2025 South American U-17 Championship

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2025 South American U-17 Championship
CONMEBOL Sub 17 Colombia 2025
Tournament details
Host countryColombia
Dates27 March – 12 April
Teams10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
ChampionsFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil (14th title)
Runners-upFlag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
Third placeFlag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela
Fourth placeFlag of Chile.svg  Chile
Tournament statistics
Matches played28
Goals scored77 (2.75 per match)
Top scorer(s) Flag of Argentina.svg Thomás de Martis (6 goals)
2023
2026

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]

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 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.

Format changes

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]

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] [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
Estadio Jaraguay Estadio Jaime Morón León
Capacity: 12,000 [13] Capacity: 17,500 [14]
Estadio Jaraguay de Monteria.jpg Cancha Estadio Jaime Moron Cartagena.jpg

Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered 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 (hosts)20thChampions (1 time, 1993)
Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador 19thRunners-up (1 time, 2023)
Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay 19thRunners-up (1 time, 1999)
Flag of Peru.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 20thRunners-up (1 time, 2013)

Squads

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]

Draw

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]

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. [16]

The draw resulted in the following groups: [17]

Group A
PosTeam
A1Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
A2Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
A3Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay
A4Flag of Chile.svg  Chile
A5Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Group B
PosTeam
B1Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
B2Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador
B3Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela
B4Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay
B5Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia

Group stage

The top two teams in each group advanced to the final four.

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. [18] [19]

Group A

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia (H)430152+39 [a] Final four and
2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 430193+69 [a]
3Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 4202126+66 [b] 5th–8th places
4Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay 420275+26 [b]
5Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 4004017170
Source: CONMEBOL
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Notes:
  1. 1 2 Head-to-head result: Colombia 1–0 Chile.
  2. 1 2 Head-to-head result: Argentina 4–1 Paraguay.
Peru  Flag of Peru.svg0–5Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay
Report
Colombia  Flag of Colombia.svg1–0Flag of Chile.svg  Chile
Londoño Soccerball shade.svg75' Report

Chile  Flag of Chile.svg3–2Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
Report De Martis Soccerball shade.svg45', 90+6'
Peru  Flag of Peru.svg0–2Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
Report

Chile  Flag of Chile.svg5–0Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Report
Argentina  Flag of Argentina.svg4–1Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay
Report Buhring Soccerball shade.svg90+6'

Argentina  Flag of Argentina.svg5–0Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Report
Paraguay  Flag of Paraguay.svg1–0Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
Coronel Soccerball shade.svg69' Report

Colombia  Flag of Colombia.svg2–1Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
Report De Martis Soccerball shade.svg77' (pen.)
Paraguay  Flag of Paraguay.svg0–1Flag of Chile.svg  Chile
Report Olguín Soccerball shade.svg90+11' (pen.)

Group B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 431083+510 Final four and
2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela 421153+27
3Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador 420285+36 5th–8th places
4Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia 41032753
5Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 40223852
Source: CONMEBOL
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Bolivia  Flag of Bolivia.svg0–2Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela
Report
Brazil  Flag of Brazil.svg1–1Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay
Ruan Pablo Soccerball shade.svg50' Report Azambuja Soccerball shade.svg45+2'

Bolivia  Flag of Bolivia.svg0–3Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Report
Uruguay  Flag of Uruguay.svg0–4Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador
Report

Uruguay  Flag of Uruguay.svg0–1Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia
Report Maraude Soccerball shade.svg43'
Ecuador  Flag of Ecuador.svg0–1Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela
Report Claut Soccerball shade.svg51'

Ecuador  Flag of Ecuador.svg2–1Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia
Quintero Soccerball shade.svg33', 50' Report Pérez Soccerball shade.svg84' (pen.)
Venezuela  Flag of Venezuela (state).svg0–1Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Report Luis Eduardo Soccerball shade.svg88'

Brazil  Flag of Brazil.svg3–2Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador
Report
Venezuela  Flag of Venezuela (state).svg2–2Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay
Report

Final stage

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]

5th–8th places

The 5th–8th semi-finals matchups were:

 
5th–8th semi-finalsFifth place
 
      
 
8 April – Montería
 
 
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 3
 
11 April – Montería
 
Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia 0
 
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 1 (3)
 
8 April – Montería
 
Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay (p)1 (4)
 
Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador 0 (4)
 
 
Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay (p)0 (5)
 
Seventh place
 
 
11 April – Montería
 
 
Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia 1
 
 
Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador 0

5th–8th semi-finals

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


Argentina  Flag of Argentina.svg3–0Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia
Report

Seventh place match

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

Bolivia  Flag of Bolivia.svg1–0Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador
García Soccerball shade.svg52' Report

Fifth place match

Final four

The semi-finals matchups are:

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
9 April – Cartagena
 
 
Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 5
 
12 April – Cartagena
 
Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela 1
 
Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 1 (1)
 
9 April – Cartagena
 
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil (p)1 (4)
 
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1
 
 
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 0
 
Third place
 
 
12 April – Cartagena
 
 
Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela 3
 
 
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 0

Semi-finals

Brazil  Flag of Brazil.svg1–0Flag of Chile.svg  Chile
Dell Soccerball shade.svg65' Report

Colombia  Flag of Colombia.svg5–1Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela
Report Claut Soccerball shade.svg34'

Third place match

Venezuela  Flag of Venezuela (state).svg3–0Flag of Chile.svg  Chile
Report

Final

Goalscorers

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

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

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

TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup 1
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 5 April 202518 (1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997 , 1999 , 2001, 2003 , 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 , 2023)
Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela 2 (2013, 2023)
Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 6 (1989, 1993, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2017)
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 5 (1993, 1997, 2015 , 2017, 2019)
Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay 8 April 20255 (1999, 2001, 2015, 2017, 2019)
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 15 (1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2023)
Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia 11 April 20252 (1985, 1987)
1Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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