The 2017 CONMEBOL South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship was the first edition of the ''

South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship The CONMEBOL South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship (named natively in Spanish as the ''Sudamericano Sub-20 Futbol Playa'') is a biennial international youth beach soccer tournament contested between the national teams of men aged unde ...

'' (known natively in Spanish as the ''Sudamericano Sub-20 Futbol Playa''), an international youth

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tournament for

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national teams of men under the age of 20. The championship was organised by

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, the governing body for football in South America, in cooperation with the local organisers, the

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(AUF). Confirmed in December 2015, the event took place between 3 and 10 December in

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. Brazil won the inaugural championship, beating Argentina on penalties in the final to become under-20 South American champions.

Teams

Under 20s teams representing all 10 members of CONMEBOL took part. * * * * * * * * * *

Squads

Each team submitted a squad consisting of 12 players, of individuals no older than 20 years.

Venue

One venue was used to host all matches in the capital city of

, on Pocitos Beach, in the district of

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. Note Correct as of 2011.

Draw

The draw to split the ten teams into two groups of five took place on November 1 at 19:00 UYT ( UTC–3) in

at the headquarters of the

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. Initially, two teams were automatically assigned to the groups: *to Group A: as the host association, *to Group B: the highest ranked team in the last U-20 tournament, The remaining eight teams were split into four pots of two, shown in the below table. The teams were seeded based on how many points they gained in the last U-20 tournament, the ''

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''; those with the most points were placed in Pot 1 as the highest seeds, down to the lowest seeds in Pot 4 who collected the fewest points. From each pot, one team was drawn into Group A and the other team was drawn into Group B.

Group stage

The match schedule was revealed on 1 November, after the completion of the draw. All times are local, UYT ( UTC–3).

Group A

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Group B

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Placement matches

The teams finishing in third, fourth and fifth place in the groups were knocked out of title-winning contention, receding to play in consolation matches to determine 5th through 10th place in the final standings.

Ninth place play-off

Seventh place play-off

Fifth place play-off

Knockout stage

The group winners and runners-up progressed to the knockout stage to continue to compete for the title.

Semi-finals

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Third place play-off

Final

Awards

Winners trophy

Individual awards

Top goalscorers

''Players with 5 or more goals'' ;20 goals * Carlos Benítez ;12 goals * Lucas Ponzetti ;8 goals * Daniel Duran * Juan Esteban Castrillon * Luis Enrique Molina * Raphael Silva ;6 goals * Savio * Facundo Cordero ;5 goals * Ivan Marcelo Araya * Oscar Alarcon * Christian Diaz * Michael Loor Source
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Final standings

References

External links

CONMEBOL
official website
Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 Futbol Playa
, at Beach Soccer Worldwide
Sudamericano Sub-20 (@Playasub20uy)
official Twitter {{International beach soccer

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