2015 South American U-17 Championship


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The 2015 South American Under-17 Football Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-17 Paraguay 2015, Brazilian Portuguese: Campeonato Sul-Americano Sub-17 Paraguay 2015) was the 16th edition of the biennial international youth football tournament organized by CONMEBOL for players aged 17 and below. It was held in Paraguay from 4 to 29 March 2015.[2][3]

2015 South American Under-17 Football Championship
Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-17
Paraguay 2015
Tournament details
Host countryParaguay
Dates4–29 March
Teams10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Brazil (11th title)
Runners-up Argentina
Third place Ecuador
Fourth place Paraguay
Tournament statistics
Matches played35
Goals scored116 (3.31 per match)
Top scorer(s)Brazil Leandrinho
(8 goals)
Fair play award Ecuador[1]

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This tournament served as CONMEBOL's qualifier for the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile.[4] The top four teams, tournament champions Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, and hosts Paraguay, qualified for the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, joining Chile who automatically qualified as hosts of the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.

Team Appearance Previous best performance
  Argentina (holders) 16th Champions (3 times, most recent 2013)
  Bolivia 16th Champions (1 time, 1986)
  Brazil 16th Champions (10 times, most recent 2011)
  Chile 16th Runners-up (1 time, 1993)
  Colombia 16th Champions (1 time, 1993)
  Ecuador 15th Third place (3 times, most recent 2005)
  Paraguay (hosts) 15th Runners-up (1 time, 1999)
  Peru 16th Fourth place (1 time, 2007)
  Uruguay 16th Runners-up (3 times, most recent 2011)
  Venezuela 16th Runners-up (1 time, 2013)

Paraguay was named as host country of the tournament on 23 May 2012 at the CONMEBOL Executive Committee meeting held in Budapest, Hungary, prior to the 62nd FIFA Congress.[5] A total of three venues were chosen to host the matches: Estadio Dr. Nicolás Léoz in Asunción, Estadio Deportivo Capiatá in Capiatá and Estadio Feliciano Cáceres, Luque.[3]

Asunción
Estadio Dr. Nicolás Léoz
Capacity: 10,000
 
Capiatá
Estadio Deportivo Capiatá
Capacity: 8,000
 
Luque
Estadio Feliciano Cáceres
Capacity: 24,000

On 10 February 2015, CONMEBOL announced the referees and assistants referees summoned for the tournament.[6][7] The assistants Ariel Scime (Argentina), Cleriston Barreto (Brazil), Carlos Changala (Uruguay) and Tulio Moreno (Venezuela) were replaced by Cristian Navarro, Bruno Boschilia, Gabriel Popovits and Luis Murillo respectively. [citation needed]

Each team may register a squad of 22 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).[4]

The draw was held on 24 October 2014, 10:00 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL Headquarters in Luque, Paraguay.[8][9] The ten teams involved were settled in five "pairing pots" (Argentina–Brazil, Paraguay–Uruguay, Colombia–Ecuador, Chile–Peru, Bolivia–Venezuela) to be drawn into two groups of five. Initially Argentina and Brazil were announced as seeded teams,[10] however, Paraguay (as hosts) and Uruguay were finally the teams seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 in their group. The remaining teams, including Argentina and Brazil, were drawn to determine their group as well as their position within it.[11]

Seeded Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

The draw results were as follows:[9]

Group A
Pos Team
A1   Paraguay
A2   Brazil
A3   Venezuela
A4   Colombia
A5   Peru
Group B
Pos Team
B1   Uruguay
B2   Argentina
B3   Bolivia
B4   Ecuador
B5   Chile

The top three teams in each group qualified for the final stage.

When teams finished level of points, the final order was determined according to:[4]

  1. superior goal difference in all matches
  2. greater number of goals scored in all group matches
  3. better result in matches between the tied teams
  4. drawing of lots

All match times are in local Paraguay Time (UTC−3).[12][13][14]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1   Paraguay (H) 4 2 2 0 8 5 +3 8 Advance to Final stage
2   Brazil 4 2 1 1 10 7 +3 7
3   Colombia 4 1 2 1 8 7 +1 5
4   Venezuela 4 1 2 1 8 8 0 5
5   Peru 4 0 1 3 4 11 −7 1
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1   Uruguay 4 4 0 0 11 3 +8 12 Advance to Final stage
2   Ecuador 4 3 0 1 10 3 +7 9
3   Argentina 4 2 0 2 7 5 +2 6
4   Bolivia 4 1 0 3 5 14 −9 3
5   Chile 4 0 0 4 4 12 −8 0

When teams finished level of points, the final order was determined according to the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage.[4]

All match times are in local Paraguay Time (UTC−3 for matchdays 1–2, and UTC−4 for matchdays 3–5).[15]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Brazil 5 3 0 2 8 7 +1 9 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2   Argentina 5 2 2 1 7 4 +3 8
3   Ecuador 5 2 2 1 6 5 +1 8
4   Paraguay (H) 5 2 1 2 11 10 +1 7
5   Uruguay 5 2 0 3 6 7 −1 6
6   Colombia 5 1 1 3 3 8 −5 4
 2015 South American Under-17 Football champions 
 
Brazil
Eleventh title

There were 116 goals scored in 35 matches, for an average of 3.31 goals per match.

8 goals

7 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Source: CONMEBOL

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

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The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualify for the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, besides Chile who qualified automatically as host.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1
  Chile 3 March 2011[16] 2 (1993, 1997)
  Brazil 26 March 2015[17] 14 (1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
  Argentina 26 March 2015[17] 12 (1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
  Ecuador 26 March 2015[17] 3 (1987, 1995, 2011)
  Paraguay 29 March 2015[18] 2 (1999, 2001)

1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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  15. ^ "Sudamericano Sub-17: programa de partidos de la fase final, que inicia mañana" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com. 16 March 2015.
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