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2017 South American Under-15 Football Championship

CONMEBOL Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-15 Argentina 2017
Tournament details
Host country	Argentina
Dates	5–19 November
Teams	12 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	3 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Argentina (1st title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Tournament statistics
Matches played	33
Goals scored	142 (4.3 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Juan Alegría (10 goals)
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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.

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.

Host team Argentina won their first South American U-15 title by defeating the defending champions Brazil 3–2 in the final.

Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament. Moreover, two teams from UEFA were invited to compete.

Team	Appearance	Previous best top-4 performance
Argentina (hosts)	8th	Runners-up (2005)
Bolivia	8th	Fourth place (2005)
Brazil (holders)	8th	Champions (2005, 2007, 2011, 2015)
Chile	8th	Fourth place (2007, 2013)
Colombia	8th	Runners-up (2004, 2011, 2013)
Croatia (invited team)	1st	None
Czech Republic (invited team)	1st	None
Ecuador	8th	Third place (2009)
Paraguay	8th	Champions (2004, 2009)
Peru	8th	Champions (2013)
Uruguay	8th	Runners-up (2007, 2015)
Venezuela	8th	None

Venues

Argentina was named as host of the tournament at the 67th Ordinary CONMEBOL Congress held on 26 April 2017 in Santiago, Chile. San Juan and Mendoza were chosen as host cities and ratified by CONMEBOL on 11 October 2017.

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.

Mendoza	MendozaSan Juan
Estadio Malvinas Argentinas
Capacity: 42,500
Estadio Víctor Antonio Legrotaglie
Capacity: 11,500
San Juan
Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario
Capacity: 25,286

Draw

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. 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.

Squads

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).

Match officials

The referees and assistants referees were:

Support Referees

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers

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):

1. Goal difference in all games;
2. Goals scored in all games;
3. Head-to-head result in games between tied teams;
4. Drawing of lots.

All times are local, ART (UTC−3).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina (H)	5	3	2	0	18	8	+10	11	Knockout stage
2	Paraguay	5	3	0	2	13	8	+5	9
3	Chile	5	2	2	1	12	6	+6	8
4	Colombia	5	2	1	2	19	8	+11	7
5	Uruguay	5	1	3	1	13	7	+6	6
6	Czech Republic (G)	5	0	0	5	5	43	−38	0

Uruguay	1–1	Chile
Sosa 78'	Report	Pizarro 49'

Czech Republic	2–7	Paraguay
Vecheta ?' Nízký 48'	Report	D. Duarte 10', 56', 62' Velázquez 35' Torres 38', 51' (pen.) Viera 72'

Argentina	3–2	Colombia
Godoy 20' Versaci 24' (pen.) Palacios 31'	Report	Arroyo 54' Alegría 80'

Paraguay	2–3	Colombia
D. Duarte 18', 33'	Report	Alegría 26', 74', 79'

Chile	7–0	Czech Republic
Sepúlveda ?' Tapia ?', ?' Arriagada ?' Pérez ?' Cisterna ?' Cartagena ?'	Report

Argentina	2–2	Uruguay
Zeballos ?', ?'	Report	Gutiérrez 25' (pen.) Arezo 44'

Colombia	1–1	Uruguay
Arroyo 25'	Report	Arezo 49'

Paraguay	2–0	Chile
López 33' D. Duarte 54'	Report

Argentina	8–2	Czech Republic
Palacios 3' Benítez 12', ?' Krilanovich ?' Sforza ?', ?' Zeballos ?', ?'	Report	Kozel 25' Šíp ?'

Uruguay	0–2	Paraguay
	Report	D. Duarte 56', 75'

Colombia	12–0	Czech Republic
Alegría ?', ?', ?', ?', ?' Arroyo ?', ?', ?' Mosquera ?' Mena ?' Saer ?' Cuesta ?'	Report

Argentina	2–2	Chile
Flores 12' Krilanovich ?'	Report	Sepúlveda 38' Tapia 68'

Chile	2–1	Colombia
Tapia 49' (pen.) Arriagada 77'	Report	Alegría 80'

Czech Republic	1–9	Uruguay
Karabec ?'	Report	Gutiérrez ?', ?', ?' Arezo ?', ?', ?' Alonso ?' Ocampo ?', ?'

Argentina	3–0	Paraguay
Zeballos ?' Orozco ?', ?'	Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	5	5	0	0	17	1	+16	15	Knockout stage
2	Peru	5	2	2	1	8	7	+1	8
3	Ecuador	5	2	2	1	7	6	+1	8
4	Venezuela	5	1	2	2	5	7	−2	5
5	Bolivia	5	1	1	3	8	16	−8	4
6	Croatia (G)	5	0	1	4	4	12	−8	1

Ecuador	0–0	Venezuela
	Report

Croatia	0–3	Peru
	Report	Ruiz 12', 80' Cavero 28'

Brazil	5–0	Bolivia
Cadu 31' Gabriel Veron 47' Peglow 54' Pedro Arthur 70' Kaio Jorge 75'	Report

Peru	4–1	Bolivia
Cavero 18' De la Cruz 38' Ruiz 48' Celi 63'	Report	Tomé de Araujo 20'

Venezuela	2–1	Croatia
Pérez 16' Cordero 65' (pen.)	Report	Jiménez 34' (o.g.)

Brazil	2–0	Ecuador
Reinier 15' Kaká 47'	Report

Bolivia	2–3	Ecuador
Zeballos 36' Briceño 79'	Report	Mina 10' Plúas 12' Romero 41'

Peru	0–0	Venezuela
	Report

Brazil	2–0	Croatia
Peglow 41' Kaio Jorge 67' (pen.)	Report

Ecuador	1–1	Peru
Acosta 31'	Report	Celi 67'

Bolivia	2–2	Croatia
Flores ?' Romero ?'	Report	Šaranić ?' Barišić ?'

Brazil	3–1	Venezuela
Kaká 20' Reinier 40' Ivonei 70'	Report	Peña 80'

Venezuela	2–3	Bolivia
Pérez 50' Paz 68'	Report	Tomé de Araujo 25' Romero 34' Briceño 80'

Croatia	1–3	Ecuador
Barišić ?'	Report	Morán 45' Romero 67', 77'

Brazil	5–0	Peru
Diego Rosa 1' Peglow 9' Gabriel Silva 19', 47' Pedro Arthur 24'	Report

Knockout stage

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).

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	17 November – Malvinas Argentinas
	Brazil	2
					19 November – Bicentenario
	Paraguay	1
					Brazil	2
	17 November – Bicentenario
					Argentina	3
	Argentina	4
	Peru	1

Semi-finals

Brazil	2–1	Paraguay
Peglow 5' Diego Rosa 36'	Report	B. Duarte 45'

Argentina	4–1	Peru
Godoy 23', 40' (pen.) Sforza 51' Amione 59'	Report	Huayhua 25'

Final

Brazil	2–3	Argentina
Kaio Jorge 33', 41'	Report	Palacios 43' Godoy 46' Amione 74'

2017 South American Under-15 Football champions
Argentina First title

Goalscorers

There were 142 goals scored in 33 matches, for an average of 4.3 goals per match.

10 goals

• Juan Alegría

8 goals

• Diego Duarte

5 goals

• Exequiel Zeballos
• Andrés Arroyo
• Matías Arezo

4 goals

• Matías Godoy
• Kaio Jorge
• João Peglow
• Gonzalo Tapia
• Juan Manuel Gutiérrez

3 goals

• Matías Palacios
• Juan Sforza
• Georginton Romero
• Carlos Ruiz

2 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
• Matías Ocampo
• Daniel Pérez

1 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 Peña

1 own goal

• Óscar Jiménez (playing against Croatia)

References

1. "CONMEBOL oficializa fechas de torneos juveniles" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com. 24 July 2017.
2. ^ "Reglamento CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-15 Argentina 2017" (PDF) (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com.
3. "Sudamericano Sub-15: Entra en vigencia la regla de exclusión temporal en un partido" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 5 November 2017.
4. "Argentina vence a Brasil en gran remontada y es campeón" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com. 19 November 2017.
5. "Sudamericano Sub 15 en Argentina" (in Spanish). Argentine Football Association. 27 April 2017.
6. ^ "Este viernes 13 de octubre se sortearán los grupos del Sudamericano Sub-15 - Argentina 2017" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com. 11 October 2017.
7. "Cambios en la programación del domingo 12 del Grupo B". CONMEBOL.com. 9 November 2017.
8. "Conformados los Grupos del Sudamericano Sub 15 – Argentina 2017". CONMEBOL.com. 13 October 2017.
9. "Sudamericano sub15: Árbitros" (in Spanish). International referee. 3 November 2017.
10. "El Sudamericano Sub-15 con fixture definido". CONMEBOL.com. 16 October 2017.

External links

• Sudamericano Sub 15 Argentina 2017, CONMEBOL.com

• South American Under-15 Football Championship
• International association football competitions hosted by Argentina
• 2017 in South American football
• 2017 in Argentine football
• 2017 in youth association football
• November 2017 sports events in South America