# 2017 CONCACAF U-17 Championship

The 2017 CONCACAF Under-17 Championship was the 5th edition of the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship (18th edition if all eras included), 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 qualifying competition for the tournament began in July 2016.
| Team | Qualification | Appearances | Previous best performances | FIFA U-17 World Cup Participations |
| North American zone |||||
| Mexico (TH) | Automatic | 16th | Champions (1985, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2013, 2015) | 12 |
| United States | Automatic | 17th | Champions (1983, 1992, 2011) | 15 |
| Canada | Automatic | 16th | Runners-up (2011) | 6 |
| Central American zone qualified through the Central America qualifying |||||
| Panama | Host | 8th | Runners-up (2013) | 2 |
| Costa Rica | First place | 16th | Champions (1994) | 9 |
| Honduras | Second place | 17th | Runners-up (2015) | 4 |
| El Salvador | Third place | 14th | Final round play-off (1999) | 0 |
| Caribbean zone qualified through the Caribbean qualifying |||||
| Haiti | Group A winner | 7th | Final round group winner (2007) | 1 |
| Jamaica | Group A runner-up | 13th | Final round group winner (1999) | 2 |
| Cuba | Group B winner | 10th | Champions (1988) | 2 |
| Curaçao | Group B runner-up | 6th | First round | 0 |
| Suriname | Best third place | 1st | — | 0 |
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.

## Venues

| Panama City | Panama City | Panama City |
| Panama City | Estadio Rommel Fernández | Estadio Maracaná |
| Panama City | Capacity: 32,000 | Capacity: 5,500 |

## Draw

The draw took place on December 13, 2016 at 19:00 EST (UTC−5) 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 |
| Panama  Costa Rica  Mexico | United States  Canada  Honduras | Jamaica  Cuba  Haiti | El Salvador  Curaçao  Suriname |
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 (D and E) 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 (including two goalkeepers).

## Group stage

The top two teams from each group in the group stage advanced to the classification stage.

### Tiebreakers (for both group stage and classification stage)

The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). 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 (if more than two teams finish equal on points);
* Greater number of goals scored in matches among the tied teams (if more than two teams finished equal on points);
* Greater goal difference in all group matches;
* Greater number of goals scored in all group matches;
* Drawing of lots.
All times are local, EST (UTC−5).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Panama (H) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 | Classification stage |
| 2 | Honduras | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 6 | Classification stage |
| 3 | Curaçao | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 3 | |
| 4 | Haiti | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 1 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Costa Rica | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 9 | Classification stage |
| 2 | Cuba | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 4 | Classification stage |
| 3 | Canada | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | |
| 4 | Suriname | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 1 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 9 | Classification stage |
| 2 | Mexico | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 6 | Classification stage |
| 3 | Jamaica | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 3 | |
| 4 | El Salvador | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | −9 | 0 | |

## 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.

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | United States | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | +7 | 6 | Final and 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 2 | Honduras | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 3 | 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 3 | Cuba | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 13 | −10 | 0 | |

### Group E

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Mexico | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 6 | Final and 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 2 | Costa Rica | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 3 | 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 3 | Panama (H) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 0 | |

## Final

If the final was level at the end of 90 minutes, no extra time would be played and the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out.

## Awards
### Winners

* 2017 CONCACAF U-17 Championship winners
* Mexico Seventh title

### Individual awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.

#### Golden Ball

* Jairo Torres

#### Golden Boot

* Carlos Mejía (7 goals)

#### Golden Glove

* Justin Garces

#### Fair Play Award

* Mexico

### Best XI

* Goalkeeper: Justin Garces
* Right back: Jaylin Lindsey
* Center back: James Sands
* Center back: Luis Olivas
* Left back: Walter Cortés
* Right midfielder: Jairo Torres
* Central midfielder: Chris Durkin
* Central midfielder: Alexis Gutiérrez
* Left midfielder: Carlos Mejía
* Forward: Daniel López
* Forward: Josh Sargent

## Goalscorers
### 7 goals

* Carlos Mejía

### 6 goals

* Daniel López

### 5 goals

* Josh Sargent

### 4 goals

* Eduardo Guerrero
* Ayo Akinola

### 3 goals

* José Alfaro
* Brian Savigne
* Patrick Palacios
* Roberto de la Rosa
* Luis Olivas
* Jairo Torres

### 2 goals

* Jonathan David
* Josué Abarca
* Luis Enrique Palma
* Ricardo McIntosh
* Ángel Orelien
* Andrew Carleton
* Zyen Jones
* Tim Weah

### 1 goal

* Alessandro Hojabrpour
* Antonio Rocco Romeo
* Karin Arce
* Julen Cordero
* Andrés Gómez
* Yecxy Jarquin
* Justin Montero
* Manuel Cruz
* Bruno Rendón
* Yandry Romero
* Nathan Bernadina
* Alexis Cerritos
* Obenson Leveille
* David Cardona
* Everson López
* Osbed Pérez
* Kaheem Parris
* Jeremy Verley
* Alan Maeda
* Carlos Robles
* Raúl Sandoval
* Adrián Vázquez
* Archero Hoever
* Chris Durkin
* Blaine Ferri
* Indiana Vassilev
* Bryan Reynolds

### 2 own goals

* Miguel Coll (playing against Costa Rica and United States)

### 1 own goal

* Giovanni Ávila (playing against Mexico)
* Kevin Menjívar (playing against Mexico)
* Jaylin Lindsey (playing against Mexico)
* Arturo Vasquez (playing against Cuba)

## Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following four teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament |
| Mexico | 3 May 2017 | 12 (1985, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015) |
| United States | 5 May 2017 | 15 (1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015) |
| Honduras | 3 May 2017 | 4 (2007, 2009, 2013, 2015) |
| Costa Rica | 3 May 2017 | 9 (1985, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2015) |
    $^1$ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.