The 2019 South American Under-15 Football Championship was the 9th edition of the South American Under-15 Football Championship, the biennial international youth

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championship organised by the

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for the men's under-15 national teams of South America. The tournament was originally to be held in

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between 23 November and 8 December 2019. However, on 8 November 2019, CONMEBOL announced the tournament would be moved to

Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli ...

due to the 2019 Bolivian protests. The defending champions are Argentina.

Teams

All ten

member national teams entered the tournament. Moreover, two teams from

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will be invited to compete.

Venues

Initially,

was designated as host of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 14 August 2018 in

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Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera Estadio Ramón "Tahuichi" Aguilera Costas is a multi-purpose stadium in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It is used mostly for football matches, on club level by Blooming, Oriente Petrolero, Destroyers, and Royal Pari. Inaugurated in 1940, the stadium has ...

Santa Cruz de la Sierra Santa Cruz de la Sierra (; ), commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the largest city in Bolivia and the capital of the Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia), Santa Cruz department. Situated on the Pirai River (Bolivia), Pirai River in the eastern Tropical ...

and

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in Warnes had been chosen as the venues. However, due to the 2019 Bolivian protests, on 8 November 2019 CONMEBOL moved the tournament to

Asunción Asunción (, ) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River and the Bay of Asunción in the north ...

. The new venues were announced on 19 November 2019. Four stadiums in 3 cities were chosen, Cancha CONMEBOL and Estadio Adrián Jara in

Estadio Arsenio Erico Estadio Arsenio Erico is a multi-use stadium in the neighbourhood of Barrio Obrero in Asunción, Paraguay. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club Nacional. The stadium holds 4,434 people. It is named af ...

and

Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni is a multi-use stadium in Villa Elisa, Paraguay, Villa Elisa, Paraguay. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and is the home stadium of Sportivo Ameliano and Club Sol de América, who hav ...

in Villa Elisa. The

Estadio Defensores del Chaco Defensores del Chaco Stadium (, ; , named after the Paraguayan Chaco soldiers in the Chaco War) is a multi-purpose stadium in Asunción, Paraguay. Located in the Sajonia neighbourhood, it is the owned by the Paraguayan Football Association. It ...

was added as venue for the final matchday (third place match and final).

Squads

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 22 October 2019, 19:00

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( UTC−4), in

. 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. The draw was led by Hugo Figueredo, competition director of CONMEBOL, who had the collaboration of Colombian coach

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and Juan Manuel Peña, former member of the

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Match officials

The referees and assistants referees were: * Nicolás Lamolina **Assistants: Pablo González and Facundo Rodríguez * Jordy Alemán **Assistants: Carlos Tapia and Rubén Flores * Flavio Rodríguez De Souza **Assistants: Alessandro Rocha and Rafael Da Silva * Angelo Hermosilla **Assistants: José Retamal and Edson Cisternas * Jhon Ospina **Assistants: Miguel Roldán and John Gallego * Franklin Congo **Assistants: Juan Rafael Aguiar and Dennys Guerrero *

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**Assistants: Ródney Aquino and José Cuevas * Kevin Ortega **Assistants: Raúl López and Stephen Atoche * Andrés Matonte **Assistants: Santiago Fernández and Agustín Berisso *

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**Assistants: José Ponte and Francheskoly Chacón ;Support Referees * Santiago Bismarks * Augusto Aragón

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals. All times are local, PYT ( UTC−3). 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.

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

The Third place match and the Final were moved from

Bracket

Semi-finals

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Third place match

Final

Goalscorers

References

External links

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CONMEBOL.com {{DEFAULTSORT:South American Under-15 Football Championship 2019

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