2017 CONCACAF U-17 Championship

The 2017 CONCACAF Under-17 Championship was the 5th edition of the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship, the men's under-17 international football tournament organized by CONCACAF. It was hosted in Panama between 21 April and 7 May 2017.
The competition was used to determine the four CONCACAF representatives at the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India.

Qualified teams

The 2017 [CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifying|qualifying competition] for the tournament began in July 2016.
Note: no titles or runners-up between 1999 and 2007.
All previous appearances of Curaçao as the former Netherlands Antilles.
Bold indicates that the corresponding team was hosting the event.

Draw

The draw took place on December 13, 2016 at 19:00 Eastern [Standard Time (North America)|EST] at Sheraton Grand Panama, Panama City, Panama, and was streamed live via CONCACAF.com.
Different from previous tournaments, the 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams in the group stage. Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica were seeded into each of the three groups.

Panama, as hosts, were seeded in position A1.
Costa Rica, as the best-ranked CONCACAF team in the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, excluding Mexico, were seeded in position B1.
Mexico, as champions of the 2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, were seeded in position C1.

The remaining nine teams were allocated to pots 2–4 designed to ensure balanced and competitive groups weighted equally by region. They were drawn in order and placed in the group position drawn from Pots A, B and C.

Pot [\|1]	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4

The top two teams from each group in the group stage advance to the classification stage, where the six teams are drawn into two groups of three teams. The positions of each group winner and runner-up from the group stage were then drawn in group pairs, randomly into the two groups for the classification stage.
The top two teams from each group in the classification stage qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, with the group winners also advancing to the final to decide the champions of the CONCACAF U-17 Championship.

Referees

Adrián Skeete
Juan Calderón
Michel Rodríguez
Bryan López
Gladwyn Johnson
Saíd Martínez
Daneon Parchment
Luis Enrique Santander
José Kellys Marquez
Ismael Cornejo
Rodphin Harris
Armando Villarreal

Squads

Each squad could contain 20 players.

Group stage

The top two teams from each group in the group stage advanced to the classification stage.
;Tiebreakers
The teams were ranked according to points. If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

Greater number of points in matches between the tied teams;
Greater goal difference in matches between the tied teams ;
Greater number of goals scored in matches among the tied teams ;
Greater goal difference in all group matches;
Greater number of goals scored in all group matches;
Drawing of lots.

All times are local, EST.

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Classification stage

The top two teams from each group in the classification stage qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, with the group winners also advancing to the final to decide the champions of the CONCACAF U-17 Championship.