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competition for women's national teams. It is held every two years for South American players under the age of 20 and serves as a qualification tournament for the

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. In its inaugural year, 2004, it was played by U-19 players. The last edition was held in 2022 in Chile.

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has won all the competitions with 10 titles in total. For the

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and

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, South America was given one qualification spot. In 2002 Brazil and Peru played a two legged play-off for one spot allocated to South America. Brazil won 12–0 on aggregate. Since 2006 South America has been given two spots for the now-renamed

. In this tournament, Brazil has reached the third-place match three times and Colombia reached the third-place match in 2010. Argentina has been eliminated from the group stage for all three of their appearances; Paraguay and Chile were eliminated from the group stage in their only appearance.

Results

;Notes

Performances by countries

Participating nations

;Legend * – Champions * – Runners-up * – Third place * – Fourth place *GS – Group stage *Fin4 – Final four (the final stage of the 2020 tournament was suspended and later cancelled due to the

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). * — Hosts

Top scorers

The topscorers of the tournaments were:

FIFA World Cup qualification and results

*QF = World Cup quarter-final *R16 = Round of 16 *GS = World Cup group stage *Q = Qualified to World Cup * = World Cup Hosts

References

External links

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Championship results
at the

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{{International women's football CONMEBOL competitions for women's national teams Under-20 association football competitions Recurring sporting events established in 2004 South American youth sports competitions