# 2023 CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship

The 2023 CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship (Spanish: Campeonato de Niños Sub-15 CONCACAF 2023) is the fourth edition of the CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship, the biennial international youth football tournament organized by CONCACAF for the men's under-15 national teams of North, Central America and Caribbean. It is held in Dominican Republic and Curaçao from 6 to 13 August 2023.
The CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship returned after 4 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced CONCACAF to cancel the tournament in 2021.
UEFA guest team Portugal were the defending champions having won the 2019 League A, however, they were unable to defend their title as they were not invited for this edition..

## Teams

A total of 41 teams entered the tournament, 39 out of the 41 CONCACAF member national teams and two invited teams from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Montserrat was scheduled to participate in League C but finally withdrew. Bahamas did not enter the tournament.
Like previous editions, the teams were split into three divisions, named League A (with 16 teams), League B (with 16 teams) and League C (with 9 teams), according to the CONCACAF Men's Under-17 Ranking as of February 2023, with the two invited teams being included within the League A.
League A (16 teams) :
| League A (16 teams) Rank Team Prv Pts 1 Mexico6,943 2 United States5,547 3 Canada3,597 4 Honduras3,444 5 Costa Rica3,252 6 Panama3,247 7 Haiti2,537 8 Jamaica1,931 9 El Salvador1,846 10 Cuba1,510 11 Guatemala1,410 12 Puerto Rico1,326 13 Trinidad and Tobago1,326 15 Dominican Republic1,121 N/R Qatar (invited from AFC)—— N/R Saudi Arabia (invited from AFC)—— | League B (16 teams) Rank Team Prv Pts 14 Nicaragua1,212 16 Guadeloupe1,090 17 Bermuda1,090 18 Curaçao931 19 Bonaire863 20 Aruba850 21 Guyana839 22 Suriname832 23 Martinique729 24 Barbados710 26 Cayman Islands637 27 Antigua and Barbuda628 28 Saint Kitts and Nevis613 29 Belize437 30 Saint Lucia397 31 Grenada388 | League C (9 teams) Rank Team Prv Pts 33 British Virgin Islands356 33 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines323 34 Anguilla318 35 Saint Martin292 36 U.S. Virgin Islands227 37 Dominica213 38 Turks and Caicos Islands87 39 French Guiana0 40 Montserrat0 41 Sint Maarten0 |
The groups and match schedule were unveiled on 31 July 2023.

## Format

In League A, the 16 teams were divided into four groups (A to D) of four, with each group played on a single round-robin basis. The top two teams of each group advanceD to the quarter-finals, where the winners advance to the semi-finals, the winners of the semi-finals played the final while the losers played the third place match. The eight teams that not advanced to the quarter-finals were paired, based on their results in the group stage, to play in a final play-offs round.
In League 2, the 16 teams are also divided into four groups (E to H) of four and the same competition format as in League A was used.
In Division 3, the 9 teams are divided into three groups (I to K) one of three and the same competition format as in League A and B was used, with the difference that only the winners of each group and the best runner-up advanced directly to the semi-finals.
Each match was to last 70 minutes, comprising two periods of 35 minutes with an interval of 10 minutes in between. If a game in quarter-finals, semi-finals or third place match of each league was tied at the end of regulation time, the winner would be decided directly by a penalty shoot-out. If the final match of each league was tied at the end of regulation time an extra time of two 10 minute periods would be played, if the score was still tied at the end of overtime, the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out.

## League A

All match times are in DOT (UTC−4), as listed by CONCACAF.

### Group stage
#### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Mexico | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | +9 | 9 | Advance to Quarter-finals |
| 2 | Jamaica | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 | Advance to Quarter-finals |
| 3 | El Salvador | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 3 | Advance to Play-offs round |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia (G) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 13 | −11 | 0 | Advance to Play-offs round |

#### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 2 | +15 | 9 | Advance to Quarter-finals |
| 2 | Haiti | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | Advance to Quarter-finals |
| 3 | Cuba | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 14 | −12 | 3 | Advance to Play-offs round |
| 4 | Qatar (G) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 | Advance to Play-offs round |

#### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 9 | Advance to Quarter-finals |
| 2 | Guatemala | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 4 | Advance to Quarter-finals |
| 3 | Panama | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 4 | Advance to Play-offs round |
| 4 | Dominican Republic (H) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | −8 | 0 | Advance to Play-offs round |
* 1 2 Guatemala scored lower fair play points than Panama to advance to the quarter-finals.

#### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Honduras | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 5 | Advance to Quarter-finals |
| 2 | Puerto Rico | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | Advance to Quarter-finals |
| 3 | Costa Rica | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 4 | Advance to Play-offs round |
| 4 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | Advance to Play-offs round |

### Knockout stage
#### Play-offs round

Teams that not advanced to the quarter-finals were seeded based on their group stage results in order to establish the match-ups for the play-offs round.
| Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Play-offs round |
| 1 | C | Panama | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 4 | Play-off 1 |
| 2 | D | Costa Rica | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 4 | Play-off 2 |
| 3 | D | Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | Play-off 3 |
| 4 | A | El Salvador | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 3 | Play-off 4 |
| 5 | B | Cuba | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 14 | −12 | 3 | Play-off 4 |
| 6 | B | Qatar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 | Play-off 3 |
| 7 | C | Dominican Republic (H) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | −8 | 0 | Play-off 2 |
| 8 | A | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 13 | −11 | 0 | Play-off 1 |

#### Bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 10 August 2023 | 10 August 2023 | | | |
| Honduras | 1 | | | |
| Honduras | 1 | 11 August 2023 | 11 August 2023 | | |
| Jamaica | 4 | 11 August 2023 | 11 August 2023 | |
| Jamaica | 4 | Jamaica | 0 | |
| 10 August 2023 | 10 August 2023 | | Jamaica | 0 | |
| 10 August 2023 | 10 August 2023 | Mexico | 3 | |
| Mexico | 1 | Mexico | 3 | |
| Mexico | 1 | | | | 12 August 2023 | 12 August 2023 |
| Puerto Rico | 0 | | | | 12 August 2023 | 12 August 2023 |
| Puerto Rico | 0 | | | | Mexico | 2 |
| 10 August 2023 | 10 August 2023 | | | | | Mexico | 2 |
| 10 August 2023 | 10 August 2023 | | | | United States | 4 |
| Canada | 0 | | | | United States | 4 |
| Canada | 0 | 11 August 2023 | 11 August 2023 | | | |
| Haiti | 1 | 11 August 2023 | 11 August 2023 | | | |
| Haiti | 1 | Haiti | 0 | | | |
| 10 August 2023 | 10 August 2023 | | Haiti | 0 | | | |
| 10 August 2023 | 10 August 2023 | United States | 1 | | Third place | Third place |
| United States | 4 | United States | 1 | | Third place | Third place |
| United States | 4 | | | | 12 August 2023 | 12 August 2023 |
| Guatemala | 1 | | | | 12 August 2023 | 12 August 2023 |
| Guatemala | 1 | | | | Jamaica | 1 |
| | | | | | Haiti | 3 |