2017 South American U-17 Championship


The 2017 South American Under-17 Football Championship was the 17th edition of the South American Under-17 Football Championship, a football competition for the under-17 national teams in South America organized by CONMEBOL. It was held in Chile from 23 February to 19 March 2017.
Brazil were crowned champions, and together with Chile, Paraguay and Colombia, which were the top four teams of this tournament, qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India.

Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.
TeamAppearancePrevious best performance
17th
17th
17th
17th
17th
16th
16th
17th
17th
17th

Venues

According to ANFP sources, Chile was named as host country of the tournament during the CONMEBOL Executive Committee meeting held on 12 May 2015, this was ratified by CONMEBOL at another meeting of its executive committee held on 4 April 2016. The chosen venues were Estadio El Teniente, Rancagua and Estadio Fiscal, Talca. On 22 February 2017, Estadio La Granja, Curicó was added as an emergency venue to host the first two matchdays of Group B since Estadio Fiscal field was in poor condition.
RancaguaTalcaCuricó
Estadio El TenienteEstadio FiscalEstadio La Granja
Capacity:13,849Capacity:8,200Capacity:8,000

Squads

Each team registered a squad of 23 players.

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 12 January 2017, 14:00 CLST, at the Chilean Football Federation headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Chile and the defending champions Brazil were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position [|1] in their group, while the remaining eight teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their final positions in the 2015 South American Under-17 Football Championship.
SeededPot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

Match officials

The referees and assistants referees were:
Jorge Baliño and Fernando Rapallini
Juan Nelio García
Raphael Claus
Eduardo Gamboa
Luis Sánchez
Juan Albarracín
José Méndez
Michael Espinoza
Leodán González and Óscar Rojas
Adrián Cabello
  • The Uruguayan referee Esteban Ostojich was replaced by Leodán González after Ostojich was ruled out of the championship after suffering an injury. González was assisted by Wilmar Navarro and Dionisio Ruiz in the first stage and by Nievas and Popovits in the final stage.
  • For the final stage, Fernando Rapallini, Óscar Rojas and the assistants Miguel Nievas and Gabriel Popovits were included.
  • The Colombian referee Luis Sánchez, Ostojich and the uruguayan assistants Carlos Pastorino and Horacio Ferreiro did not referee any match in the tournament.

First stage

The top three teams in each group advanced to the final stage.
;Tiebreakers
When teams finished level of points, the final rankings were determined according to:
  1. goal difference
  2. goals scored
  3. head-to-head result between tied teams
  4. drawing of lots
All times local, CLST.

Group A

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Group B

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Final stage

When teams finished level of points, the final rankings were determined according to the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage.
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Goalscorers

;7 goals
;5 goals
;4 goals
;3 goals
;2 goals
;1 goal
;Own goal

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament1