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. Draw. The draw took place on December 13, 2016 at 19:00 EST () 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. 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. 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. 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. 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: All times are local, EST (). Group A. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group B. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group C. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> 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. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group E. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> 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. Individual awards. The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament. Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup. The following four teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.