The 2023 South American U-20 Championship was the 30th edition of the

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(, ), the biennial international youth

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championship organised by

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for the men's under-20 national teams of South America. It was held in

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between 19 January and 12 February 2023. The South American U-20 Championship returned after 4 years due to the

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forcing CONMEBOL to cancel the tournament in

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. The tournament served as qualifier for two international events. The top four teams qualified for the

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as the CONMEBOL representatives. The top three teams also qualified for the 2023 Pan American Games men's football tournament, in addition to Chile who automatically qualified as hosts. After twelve years,

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won the tournament again after finishing first in the final stage's group, which meant the twelfth title in their history. Champions Brazil, runners-up

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and the hosts and third place

qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup and 2023 Pan American Games. Defending champions

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managed to reach the last berth for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup after finishing in fourth place. Subsequently,

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qualified for the 2023 U-20 World Cup as hosts after

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awarded the country the rights to organize the tournament in place of the original hosts

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. Argentina had failed to qualify for the World Cup after being eliminated in the first stage. Uruguay would go on to win the 2023 U-20 World Cup that year.

Teams

All ten

member national teams are eligible to enter the tournament.

Venues

Colombia had been originally chosen to host the South American U-20 Championship that was to be held in 2021. That tournament ended up being canceled due to the

, however, Colombia maintained its right to hold the South American U-20 Championship but in 2023. This was the fifth time that Colombia hosts the tournament having previously done so in

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and

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, Palmira and

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were selected as host cities. Cali and Palmira hosted the first stage's matches in two venues, the Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero and the Estadio Deportivo Cali. The final stage's matches were played in Bogotá also in two venues, the Estadio El Campín and the Estadio Metropolitano de Techo.

Match officials

On 9 December 2022, CONMEBOL announced a total of 11 referees and 22 assistant referees appointed for the tournament, included a Portuguese refereeing team. For the first time, a

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refereeing team will participate in the South American U-20 Championship as part of the UEFA–CONMEBOL memorandum of understanding signed in February 2020, which included a referee exchange programme. Portuguese referee

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was replaced by his fellow countryman António Nobre. * Nicolás Lamolina **Assistants: Maximiliano Del Yesso and Facundo Rodríguez * Ivo Méndez **Assistants: Ariel Guizada and Carlos Tapia * Braulio Machado **Assistants: Fabricio Vilarinho and Rafael Alves * Cristian Garay **Assistants: Claudio Urrutia and Alejandro Molina * Carlos Ortega **Assistants: Jhon León and John Gallego * Guillermo Guerrero **Assistants: Ricardo Barén and Dennys Guerrero * Derlis López **Assistants: Roberto Cañete and Luis Onieva * Augusto Menéndez **Assistants: Stephen Atoche and Leonar Soto * António Nobre **Assistants: Bruno Alves and Luciano Maia * Gustavo Tejera **Assistants: Andrés Nievas and Horacio Ferreiro * Yender Herrera **Assistants: Lubin Torrealba and Alberto Ponte

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2007 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 21 December 2022, 14:00 PYT ( UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in

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. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Colombia and defending champions Ecuador 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 2019 South American U-20 Championship (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 advanced to the final stage. ;Tiebreakers In the first stage, teams were ranked according to

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earned (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 21): #Head-to-head result between tied teams; #*Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; #*

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in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; #*Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; #Goal difference in all group matches; #Goals scored in all group matches; #Fewest red cards received; #Fewest yellow cards received; #Drawing of lots. All match times are in COT ( UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL.

Group A

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Final stage

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Goalscorers

Qualification for international tournaments

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the

, including Argentina which qualified as hosts. :

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

Qualified teams for Pan American Games

The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2023 Pan American Games men's football tournament, including Chile which qualified as hosts. :

² Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

Broadcasting rights

Radio

* : Blu Radio, Caracol Radio, RCN Radio

Television

: TyC Sports *

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: Unitel *

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: Canal 13 *

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, Telepacífico *

: DSports *

: and Datisa *

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References

External links

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