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The 2023 CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship (Spanish: Campeonato de Niños Sub-15 CONCACAF 2023) is the fourth edition of the CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship, the biennial international youth football tournament organized by CONCACAF for the men's under-15 national teams of North, Central America and Caribbean. It is held in Dominican Republic and Curaçao from 6 to 13 August 2023.

The CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship returned after 4 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced CONCACAF to cancel the tournament in 2021.

UEFA guest team Portugal were the defending champions having won the 2019 League A, however, they were unable to defend their title as they were not invited for this edition..

Teams

A total of 41 teams entered the tournament, 39 out of the 41 CONCACAF member national teams and two invited teams from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Montserrat was scheduled to participate in League C but finally withdrew. Bahamas did not enter the tournament.

Like previous editions, the teams were split into three divisions, named League A (with 16 teams), League B (with 16 teams) and League C (with 9 teams), according to the CONCACAF Men's Under-17 Ranking as of February 2023, with the two invited teams being included within the League A.

League A (16 teams) Rank Team Prv Pts 1  Mexico 6,943 2  United States 5,547 3  Canada 3,597 4  Honduras 3,444 5  Costa Rica 3,252 6  Panama 3,247 7  Haiti 2,537 8  Jamaica 1,931 9  El Salvador 1,846 10  Cuba 1,510 11  Guatemala 1,410 12  Puerto Rico 1,326 13  Trinidad and Tobago 1,326 15  Dominican Republic 1,121 N/R  Qatar (invited from AFC) — — N/R  Saudi Arabia (invited from AFC) — —

League B (16 teams) Rank Team Prv Pts 14  Nicaragua 1,212 16  Guadeloupe 1,090 17  Bermuda 1,090 18  Curaçao 931 19  Bonaire 863 20  Aruba 850 21  Guyana 839 22  Suriname 832 23  Martinique 729 24  Barbados 710 26  Cayman Islands 637 27  Antigua and Barbuda 628 28  Saint Kitts and Nevis 613 29  Belize 437 30  Saint Lucia 397 31  Grenada 388

League C (9 teams) Rank Team Prv Pts 33  British Virgin Islands 356 33  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 323 34  Anguilla 318 35  Saint Martin 292 36  U.S. Virgin Islands 227 37  Dominica 213 38  Turks and Caicos Islands 87 39  French Guiana 0 40  Montserrat 0 41  Sint Maarten 0

The groups and match schedule were unveiled on 31 July 2023.

League A

Group A Pos Team A1  Mexico A2  Jamaica A3  El Salvador A4  Saudi Arabia

Group B Pos Team B1  United States B2  Haiti B3  Cuba B4  Qatar

Group C Pos Team C1  Canada C2  Panama C3  Guatemala C4  Dominican Republic

Group D Pos Team D1  Honduras D2  Costa Rica D3  Puerto Rico D4  Trinidad and Tobago

League B

Group E Pos Team E1  Nicaragua E2  Suriname E3  Martinique E4  Grenada

Group F Pos Team F1  Guadeloupe F2  Guyana F3  Barbados F4  Saint Lucia

Group G Pos Team G1  Bermuda G2  Aruba G3  Cayman Islands G4  Belize

Group H Pos Team H1  Curaçao H2  Bonaire H3  Antigua and Barbuda H4  Saint Kitts and Nevis

League C

Group I Pos Team I1  British Virgin Islands I2  Dominica I3  Turks and Caicos Islands

Group J Pos Team J1  Sint Maarten J2  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines J3  U.S. Virgin Islands

Group K Pos Team K1  French Guiana K2  Anguilla K3  Saint Martin

Format

In League A, the 16 teams were divided into four groups (A to D) of four, with each group played on a single round-robin basis. The top two teams of each group advanceD to the quarter-finals, where the winners advance to the semi-finals, the winners of the semi-finals played the final while the losers played the third place match. The eight teams that not advanced to the quarter-finals were paired, based on their results in the group stage, to play in a final play-offs round.

In League 2, the 16 teams are also divided into four groups (E to H) of four and the same competition format as in League A was used.

In Division 3, the 9 teams are divided into three groups (I to K) one of three and the same competition format as in League A and B was used, with the difference that only the winners of each group and the best runner-up advanced directly to the semi-finals.

Each match was to last 70 minutes, comprising two periods of 35 minutes with an interval of 10 minutes in between. If a game in quarter-finals, semi-finals or third place match of each league was tied at the end of regulation time, the winner would be decided directly by a penalty shoot-out. If the final match of each league was tied at the end of regulation time an extra time of two 10 minute periods would be played, if the score was still tied at the end of overtime, the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out.

League A

All match times are in DOT (UTC−4), as listed by CONCACAF.

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mexico	3	3	0	0	11	2	+9	9	Advance to Quarter-finals
2	Jamaica	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
3	El Salvador	3	1	0	2	5	6	−1	3	Advance to Play-offs round
4	Saudi Arabia (G)	3	0	0	3	2	13	−11	0

Jamaica	1–0	El Salvador
28'

Mexico	5–0	Saudi Arabia
H. Mancilla 2' G. Mora 9', 17' M. Reyes 61' J. Rangel 66'

El Salvador	1–4	Mexico
Germán Argueta 46'		H. Mancilla 14', 53' G. García 71' G. Mora 73'

Saudi Arabia	1–4	Jamaica

El Salvador	4–1	Saudi Arabia
Germán Argueta 2', 34' Kerim Torres 30', 36'		16'

Mexico	2–1	Jamaica
D. Armenta 63' L. Gamboa 73'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	0	17	2	+15	9	Advance to Quarter-finals
2	Haiti	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
3	Cuba	3	1	0	2	2	14	−12	3	Advance to Play-offs round
4	Qatar (G)	3	0	0	3	2	5	−3	0

Haiti	3–1	Cuba

United States	3–2	Qatar
Cavan Sullivan 3' Chase Adams 19' Julian Hall 38'

Cuba	0–11	United States
		Jamir Johnson (x3) Tanner Rosborough (x2) Omar Marquez (x2) Luca Moisa (x2) Julian Hall Cavan Sullivan

Qatar	0–1	Haiti

Cuba	1–0	Qatar

United States	3–0	Haiti
Jude Terry Tanner Rosborough Chase Adams

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9	Advance to Quarter-finals
2	Guatemala	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
3	Panama	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4	Advance to Play-offs round
4	Dominican Republic (H)	3	0	0	3	2	10	−8	0

1. ^ Guatemala scored lower fair play points than Panama to advance to the quarter-finals.

Panama	0–0	Guatemala

Canada	4–1	Dominican Republic
Grady McDonnell 4', 26' Andre Ali-Gayapersad 13' Kevin Khan 33'		Daniel Fernández 21'

Guatemala	0–2	Canada
		William Daniels 28' Kemari Record-Wright 63'

Dominican Republic	1–3	Panama
Luís Pereyra 52' (pen.)		Gerson Gordón 28' Walter Muñoz 32' Abraham Altamirano 67' (pen.)

Guatemala	3–0	Dominican Republic
Marvin Ávila Jr 2', 28', 33'

Canada	1–0	Panama
William Daniels 49'

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Honduras	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5	Advance to Quarter-finals
2	Puerto Rico	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
3	Costa Rica	3	1	1	1	2	3	−1	4	Advance to Play-offs round
4	Trinidad and Tobago	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3

Costa Rica	2–1	Puerto Rico

Honduras	2–1	Trinidad and Tobago

Puerto Rico	0–0	Honduras

Puerto Rico	2–1	Trinidad and Tobago

Honduras	0–0	Costa Rica

Trinidad and Tobago	2–0	Costa Rica
Jeremiah Daniel Jonathan Mason

Knockout stage

Play-offs round

Teams that not advanced to the quarter-finals were seeded based on their group stage results in order to establish the match-ups for the play-offs round.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Play-offs round
1	C	Panama	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4	Play-off 1
2	D	Costa Rica	3	1	1	1	2	3	−1	4	Play-off 2
3	D	Trinidad and Tobago	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3	Play-off 3
4	A	El Salvador	3	1	0	2	5	6	−1	3	Play-off 4
5	B	Cuba	3	1	0	2	2	14	−12	3
6	B	Qatar	3	0	0	3	2	5	−3	0	Play-off 3
7	C	Dominican Republic (H)	3	0	0	3	2	10	−8	0	Play-off 2
8	A	Saudi Arabia	3	0	0	3	2	13	−11	0	Play-off 1

El Salvador	3–0	Cuba
Kerim Torres 52' Matthew Benavides 63', 70'

Trinidad and Tobago	3–0	Qatar

Costa Rica	3–1	Dominican Republic
Kazmir Foster (x2) Isaac Badilla

Panama	1–2	Saudi Arabia
Gerson Gordón 29'		Ali Al-Shanqeeti 53' Tarish Hazazi 70'

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	10 August 2023
	Honduras	1
					11 August 2023
	Jamaica	4
					Jamaica	0
	10 August 2023
					Mexico	3
	Mexico	1
									12 August 2023
	Puerto Rico	0
									Mexico	2
	10 August 2023
									United States	4
	Canada	0
					11 August 2023
	Haiti	1
					Haiti	0
	10 August 2023
					United States	1			Third place
	United States	4
									12 August 2023
	Guatemala	1
									Jamaica	1
									Haiti	3

Quarter-finals

Honduras	1–4	Jamaica

Mexico	1–0	Puerto Rico
A. Villa 57'

Canada	0–1	Haiti
		Bill Meranvil 53'

United States	4–1	Guatemala
Isaac Tortola Cavan Sullivan (pen.) Adrian Sanders Chase Adams (pen.)		Marvin Ávila Jr 50'

Semi-finals

Jamaica	0–3	Mexico
		B. Rodríguez 33' G. Mora 42', 56'

Haiti	0–1	United States
		Sebasthian Chavez 41'

Third place match

Jamaica	1–3	Haiti

Final

Mexico	2–4	United States

Notes

1. The Trinidad and Tobago vs Costa Rica match, originally scheduled on 7 August at 20:00 local time (UTC−4), was re-scheduled for 9 August at 14:00 local time by weather conditions.

References

1. "Curaçao and Dominican Republic named hosts for 2023 Concacaf Boys' U-15 Championship". Miami: CONCACAF. 12 May 2023.
2. "Men's Under-17 Ranking As of February 27, 2023". CONCACAF. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
3. "Concacaf announces groups and match schedule for 2023 Concacaf Boys' U-15 Championship". Miami: CONCACAF. 31 July 2023.
4. "CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship 2023 Regulations" (PDF). CONCACAF. 18 July 2023 . Retrieved 11 August 2023.
5. "CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH SCHEDULE" (PDF). CONCACAF. 27 July 2023.
6. Acevedo Rivas, Josue David (9 August 2023). "Guatemala enfrentará a Estados Unidos en el Campeonato Sub-15 de Concacaf" [Guatemala to face the United States in the CONCACAF Under-15 Championship]. agn.gt. Ciudad de Guatemala: Agencia Guatemalteca de Noticias.
7. "Men's U-15 4-1 Dominican Republic". Canadian Soccer Association. 6 August 2023.
8. "Men's U-15 2-0 Guatemala". Canadian Soccer Association. 7 August 2023.
9. "Men's U-15 1-0 Panama". Canadian Soccer Association. 8 August 2023.
10. "Partido de Costa Rica frente a Trinidad y Tobago en campeonato Sub-15 de la Concacaf fue cancelado". everardoherrera.com (in Spanish). 7 August 2023.
11. Costa Rican Football Federation (9 August 2023). "Hoy se jugará el partido reprogramado de nuestra Selección Sub-15 contra su rival de Trinidad y Tobago. ¡Vamos muchachos!" (Tweet) (in Spanish) – via Twitter.

External links

• Under 15s – Boys, CONCACAF.com

• CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship
• 2023–24 in CONCACAF football
• International association football competitions hosted by the Dominican Republic
• International association football competitions hosted by Curaçao
• 2023 in youth association football