2017 South American U-17 Championship


The 2017 South American Under-17 Football Championship was the 17th edition of the South American Under-17 Football Championship, a football competition for the under-17 national teams in South America organized by CONMEBOL. It was held in Chile from 23 February to 19 March 2017.
Brazil were crowned champions, and together with Chile, Paraguay and Colombia, which were the top four teams of this tournament, qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India.

Teams

Each team registered a squad of 23 players.

Venues

The venues were Estadio El Teniente, Rancagua, Estadio Fiscal, Talca and Estadio La Granja, Curicó. Curicó was added as an emergency venue on 22 February 2017.
RancaguaTalcaCuricó
Estadio El TenienteEstadio FiscalEstadio La Granja
Capacity:13,849Capacity:8,200Capacity:8,000

Match officials

The referees were:
Jorge Baliño and Fernando Rapallini
Juan Nelio García
Raphael Claus
Eduardo Gamboa
Juan Albarracín
José Méndez
Michael Espinoza
Leodán González and Óscar Rojas
Adrián Cabello
For the final stage, Fernando Rapallini, Óscar Rojas and the assistants Miguel Nievas and Gabriel Popovits were included.
The uruguayan referee Esteban Ostojich was replaced by Leodán González after Ostojich was ruled out of the championship after suffering an injury. González was assisted by Wilmar Navarro and Dionisio Ruiz in the first stage and by Nievas and Popovits in the final stage.
The colombian referee Luis Sánchez, Ostojich and the uruguayan assistants Carlos Pastorino and Horacio Ferreiro did not referee any match in the tournament.

First stage

The draw was held on 12 January 2017, 14:00 local time, at the Chilean Football Federation headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. Chile and Brazil were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively, while the other four seeding pots, based on the results of the 2015 South American Under-17 Football Championship, were Argentina–Ecuador, Paraguay–Uruguay, Colombia–Venezuela, and Bolivia–Peru.
The top three teams in each group advanced to the final stage.
;Tiebreakers
When teams finished level of points, the final rankings were determined according to:
  1. goal difference
  2. goals scored
  3. head-to-head result between tied teams
  4. drawing of lots
All times local, CLST.

Group A

----
----
----
----

Group B

----
----
----
----

Final stage

When teams finished level of points, the final rankings were determined according to the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage.
----
----
----
----

Winners

Goalscorers

;7 goals
;5 goals
;4 goals
;3 goals
;2 goals
;1 goal
;Own goal
The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament1