# 2023 South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship

The 2023 CONMEBOL South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship was the third edition of the South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship (known natively in Spanish and Portuguese as the CONMEBOL Sub-20 Fútbol Playa), an international youth beach soccer tournament for South American men's national teams comprising players under the age of 20. A biennial event, the tournament took place for the first time in four years after being unable to take place in 2021 due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in South America.
The event took place between 6 and 13 August in Iquique, Chile. The championship was organised by CONMEBOL, the governing body for football in South America, in cooperation with the local organisers, the Football Federation of Chile (FFC).
Argentina were the defending champions, but finished in the last position of the tournament. Paraguay won its first title in the championship.

## Teams

Under 20s teams representing all 10 members of CONMEBOL will take part.

## Venue

All matches will take place at one venue in the city of Iquique, Chile: Arena Cavancha on Cavancha Beach, with a capacity of 1,542.

## Squads

* Squad size: Each team must submit a squad consisting of 12 players, including two goalkeepers (Regulations Article 44).
* Eligibility: Players can not be older than 20 years, and can not be younger than 16 years, at the end of the calendar year in which the tournament takes place. This means players must be born between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2007 to be eligible to take part, thereby encompassing an age range of 15–20 at the time of the tournament (Regulations Article 41).

## Draw

The draw to split the ten teams into two groups of five took place on 26 June at 12:00 PYT (UTC−3) in Asunción, Paraguay at the headquarters of CONMEBOL. The draw took place under the following procedure:
Initially, two teams were automatically assigned to the groups:
* to Group A: as the host association, Chile
* to Group B: the champions of the previous edition, Argentina
The remaining eight teams were split into four pots of two, shown in the below table.
The teams were seeded based on their final ranking in the previous edition of the South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship; the highest ranked teams were placed in Pot 1, next highest in Pot 2 and so on, down to the lowest ranked team placed in Pot 4. From each pot, one team was drawn into Group A and the other team was drawn into Group B.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| Brazil Paraguay | Peru Ecuador | Colombia Bolivia | Uruguay Venezuela |
The draw resulted in the following groups:
Group A :
| Group A PosTeam A1 Chile A2 Paraguay A3 Ecuador A4 Bolivia A5 Uruguay | Group B PosTeam B1 Argentina B2 Brazil B3 Peru B4 Colombia B5 Venezuela |

## Group stage

The group stage schedule is defined by Regulations Article 15.
Each team earns three points for a win in regulation time, two points for a win in extra time, one point for a win in a penalty shoot-out, and no points for a defeat (Regulations Article 19). The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows (Regulations Article 20):
* points obtained in all group matches;
If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above criterion, their rankings are determined as follows:
* points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
* goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;
* number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
* goal difference in all group matches;
* number of goals scored in all group matches;
* fewest yellow cards received in all group matches;
* fewest red cards received in all group matches;
* drawing of lots by CONMEBOL.
All times are local, CLT (UTC−3).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | W+ | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Paraguay | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 6 | +25 | 12 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Chile (H) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 13 | +5 | 7 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Uruguay | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 29 | −12 | 6 | Fifth place play-off |
| 4 | Ecuador | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 16 | −7 | 3 | Seventh place play-off |
| 5 | Bolivia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 24 | −11 | 0 | Ninth place play-off |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | W+ | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Brazil | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 6 | +27 | 12 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Colombia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 18 | −6 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Peru | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 17 | −2 | 6 | Fifth place play-off |
| 4 | Venezuela | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 16 | −4 | 3 | Seventh place play-off |
| 5 | Argentina | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 24 | −15 | 3 | Ninth place play-off |
* 1 2 Ranked based on head-to-head result (Peru 1–3 Colombia)
* 1 2 Ranked based on head-to-head result (Venezuela 4–3 Argentina)

## Placement matches

The teams finishing in third, fourth and fifth place in the groups are knocked out of title-winning contention; they recede to play in consolatory classification matches to determine fifth through tenth place in the final standings (Regulations Article 18).

### Fifth place play-off
## Knockout stage

The group winners and runners-up progress to the knockout stage to continue to compete for the title (Regulations Article 18).
| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| 12 August | 12 August |
| Paraguay | 5 |
| Paraguay | 5 | 13 August | 13 August |
| Colombia | 3 | 13 August | 13 August |
| Colombia | 3 | Paraguay | 5 |
| 12 August | 12 August | | Paraguay | 5 |
| 12 August | 12 August | Brazil | 3 |
| Brazil | 4 | Brazil | 3 |
| Chile | 3 | | |
| Chile | 3 | Third place play-off | Third place play-off |
| | | 13 August | 13 August |
| | | Colombia | 4 (2) |
| | | Chile (p) | 4 (4) |

### Final

* CONMEBOL Sub-20 Fútbol Playa 2023 champions
* Paraguay First title

## Final standings

| Rank | Team |
| 1 | Paraguay |
| 2 | Brazil |
| 3 | Chile |
| 4 | Colombia |
| 5 | Peru |
| 6 | Uruguay |
| 7 | Venezuela |
| 8 | Ecuador |
| 9 | Bolivia |
| 10 | Argentina |