The 2017 South American Under-17 Football Championship ( es, Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-17 Chile 2017, pt-BR, Campeonato Sul-Americano Sub-17 Chile 2017) was the 17th edition of the

South American Under-17 Football Championship The South American U-17 Championship (; ) is a football competition held every two years for South American under-17 teams. The tournament was born in 1985 out of a need for a classification tournament for the newly created FIFA U-16 World Cup (no ...

, a football competition for the under-17 national teams in South America organized by CONMEBOL. It was held in

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...

from 23 February to 19 March 2017. Brazil were crowned champions, and together with Chile, Paraguay and Colombia, which were the top four teams of this tournament, qualified for the

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Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.

Venues

According to ANFP sources, Chile was named as host country of the tournament during the CONMEBOL Executive Committee meeting held on 12 May 2015, this was ratified by CONMEBOL at another meeting of its Executive Committee held on 4 April 2016. The chosen venues were

Estadio El Teniente Estadio El Teniente, also known as Estadio El Teniente-Codelco for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Rancagua, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium can fit 14,087 people and was built in 1945 wi ...

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(Group A and final stage) and Estadio Fiscal,

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(Group B). On 22 February 2017, Estadio La Granja,

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was added as an emergency venue to host the first two matchdays of Group B since Estadio Fiscal field was in poor condition.

Squads

Each team registered a squad of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 12 January 2017, 14:00 CLST ( UTC−3), at the Chilean Football Federation headquarters in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, who ...

. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Chile and the defending champions Brazil were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining eight teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their final positions in the

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(shown in brackets).

Match officials

The referees and assistants referees were: Jorge Baliño and Fernando Rapallini :Assistants: Lucas Germanotta and Gabriel Chade

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:Assistants: Jorge Baldivieso and Roger Orellana Raphael Claus :Assistants: Bruno Pires and Danilo Manis Eduardo Gamboa :Assistants: Claudio Ríos and Edson Cisternas Luis Sánchez :Assistants: Wilmar Navarro and Dionisio Ruiz

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:Assistants: Ricardo Barén and Edwin Bravo

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:Assistants: Juan Zorrilla and Carlos Cáceres Michael Espinoza :Assistants: Michael Orué and Stephen Atoche Leodán González and Óscar Rojas :Assistants: Miguel Nievas and Gabriel Popovits

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was replaced by Leodán González after Ostojich was ruled out of the championship after suffering an injury. González was assisted by Wilmar Navarro and Dionisio Ruiz (Colombia) in the first stage and by Nievas and Popovits (Uruguay) in the final stage. *For the final stage, Fernando Rapallini (Argentina), Óscar Rojas and the assistants Miguel Nievas and Gabriel Popovits (Uruguay) were included. *The Colombian referee Luis Sánchez, Ostojich and the uruguayan assistants Carlos Pastorino and Horacio Ferreiro did not referee any match in the tournament.

First stage

The top three teams in each group advanced to the final stage. ;Tiebreakers When teams finished level of points, the final rankings were determined according to: # goal difference # goals scored # head-to-head result between tied teams (two teams only) # drawing of lots All times local, CLST ( UTC−3).

Group A

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Group B

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Final stage

When teams finished level of points, the final rankings were determined according to the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage. ---- ---- ---- ----

Winners

Goalscorers

;7 goals * Vinícius Jr. ;5 goals *

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;4 goals * Martín Sánchez ;3 goals *

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* Santiago Barrero *

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* Juan Peñaloza * Roberto Fernández *

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* Paulinho *

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* Gastón Zuñiga *

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* Alan Rodríguez *

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;1 goal *

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* Brenner * Lucas Halter * Marcos Antônio *

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* Antonio Díaz * Alexis Valencia *

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* Jackson Porozo *

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* Antonio Galeano *

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* Gonzalo Sánchez *

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* Gustavo Daniel Viera *

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;Own goal * Jackson Porozo (playing against Chile) * Anthony Fuentes (playing against Paraguay) *

(playing against Brazil)

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the

. :

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. ''Italic'' indicates host for that year.

References

External links

Sudamericano Masculino Sub 17 Chile 2017
{{DEFAULTSORT:South American Under-17 Championship 2017

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