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The South American Youth Championship, also known as U-20 South American Championship and Juventud de América (English

English language

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: "America's Youth") is a South American football

Football (soccer)

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tournament organized by the CONMEBOL

CONMEBOL

The South American Football Confederation , commonly known as CONMEBOL , is the continental governing body of association football in South America and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations...

(CONfederación SudaMEricana de FútBOL), for South American national teams of men under age 20.

History

The first South American Youth Championship was hosted by Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

in 1954. Initially for men under age 19, this limit was maintained until the 7th championship, hosted by Peru in 1975. Since the 8th edition (1977), when the tournament took place in Venezuela for the second time, the age limit was raised to 20. This change was made in order to use the competition as South American qualification for the FIFA World Youth Championship (now renamed the FIFA U-20 World Cup

FIFA U-20 World Cup

The FIFA U-20 World Cup, until 2005 known as the FIFA World Youth Championship, is the world championship of football for male players under the age of 20 and is organized by Fédération Internationale de Football Association...

), held every two years since 1977. The most recent edition (number 25) was hosted by Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

and won by Brazil

Brazil national football team

The Brazil national football team represents Brazil in international men's football and is controlled by the Brazilian Football Confederation , the governing body for football in Brazil. They are a member of the International Federation of Association Football since 1923 and also a member of the...

in 2011.

Format

All matches take place in the host country, and all ten U-20 national football teams of CONMEBOL

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

Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament is a competition "in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn".-Terminology:...

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

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

Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event...

stages.

Results

Year	Host	Winners	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place
1954 Details	Venezuela
1958 Details	Chile
1964 Details	Colombia

Year	Host	Score	Third place	Score
1967 Details	Paraguay	2–2	Brazil Peru
1971 Details	Paraguay	1–1	Argentina Peru
1974 Details	Chile	2–1		1–0

Year	Host	Winners	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place
1975 Details	Peru
1977 Details	Venezuela
1979 Details	Uruguay
1981 Details	Ecuador
1983 Details	Bolivia
1985 Details	Paraguay
1987 Details	Colombia
1988 Details	Argentina
1991 Details	Venezuela
1992 Details	Venezuela
1995 Details	Bolivia
1997 Details	Chile
1999 Details 1999 South American Youth Championship The 1999 South American Youth Championship is a football competition contested by all ten U-20 national football teams of CONMEBOL. The tournament was held in Paraguay between January 5 and January 25, 1999, it was the 23rd time the competition has been held and the 2nd to take place in Argentina...	Argentina
2001 Details	Ecuador
2003 Details 2003 South American Youth Championship -Group B:-Results:-----------------Final group:-Results:-----------------Top scorers:8 goals Fernando Cavenaghi4 goals Dagoberto Jaime Ruiz Dante López Erwin Ávalos...	Uruguay
2005 Details 2005 South American Youth Championship -Group B:-Results:-----------------Final group:-Fixtures:-----------------Top scorers:11 goals Hugo Rodallega5 goals Lionel Messi Nicolás Canales...	Colombia
2007 Details 2007 South American Youth Championship The 2007 South American Youth Championship is a football competition contested by all ten U-20 national football teams of CONMEBOL. The tournament was held in Paraguay between January 7 and January 28, 2007, it was the 23rd time the competition has been held and the 4th to take place in Paraguay...	Paraguay
2009 Details 2009 South American Youth Championship The 2009 South American Youth Championship was a football competition for national teams U-20 who are associated with the football federation CONMEBOL. It was the 24th time the tournament was held and took place in Venezuela from January 19 to February 8...	Venezuela
2011 Details 2011 South American Youth Championship The 2011 South American Youth Championship was a football competition for U-20 national teams in the South America . The tournament was held in Peru from 16 January to 12 February....	Peru
2013 Details	Argentina

Performances by countries

Titles	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place
11 (1974, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2011)	7 (1954, 1977, 1981, 1987, 1997, 2003, 2005)	3 (1958, 1967, 1999)	1 (1979)
7 (1954, 1958, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981)	6 (1971, 1974, 1983, 1992, 1999, 2011)	3 (1991, 2007, 2009)	3 (1985, 1987, 1997)
4 (1967, 1997, 1999, 2003)	6 (1958, 1979, 1991, 1995, 2001, 2007)	8 (1971, 1975, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1988, 2005, 2011)	1 (1974)
2 (1987, 2005)	1 (1988)	3 (1964, 1985, 1992)	1 (2003)
1 (1971)	4 (1964, 1967, 1985, 2009)	6 (1974, 1977, 1979, 1997, 2001, 2003)	3 (1988, 1991, 1999)
	1 (1975)	1 (1995)	5 (1964, 1977, 2001, 2005, 2007)
		2 (1967, 1971)	3 (1954, 1958, 1975)
		1 (1954)	1 (2009)
			3 (1992, 1995, 2011)
			2 (1981, 1983)

Distribution of hosts

Hosts	Nation	Year(s)
5 times		1954,1977,1991,1992,2009
4 times		1967,1971,1985,2007
3 times		1958,1974,1997
3 times		1964,1987,2005
3 times		1988,1999,2013
2 times		1979,2003
2 times		1981,2001
2 times		1983,1995
2 times		1975, 2011

Overall statistics

199

1	149	92	32	25	312	113
308
2	141	72	41	28	237	127
257
3	144	70	46	28	241	147
256
4	127	58	31	38	213	160
205
5	114	43	29	42	143	152	−9	158
6	123	39	29	55	180	205	−25	146
7	99	23	22	54	115	200	−85	91
8	79	15	15	49	71	155	−84	60
9	83	12	16	55	77	205	−128	52
10	76	10	12	54	70	169	−99	42
11	5	3	0	2	6	4
9
12	3	0	0	3	4	20	−16	0

Top goalscorers

Competition	Nation	Player	Number of goals
1954		Juan Bautista Agüero Juan Bautista Agüero Juan Bautista Agüero Sánchez is a retired football striker.-Career:He started his career at Olimpia Asunción, which was at time coached by the great Aurelio González. There, Agüero won some national championships. He was later transferred to Sevilla FC of Spain, where he would spend 8 years,...	7
1958		Norberto Raffo Norberto Raffo Norberto Raffo was an Argentine football striker. He was born in the city of Avellaneda in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina...	5
1964		Jaime Bravo Jaime Bravo Jaime Bravo was a Mexican matador during the 1950s and 1960s. Bravo was known for death defying style and numerous relationships with women and Hollywood starlets.-Early life:...	5
1967	Unknown
1971		Ricardo Islas	4
		Cristóbal Maldonado	4
1974		Hebert Revetria	4
1975		Hebert Revetria	4
		Toninho Cerezo Toninho Cerezo Toninho Cerezo, real name Antônio Carlos Cerezo, is a former football player from Brazil.- Career :...	4
1977		Amaro Nadal	4
		Aguinaldo Roberto Gallon Aguinaldo Roberto Gallon Aguinaldo Roberto Gallon, sometimes known as Guina or Quinha , is a former Brazilian footballer.At 19 he was the top scorer of the 1977 South American Youth Championship and the 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship held in Tunisia, scoring four goals in each competition.During his career, he played...	4
1979		Arsenio Luzardo	4
1981		Enzo Francescoli Enzo Francescoli Enzo Francescoli Uriarte is a former uruguayan football player of Italian and Spanish origin, who retired in 1997. An elegant and highly skillful dribbler, passer, and goal-scorer, Francescoli was nicknamed El Príncipe or Le Prince...	5
		Reinaldo "Lela" Felisbino Reinaldo Felisbino Reinaldo Felisbino, a.k.a Lela was a Brazilian football player.Felisbino was born in Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil. He played as a right-winger, beginning and ending his career with Esporte Clube Noroeste in Bauru...	5
1983		Carlos Aguilera Carlos Aguilera Carlos Alberto Aguilera Nova is a retired Uruguayan footballer. He began his career playing for River Plate Montevideo, from 1980 to 1982...	7
1985		Romário Romário Romário de Souza Faria , better known simply as Romário , is a former footballer who played striker,manager and current politician where is currently running for a mayor like position in his hometown...	5
1987		Alejandro Russo	4
1988		Roberto de Assis Moreira	5
		Francisco Ferreira	5
1991		Juan Esnaider Juan Esnáider Juan Eduardo Esnáider is a retired Argentine footballer who played as a striker. His surname is a Spanish spelling reform of the German Schneider, which means "tailor"...	7
1992		Fernando Correa Fernando Correa Fernando Edgardo Correa Ayala is an Uruguayan footballer who plays for Club Atlético River Plate .A striker, he played mostly for Spain's Atlético Madrid.-Club career:...	5
1995		Leonardo Biagini Leonardo Biagini Leonardo Ángel Biagini is a retired Argentine professional footballer who played as a striker.Most of his professional career was spent in Spain, where he arrived at the age of 18, going on to represent six clubs in more than one decade, with totals of 244 games and 43 goals, 145/18 in La Liga.He...	4
1997		Adaílton Martins Bolzan Adaílton Martins Bolzan Adaílton Martins Bolzan, best known as Adaílton is a left footed Brazilian footballer who currently plays as striker for FC Vaslui in Romania.-Career:...	8
1999 1999 South American Youth Championship The 1999 South American Youth Championship is a football competition contested by all ten U-20 national football teams of CONMEBOL. The tournament was held in Paraguay between January 5 and January 25, 1999, it was the 23rd time the competition has been held and the 2nd to take place in Argentina...		Luciano Galletti Luciano Galletti Luciano Martín Galletti is a former Argentine football right winger Forward last playing for Olympiacos CFP in Greece.-Playing career:...	9
2001		Adriano Adriano Leite Ribeiro Adriano Leite Ribeiro , commonly known as simply Adriano, is a Brazilian footballer who played striker who currently plays for Corinthians...	6
		Ewerthon Éwerthon Ewerthon Henrique de Souza is a Brazilian international football player who plays for Terek Grozny. His position is forward or winger...	6
2003 2003 South American Youth Championship -Group B:-Results:-----------------Final group:-Results:-----------------Top scorers:8 goals Fernando Cavenaghi4 goals Dagoberto Jaime Ruiz Dante López Erwin Ávalos...		Fernando Cavenaghi Fernando Cavenaghi Fernando Ezequiel Cavenaghi is an Argentine football player who currently plays for River Plate in the second division.-Career:...	8
2005 2005 South American Youth Championship -Group B:-Results:-----------------Final group:-Fixtures:-----------------Top scorers:11 goals Hugo Rodallega5 goals Lionel Messi Nicolás Canales...		Hugo Rodallega Hugo Rodallega Hugo Rodallega Martínez is a Colombian footballer who plays for English Premier League club Wigan Athletic. He primarily plays as a striker, but can also play on the wing....	11
2007 2007 South American Youth Championship The 2007 South American Youth Championship is a football competition contested by all ten U-20 national football teams of CONMEBOL. The tournament was held in Paraguay between January 7 and January 28, 2007, it was the 23rd time the competition has been held and the 4th to take place in Paraguay...		Edinson Cavani	7
2009 2009 South American Youth Championship The 2009 South American Youth Championship was a football competition for national teams U-20 who are associated with the football federation CONMEBOL. It was the 24th time the tournament was held and took place in Venezuela from January 19 to February 8...		Hernán Pérez Hernán Pérez Hernán Arsenio Pérez González is a Paraguayan footballer who plays for Villarreal CF in Spain, as a right midfielder.-Club career:...	5
		Abel Hernández Abel Hernández Abel Mathías Hernández Platero is a Uruguayan football striker. He currently plays for Serie A club U.S. Città di Palermo and Uruguay national football team.-Club career:...	5
		Walter Henrique da Silva Walter Henrique da Silva Walter Henrique da Silva , simply Walter, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for F.C. Porto in Portugal, as a striker.-Early career:...	5
2011 2011 South American Youth Championship The 2011 South American Youth Championship was a football competition for U-20 national teams in the South America . The tournament was held in Peru from 16 January to 12 February....		Neymar	9

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