South American U-20 Women's Championship


The South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship is an international association football competition for women's national teams. It is held every two years for South American players under the age of 20 and serves as a qualification tournament for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. In its inaugural year, 2004, it was played by U-19 players.
The last edition was held in 2018 in Ecuador.

Results

Performances by countries

So far only Uruguay have not reached a top four position.
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Participating nations

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Top scorers

The topscorers of the tournaments were:
YearPlayerGoals
2004 Palmira Loayza6
2006 Marta14
2008 Érika
Dulce Quintana		7
2010 Alanna7
2012 Ketlen9
2014 Andressa6
2015 Yamila Rodríguez6
2018 Geyse da Silva12

FIFA World Cup qualification and results

For the 2002 and 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship, South America was given one qualification spot. In 2002 Brazil and Peru played a two legged play-off for one spot allocated to South America. Brazil won 12–0 on aggregate. Since 2006 South America has been given two spots for the now-renamed FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. In this tournament, Brazil has reached the third-place match three times and Colombia reached the third-place match in 2010. Argentina has been eliminated from the group stage for all three of their appearances; Paraguay and Chile were eliminated from the group stage in their only appearance.
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