The 2025 South American U-17 Championship was 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 was held in Colombia from 27 March to 12 April 2025.
| CONMEBOL Sub 17 Colombia 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Colombia |
| Dates | 27 March – 12 April |
| Teams | 10 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue | 2 (in 2 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Brazil (14th title) |
| Runners-up | Colombia |
| Third place | Venezuela |
| Fourth place | Chile |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 28 |
| Goals scored | 77 (2.75 per match) |
| Top scorer | Thomás de Martis (6 goals) |
← 2023 2026 → | |
The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Venezuela between 4–20 April 2024, before CONMEBOL decided to move it to Colombia due to Venezuela becoming the host of the 2025 South American U-20 Championship. 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.
As a result of the expansion of the FIFA U-17 World Cup format, seven teams qualified for the U-17 World Cup from this edition onwards, an increase of three berths from the four CONMEBOL teams that previously qualified. The top 7 teams qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the CONMEBOL representatives.
Defending champions Brazil successfully retained their title, defeating the hosts Colombia 4–1 on penalties following a 1–1 draw in the final, which earned them their fourteenth South American U-17 Championship title, the most in the tournament’s history. These two teams and the next five best-placed teams — Venezuela, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia — qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
Format changes
After three years of evaluation and analysis of the proposal submitted in 2021, 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. 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:
- 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
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.
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, which went on to host the 2025 South American U-20 Championship after CONMEBOL withdrew Peru's hosting rights of this tournament.
CONMEBOL announced Montería and Cartagena as host cities on 6 February 2025, with the Estadio Jaraguay and the Estadio Jaime Morón León being the venues for the matches.
| Montería | Montería Cartagena class=notpageimage| Location of the host cities. | Cartagena |
|---|---|---|
| Estadio Jaraguay | Estadio Jaime Morón León | |
| Capacity: 12,000 | Capacity: 17,500 | |
Teams
All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered 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 (hosts) | 20th | Champions (1 time, 1993) |
| Ecuador | 19th | Runners-up (1 time, 2023) |
| Paraguay | 19th | Runners-up (1 time, 1999) |
| Peru | 20th | Fourth place (1 time, 2007) |
| Uruguay | 20th | Runners-up (3 times, most recent 2011) |
| Venezuela | 20th | Runners-up (1 time, 2013) |
Squads
Each team registered 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).
Draw
The draw of the tournament was held on 19 December 2024, 14:15 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay. 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).
| Seeded | Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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.
The draw resulted in the following groups:
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Group stage
The top two teams in each group advanced to the final four.
- 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):
- 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;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Fewest red cards received;
- Fewest yellow cards received;
- Drawing of lots.
All match times are local times, COT (UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL.
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colombia (H) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 9 | Final four and 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 2 | Chile | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 9 | |
| 3 | Argentina | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 6 | 5th–8th places |
| 4 | Paraguay | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 6 | |
| 5 | Peru | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 17 | −17 | 0 |
- Head-to-head result: Colombia 1–0 Chile.
- Head-to-head result: Argentina 4–1 Paraguay.
Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 10 | Final four and 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 2 | Venezuela | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 7 | |
| 3 | Ecuador | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 6 | 5th–8th places |
| 4 | Bolivia | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 3 | |
| 5 | Uruguay | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 2 |
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Final stage
The final stage was played on a single-elimination basis and consisted 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).
All match times are local times, COT (UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL.
5th–8th places
The 5th–8th semi-finals matchups were:
- Group A third place vs Group B fourth place
- Group B third place vs Group A fourth place
| 5th–8th semi-finals | Fifth place | |||||
| 8 April – Montería | ||||||
| Argentina | 3 | |||||
| 11 April – Montería | ||||||
| Bolivia | 0 | |||||
| Argentina | 1 (3) | |||||
| 8 April – Montería | ||||||
| Paraguay (p) | 1 (4) | |||||
| Ecuador | 0 (4) | |||||
| Paraguay (p) | 0 (5) | |||||
| Seventh place | ||||||
| 11 April – Montería | ||||||
| Bolivia | 1 | |||||
| Ecuador | 0 | |||||
5th–8th semi-finals
Winners qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
| Ecuador | 0–0 | Paraguay |
|---|---|---|
| Report | ||
| Penalties | ||
| 4–5 |
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Seventh place match
Winner qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
Fifth place match
| Argentina | 1–1 | Paraguay |
|---|---|---|
| González 90+5' | Report | Jara 14' |
| Penalties | ||
| 3–4 |
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Final four
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-finals | Final | |||||
| 9 April – Cartagena | ||||||
| Colombia | 5 | |||||
| 12 April – Cartagena | ||||||
| Venezuela | 1 | |||||
| Colombia | 1 (1) | |||||
| 9 April – Cartagena | ||||||
| Brazil (p) | 1 (4) | |||||
| Brazil | 1 | |||||
| Chile | 0 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| 12 April – Cartagena | ||||||
| Venezuela | 3 | |||||
| Chile | 0 | |||||
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Goalscorers
There were 77 goals scored in 28 matches, for an average of 2.75 goals per match.
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
- Santiago Espíndola
- Bautista González
- Juan Cruz Meza
- Tomás Parmo
- Alex Verón
- Santos García
- Jesús Maraude
- Diego Pérez
- Angelo
- Dell
- Gustavo
- Kayke
- Luis Gustavo
- Martín Jiménez
- Matías Orellana
- Cristóbal Sepúlveda
- Zidane Yáñez
- Criss Macías
- Jhon Sevillano
- Ashley Trujillo
- Yeminson Urrutia
- Juan Riquelme Angulo
- Elías Legendre
- José Buhring
- Jhosías Campss
- Mauro Coronel
- Mauricio De Carvalho
- Tobías Jara
- Fernando Zayas
- Nicolás Azambuja
- Agustín Dos Santos
- Francisco Fernández
- Juan Boyer
- Marcos Maitán
- Juan Camilo Uribe
1 own goal
Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup
The following seven teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1 |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 5 April 2025 | 18 (1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023) |
| Venezuela | 2 (2013, 2023) | |
| Colombia | 6 (1989, 1993, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2017) | |
| Chile | 5 (1993, 1997, 2015, 2017, 2019) | |
| Paraguay | 8 April 2025 | 5 (1999, 2001, 2015, 2017, 2019) |
| Argentina | 15 (1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2023) | |
| Bolivia | 11 April 2025 | 2 (1985, 1987) |
- 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
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