The 2025 South American U-17 Women's Championship was the 9th edition of the

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(), the biennial international youth

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championship organised by

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for the women's under-17 national teams of South America. It was held in

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from 30 April to 24 May 2025.

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won the competition for the first time after topping the final stage. Paraguay along with

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, and

qualified for the

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as the CONMEBOL representatives after ending in the top four of the competition. Brazil were the defending champions.

Host and venues

CONMEBOL announced

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, Palmira and

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as host cities on 30 January 2025, with the

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and the

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being the venues for the matches.

Teams

All ten

member national teams are eligible to enter the tournament.

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 19 December 2024, 14:15 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 Brazil 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:

Squads

Group stage

;Tiebreakers In the group 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 20): #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 local times, COT ( UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL.

Group A

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Group B

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Final stage

In the final stage, the teams are ranked according to

earned (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order, taking into account only matches in the final stage (Regulations Article 21): #Head-to-head result in games between tied teams; ##Points in the matches played between the teams in question; ##

in the matches played between the teams in question; ##Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question; #Goal difference in all group matches; #Number of goals scored in all group matches; #Fewest red cards received; #Fewest yellow cards received #Drawing of lots. All match times are local times, COT ( UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL. ---- ---- ---- ----

Goalscorers

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the

. :

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

References

External links

CONMEBOL Sudamericano Femenino Sub 17 2025
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