The 2023 South American U-17 Championship will 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 (now ...

( es, CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-17), the biennial international youth

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championship organised by

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for the men's under-17 national teams of South America. It will be held in

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

between 30 March and 23 April 2023. The South American U-17 Championship returns after 4 years due to the

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forced CONMEBOL to cancel the tournament in

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. Same as previous editions, the tournament will act as the CONMEBOL qualifiers for the

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. The top four teams of the tournament will qualify for the

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as the CONMEBOL representatives, besides

who qualified automatically as hosts (if Peru were among the top four teams, the fifth-placed team would also qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup).

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are the defending champions.

Teams

All ten

member national teams are eligible to enter the tournament.

Venues

Ecuador had been originally chosen to host the South American U-17 Championship that was to be held in 2021. That tournament ended up being canceled due to the

, however, Ecuador maintained its right to hold the South American U-17 Championship but in 2023. This will be the fourth time that Ecuador hosts the tournament having previously done so in

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(under-16 edition),

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and

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and

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were selected as host cities. Guayaquil will host the first stage's matches in two venues, the Estadio Christian Benítez Betancourt and the Estadio George Capwell. The final stage's matches will be played in Quito also in two venues, the

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and the

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Match officials

On 23 February 2023, CONMEBOL announced a total of 11 referees and 22 assistant referees appointed for the tournament, included a UEFA refereeing team. For the first time, a

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refereeing team will participate in the South American U-17 Championship as part of the

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signed in February 2020, which included a referee exchange programme. Chilean referee Nicolás Gamboa was replaced by his fellow countryman

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. * Andrés Merlos **Assistants: Pablo González and Sebastián Raineiri * Dilio Rodríguez **Assistants: Roger Orellana and Rubén Flores * Savio Pereira **Assistants: Guillerme Dias Camilo and Nailton Sousa *

**Assistants: Juan Serrano and Carlos Poblete *

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**Assistants: Miguel Roldán and Richard Ortiz * Augusto Aragón **Assistants: Juan Aguiar and Andrés Tola * Michael Espinoza **Assistants: Roberto Pérez and Coty Carrera * José Burgos **Assistants: Pablo Llarena and Santiago Fernández *

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**Assistants: Carlos López and Antoni García *UEFA TBC **Assistants: TBC and TBC ;Support Referees * David Fuentes (assistant referee) *

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(main referee) * Agustín Berisso (assistant referee)

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2010 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 23 and a minimum of 19 players, including at least 3 goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 46 and 49).

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 24 February 2023, 12:00 PYT ( UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque,

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. The ten teams will be drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Ecuador and defending champions Argentina 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

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(shown in brackets). 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. The draw resulted in the following groups:

First stage

The top three teams in each group will advance to the final stage. All match times are in ECT ( UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL.

Group A

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Group B

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Final stage

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Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualify for the

, including Peru which qualified as hosts. :

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

Broadcasting rights

Radio

Television

References

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