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2015 South American Under-15 Football Championship

Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-15 Colombia 2015
Tournament details
Host country	Colombia
Dates	21 November – 6 December
Teams	10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (4th title)
Runners-up	Uruguay
Third place	Argentina
Fourth place	Ecuador
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	98 (4.08 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Vitinho (7 goals)
Fair play award	Brazil
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The 2015 South American Under-15 Football Championship was the seventh 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 the cities of Montería and Valledupar, Colombia between 21 November and 6 December 2015.

Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.

Team	Appearance	Previous best top-4 performance
Argentina	7th	Runners-up (2005)
Bolivia	7th	Fourth place (2005)
Brazil	7th	Champions (2005, 2007, 2011)
Chile	7th	Fourth place (2007, 2013)
Colombia (hosts)	7th	Runners-up (2004, 2011, 2013)
Ecuador	7th	Third place (2009)
Paraguay	7th	Champions (2004, 2009)
Peru (holders)	7th	Champions (2013)
Uruguay	7th	Runners-up (2007)
Venezuela	7th	None

Venues

CONMEBOL appointed Colombia as the host country during its 65th Ordinary Congress on 3 March 2015. The tournament was played in Estadio Municipal de Montería, Montería and Estadio Armando Maestre Pavajeau, Valledupar.

Squads

Each team had to submit a squad of 22 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers) until 30 October 2015. Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

First stage

The draw of the tournament was held on 16 October 2015 during the CONMEBOL Executive Committee meeting at the Hyatt Hotel in Santiago, Chile. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five teams. Each group contained one team from each of the five "pairing pots": Colombia–Chile, Argentina–Brazil, Paraguay–Uruguay, Ecuador–Peru, Bolivia–Venezuela. The schedule of the tournament was announced on 28 October 2015.

The top two teams of each group advanced to the final stage.

All times local, COT (UTC−5).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	4	4	0	0	12	1	+11	12	Final stage
2	Ecuador	4	2	1	1	9	10	−1	7
3	Colombia (H)	4	2	0	2	11	12	−1	6
4	Paraguay	4	1	1	2	9	11	−2	4
5	Venezuela	4	0	0	4	7	14	−7	0

Paraguay	2–2	Ecuador
Bóveda 74' Bergottini 81' (pen.)	Report	Quiñónez 17' (pen.) Parrales 61'

Colombia	0–3	Argentina
	Report	Garré 32' Vildoso 82' Colidio 87'

Argentina	3–0	Venezuela
Fernández ?' Colidio ?' Córdoba ?'	Report

Colombia	4–2	Paraguay
Tapia 45+1' Gutiérrez 66' Caicedo 70' (pen.), 80'	Report	Bergottini 32', 76'

Ecuador	3–2	Venezuela
Parrales 35' Quiñónez 87' (pen.), 90' (pen.)	Report	Barragán ?', ?' (pen.)

Paraguay	1–3	Argentina
Méndez 90'	Report	Colidio 32', 71' Garré 42'

Argentina	3–0	Ecuador
Córdoba ?' Obando ?' Almendra ?'	Report

Colombia	4–3	Venezuela
Caicedo 30' López 36' Tapia 47', 76'	Report	Barragán 60', 71' Ibarra 73'

Venezuela	2–4	Paraguay
Makoun 36' Barragán 81'	Report	Rolón 8' González 25' Bergottini 37', 68'

Colombia	3–4	Ecuador
Mejía 44' Tapia 62' Hernández 90+4'	Report	Tobar 30', 81' Espinoza 83' Piguave 84'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	4	4	0	0	18	3	+15	12	Final stage
2	Uruguay	4	3	0	1	9	8	+1	9
3	Bolivia	4	2	0	2	6	7	−1	6
4	Peru	4	1	0	3	4	14	−10	3
5	Chile	4	0	0	4	5	10	−5	0

Uruguay	4–0	Peru
Torres ?' (pen.), ?' (pen.), ?' Rodríguez ?'	Report

Chile	2–3	Brazil
Romero ?', ?'	Report	Vitinho ?', ?' Paulinho ?'

Peru	0–3	Bolivia
	Report	Melgar ?' (pen.) García ?', ?'

Uruguay	2–1	Chile
Torres 24', 84' (pen.)	Report	Martínez 14'

Peru	1–6	Brazil
Valverde ?'	Report	Paulinho 17', 32' Vinicius 50', 90+2' Vitinho 55' (pen.) Vinícius Jr. 76'

Uruguay	3–1	Bolivia
Falconis 10' Mechoso ?' Neris ?'	Report	García ?'

Brazil	3–0	Bolivia
Vinícius Jr. 82', 90+3' Vitinho 90' (pen.)	Report

Chile	1–3	Peru
Vega 53'	Report	Bolívar 6' Huacho 20' Gallardo 41'

Chile	1–2	Bolivia
Vega ?'	Report	García ?' Suárez ?'

Uruguay	0–6	Brazil
	Report	Vitinho 13', 36' Alan 21', 74' Vinícius Jr. 35' Cristian 50'

Final stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	3 December – Valledupar
	Argentina	1
					6 December – Valledupar
	Uruguay	2
					Uruguay	0 (4)
	3 December – Valledupar
					Brazil (p)	0 (5)
	Brazil	3
	Ecuador	1
					Third place
					6 December – Valledupar
					Argentina	1
					Ecuador	0

Semi-finals

Argentina	1–2	Uruguay
Almendra 22'	Report	Napoli 68' Rodríguez 86'

Brazil	3–1	Ecuador
Vinícius Jr. 39', 71' Vitinho 69'	Report	Quiñónez 80'

Third place match

Argentina	1–0	Ecuador
Obando 85'	Report

Final

Uruguay	0–0	Brazil
	Report
Penalties
	4–5

Goalscorers

7 goals

• Vitinho

6 goals

• Vinícius Jr.

5 goals

• Carlos Bergottini
• Facundo Torres
• José Barragán

4 goals

• Facundo Colidio
• Jhon García
• Rafael Tapia
• Josue Quiñónez

3 goals

• Paulinho
• Deiber Caicedo

2 goals

• Agustín Almendra
• Gonzalo Córdoba
• Benjamín Garré
• Agustín Obando
• Alan
• Vinicius
• Patricio Romero
• Zederiv Vega
• Andrés Parrales
• Cristian Tobar
• Santiago Rodríguez

1 goal

• Facundo Fernández
• Román Vildoso
• Luis Melgar
• Nicolás Suárez
• Cristian
• Wilson Martínez
• Thomas Gutiérrez
• Maikel Hernández
• Edwin López
• Robert Mejía
• Joseph Espinoza
• William Piguave
• Ángel Bóveda
• Rodrigo González
• Yair Méndez
• Marcelo Rolón
• José Bolívar
• Frank Gallardo
• Renzo Huacho
• Luis Valverde
• Owen Falconis
• Ezequiel Mechoso
• Gonzalo Napoli
• José Neris
• Rommell Ibarra

Own goals

• Julio Chamorro (playing against Venezuela)

Source:

References

1. ^ "Valledupar y Montería ultiman los detalles para el Sudamericano Sub-15". CONMEBOL.com. 2 October 2015.
2. "En la sede de la CONMEBOL, se reunió el Comité Ejecutivo" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com. 3 March 2015.
3. Heredia, Cristian (3 March 2015). "Colombia será sede de dos torneos Conmebol en el 2015". HSB Noticias (in Spanish).
4. "Colombia apresura los pasos en vistas al Sudamericano Sub-15". CONMEBOL.com (in Spanish). 17 August 2015.
5. "Sudamericano Sub-15: Colombia se alista para recibir a las jóvenes promesas" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com. 25 September 2015.
6. "Se realizó el sorteo de grupos de la Copa Libertadores Femenina, Sudamericano Femenino Sub-20 y Sudamericano Masculino Sub-15" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com. 17 October 2015.
7. "El Sudamericano Sub-15 - Colombia 2015, con fixture definido". CONMEBOL.com. 28 October 2015.
8. "Sudamericano Sub 15 Colombia 2015 — Goleadores" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com.

External links

• Sudamericano Masculino Sub-15 Colombia 2015, CONMEBOL.com

• South American Under-15 Football Championship
• International association football competitions hosted by Colombia
• 2015 in South American football
• 2015 in Colombian football
• 2015 in youth association football