2015 South American U-20 Championship
The 2015 South American Youth Football Championship was the 27th edition of the biennial international youth football tournament organized by CONMEBOL for players aged 20 and below. It was held in Uruguay from 14 January to 7 February 2015.
Teams
Venues
Match officials
The referees were:Mauro Vigliano
Alejandro Mancilla
Ricardo Marques
Julio Bascuñán
Adrián Vélez
Roddy Zambrano
Enrique Cáceres
Diego Haro
Andrés Cunha
José Argote
Squads
Each team may register a squad of 23 players.First stage
The draw was held on September 29, 2014. Each group contains one team from each of the five "pairing pots": Argentina–Brazil, Paraguay–Uruguay, Colombia–Ecuador, Chile–Peru, Bolivia–Venezuela.The top three teams in each group qualified for the [|final stage].
When teams finished level of points, the final order was determined according to:
- superior goal difference in all matches
- greater number of goals scored in all group matches
- better result in matches between the tied teams
- drawing of lots
Group A
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Group B
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Final stage
When teams finished level of points, the final order was determined according to the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage.----
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Winners
Qualification for other tournaments
The tournament served as CONMEBOL's qualifier for the following tournaments:- The top four teams, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, and Brazil, qualified for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand.
- The four teams which finished third to sixth, Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, and Paraguay, qualified for the 2015 Pan American Games men's football tournament in Canada. This was changed from the previous set-up where the South American Under-17 Football Championship was used as qualification for the Pan American Games football tournament.
- Same as previous Youth Championships that were held one year prior to the Olympics, CONMEBOL used the tournament to determine which men's under-23 national teams from South America qualify for the Olympic football tournament. Since Brazil already qualified automatically as hosts of the 2016 Summer Olympics men's football tournament, the top-ranked team other than Brazil qualified directly, while the second top-ranked team other than Brazil advanced to a play-off against the third-placed team of the 2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship for the final berth in the Olympics. Since Brazil finished third in the tournament, Argentina qualified for the Olympics, while Colombia advanced to the play-off, where they defeated the United States to become CONMEBOL's third Olympic representative.
Qualified teams for Olympics
Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament1 |
Goalscorers
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- Cristián Cuevas
- Rodrigo Echeverría
- Jarlan Barrera
- Rafael Santos Borré
- Joao Rodríguez
- Sergio Díaz
- Beto da Silva
- Adrián Ugarriza
- Facundo Cardozo
- Lucio Compagnucci
- Rodrigo Contreras
- Sebastián Driussi
- Tomás Martínez
- Facundo Monteseirín
- Leonardo Rolón
- Maxi Rolón
- Leonardo Suárez
- Erick Iragua
- Alberto Pinto
- Gabriel
- Kenedy
- Léo Pereira
- Malcom
- Nathan
- Yuri Mamute
- Mauro Manotas
- Juan Ferney Otero
- Robert Burbano
- Luis Cangá
- Luis Amarilla
- Enrique Araújo
- Iván Cañete
- Jesús Medina
- Danilo Santacruz
- Gustavo Viera
- Alexis Cossio
- Aurelio Gonzales-Vigil
- Sergio Peña
- Rodrigo Amaral
- Gastón Faber
- Jaime Moreno
- Rodrigo Echeverría
- Brian Bernaola
- Daniel Prieto
Media coverage
South América
- : TyC Sports and Channel 7
- : SporTV and SBT
- : Caracol TV
- : Tigo Sports and La Tele
- : América Televisión
- : Tenfield
North America
- : beIN Sports
Europe
- : Bet365 online streaming