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.[1]
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.[2][3]
Host team Argentina won their first South American U-15 title by defeating the defending champions Brazil 3–2 in the final.[4]
All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament. Moreover, two teams from UEFA were invited to compete.
Argentina was named as host of the tournament at the 67th Ordinary CONMEBOL Congress held on 26 April 2017 in Santiago, Chile.[5] San Juan and Mendoza were chosen as host cities and ratified by CONMEBOL on 11 October 2017.[6]
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.[7]
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.[6][8] 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.
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).[2]
The referees and assistants referees were:[9]
The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.
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):[2]
All times are local, ART (UTC−3).[10]
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).[2]
There were 142 goals scored in 33 matches, for an average of 4.3 goals per match.
10 goals
8 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
Matías Palacios Juan Sforza
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Carlos Ruiz2 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
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Daniel Pérez1 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 Peña1 own goal
Óscar Jiménez (playing against Croatia)