South American Youth Football Championship
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Organizing body | CONMEBOL |
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Founded | 1954 |
Region | South America |
Number of teams | 10 |
Qualifier for | FIFA U-20 World Cup |
Current champion(s) | ![]() |
Most successful team(s) | ![]() |
Website | conmebol.com/sub20 |
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The South American Youth Football Championship, also known as U-20 South American Championship and Spanish: Torneo Juventudes de América, "Campeonato Sudamericano Sub 20" or Portuguese: Juventude da América (English: "America's Youth") is a South American football tournament organized by the CONMEBOL for South American national teams of men under age of 20. This tournament also serves as qualification for the FIFA U-20 World Cup.
History
[edit]The first South American Youth Championship was hosted by Venezuela from 22 March to 13 April 1954. Initially played as an under-19 tournament, it became an under-20 event from 1977. Brazil has won the tournament on the most occasions (12 times).[1]
Format
[edit]All matches take place in the host country, and all ten U-20 national football teams of CONMEBOL compete in every edition (if none of the associations withdraw). They are separated in two groups of five, and each team plays four matches in a pure round-robin stage. The three top competitors advance to a single final group of six, wherein each team plays five matches. The results in this last pure round-robin stage determines the champion and the South American qualification to the next FIFA U-20 World Cup. Unlike most international tournaments, in South American Youth Championships there is neither final match nor third place match nor knockout stages.
Results
[edit]- Keys
- 1954–75: U-19 teams
- 1977–present: U-20 teams [1]
Performances by countries
[edit]Team | Titles | Runner-up | Third place | Fourth place |
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![]() | 12 (1974, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2023) | 7 (1954, 1977, 1981, 1987, 1997, 2003, 2005) | 3 (1958, 1967, 1999) | 2 (1979, 2015) |
![]() | 8 (1954, 1958, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 2017) | 7 (1971, 1974, 1983, 1992, 1999, 2011, 2023) | 6 (1991, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015*, 2019) | 3 (1985, 1987, 1997) |
![]() | 5 (1967, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2015) | 7 (1958, 1979, 1991, 1995, 2001, 2007, 2019) | 8 (1971, 1975, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1988, 2005, 2011) | 2 (1974, 2017) |
![]() | 3 (1987, 2005, 2013) | 2 (1988, 2015) | 4 (1964, 1985, 1992, 2023) | 2 (2003, 2019) |
![]() | 1 (1971) | 5 (1964, 1967, 1985, 2009, 2013) | 6 (1974, 1977, 1979, 1997, 2001, 2003) | 3 (1988, 1991, 1999) |
![]() | 1 (2019) | 1 (2017) | 4 (1992, 1995, 2011, 2023) | |
![]() | 1 (1975) | 1 (1995) | 6 (1964, 1977, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2013) | |
![]() | 2 (1954, 2017) | 1 (2009*) | ||
![]() | 5 (1954, 1958, 1967, 1971, 1975) | |||
![]() | 2 (1981, 1983*) |
Top goalscorers
[edit]Source: RSSSF.[1]
Men's U-20 World Cup Performances of Qualified South American teams
[edit]- Legend
- 1st – Champions
- 2nd – Runners-up
- 3rd – Third place
- 4th – Fourth place
- QF – Quarterfinals
- R2 – Round 2
- R1 – Round 1
- – Hosts
- q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
Team | ![]() 1977 | ![]() 1979 | ![]() 1981 | ![]() 1983 | ![]() 1985 | ![]() 1987 | ![]() 1989 | ![]() 1991 | ![]() 1993 | ![]() 1995 | ![]() 1997 | ![]() 1999 | ![]() 2001 | ![]() 2003 | ![]() 2005 | ![]() 2007 | ![]() 2009 | ![]() 2011 | ![]() 2013 | ![]() 2015 | ![]() 2017 | ![]() 2019 | ![]() 2023 | ![]() 2025 | Total |
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![]() | 1st | R1 | 2nd | QF | R1 | 1st | 1st | R2 | 1st | 4th | 1st | 1st | QF | R1 | R1 | R2 | R2 | 17 | |||||||
![]() | 3rd | QF | 1st | 1st | QF | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | QF | QF | QF | 1st | 3rd | R2 | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | QF | 19 | |||||
![]() | 4th | R1 | R1 | R2 | 3rd | QF | Q | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
![]() | QF | R1 | QF | R1 | 3rd | R2 | QF | R2 | R2 | QF | QF | 11 | |||||||||||||
![]() | R2 | R2 | R1 | 3rd | R2 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
![]() | R1 | QF | R1 | R1 | R2 | 4th | R2 | R2 | R2 | 9 | |||||||||||||||
![]() | 4th | 3rd | QF | QF | R1 | QF | 2nd | 4th | R2 | R2 | R1 | 2nd | R2 | 4th | R2 | 1st | 16 | ||||||||
![]() | R2 | 2nd | 2 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Diogo, Julio Bovi; Pierrend, José Luis; Andrés, Juan Pablo; Tabeira, Martín (14 February 2019). "South American Youth Championships". RSSSF. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
External links
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