# 2015 South American U-17 Championship

The 2015 South American Under-17 Football Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-17 Paraguay 2015, Brazilian Portuguese: Campeonato Sul-Americano Sub-17 Paraguay 2015) was the 16th edition of the biennial international youth football tournament organized by CONMEBOL for players aged 17 and below. It was held in Paraguay from 4 to 29 March 2015.
This tournament served as CONMEBOL's qualifier for the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile. The top four teams, tournament champions Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, and hosts Paraguay, qualified for the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, joining Chile who automatically qualified as hosts of the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

## Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.
| Team | Appearance | Previous best performance |
| Argentina (holders) | 16th | Champions (3 times, most recent 2013) |
| Bolivia | 16th | Champions (1 time, 1986) |
| Brazil | 16th | Champions (10 times, most recent 2011) |
| Chile | 16th | Runners-up (1 time, 1993) |
| Colombia | 16th | Champions (1 time, 1993) |
| Ecuador | 15th | Third place (3 times, most recent 2005) |
| Paraguay (hosts) | 15th | Runners-up (1 time, 1999) |
| Peru | 16th | Fourth place (1 time, 2007) |
| Uruguay | 16th | Runners-up (3 times, most recent 2011) |
| Venezuela | 16th | Runners-up (1 time, 2013) |

## Venues

Paraguay was named as host country of the tournament on 23 May 2012 at the CONMEBOL Executive Committee meeting held in Budapest, Hungary, prior to the 62nd FIFA Congress. A total of three venues were chosen to host the matches: Estadio Dr. Nicolás Léoz in Asunción, Estadio Deportivo Capiatá in Capiatá and Estadio Feliciano Cáceres, Luque.
| Asunción | AsunciónCapiatáLuque |
| Estadio Dr. Nicolás Léoz | AsunciónCapiatáLuque |
| Capacity: 10,000 | AsunciónCapiatáLuque |
| Capiatá | AsunciónCapiatáLuque |
| Estadio Deportivo Capiatá | AsunciónCapiatáLuque |
| Capacity: 8,000 | AsunciónCapiatáLuque |
| Luque | AsunciónCapiatáLuque |
| Estadio Feliciano Cáceres | AsunciónCapiatáLuque |
| Capacity: 24,000 | AsunciónCapiatáLuque |

## Match officials

On 10 February 2015, CONMEBOL announced the referees and assistants referees summoned for the tournament. The assistants Ariel Scime (Argentina), Cleriston Barreto (Brazil), Carlos Changala (Uruguay) and Tulio Moreno (Venezuela) were replaced by Cristian Navarro, Bruno Boschilia, Gabriel Popovits and Luis Murillo respectively.

## Squads

Each team may register a squad of 22 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).

## Draw

The draw was held on 24 October 2014, 10:00 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL Headquarters in Luque, Paraguay. The ten teams involved were settled in five "pairing pots" (Argentina–Brazil, Paraguay–Uruguay, Colombia–Ecuador, Chile–Peru, Bolivia–Venezuela) to be drawn into two groups of five. Initially Argentina and Brazil were announced as seeded teams, however, Paraguay (as hosts) and Uruguay were finally the teams seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 in their group. The remaining teams, including Argentina and Brazil, were drawn to determine their group as well as their position within it.
| Seeded | Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| Paraguay (Hosts, assigned to A1) Uruguay (assigned to B1) | Argentina Brazil | Colombia Ecuador | Chile Peru | Bolivia Venezuela |
The draw results were as follows:
Group A :
| Group A PosTeam A1 Paraguay A2 Brazil A3 Venezuela A4 Colombia A5 Peru | Group B PosTeam B1 Uruguay B2 Argentina B3 Bolivia B4 Ecuador B5 Chile |

## First stage

The top three teams in each group qualified for the final stage.
When teams finished level of points, the final order was determined according to:
* superior goal difference in all matches
* greater number of goals scored in all group matches
* better result in matches between the tied teams
* drawing of lots
All match times are in local Paraguay Time (UTC−3).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
| 1 | Paraguay (H) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 8 | Advance to Final stage |
| 2 | Brazil | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 7 | Advance to Final stage |
| 3 | Colombia | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 5 | Advance to Final stage |
| 4 | Venezuela | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 5 | |
| 5 | Peru | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 1 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
| 1 | Uruguay | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 12 | Advance to Final stage |
| 2 | Ecuador | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 9 | Advance to Final stage |
| 3 | Argentina | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 6 | Advance to Final stage |
| 4 | Bolivia | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 14 | −9 | 3 | |
| 5 | Chile | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 0 | |

## Final stage

When teams finished level of points, the final order was determined according to the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage.
All match times are in local Paraguay Time (UTC−3 for matchdays 1–2, and UTC−4 for matchdays 3–5).
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Brazil | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 9 | 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 2 | Argentina | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 8 | 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 3 | Ecuador | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 8 | 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 4 | Paraguay (H) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 10 | +1 | 7 | 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 5 | Uruguay | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 6 | |
| 6 | Colombia | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 4 | |

## Winners

* 2015 South American Under-17 Football champions
* Brazil Eleventh title

## Goalscorers

There were 116 goals scored in 35 matches, for an average of 3.31 goals per match.
8 goals
* Leandrinho
7 goals
* Federico Valverde
5 goals
* Tomás Conechny
* Sebastián Ferreira
4 goals
* Luis Iberico
3 goals
* Germán Berterame
* Evander
* Andy Casquete
* Washington Corozo
* Anderson Naula
* Jhon Pereira
* Sergio Díaz
* Rodi Ferreira
* Diego Rossi
* Ronaldo Chacón
2 goals
* Pablo Enrique Ruiz
* Bruno Miranda
* Henry Vaca
* Andrey
* Lincoln
* Gabriel Mazuela
* Edwin Ariza
* Edward Bolaños
* Edwin Cetré
* David Josué Pérez
* Fabiano Tello
* Jonathan Valiente
* Nicolás Rodríguez
* Yangel Herrera
1 goal
* Julián Chicco
* Lucas Coyette
* Exequiel Palacios
* Matías Roskopf
* Luis Iriondo
* Adryelson
* Kléber
* Ramón
* Branco Provoste
* David Salazar
* Jorge Carrascal
* Carlos Cuesta
* Jefferson Valdeblánquez
* Pervis Estupiñán
* Renny Jaramillo
* Arturo Aranda
* Jorge Morel
* Cristhian Paredes
* Óscar Rodas
* Robert Ergas
* Roberto Nicolás Fernández
* Santiago Mederos
* Marcelo Saracchi
* Nicolás Schiappacasse
* Marco Farisato
* Starling Yendis
1 own goal
* Caíque (playing against Paraguay)
* Zé Marcos (playing against Venezuela)
* Jefferson Valdeblánquez (playing against Paraguay)
Source: CONMEBOL

## Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualify for the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, besides Chile who qualified automatically as host.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| Chile | 3 March 2011 | 2 (1993, 1997) |
| Brazil | 26 March 2015 | 14 (1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013) |
| Argentina | 26 March 2015 | 12 (1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013) |
| Ecuador | 26 March 2015 | 3 (1987, 1995, 2011) |
| Paraguay | 29 March 2015 | 2 (1999, 2001) |
    $^1$ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.