The 2021 South American U-17 Championship was originally going be the 19th edition of the

South American U-17 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 ...

( es, CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-17), the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONMEBOL for the men's under-17 national teams of South America. It was scheduled to be held in

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between 31 March – 25 April 2021, before its suspension and subsequent cancellation due to the

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. On 22 December 2020 CONMEBOL announced that the tournament would be rescheduled to the second half of 2021 if FIFA decided to cancel the

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, which was confirmed two days later. On 28 December 2020, CONMEBOL confirmed the rescheduling of the tournament, despite the fact that the

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had announced its cancellation, with October as a possible tentative date and keeping Ecuador as the host country. Eventually, CONMEBOL decided to cancel the tournament during a meeting of its council held on 3 August 2021. As the 2021 FIFA U-17 World Cup was cancelled due to the

, this tournament would not have served as qualifier for any

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. Originally the top four teams would have qualified as the CONMEBOL representatives, together with

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which would have qualified automatically as the World Cup hosts (fifth-placed team would also have qualified if Peru were among the top four).

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are the defending champions.

Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams are eligible to enter the tournament.

Venues

To be confirmed.

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2004 are eligible to compete.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

As hosts, Peru were the only CONMEBOL representative qualified for the

at the time of the tournament's cancellation.

References

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