The 2015

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 ...

( es, Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-17 Paraguay 2015, pt-BR, Campeonato Sul-Americano Sub-17 Paraguay 2015) was the 16th edition of the biennial international youth

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tournament organized by

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for players aged 17 and below. It was held in

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

from 4 to 29 March 2015. This tournament served as CONMEBOL's qualifier for the

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in Chile. The top four teams, tournament champions

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Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

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 ...

, and hosts

, qualified for the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, joining

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 ...

who automatically qualified as hosts of the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Teams

All ten

member national teams entered the tournament.

Venues

Paraguay was named as host country of the tournament on 23 May 2012 at the CONMEBOL Executive Committee meeting held in

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, prior to the 62nd

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. A total of three venues were chosen to host the matches: Estadio Dr. Nicolás Léoz in

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and

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Match officials

On 10 February 2015, CONMEBOL announced the referees and assistants referees summoned for the tournament. The assistants Ariel Scime (Argentina), Cleriston Barreto (Brazil), Carlos Changala (Uruguay) and Tulio Moreno (Venezuela) were replaced by Cristian Navarro, Bruno Boschilia, Gabriel Popovits and Luis Murillo respectively.

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:Assistants: Iván Núñez and Cristian Navarro

Gery Vargas Gery Anthony Vargas Carreño (born 12 March 1981) is a Bolivian football referee. Refereeing career Vargas began officiating in the Bolivian Primera División in 2008, refereeing his first match on 17 August 2008 between Jorge Wilstermann and ...

:Assistants: Javier Bustillos and Juan Pablo Montaño Wilton Sampaio :Assistants: Fabrício Vilarinho and Bruno Boschilia Roberto Tobar :Assistants: Christian Schiemann and Raúl Orellana Luis Alfonso Sánchez :Assistants: Alexander Guzmán and Cristian de la Cruz Carlos Orbe :Assistants: Juan Carlos Macías and Edwin Bravo Mario Díaz de Vivar :Assistants: Eduardo Cardozo and Juan Zorrilla Miguel Santiváñez :Assistants: Víctor Ráez and Coty Carrera Jonhatan Fuentes :Assistants: Gabriel Popovits and Richard Trinidad Jesús Valenzuela :Assistants: Luis Murillo and Elbis Gómez

Squads

Each team may register a squad of 22 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).

Draw

The draw was held on 24 October 2014, 10:00 PYT ( UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL Headquarters in

. The ten teams involved were settled in five "pairing pots" (Argentina–Brazil, Paraguay–Uruguay, Colombia–Ecuador, Chile–Peru, Bolivia–Venezuela) to be drawn into two groups of five. Initially Argentina and Brazil were announced as seeded teams, however, Paraguay (as hosts) and Uruguay were finally the teams seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 in their group. The remaining teams, including Argentina and Brazil, were drawn to determine their group as well as their position within it. The draw results were as follows:

First stage

The top three teams in each group qualified for the

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. When teams finished level of points, the final order was determined according to: # superior goal difference in all matches # greater number of goals scored in all group matches # better result in matches between the tied teams # drawing of lots All match times are in local

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( UTC−3).

Group A

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Group B

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Final stage

When teams finished level of points, the final order was determined according to the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage. All match times are in local Paraguay Time ( UTC−3 for matchdays 1–2, and UTC−4 for matchdays 3–5). ---- ---- ---- ----

Winners

Goalscorers

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualify for the

, besides Chile who qualified automatically as host. :

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

References

External links

Sudamericano Masculino Sub 17
CONMEBOL.com {{DEFAULTSORT:South American Under 17 Championship 2015

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