2019 CONCACAF U-17 Championship


The 2019 CONCACAF U-17 Championship was the 6th edition of the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship, the men's under-17 international football tournament organized by CONCACAF. It was hosted in the United States between [|1] May and 16 May 2019. The top four teams qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil as CONCACAF representatives.
Mexico were the defending champions, and won a fourth consecutive title.

Qualified teams

The format for qualification had changed since the 2017 edition. The qualifying competition no longer featured Caribbean and Central American zones.
The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Men’s Under-17 Ranking as of May 2017. A total of 35 teams entered the tournament. The sixteen highest-ranked entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked nineteen entrants had to participate in qualifying, where the four group winners advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.
RoundTeamQualificationAppearancePrevious best performancePrevious FIFA U-17 World Cup appearances
Group stage 17thChampions 13
Group stage 18thChampions 16
Group stage18thRunners-up 5
Group stage17thChampions 10
Group stage9thRunners-up 2
Group stage17thRunners-up 6
Group stage14thFinal group winner 2
Group stage8thFinal group winner 1
Group stage14thRunners-up 2
Group stage11thQuarter-finals 0
Group stage15thFourth place 0
Group stage2ndFirst round 0
Group stage7thFirst round 0
Group stage3rdFirst round 0
Group stage2ndFirst round 0
Group stage1stDebut0
Round of 162ndFirst round 0
Round of 163rdFirst round 0
Round of 161stDebut0
Round of 163rdFirst round 0

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Venues

Matches were played at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida:
Bradenton, Florida
IMG Academy
Capacity: 5,000

Match officials

Referees

Draw

The draw for the group stage took place on 19 February 2019, 11:00 EST, at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami, Florida, United States. The sixteen teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. Based on the CONCACAF Men's Under-17 Ranking, the top four ranked teams were seeded into position one of each group, while the remaining twelve teams were distributed in the other pots, as follows:
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2002 were eligible to compete.

Group stage

The top three teams in each group advanced to the round of 16, where they were joined by the four teams advancing from the qualifying round.
The teams were ranked according to points. If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
  1. Greater number of points in matches between the tied teams;
  2. Greater goal difference in matches between the tied teams ;
  3. Greater number of goals scored in matches among the tied teams ;
  4. Greater goal difference in all group matches;
  5. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches;
  6. Drawing of lots.
All times are local, EDT.

Group E

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Group F

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Group G

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Group H

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Knockout stage

Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

The four quarter-final winners qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
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Semi-finals

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Awards

Winners

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.
;Golden Ball
;Golden Boot
  • Geancarlo Castro
;Golden Glove
;Fair Play
PositionPlayer
GK Eduardo García
DF Jean Geffrard
DF Kobe Hernandez-Foster
DF Alejandro Gómez
DF Stanley Guirand
MF Danny Leyva
MF Eugenio Pizzuto
MF Gianluca Busio
FW Geancarlo Castro
FW Israel Luna
FW Giovanni Reyna

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following four teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1
6
16
13
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