations Article 44).[6]
- Eligibility: Players can not be older than 20 years, and can not be younger than 16 years, at the end of the calendar year in which the tournament takes place. This means players must be born between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2007 to be eligible to take part, thereby encompassing an age range of 15–20 at the time of the tournament (Regulations Article 41).[6]
Draw
The draw to split the ten teams into two groups of five took place on 26 June at 12:00 PYT (UTC−3) in Asunción, Paraguay at the headquarters of CONMEBOL.[4] The draw took place under the following procedure:[6]
Initially, two teams were automatically assigned to the groups:
- to Group A: as the host association,
Chile - to Group B: the champions of the previous edition,
Argentina
The remaining eight teams were split into four pots of two, shown in the below table.
The teams were seeded based on their final ranking in the previous edition of the South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship; the highest ranked teams were placed in Pot 1, next highest in Pot 2 and so on, down to the lowest ranked team placed in Pot 4. From each pot, one team was drawn into Group A and the other team was drawn into Group B.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
The draw resulted in the following groups:[2][7][8]
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Group stage
Placement matches
The teams finishing in third, fourth and fifth place in the groups are knocked out of title-winning contention; they recede to play in consolatory classification matches to determine fifth through tenth place in the final standings (Regulations Article 18).[6]
Ninth place play-off
Seventh place play-off
Fifth place play-off
Knockout stage
The group winners and runners-up progress to the knockout stage to continue to compete for the title (Regulations Article 18).[6]
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 12 August | ||||||
| Paraguay | 5 | |||||
| 13 August | ||||||
| Colombia | 3 | |||||
| Paraguay | 5 | |||||
| 12 August | ||||||
| Brazil | 3 | |||||
| Brazil | 4 | |||||
| Chile | 3 | |||||
| Third place play-off | ||||||
| 13 August | ||||||
| Colombia | 4 (2) | |||||
| Chile (p) | 4 (4) | |||||
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
| CONMEBOL Sub-20 Fútbol Playa 2023 champions |
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 Paraguay First title |
