# 2013 South American U-15 Championship

The 2013 South American U-15 Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-15 Bolivia 2013) was the 6th edition of the South American U-15 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONMEBOL for the men's under-15 national teams of South America. It was held in Bolivia from 16 to 30 November 2023.
The tournament acted as South American qualifying for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. The champion team qualified for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics boys' football tournament in Nanjing, China as the CONMEBOL representative.
Brazil were the defending champions, but they failed to defend the title after being eliminated in the group stage.
Peru won their first South American U-15 title by defeating Colombia 1–0 in the final, and qualified for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics boys' football tournament. Argentina finished in third place after beating Chile in the third-place play-off.

## Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.
| Team | Appearance | Previous best top-4 performance |
| Argentina | 6th | Runners-up (2005) |
| Bolivia (hosts) | 6th | Fourth place (2005) |
| Brazil (holders) | 6th | Champions (2005, 2007, 2011) |
| Chile | 6th | Fourth place (2007) |
| Colombia | 6th | Runners-up (2004, 2011) |
| Ecuador | 6th | Third place (2009) |
| Paraguay | 6th | Champions (2004, 2009) |
| Peru | 6th | None |
| Uruguay | 6th | Runners-up (2007) |
| Venezuela | 6th | None |

### Squads

Each team was required to register a squad of 22 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 6.2). Players born on or after 1 January 1998 were eligible to compete in the tournament (Regulations Article 6.7).

## Venues

| Montero | MonteroSanta CruzTarijaclass=notpageimage| Location of host cities. |
| Estadio Gilberto Parada | MonteroSanta CruzTarijaclass=notpageimage| Location of host cities. |
| Capacity: 15,000 | MonteroSanta CruzTarijaclass=notpageimage| Location of host cities. |
| Santa Cruz | MonteroSanta CruzTarijaclass=notpageimage| Location of host cities. |
| Estadio Ramón Aguilera | MonteroSanta CruzTarijaclass=notpageimage| Location of host cities. |
| Capacity: 42,000 | MonteroSanta CruzTarijaclass=notpageimage| Location of host cities. |
| Tarija | MonteroSanta CruzTarijaclass=notpageimage| Location of host cities. |
| Estadio IV Centenario | MonteroSanta CruzTarijaclass=notpageimage| Location of host cities. |
| Capacity: 15,000 | MonteroSanta CruzTarijaclass=notpageimage| Location of host cities. |
Bolivia was named host country of the tournament during the CONMEBOL Executive Committee meeting held on 20 December 2012 at CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay. It was the third time that Bolivia hosted the tournament, having previously done so in 2005 and 2009.
Four cities were candidates to host the competition: Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Tarija and Sucre. In May 2013, Santa Cruz and Tarija were announced as the host cities, and Montero was added as an extra venue days before the start of the tournament.

## Draw

The draw for the groups composition was held on 20 September 2023, 10:00 BOT (UTC−4), at the Liga del Fútbol Profesional Boliviano headquarters in Santa Cruz. The hosts Bolivia and defending champions Brazil were seeded into Group A and Group B, respectively, and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining eight teams were drawn to one of the two groups.
The draw event was hosted by the president of the Bolivian Football Federation Carlos Chávez and was attended by CONMEBOL president Eugenio Figueredo. After the draw, the groups were formed as follows:
Group A :
| Group A PosTeam A1 Bolivia A2 Argentina A3 Paraguay A4 Ecuador A5 Peru | Group B PosTeam B1 Brazil B2 Venezuela B3 Uruguay B4 Colombia B5 Chile |

## Match officials

On 23 October 2013, CONMEBOL announced the match officials appointed for the tournament, being selected one referee and one assistant referee from each member association.
| Association | Referees | Assistant referees |
| Argentina | Pablo Díaz | Ezequiel Brailovsky |
| Bolivia | Gery Vargas | Javier Bustillos |
| Brazil | Wilton Sampaio | Kleber Lucio Gill |
| Chile | Roberto Tobar | Raúl Orellana |
| Colombia | Wilson Lamouroux | Cristian de La Cruz |
| Ecuador | Carlos Orbe | Edwin Bravo |
| Paraguay | Mario Díaz de Vivar | Eduardo Cardozo |
| Peru | Miguel Santivañez | Víctor Ráez |
| Uruguay | Andrés Cunha | Carlos Changala |
| Venezuela | Jesús Valenzuela | Tulio Moreno |

## First stage

The top two teams in each group advanced to the final stage.
If teams finish level on points, order will be determined according to the following criteria:
* superior goal difference in all matches
* greater number of goals scored in all group matches
* better result in matches between tied teams
* drawing of lots
All kick-off times are local, BOT (UTC−4), as listed by CONMEBOL.

### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Peru | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 10 |
| Argentina | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 10 |
| Paraguay | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
| Ecuador | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 4 |
| Bolivia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 2 | −9 | 0 |

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Colombia | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 10 |
| Chile | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 7 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 5 |
| Uruguay | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 5 |
| Venezuela | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 14 | −10 | 0 |

## Final stage

In the final stage, if a match was tied after regular time (90 minutes), extra time would not be played and the match would be directly decided by a penalty shoot-out.
| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| 28 November - Santa Cruz | 28 November - Santa Cruz |
| Peru | 2 |
| Peru | 2 | 30 November - Santa Cruz | 30 November - Santa Cruz |
| Chile | 0 | 30 November - Santa Cruz | 30 November - Santa Cruz |
| Chile | 0 | Peru | 1 |
| 28 November - Santa Cruz | 28 November - Santa Cruz | | Peru | 1 |
| 28 November - Santa Cruz | 28 November - Santa Cruz | Colombia | 0 |
| Colombia | 2 | Colombia | 0 |
| Argentina | 0 | | |
| Argentina | 0 | Third place | Third place |
| | | 30 November - Santa Cruz | 30 November - Santa Cruz |
| | | Chile | 1 |
| | | Argentina | 2 |

### Final

* 2013 South American Under-15 Football champions
* Peru First title

## Goalscorers

There were 72 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match.
7 goals
* Luis Iberico
5 goals
* Edward Bolaños
4 goals
* Matías Roskopf
* Federico Vietto
3 goals
* Evander
* Diego Rossi
* Hideyoshi Arakaki
2 goals
* Tomás Conechny
* Bruno Miranda
* Ricardo Álvarez
* Mathías Pinto
* Edwuin Cetré
* Andrés Mosquera
* Edgar Vivero
* Julio Villalba
* Santiago Ramírez
* Jesús Mendieta
* Yangel Herrera
1 goal
* Bruno Fernández
* Facundo Pardo
* Franco Ramos
* Miullen
* Paul Fermandois
* Manuel Reyes
* Luis Salas
* Jonathan Cuéllar
* Jhon Lucumí
* Renny Jaramillo
* Johao Montaño
* Estefano Tello
* Arturo Aranda
* Josué Colmán
* Sergio Díaz
* Guillermo Frachi
* Jeremy Canela
* Jordan Guivin
* Federico Valverde
* Marco Farisato
* Anthony Trujillo