2019 South American U-17 Championship

The 2019 South American U-17 Championship (Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-17 Perú 2019, Campeonato Sul-Americano Sub-17 Peru 2019) was the 18th edition of the South American U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONMEBOL for the men's under-17 national teams of South America. It was held in Peru from 21 March to 14 April 2019.

The top four teams, champions Argentina, which won their fourth title, Chile, Paraguay, and Ecuador, qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil as the CONMEBOL representatives, besides Brazil who qualified automatically as hosts replacing Peru, despite failing to qualify out of the first stage as defending champions for the first time.

Teams
All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.

Venues
Peru was confirmed as host of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 22 January 2019 in Rio de Janeiro. All games were scheduled to be played in Lima at the Estadio Universidad San Marcos.

Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to compete. Each team can register a squad of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).

Draw
The draw of the tournament was held on 27 February 2019, 12:00 PET (UTC−5), at the Peruvian Football Federation headquarters in Lima, Peru. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The host Peru and the defending champions Brazil were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining eight teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their final positions in the 2017 South American U-17 Championship (shown in brackets).

Match officials
The referees and assistants referees were:


 * 🇦🇷 Fernando Espinoza
 * Assistants: Maximiliano Del Yesso and Pablo González
 * 🇧🇴 Ivo Méndez
 * Assistants: Reluy Vallejos and Ariel Guizada
 * 🇧🇷 Rodolpho Toski
 * Assistants: Fabricio Vilarinho and Guilherme Dias Camilo
 * Cristian Garay
 * Assistants: Alejandro Molina and Claudio Urrutia
 * 🇨🇴 Carlos Herrera
 * Assistants: Sebastián Vela and John Gallego


 * 🇪🇨 Luis Quiroz
 * Assistants: Edwin Bravo and Flavio Nall
 * Juan Gabriel Benítez
 * Assistants: Rodney Aquino and Carlos Cáceres
 * 🇵🇪 Kevin Ortega
 * Assistants: Coty Carrera and Jesús Sánchez
 * Andrés Matonte
 * Assistants: Horacio Ferreiro and Martín Soppi
 * 🇻🇪 Ángel Arteaga
 * Assistants: Lubin Torrealba and Alberto Ponte


 * Support Referees


 * 🇧🇴 Juan Nelio García (Final stage)
 * 🇧🇷 Bráulio da Silva Machado (Final stage)
 * 🇨🇴 Nicolás Gallo (Final stage)


 * 🇪🇨 Franklin Congo (First stage)
 * Derlis López (First stage)
 * 🇻🇪 Juan Soto (Final stage)

First stage
The top three teams in each group advance to the final stage.

All times local, PET (UTC−5).

Final stage
The schedule of the final matchday was modified based on which teams were possible to be champions.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup
The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup, including Brazil who qualified automatically as host.


 * 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.