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 (now ...

, a

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competition for the under-17 national teams in South America organized by

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. 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 east a ...

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

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 with ...

Rancagua Rancagua () is a city and commune in central Chile and part of the Rancagua conurbation. It is the capital of the Cachapoal Province and of the O'Higgins Region, located south of the national capital of Santiago. It was originally named Santa ...

(Group A and final stage) and

Estadio Fiscal Estadio Fiscal de Talca is a multi-use public stadium in Talca, Chile. It is currently used mostly for association football matches and is the home stadium of Rangers. The stadium was built in 1930 as "Estadio Municipal de Talca". after sev ...

Talca Talca () is a List of cities in Chile, city and Communes of Chile, commune in Chile located about south of Santiago, Chile, Santiago, and is the capital of both Talca Province and Maule Region (7th Region of Chile). As of the 2012 census, the ...

(Group B). On 22 February 2017,

Estadio La Granja The Estadio La Granja is a sports venue which is located in Curicó, Maule Region, Chile. The stadium holds 8,278 people and is part of a large sporting complex which also features tennis courts, swimming pools, a gymnasium, a velodrome and s ...

Curicó Curicó (), meaning "Black Waters" in Mapudungun (originally meaning "Land of Black Water"), is the capital city of the Curicó Province, part of the Maule Region in Chile's central valley. The province lies between the provinces of Colcha ...

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, whose ...

. 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

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:Assistants: Lucas Germanotta and Gabriel Chade Juan Nelio García :Assistants: Jorge Baldivieso and Roger Orellana

Raphael Claus Raphael Claus (born 6 September 1979 in Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Brazil) is a Brazilian football referee. He is nominated as an official referee list of 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Professional Raphael Claus currently represents the Federaçã ...

:Assistants: Bruno Pires and Danilo Manis

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:Assistants: Claudio Ríos and Edson Cisternas Luis Sánchez :Assistants: Wilmar Navarro and Dionisio Ruiz Juan Albarracín :Assistants: Ricardo Barén and Edwin Bravo

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:Assistants: Juan Zorrilla and Carlos Cáceres

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:Assistants: Michael Orué and Stephen Atoche Leodán González and Óscar Rojas :Assistants: Miguel Nievas and Gabriel Popovits Adrián Cabello :Assistants: Tulio Moreno and Elbis Gómez *The Uruguayan referee

Esteban Ostojich Esteban Daniel Ostojich Vega (born 12 April 1982) is a Uruguayan football referee. He has been a FIFA international referee since 2016. Refereeing career Ostojich began officiating in the Primera División in Uruguay in 2013. In 2016, he was ...

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,

(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 * Jaminton Campaz *

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* Roberto Fernández *

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* Jan Carlos Hurtado ;2 goals *

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* Ferddy Roca *

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* Gastón Zuñiga * Santiago Micolta * Jordan Rezabala * Alan Rodríguez * José Barragán ;1 goal * Agustín Obando * Sebastián Melgar * Alerrandro * Brenner * Lucas Halter * Marcos Antônio * Lucas Alarcón * Antonio Díaz * Alexis Valencia * Sebastián Valencia * Luis Miguel López * Juan David Martínez * Juan David Vidal * Jhon Campos * Jackson Porozo * Mauricio Quiñónez * Cristian Tobar *

Antonio Galeano Antonio Javier Galeano Ferreira (born 22 March 2000), commonly known as Antonio Galeano or simply Galeano, is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as forward for Paraguayan Primera División club Cerro Porteño. Honours ;São Paulo *Ca ...

* Nicolás Morínigo * Jesús Rolón * Leonardo Mifflin * Gonzalo Sánchez *

Thomás Chacón Thomás Chacón Yona (born 17 August 2000) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a midfielder for Swiss club Bellinzona. Club career A youth academy product of Danubio, Chacón made his professional debut on 23 November 2017 in a 2–2 draw aga ...

* Owen Falconis * José Neris * Gustavo Daniel Viera *

Cristian Cásseres Cristian Alfonso Cásseres (born 29 June 1977) is a Venezuelan football (soccer), football striker who made a total number of 28 appearances (two goals) for the Venezuela national football team, Venezuela national team between 1999 and 2008, and ...

* Sebastián Chalbaud * Jorge Echeverría * Eduardo Fereira *

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* Christian Makoun ;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
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