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2025 South American U-17 Championship

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2025 South American U-17 Championship
CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-17 Colombia 2025
Tournament details
Host countryColombia
Dates27 March – 12 April
Teams10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)TBD (in TBD host cities)
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The 2025 South American U-17 Championship will be the 20th edition of the South American U-17 Championship (Spanish: CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-17, Portuguese: CONMEBOL Sul-Americano Sub-17), the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONMEBOL for the men's under-17 national teams of South America. It will be held in Colombia from 27 March to 12 April 2025.[1][2]

The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Venezuela between 4–20 April 2024,[3][4] before CONMEBOL decided to move it to Colombia due to Venezuela becoming the host of the 2025 South American U-20 Championship.[1]

Starting from this edition, the tournament will be played every year in line with the annual cycle implemented by FIFA for the FIFA U-17 World Cup.[5]

As a result of the expansion of the FIFA U-17 World Cup format, seven teams will qualify for the U-17 World Cup from this edition onwards, an increase of three berths from the four CONMEBOL teams that previously qualified.[6] The top 7 teams will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the CONMEBOL representatives.[7]

Brazil are the defending champions.

Format changes

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After three years of evaluation and analysis of the proposal submitted in 2021,[8] FIFA announced on 14 March 2024 that its U-17 World Cup would be expanded to 48 teams and would be held annually from 2025, with Qatar being awarded the hosting rights for the next five tournaments.[6] Consequently, CONMEBOL had to modify the format of the South American U-17 Championship to define the 7 places it was awarded in the new slot allocation of the U-17 World Cup. The new format of the South American U-17 Championship is as follows:[5]

  • The group stage remains unchanged, with the ten teams being divided into two groups of five teams each. Both groups are played on a single round-robin basis.
  • The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup. Winners of semi-finals advance to the final to determine the champions while losers play the third place match.
  • Teams placed third and fourth in each group will play for the 5th to 8th places, with the third placed teams playing the fourth placed teams in two semi-finals. The winners of the semi-finals play for fifth place and qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup while the losers play for seventh place, with the winner being the last team to qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World.
  • Teams placed fifth in the group stage will be eliminated.

Host and venues

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Venezuela was originally announced as host country for the tournament by the CONMEBOL President Alejandro Domínguez during a CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 10 April 2024.[3][9]

However, on 15 November 2024, CONMEBOL announced some changes to its competition calendar for 2025 in a letter sent to its member associations, moving the South American U-17 Championship to Colombia to replace Venezuela,[1][2] which went on to host the 2025 South American U-20 Championship after CONMEBOL withdrew Peru's hosting rights of this tournament.[10]

Teams

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All ten CONMEBOL member national teams are eligible to enter the tournament.

Team Appearance Previous best performance
 Argentina 20th Champions (4 times, most recent 2019)
 Bolivia 20th Champions (1 time, 1986)
 Brazil (holders) 20th Champions (13 times, most recent 2023)
 Chile 20th Runners-up (3 times, most recent 2019)
 Colombia 20th Champions (1 time, 1993)
 Ecuador 19th Third place (4 times, most recent 2015)
 Paraguay 19th Runners-up (1 time, 1999)
 Peru 20th Fourth place (1 time, 2007)
 Uruguay 20th Runners-up (3 times, most recent 2011)
 Venezuela (hosts) 20th Runners-up (1 time, 2013)

Squads

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Main article: 2025 South American U-17 Championship squads

Each team could register a squad of a minimum of 19 and a maximum of 23 players, including at least 3 goalkeepers. Players born between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2010 (ages 15 to 17) were eligible to compete in the tournament (Regulations Articles 47 and 50).[7]

Draw

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The draw of the tournament was held on 19 December 2024, 14:15 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay.[11] The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Colombia and defending champions Brazil were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their results in the 2023 South American U-17 Championship (shown in brackets).[11]

Seeded Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
  •  Colombia (9) (Hosts, assigned to A1)
  •  Brazil (1) (Title holders, assigned to B1)

From each pot, the first team drawn was placed into Group A and the second team drawn was placed into Group B. In both groups, teams from pot 1 were allocated in position 2, teams from pot 2 in position 3, teams from pot 3 in position 4 and teams from pot 4 in position 5.[12]

The draw resulted in the following groups:[13]

Group A
Pos Team
A1  Colombia
A2  Argentina
A3  Paraguay
A4  Chile
A5  Peru
Group B
Pos Team
B1  Brazil
B2  Ecuador
B3  Venezuela
B4  Uruguay
B5  Bolivia

Group stage

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The top three teams in each group will advance to the final stage.

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points earned (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order (Regulations Article 20):[7]

  1. Head-to-head result between tied teams;
    • Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
    • Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
    • Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in all group matches;
  3. Goals scored in all group matches;
  4. Fewest red cards received;
  5. Fewest yellow cards received;
  6. Drawing of lots.

All match times are local times, COT (UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL.[14]

Group A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Colombia (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Final four and
2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2  Argentina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Paraguay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5th–8th places
4  Chile 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5  Peru 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 27 March 2023. Source: [citation needed]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Colombia Match 1 Chile
Peru Match 2 Paraguay
Peru Match 5 Colombia
Chile Match 6 Argentina
Argentina Match 9 Paraguay
Chile Match 10 Peru
Paraguay Match 13 Colombia
Argentina Match 14 Peru
Colombia Match 17 Argentina
Paraguay Match 18 Chile

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Brazil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Final four and
2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2  Ecuador 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Venezuela 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5th–8th places
4  Uruguay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5  Bolivia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 28 March 2026. Source: [citation needed]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Brazil Match 3 Uruguay
Bolivia Match 4 Venezuela
Bolivia Match 7 Brazil
Uruguay Match 8 Ecuador
Ecuador Match 11 Venezuela
Uruguay Match 12 Bolivia
Venezuela Match 15 Brazil
Ecuador Match 16 Bolivia
Brazil Match 19 Ecuador
Venezuela Match 20 Uruguay

Final stage

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The final stage will be played on a single-elimination basis and consists of the 5th–8th play-offs matches, semi-finals, third place match and final. If a match was level at the end of normal playing time, the winner would be decided directly by a penalty shoot-out (no extra time will be played).[7]

All match times are local times, COT (UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL.

5th–8th places

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The 5th–8th semi-finals matchups are:

  • Group A third place vs Group B fourth place
  • Group B third place vs Group A fourth place
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
8 April –
 
 
Group third place
 
11 April –
 
Group B fourth place
 
Winner match 21
 
8 April –
 
Winner match 22
 
Group third place
 
 
Group A fourth place
 
Third place
 
 
11 April –
 
 
Loser match 21
 
 
Loser match 22

5th–8th semi-finals

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Winners qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Group A third placeMatch 21Group B fourth place
Group B third placeMatch 22Group A fourth place

Seventh place match

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Winner qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Losers match 21Match 25Losers match 22

Fifth place match

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Winners match 21Match 26Winners match 22

Final four

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The semi-finals matchups are:

  • Semi-final 1 (SF1): Group A winners vs Group B runners-up
  • Semi-final 2 (SF2): Group B winners vs Group A runners-up
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
9 April –
 
 
Group A winners
 
12 April –
 
Group B runners-up
 
Winner SF1
 
9 April –
 
Winner SF2
 
Group B winners
 
 
Group A runners-up
 
Third place
 
 
12 April –
 
 
Loser SF1
 
 
Loser SF2

Semi-finals

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Group A winnersMatch 23Group B runners-up
Group B winnersMatch 24Group A runners-up

Third place match

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Losers SF1Match 27Losers SF2

Final

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Winners SF1Match 28Winners SF2

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

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The following seven teams from CONMEBOL will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1
April 2024
April 2024
April 2024
April 2024
8 April 2024
8 April 2024
11 April 2024
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

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  1. ^ a b c {Zabala, Daniel (15 November 2024). "Colombia será sede de importantes torneos de selecciones: Conmebol confirmó" [Colombia will host important national team tournaments: Conmebol confirmed] (in Spanish). Antena 2.
  2. ^ a b CONMEBOL (15 November 2024). "ACTUALIZACIÓN - Fechas y Sedes Torneos CONMEBOL 2025" (PDF) (in Spanish). Ovación.
  3. ^ a b "Venezuela será la sede del Sudamericano Sub-17 de fútbol: los detalles" [Venezuela to host the South American Under-17 football tournament: the details]. El Diario (in Spanish). 10 April 2024.
  4. ^ "Conmebol confirmó las fechas de todos los torneos que organizará en el 2025" [Conmebol confirmed the dates of all the tournaments it will organise in 2025] (in Spanish). Montevideo Portal. 18 September 2024.
  5. ^ a b "La CONMEBOL Sub17 Masculina y Femenina se disputarán todos los años" [The CONMEBOL U17 Men's and Women's competitions will be held every year] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 18 September 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Qatar appointed as host of FIFA U-17 World Cup™ annually from 2025 to 2029". inside.fifa.com. FIFA. 14 March 2024.
  7. ^ a b c d "Reglamento CONMEBOL Sub17 2025" (PDF) (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 15 November 2024.
  8. ^ Moses Kollie Garzeawu (26 June 2024). "FIFA Unveils Revolutionary Youth Competition Plan, Led by Liberia's Mustapha Raji". Liberian Observer.
  9. ^ "Conmebol anuncia que Venezuela será sede del sudamericano sub17" [Conmebol announces Venezuela to host the U17 South American Championship] (in Spanish). Caracas: Agencia Venezolana de Noticias. 18 September 2024. Archived from the original on 21 September 2024.
  10. ^ "Venezuela será la sede del Sudamericano Sub-20 2025" [Venezuela to host the 2025 South American U-20 Championship]. El Nacional (in Spanish). Agence France-Presse. 15 November 2024.
  11. ^ a b "Sorteo de grupos para la CONMEBOL Sub17 2025" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 27 November 2024.
  12. ^ "SORTEO | CONMEBOL SUB 17" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 19 December 2025 – via YouTube.
  13. ^ "Grupos definidos para la CONMEBOL Sub17 – 2025" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 19 December 2024.
  14. ^ "CONMEBOL SUB17 2025 Calendario de partidos" (PDF) (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 19 February 2024.
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