2025 South American U-17 Championship

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2025 South American U-17 Championship
CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-17 Venezuela 2025
Tournament details
Host countryColombia
Dates27 March – 12 April
Teams10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)TBD (in TBD host cities)
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The 2025 South American U-17 Championship will be the 20th edition of the South American U-17 Championship (Spanish : CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-17, Portuguese : CONMEBOL Sul-Americano Sub-17), the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONMEBOL for the men's under-17 national teams of South America. It will be held in Colombia from 27 March to 12 April 2025. [1] [2]

Contents

The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Venezuela between 4–20 April 2024, [3] [4] before CONMEBOL decided to move it to Colombia due to Venezuela becoming the host of the 2025 South American U-20 Championship. [1]

Starting from this edition, the tournament will be played every year in line with the annual cycle implemented by FIFA for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. [5]

As a result of the expansion of the FIFA U-17 World Cup format, seven teams will qualify for the U-17 World Cup from this edition onwards, an increase of three berths from the four CONMEBOL teams that previously qualified. [6] The top 7 teams will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the CONMEBOL representatives. [7]

Brazil are the defending champions.

Format changes

After three years of evaluation and analysis of the proposal submitted in 2021, [8] FIFA announced on 14 March 2024 that its U-17 World Cup would be expanded to 48 teams and would be held annually from 2025, with Qatar being awarded the hosting rights for the next five tournaments. [6] Consequently, CONMEBOL had to modify the format of the South American U-17 Championship to define the 7 places it was awarded in the new slot allocation of the U-17 World Cup. The new format of the South American U-17 Championship is as follows: [5]

Host and venues

Venezuela was originally announced as host country for the tournament by the CONMEBOL President Alejandro Domínguez during a CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 10 April 2024. [3] [9]

However, on 15 November 2024, CONMEBOL announced some changes to its competition calendar for 2025 in a letter sent to its member associations, moving the South American U-17 Championship to Colombia to replace Venezuela, [1] [2] which went on to host the 2025 South American U-20 Championship after CONMEBOL withdrew Peru's hosting rights of this tournament. [10]

Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams are eligible to enter the tournament.

TeamAppearancePrevious best performance
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 20thChampions (4 times, most recent 2019)
Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia 20thChampions (1 time, 1986)
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil (holders)20thChampions (13 times, most recent 2023)
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 20thRunners-up (3 times, most recent 2019)
Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 20thChampions (1 time, 1993)
Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador 19thThird place (4 times, most recent 2015)
Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay 19thRunners-up (1 time, 1999)
Flag of Peru (state).svg  Peru 20thFourth place (1 time, 2007)
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 20thRunners-up (3 times, most recent 2011)
Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela (hosts)20thRunners-up (1 time, 2013)

Squads

Each team could register a squad of a minimum of 19 and a maximum of 23 players, including at least 3 goalkeepers. Players born between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2010 (ages 15 to 17) were eligible to compete in the tournament (Regulations Articles 47 and 50). [7]

Draw

The draw of the tournament will be held on 19 December 2024, 14:15 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay. [11] The ten teams will be drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Colombia and defending champions Brazil were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their results in the 2023 South American U-17 Championship (shown in brackets). [11]

SeededPot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4
  • Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia (9) (Hosts, assigned to A1)
  • Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil (1) (Title holders, assigned to B1)

From each pot, the first team drawn was placed into Group A and the second team drawn was placed into Group B. In both groups, teams from pot 1 were allocated in position 2, teams from pot 2 in position 3, teams from pot 3 in position 4 and teams from pot 4 in position 5. [12]

The draw resulted in the following groups:

 Group A
PosTeam
A1Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
A2
A3
A4
A5
 Group B
PosTeam
B1Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
B2
B3
B4
B5

Group stage

The top three teams in each group will advance to the final stage.

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points earned (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 20): [7]

  1. Head-to-head result between tied teams;
    • Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
    • Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
    • Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in all group matches;
  3. Goals scored in all group matches;
  4. Fewest red cards received;
  5. Fewest yellow cards received;
  6. Drawing of lots.

All match times are local times, COT (UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL.

Group A

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia (H)00000000 Final four and
2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2Team A200000000
3Team A300000000 5th–8th places
4Team A400000000
5Team A500000000
First match(es) will be played: 27 March 2023. Source: [ citation needed ]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Colombia  Flag of Colombia.svgMatch 1A4
A5Match 2A3
A5Match 5Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
A4Match 6A2
A2Match 9A3
A4Match 10A5
A3Match 13Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
A2Match 14A5
Colombia  Flag of Colombia.svgMatch 17A2
A3Match 18A4

Group B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 00000000 Final four and
2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2Team B200000000
3Team B300000000 5th–8th places
4Team B400000000
5Team B500000000
First match(es) will be played: 28 March 2026. Source: [ citation needed ]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Brazil  Flag of Brazil.svgMatch 3B4
B5Match 4B3
B5Match 7Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
B4Match 8B2
B2Match 11B3
B4Match 12B5
B3Match 15Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
B2Match 16B5
Brazil  Flag of Brazil.svgMatch 19B2
B3Match 20B4

Final stage

The final stage will be played on a single-elimination basis and consists of the 5th–8th play-offs matches, semi-finals, third place match and final. If a match was level at the end of normal playing time, the winner would be decided directly by a penalty shoot-out (no extra time will be played). [7]

All match times are local times, COT (UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL.

5th–8th places

The 5th–8th semi-finals matchups are:

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
8 April –
 
 
Group third place
 
11 April –
 
Group B fourth place
 
Winner match 21
 
8 April –
 
Winner match 22
 
Group third place
 
 
Group A fourth place
 
Third place
 
 
11 April –
 
 
Loser match 21
 
 
Loser match 22

5th–8th semi-finals

Winners qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Group A third placeMatch 21Group B fourth place
Group B third placeMatch 22Group A fourth place

Seventh place match

Winner qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Losers match 21Match 25Losers match 22

Fifth place match

Winners match 21Match 26Winners match 22

Final four

The semi-finals matchups are:

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
9 April –
 
 
Group A winners
 
12 April –
 
Group B runners-up
 
Winner SF1
 
9 April –
 
Winner SF2
 
Group B winners
 
 
Group A runners-up
 
Third place
 
 
12 April –
 
 
Loser SF1
 
 
Loser SF2

Semi-finals

Group A winnersMatch 23Group B runners-up
Group B winnersMatch 24Group A runners-up

Third place match

Losers SF1Match 27Losers SF2

Final

Winners SF1Match 28Winners SF2

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following seven teams from CONMEBOL will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar.

TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup 1
April 2024
April 2024
April 2024
April 2024
April 2024
April 2024
April 2024
1Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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