South American Youth Championship

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The South American Youth Championship is a South American football tournament organized by the CONMEBOL (CONfederación SudaMEricana de FútBOL), for South American national teams of men under age 20.

1 History
2 Format
3 Results
4 Total Wins
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

The first South American Youth Championship was hosted by Venezuela in 1954. Initially for men under age 19, this limit was mantained 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), held every two years since 1977. The last edition (number 22) was hosted and won by Colombia in 2005.

[edit] Format

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 World Youth Championship. Unlike most international tournaments, in South American Youth Championships there is neither final match nor third place match nor knockout stages.

[edit] Results

	Year	Host	Champion	Runner-up	Third Place
1	1954	Venezuela	Uruguay	Brazil	Venezuela
2	1958	Chile	Uruguay	Argentina	Brazil
3	1964	Colombia	Uruguay	Paraguay	Colombia
4	1967	Paraguay	Argentina	Paraguay	Brazil / Peru
5	1971	Paraguay	Paraguay	Uruguay	Chile
6	1974	Chile	Brazil	Uruguay	Paraguay
7	1975	Peru	Uruguay	Chile	Argentina

Since 1977 the age limit was raised from 19 to 20, and the championship acts as a qualifier for the FIFA World Youth Championship.

	Year	Host	Champion	Runner-up	Third Place
8	1977	Venezuela	Uruguay	Brazil	Paraguay
9	1979	Uruguay	Uruguay	Argentina	Paraguay
10	1981	Ecuador	Uruguay	Brazil	Argentina
11	1983	Bolivia	Brazil	Argentina	Uruguay
12	1985	Paraguay	Brazil	Paraguay	Colombia
13	1987	Colombia	Colombia	Brazil	Argentina
14	1988	Argentina	Brazil	Colombia	Argentina
15	1991	Venezuela	Brazil	Argentina	Uruguay
16	1992	Colombia	Brazil	Uruguay	Colombia
17	1995	Bolivia	Brazil	Argentina	Chile
18	1997	Chile	Argentina	Brazil	Paraguay
19	1999	Argentina	Argentina	Uruguay	Brazil
20	2001	Ecuador	Brazil	Argentina	Paraguay
21	2003	Uruguay	Argentina	Brazil	Paraguay
22	2005	Colombia	Colombia	Brazil	Argentina