South American Youth Football Championship

The South American Youth Football Championship, branded as CONMEBOL Sub 20, is a South American football tournament organized by the CONMEBOL for South American national teams of men under age of 20. This tournament also serves as qualification for the FIFA U-20 World Cup and the Pan American Games, and from 2007 to 2015, also for the Summer Olympic Games.
The first South American Youth Championship was hosted by Venezuela from 22 March to 13 April 1954. Initially played as an under-19 tournament, it became an under-20 event from 1977. Brazil has won the tournament on the most occasions.
All matches take place in the host country, and all ten U-20 national football teams of CONMEBOL compete in every edition. They are separated in two groups of five, and each team plays four matches in a pure round-robin stage. The three top competitors advance to a single final group of six, wherein each team plays five matches. The results in this last pure round-robin stage determines the champion and the South American qualification to the next FIFA U-20 World Cup. Unlike most international tournaments, in South American Youth Championships there is neither final match nor third place match nor knockout stages.

Results

	Year	Host	Winners	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place
1	1954	Venezuela	'				9
2	1958	Chile	'				6
3	1964	Colombia	'				7
4	1967	Paraguay	'				9
5	1971	Paraguay	'				9
6	1974	Chile	'				9
7	1975	Peru	'				6
8	1977	Venezuela	'				9
9	1979	Uruguay	'				9
10	1981	Ecuador	'				9
11	1983	Bolivia	'				10
12	1985	Paraguay	'				10
13	1987	Colombia	'				9
14	1988	Argentina	'				11
15	1991	Venezuela	'				10
16	1992	Colombia	'				8
17	1995	Bolivia	'				9
18	1997	Chile	'				10
19	1999	Argentina	'				10
20	2001	Ecuador	'				10
21	2003	Uruguay	'				10
22	2005	Colombia	'				10
23	2007	Paraguay	'				10
24	2009	Venezuela	'				10
25	2011	Peru	'				10
26	2013 South [American Youth Football Championship\|2013]	Argentina	'				10
27	2015	Uruguay	'				10
28	2017	Ecuador	'				10
29	2019	Chile	'				10
30	2023	Colombia	'				10
31	2025	Venezuela					10

Source: RSSSF.

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