CONMEBOL Sub 17 Colombia 2025 | |
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Tournament details | |
Host country | Colombia |
Dates | 27 March – 12 April |
Teams | 10 (from 1 confederation) |
Venue(s) | 2 (in 2 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Third place | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 28 |
Goals scored | 77 (2.75 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() |
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The 2025 South American U-17 Championship was 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 was held in Colombia from 27 March to 12 April 2025. [1] [2]
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 qualified 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 qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the CONMEBOL representatives. [7]
Defending champions Brazil successfully retained their title, defeating the hosts Colombia 4–1 on penalties following a 1–1 draw in the final, which earned them their fourteenth South American U-17 Championship title, the most in the tournament’s history. [8] These two teams and the next five best-placed teams — Venezuela, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia — qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
After three years of evaluation and analysis of the proposal submitted in 2021, [9] 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]
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] [10]
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. [11]
CONMEBOL announced Montería and Cartagena as host cities on 6 February 2025, with the Estadio Jaraguay and the Estadio Jaime Morón León being the venues for the matches. [12]
Montería | Location of the host cities. | Cartagena |
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Estadio Jaraguay | Estadio Jaime Morón León | |
Capacity: 12,000 [13] | Capacity: 17,500 [14] | |
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All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.
Team | Appearance | Previous best performance |
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![]() | 20th | Champions (4 times, most recent 2019) |
![]() | 20th | Champions (1 time, 1986) |
![]() | 20th | Champions (13 times, most recent 2023) |
![]() | 20th | Runners-up (3 times, most recent 2019) |
![]() | 20th | Champions (1 time, 1993) |
![]() | 19th | Runners-up (1 time, 2023) |
![]() | 19th | Runners-up (1 time, 1999) |
![]() | 20th | Fourth place (1 time, 2007) |
![]() | 20th | Runners-up (3 times, most recent 2011) |
![]() | 20th | Runners-up (1 time, 2013) |
Each team registered 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]
The draw of the tournament was held on 19 December 2024, 14:15 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay. [15] The ten teams were 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). [15]
Seeded | Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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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. [16]
The draw resulted in the following groups: [17]
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The top two teams in each group advanced to the final four.
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]
All match times are local times, COT (UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL. [18] [19]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | ![]() | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 9 [a] | Final four and 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
2 | ![]() | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 9 [a] | |
3 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 6 [b] | 5th–8th places |
4 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 6 [b] | |
5 | ![]() | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 17 | −17 | 0 |
Peru ![]() | 0–5 | ![]() |
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Peru ![]() | 0–2 | ![]() |
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Chile ![]() | 5–0 | ![]() |
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Argentina ![]() | 5–0 | ![]() |
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | ![]() | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 10 | Final four and 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
2 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 7 | |
3 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 6 | 5th–8th places |
4 | ![]() | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 3 | |
5 | ![]() | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 2 |
Bolivia ![]() | 0–2 | ![]() |
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Brazil ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Ruan Pablo ![]() | Report | Azambuja ![]() |
Bolivia ![]() | 0–3 | ![]() |
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Uruguay ![]() | 0–4 | ![]() |
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Venezuela ![]() | 0–1 | ![]() |
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Report | Luis Eduardo ![]() |
Brazil ![]() | 3–2 | ![]() |
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Venezuela ![]() | 2–2 | ![]() |
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The final stage was played on a single-elimination basis and consisted 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. [20] [21]
The 5th–8th semi-finals matchups were:
5th–8th semi-finals | Fifth place | |||||
8 April – Montería | ||||||
![]() | 3 | |||||
11 April – Montería | ||||||
![]() | 0 | |||||
![]() | 1 (3) | |||||
8 April – Montería | ||||||
![]() | 1 (4) | |||||
![]() | 0 (4) | |||||
![]() | 0 (5) | |||||
Seventh place | ||||||
11 April – Montería | ||||||
![]() | 1 | |||||
![]() | 0 |
Winners qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
Argentina ![]() | 3–0 | ![]() |
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Report |
Winner qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
The semi-finals matchups are:
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
9 April – Cartagena | ||||||
![]() | 5 | |||||
12 April – Cartagena | ||||||
![]() | 1 | |||||
![]() | 1 (1) | |||||
9 April – Cartagena | ||||||
![]() | 1 (4) | |||||
![]() | 1 | |||||
![]() | 0 | |||||
Third place | ||||||
12 April – Cartagena | ||||||
![]() | 3 | |||||
![]() | 0 |
Venezuela ![]() | 3–0 | ![]() |
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There were 77 goals scored in 28 matches, for an average of 2.75 goals per match.
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
The following seven teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar.
Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup 1 |
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![]() | 5 April 2025 | 18 (1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997 , 1999 , 2001, 2003 , 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 , 2023) |
![]() | 2 (2013, 2023) | |
![]() | 6 (1989, 1993, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2017) | |
![]() | 5 (1993, 1997, 2015 , 2017, 2019) | |
![]() | 8 April 2025 | 5 (1999, 2001, 2015, 2017, 2019) |
![]() | 15 (1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2023) | |
![]() | 11 April 2025 | 2 (1985, 1987) |