2019 South American U-15 Championship

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]

2019 South American Under-15 Football Championship
CONMEBOL Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-15
Paraguay 2019
Tournament details
Host countryParaguay
Dates23 November – 8 December 2019
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) Ricardo Caraballo (7 goals)

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)9thChampions (2017)
 Belgium (invitee)1stNone
 Bolivia9thFourth place (2005)
 Brazil9thChampions (2005, 2007, 2011, 2015)
 Chile9thFourth place (2007, 2013)
 Colombia9thRunners-up (2004, 2011, 2013)
 Ecuador9thThird place (2009)
 Paraguay (hosts)9thChampions (2004, 2009)
 Peru9thChampions (2013)
 Poland (invitee)1stNone
 Uruguay9thRunners-up (2007, 2015)
 Venezuela9thNone

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)
  •  Peru (4)
  •  Chile (5)
  •  Uruguay (8)
  •  Venezuela (9)
  •  Belgium
  •  Poland

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) Guest.
Colombia 1–1 Venezuela
Girado  57' (pen.) Report Rojas  71'
Estadio Adrián Jara, Luque
Referee: Andrés Matonte (Uruguay)
Brazil 6–0 Belgium
 Report
Cancha CONMEBOL, Luque
Referee: José Méndez (Paraguay)
Bolivia 0–0 Peru
Report
Estadio Adrián Jara, Luque
Referee: Angelo Hermosilla (Chile)
Belgium 2–1 Peru
  • Kuavita  23'
  • Camara  52' (pen.)
 Report Tandazo  80'
Estadio Adrián Jara, Luque
Referee: Augusto Aragón (Ecuador)
Venezuela 1–1 Brazil
Granadino  9' Report Nascimento  19'
Cancha CONMEBOL, Luque
Referee: Franklin Congo (Ecuador)
Bolivia 0–3 Colombia
Report
  • Girado  19'
  • Caraballo  65'
  • Díaz  85'
Estadio Adrián Jara, Luque
Referee: Nicolás Lamolina (Argentina)
Peru 2–1 Colombia
 Report Caraballo  45' (pen.)
Estadio Adrián Jara, Luque
Referee: José Méndez (Paraguay)
Belgium 2–0 Venezuela
  • Camara  28'
  • Granadino  77' (o.g.)
 Report
Cancha CONMEBOL, Luque
Referee: Nicolás Lamolina (Argentina)
Bolivia 0–3 Brazil
Report
  • Sávio  26'
  • Robinho  28', 78'
Estadio Adrián Jara, Luque
Referee: Andrés Matonte (Uruguay)
Colombia 1–0 Belgium
Caraballo  16' Report
Estadio Adrián Jara, Luque
Referee: Franklin Congo (Ecuador)
Peru 0–3 Brazil
Report
Cancha CONMEBOL, Luque
Referee: Angelo Hermosilla (Chile)
Bolivia 0–2 Venezuela
Report
  • Custodio  61'
  • Teguez  80'
Estadio Adrián Jara, Luque
Referee: Augusto Aragón (Ecuador)
Venezuela 0–0 Peru
Report
Estadio Adrián Jara, Luque
Referee: José Méndez (Paraguay)
Brazil 0–3 Colombia
Report
  • Villalobos  25'
  • Caraballo  29' (pen.), 59'
Cancha CONMEBOL, Luque
Referee: Nicolás Lamolina (Argentina)
Bolivia 2–1 Belgium
Alcón  29' (pen.), 54' Report El Khannouss  68' (pen.)
Estadio Adrián Jara, Luque
Referee: Angelo Hermosilla (Chile)

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.[lower-alpha 1]
Source: CONMEBOL
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(G) Guest; (H) Host; (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
  • Enciso  60'
  • Cardozo  72'
  • Pereira  81'
 Report Duarte  79'
Referee: Jhon Ospina (Colombia)
Argentina 6–0 Chile
  • Barco  8', 28'
  • Sosa  47'
  • Romero  55'
  • Encinas  56'
  • Castro  57'
 Report
Referee: Santiago Bismarks (Colombia)
Ecuador 3–2 Uruguay
 Report
  • Jorge  51'
  • Siri  77'
Referee: Orlando Bracamonte (Venezuela)
Argentina 2–0 Uruguay
 Report
Referee: Flavio Rodríguez De Souza (Brazil)
Paraguay 0–0 Ecuador
Report
Referee: Jordy Alemán (Bolivia)
Argentina 1–1 Ecuador
Fretes  77' Report Cuero  18'
Referee: Jhon Ospina (Colombia)
Paraguay 2–2 Chile
  • Pereira  50'
  • Vera  83'
 Report
  • Assadi  5'
  • Palma  22'
Referee: Kevin Ortega (Peru)
Uruguay 3–1 Chile
 Report Assadi  17'
Referee: Jordy Alemán (Bolivia)
Paraguay 0–0 Argentina
Report
Referee: Flavio Rodríguez De Souza (Brazil)

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
  • Álvarez  5'
  • Jaime  19'
  • Castro  45'
  • Barco  51'
 Report Caraballo  44', 56' (pen.)
Estadio Adrián Jara, Luque
Referee: Franklin Congo (Ecuador)[17]
Brazil 2–0 Paraguay
  • Arthur  26'
  • Daniel  71'
 Report
Estadio Adrián Jara, Luque
Referee: Angelo Hermosilla (Chile)[17]

Third place match
Colombia 1–2 Paraguay
Girado  70' Report
  • Benítez  29'
  • Mercado  45'
Referee: Orlando Bracamonte (Venezuela)[18]

Final
Argentina 1–1 Brazil
Jaime  46' Report Vinicius  34'
Penalties
Sosa
Romero
Giay
Castro 		3–5 Vinicius
Daniel
Kauê
Andrey
Kaiky
Referee: Kevin Ortega (Peru)[18]
 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

  • Ricardo Caraballo

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

  • Santiago Castro
  • Axel Encinas
  • Misael Jaime
  • Luka Romero
  • Abdul Karim Camara
  • Rhenzo Alcón
  • Andrey
  • Lucas Assadi
  • Justin Cuero
  • Kevin Pereira
  • Anderson Duarte

1 goal

  • Fernando Álvarez
  • Thomas Fretes
  • Federico Sosa
  • Bilal El Khannouss
  • Léandre Kuavita
  • Arthur
  • Daniel Da Silva
  • Vinicius
  • Cristian Palma
  • Bastián Silva
  • Jesús Manuel Díaz
  • Breider Villalobos
  • Christian Gallardo
  • Yaimar Medina
  • Orlando Herrera
  • Víctor Benítez
  • Juan Cardozo
  • Julio César Enciso
  • Antonio Mercado
  • Francisco Vera
  • Jorge del Castillo
  • Leonardo Díaz
  • Jorge Tandazo
  • Juan Manuel Jorge
  • Álex Custodio
  • Nicolás Granadino
  • Carlos Rojas
  • Deivid Teguez

1 own goal

  • Nicolás Granadino (playing against Belgium)

References
  1. "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. "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. "El CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-15 tiene definidos sus grupos" (in Spanish). Conmebol.com. 23 October 2019.
  12. "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. "Jueces designados para las semifinales" [Referees designated for the semi-finals] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 2 December 2019.
  18. "Árbitros para la última jornada" [Referees for the final matchday] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 7 December 2019.
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