2019 South American U-15 Championship

2019 South American Under-15 Football Championship
CONMEBOL Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-15
Paraguay 2019
Tournament details
Host countryParaguay
Dates23 November – 8 December
Teams12 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)5 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Brazil (5th title)
Runners-up Argentina
Third place Paraguay
Fourth place Colombia
Tournament statistics
Matches played29
Goals scored78 (2.69 per match)
Top scorer(s)Colombia Ricardo Caraballo (7 goals)
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The 2019 South American Under-15 Football Championship was the 9th edition of the South American Under-15 Football Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the CONMEBOL for the men's under-15 national teams of South America. The tournament was originally to be held in Bolivia between 23 November and 8 December 2019.[1][2] However, on 8 November 2019, CONMEBOL announced the tournament would be moved to Paraguay due to the 2019 Bolivian protests.[3]

The defending champions are Argentina.

Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament. Moreover, two teams from UEFA will be invited to compete.

Team Appearance Previous best top-4 performance
 Argentina (holders) 9th Champions (2017)
 Belgium (invitee) 1st None
 Bolivia 9th Fourth place (2005)
 Brazil 9th Champions (2005, 2007, 2011, 2015)
 Chile 9th Fourth place (2007, 2013)
 Colombia 9th Runners-up (2004, 2011, 2013)
 Ecuador 9th Third place (2009)
 Paraguay (hosts) 9th Champions (2004, 2009)
 Peru 9th Champions (2013)
 Poland (invitee) 1st None
 Uruguay 9th Runners-up (2007, 2015)
 Venezuela 9th None

Venues

Asunción
Estadio Arsenio Erico Estadio Defensores del Chaco
Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 42,000
Luque Villa Elisa
Cancha CONMEBOL Estadio Adrián Jara Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni
Capacity: ? Capacity: 4,000 Capacity: 11,000

Initially, Bolivia was designated as host of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 14 August 2018 in Luque, Paraguay.[1] Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and Estadio Samuel Vaca Jiménez in Warnes had been chosen as the venues.[4][5][6] However, due to the 2019 Bolivian protests, on 8 November 2019 CONMEBOL moved the tournament to Asunción, Paraguay.[3]

The new venues were announced on 19 November 2019. Four stadiums in 3 cities were chosen, Cancha CONMEBOL and Estadio Adrián Jara in Luque, Estadio Arsenio Erico in Asunción and Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni in Villa Elisa.[7] The Estadio Defensores del Chaco was added as venue for the final matchday (third place match and final).[8][9][10]

Squads

See also: 2019 South American U-15 Championship squads

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 22 October 2019, 19:00 BOT (UTC−4), in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.[11][12] The twelve involved teams were drawn into two groups of six. The original hosts Bolivia and the defending champions Argentina were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 within their group, the remaining 8 CONMEBOL teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their final positions in the 2017 South American U-15 Championship (shown in brackets) and the two guests UEFA teams (Belgium and Poland) were placed in a last fifth pot.[12]

Seeded Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 Pot 5
  •  Bolivia (10) (Original hosts, assigned to A1)
  •  Argentina (1) (Title holders, assigned to B1)

The draw was led by Hugo Figueredo, competition director of CONMEBOL, who had the collaboration of Colombian coach Francisco Maturana and Juan Manuel Peña, former member of the Bolivia national football team.[11]

Match officials

The referees and assistants referees were:

Support Referees

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.

All times are local, PYT (UTC−3).[13]

As a result of the change of host, the matches of Paraguay will be played on the last turn of each matchday of group B.[14]

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Brazil 5 3 1 1 13 4 +9 10 Knockout stage
2  Colombia 5 3 1 1 9 3 +6 10
3  Venezuela 5 1 3 1 4 4 0 6
4  Belgium (G) 5 2 0 3 5 10 −5 6
5  Peru 5 1 2 2 3 6 −3 5
6  Bolivia 5 1 1 3 2 9 −7 4
Source: CONMEBOL
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(G) Guests
Colombia 1–1 Venezuela
Girado 57' (pen.) Report Rojas 71'
Brazil 6–0 Belgium
 Report
Bolivia 0–0 Peru
Report
Belgium 2–1 Peru
 Report Tandazo 80'
Venezuela 1–1 Brazil
Granadino 9' Report Nascimento 19'
Bolivia 0–3 Colombia
Report
Peru 2–1 Colombia
 Report Caraballo 45' (pen.)
Belgium 2–0 Venezuela
 Report
Bolivia 0–3 Brazil
Report
Colombia 1–0 Belgium
Caraballo 16' Report
Peru 0–3 Brazil
Report
Bolivia 0–2 Venezuela
Report
Venezuela 0–0 Peru
Report
Brazil 0–3 Colombia
Report
Bolivia 2–1 Belgium
Alcón 29' (pen.), 54' Report El Khannous 68' (pen.)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Argentina 4 2 2 0 9 1 +8 8 Knockout stage
2  Paraguay (H) 4 1 3 0 5 3 +2 6
3  Ecuador 4 1 3 0 5 4 +1 6
4  Uruguay 4 1 0 3 6 9 −3 3
5  Chile 4 0 2 2 4 12 −8 2
6  Poland (G, W) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Withdrew from the tournament.[a]
Source: CONMEBOL
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(G) Guests; (H) Hosts; (W) Withdrew
Notes:
  1. ^ On 13 November 2019, the Polish Football Association (PZPN) announced that its team would not participate due to Bolivia's unstable social and political situation and despite the fact that the tournament was moved to Paraguay.[15]
Chile 1–1 Ecuador
Silva 45' Report Herrera 24'
Referee: Kevin Ortega (Peru)
Paraguay 3–1 Uruguay
 Report Duarte 79'
Argentina 6–0 Chile
 Report
Ecuador 3–2 Uruguay
 Report
Argentina 2–0 Uruguay
 Report
Paraguay 0–0 Ecuador
Report
Argentina 1–1 Ecuador
Fretes 77' Report Cuero 18'
Paraguay 2–2 Chile
 Report
Referee: Kevin Ortega (Peru)
Uruguay 3–1 Chile
 Report Assadi 17'
Paraguay 0–0 Argentina
Report

Knockout stage

The Third place match and the Final were moved from Estadio Arsenio Erico to Estadio Defensores del Chaco.[16]

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
5 December – Luque
 
 
 Argentina4
 
8 December – Asunción
 
 Colombia2
 
 Argentina1 (3)
 
5 December – Luque
 
 Brazil1 (5)
 
 Brazil2
 
 
 Paraguay0
 
Third place
 
 
8 December – Asunción
 
 
 Colombia1
 
 
 Paraguay2

Semi-finals

Argentina 4–2 Colombia
 Report Caraballo 44', 56' (pen.)
Brazil 2–0 Paraguay
 Report

Third place match

Colombia 1–2 Paraguay
Girado 70' Report

Final

Argentina 1–1 Brazil
Jaime 46' Report Vinicius 34'
Penalties
Sosa soccer ball with check mark
Romero soccer ball with red X
Giay soccer ball with check mark
Castro soccer ball with check mark		 3–5 soccer ball with check mark Vinicius
soccer ball with check mark Daniel
soccer ball with check mark Kauê
soccer ball with check mark Andrey
soccer ball with check mark Kaiky


 2019 South American Under-15 Football champions 

Brazil
Fifth title

Goalscorers

There were 78 goals scored in 29 matches, for an average of 2.69 goals per match.

7 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

References

  1. ^ a b "CONMEBOL CONFIRMA SUDAMERICANO SUB 15 EN BOLIVIA" [CONMEBOL confirms South American U-15 in Bolivia]. www.fbf.com.bo/. Bolivian Football Federation. 14 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Novedades del Sudamericano Sub 15 y el Preolímpico 2020". www.apf.org.py/ (in Spanish). Paraguayan Football Association. 13 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b "CONMEBOL decide trasladar la sede del Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-15 a Asunción, Paraguay". CONMEBOL.com. 8 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Santa Cruz será la sede del campeonato Sudamericano sub-15" [Santa Cruz will be host the South American U-15 Championship] (in Spanish). Los Tiempos. 2 July 2019.
  5. ^ "La sub 15 jugará dos torneos afuera antes de encarar el Sudamericano". www.diez.bo/ (in Spanish). 31 August 2019.
  6. ^ "Santa Cruz y Warnes ciudades sedes del CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-15" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 6 September 2019.
  7. ^ "Fixture y sedes del Sudamericano Sub 15". www.apf.org.py/ (in Spanish). Paraguayan Football Association. 19 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Argentina y Brasil disputarán la gran final del Sudamericano". www.apf.org.py/ (in Spanish). APF. 5 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Se alista para el duelo ante Colombia". www.apf.org.py/ (in Spanish). APF. 6 December 2019.
  10. ^ "Paraguay va por el tercer puesto del Sudamericano". www.apf.org.py/ (in Spanish). APF. 8 December 2019.
  11. ^ a b "El CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-15 tiene definidos sus grupos" (in Spanish). Conmebol.com. 23 October 2019.
  12. ^ a b "Se viene el CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub 15 – Bolivia 2019" (in Spanish). Conmebol.com. 14 October 2019.
  13. ^ "FIXTURE" (PDF) (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com. 20 November 2019.
  14. ^ "Fixture del CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub 15 - Paraguay 2019" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 20 November 2019.
  15. ^ "U-16: BIAŁO-CZERWONI NIE WEZMĄ UDZIAŁU W TURNIEJU MISTRZOSTW AMERYKI POŁUDNIOWEJ" [U-16: White-Red will not take part in the South American Championship Tournament] (in Polish). PZPN. 13 November 2019.
  16. ^ "Sudamericano Sub 15 Paraguay 2019" (PDF) (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com. 7 December 2019.
  17. ^ a b "Jueces designados para las semifinales" [Referees designated for the semi-finals] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 2 December 2019.
  18. ^ a b "Árbitros para la última jornada" [Referees for the final matchday] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 7 December 2019.