South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship

The CONMEBOL South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship (named natively in Spanish as the Sudamericano Sub-20 Futbol Playa) is a biennial international youth beach soccer tournament contested between the national teams of men aged under 20 years of the 10 members of CONMEBOL. It is the under-20s version of the Copa América de Beach Soccer and beach soccer's version of the better known South American Youth Football Championship in its parent sport, association football.

South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship
Organising bodyCONMEBOL
Founded2017 (2017)
RegionSouth America (CONMEBOL)
Number of teams10
Current champions Argentina (1st title)
Most successful team(s) Brazil
 Argentina (1 title each)
2019 South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship

The tournament is organised by the governing body for football in South America, CONMEBOL, who commissioned the event in 2015 as part of a declaration of commitment to develop beach soccer on the continent which involved establishing new tournaments, including an under-20s championship.[1][2] The first edition subsequently took place in 2017.[3]

Argentina are the current champions.[4]

Results
Year Location Final Third Place Play-off
Winners Score Runners-up Third Place Score Fourth Place
2017
details		 Montevideo, Uruguay
Brazil		 1–1 (a.e.t.)
(1–0 pen.)
Argentina
Paraguay		 8–1
Colombia
2019
details		 Luque, Paraguay
Argentina		 5–3
Brazil
Paraguay		 5–4
Peru

Performance

Successful nations
Team Titles Runners-up Third Place Fourth Place
 Argentina 1 (2019) 1 (2017) – –
 Brazil 1 (2017) 1 (2019) – –
 Paraguay – – 2 (2017, 2019) –
 Colombia – – – 1 (2017)
 Peru – – – 1 (2019)

Overall standings

As of 2019

Pos Team App Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD Pts Avg. Pts
1  Argentina 212110015831+27332.75
2  Brazil 21281126636+30272.25
3  Paraguay 21170046545+20211.91
4  Ecuador 21040064641+5121.2
5  Colombia 21031063447–13111.1
6  Chile 21030074759–1290.9
7  Peru 21030073547–1290.9
8  Venezuela 1520032029–961.2
9  Bolivia 2920072844–1660.67
10  Uruguay 2911162545–2060.67

Key: Appearances App / Won in Normal Time W = 3 Points / Won in Extra Time W+ = 2 Points / Won in Penalty shoot-out WP = 1 Point / Lost L = 0 Points

Appearances & performance timeline
Key
Teams \ Years 2017

(10)		 2019

(9)		 Apps
 Argentina 2nd 1st 2
 Bolivia 7th 8th 2
 Brazil 1st 2nd 2
 Chile 10th 7th 2
 Colombia 4th 6th 2
 Ecuador 9th 5th 2
 Paraguay 3rd 3rd 2
 Peru 8th 4th 2
 Uruguay 5th 9th 2
 Venezuela 6th × 1

See also

References
  1. "Beach soccer: CONMEBOL bets on its competitive expansion". CONMEBOL. 29 September 2015. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  2. "Apoio da CONMEBOL eleva visibilidade do beach soccer na América do Sul" (in Portuguese). CBSB - Confederação de Beach Soccer do Brasil. 23 September 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  3. "Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 headed for Uruguay". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 24 November 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  4. "Triunfazo ante Brasil y fiesta en la arena" (in Spanish). Olé (sports newspaper). 15 December 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
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