2017 South American U-15 Championship

The 2017 South American Under-15 Football Championship was the 8th 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 held in Argentina between 5 and 19 November 2017.

Each match has a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time. Up to five substitutions may be made for each team in a match.

Host team Argentina won their first South American U-15 title by defeating the defending champions Brazil 3–2 in the final.

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

Venues
Argentina was named as host of the tournament at the 67th Ordinary CONMEBOL Congress held on 26 April 2017 in Santiago, Chile. San Juan and Mendoza were chosen as host cities and ratified by CONMEBOL on 11 October 2017.

The matches were originally scheduled to be played in two stadiums. Due to the semi-final of the Copa Argentina played at Estadio Malvinas Argentinas on 12 November 2017, two matches were moved to Estadio Víctor Antonio Legrotaglie.

Draw
The draw was held on 13 October 2017, 17:30 ART (UTC−3), at the Salón Cruce de los Andes in the Civic Center of the Province of San Juan. The 12 teams were drawn into two groups of six teams. The hosts Argentina were seeded into Group A, while the title holders Brazil were seeded into Group B. The remaining teams were seeded based on the results in the 2015 South American Under-15 Football Championship.

Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team has to submit a squad of 22 players, including a minimum of three goalkeepers (Regulations Article 5.2).

Match officials
The referees and assistants referees were:


 * 🇦🇷 Fernando Espinoza
 * Assistants: Julio Fernández and Maximiliano Del Yesso
 * 🇧🇴 Ivo Méndez
 * Assistants: Edwar Saavedra and Reluy Vallejos
 * 🇧🇷 Wagner Reway
 * Assistants: Alex Ang Ribeiro and Cleberson Nascimento
 * Piero Maza
 * Assistants: Claudio Urrutia and Alejandro Molina
 * 🇨🇴 Andrés Rojas
 * Assistants: Sebastián Vela and Miguel Roldán


 * 🇪🇨 Luis Quiroz
 * Assistants: Ricardo Baren and Juan Aguiar
 * Arnaldo Samaniego
 * Assistants: Robero Cañete and José Cuevas
 * 🇵🇪 Joel Alarcón
 * Assistants: Michael Orué and Jesús Sánchez
 * Esteban Ostojich
 * Assistants: Carlos Javier Barreiro and Martín Soppi
 * 🇻🇪 Alexis Herrera
 * Assistants: Tulio Moreno and Alberto Ponte


 * Support Referees


 * 🇦🇷 Facundo Tello
 * Assistant: Maximiliano Castelli

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

The teams are ranked according to points (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 18.1):
 * Tiebreakers
 * 1) Goal difference in all games;
 * 2) Goals scored in all games;
 * 3) Head-to-head result in games between tied teams;
 * 4) Drawing of lots.

All times are local, ART (UTC−3).

Knockout stage
If tied after regulation time, extra time is not played, and the penalty shoot-out is used to determine the winner (Regulations Article 18.3).