The 2019 CONCACAF U-17 Championship was the 6th edition of the
CONCACAF Under-17 Championship
The CONCACAF U-17 World Cup qualification is an international association football event in the North America, Central America and the Caribbean region, and is the qualification tournament for the FIFA U-17 World Cup.
Results
In 2009 the tournam ...
(19th edition if all eras included), the men's under-17 international
football
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tournament organized by
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typeset for branding purposes since 2018 as Concacaf), is one of FIFA's six continental governing bodies for association football. Its 4 ...
. It was hosted in the
United States
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between 1 May and 16 May 2019.
The top four teams qualified for the
2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup
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in
Brazil
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as CONCACAF representatives.
Mexico
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were the defending champions, and won a fourth consecutive title.
Qualified teams
The format for qualification had changed since the
2017 edition. The qualifying competition no longer featured
Caribbean
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and
Central American
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zones.
The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Men’s Under-17 Ranking as of May 2017. A total of 35 teams entered the tournament. The sixteen highest-ranked entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked nineteen entrants had to participate in qualifying, where the four group winners advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.
;Notes
Venues
Matches were played at the
IMG Academy
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in
Bradenton
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,
Florida
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:
Match officials
Referees
*
Marco Antonio Ortiz Nava (
Mexico
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)
*
Fernando Guerrero (
Mexico
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)
*
Adonai Escobedo (
Mexico
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)
*
John Pitti (
Panama
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)
*
Iván Barton (
El Salvador
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)
*
Ismael Cornejo (
El Salvador
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)
*
Henry Bejarano (
Costa Rica
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)
*
Juan Gabriel Calderón (
Costa Rica
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)
*
Jair Marrufo (
United States
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)
*
Armando Villarreal (
United States
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)
*
Ismail Elfath (
United States
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)
*
Yadel Martinez (
Cuba
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)
*
Mario Escobar (
Guatemala
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)
*
Walter López Castellanos (
Guatemala
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)
*
Oshane Nation (
Jamaica
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)
*
Daneon Parchment (
Jamaica
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)
*
Kimbell Ward (
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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)
*
Hector Saíd Martínez (
Honduras
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)
Draw
The draw for the group stage took place on 19 February 2019, 11:00
EST (
UTC−5), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in
Miami
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,
Florida
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,
United States
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. The sixteen teams were drawn into four groups of four teams.
Based on the CONCACAF Men's Under-17 Ranking, the top four ranked teams were seeded into position one of each group, while the remaining twelve teams were distributed in the other pots, as follows:
Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2002 were eligible to compete.
Group stage
The top three teams in each group advanced to the round of 16, where they were joined by the four teams advancing from the
qualifying round.
The teams were ranked according to
points
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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
# Greater number of points in matches between the tied teams;
# Greater
goal difference
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in matches between the tied teams (if more than two teams finished equal on points);
# Greater number of goals scored in matches among the tied teams (if more than two teams finished equal in points);
# Greater goal difference in all group matches;
# Greater number of goals scored in all group matches;
# Drawing of lots.
All times are local,
EDT (
UTC−4).
Group E
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Group F
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Group G
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Group H
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Knockout stage
Bracket
Round of 16
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Quarter-finals
The four quarter-final winners qualified for the
2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup
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.
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Semi-finals
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Final
Awards
Winners
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.
;Golden Ball
*
Israel Luna
;Golden Boot
*
Geancarlo Castro (7 goals)
;Golden Glove
*
Eduardo García
;Fair Play
*
Goalscorers
Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup
The following four teams from CONCACAF qualified for the
2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup
The 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the 18th edition of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, the biennial international men's youth association football, football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It was ...
.
:
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.
References
External links
Under 17 – Men CONCACAF.com
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