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.^[1]

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.^[2]^[3]

Host team Argentina won their first South American U-15 title by defeating the defending champions Brazil 3–2 in the final.^[4]

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.^[5] San Juan and Mendoza were chosen as host cities and ratified by CONMEBOL on 11 October 2017.^[6]

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.^[7]

Mendoza	Mendoza San 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.^[6]^[8] 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

Main article: 2017 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).^[2]

Match officials

The referees and assistants referees were:^[9]

Fernando Espinoza
- Assistants: Julio Fernández and Maximiliano Del Yesso
Ivo Méndez
- Assistants: Edwar Saavedra and Reluy Vallejos
Wagner Reway
- Assistants: Alex Ang Ribeiro and Cleberson Nascimento
Piero Maza
- Assistants: Claudio Urrutia and Alejandro Molina
Andrés Rojas
- Assistants: Sebastián Vela and Miguel Roldán

Luis Quiroz
- Assistants: Ricardo Baren and Juan Aguiar
Arnaldo Samaniego
- Assistants: Robero Cañete and José Cuevas
Joel Alarcón
- Assistants: Michael Orué and Jesús Sánchez
Esteban Ostojich
- Assistants: Carlos Javier Barreiro and Martín Soppi
Alexis Herrera
- Assistants: Tulio Moreno and Alberto Ponte

Support Referees

Facundo Tello
- Assistant: Maximiliano Castelli

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):^[2]

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

All times are local, ART (UTC−3).^[10]

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	Knockout stage
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

Source: CONMEBOL
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(G) Guests; (H) Hosts

5 November 2017