2025 South American U-17 Women's Championship

The 2025 South American U-17 Women's Championship was the 9th edition of the South American U-17 Women's Championship (Spanish: CONMEBOL Sudamericano Femenino Sub-17), the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONMEBOL for the women's under-17 national teams of South America. It was held in Colombia from 30 April to 24 May 2025.^[1]

Paraguay won the competition for the first time after topping the final stage.^[2] Paraguay along with Brazil, Ecuador, and Colombia qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco as the CONMEBOL representatives after ending in the top four of the competition.^[3] Brazil were the defending champions.

CONMEBOL announced Cali, Palmira and Manizales as host cites on 30 January 2025, with the Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero, Estadio Francisco Rivera Escobar and the Estadio Palogrande being the venues for the matches.

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams are eligible to enter the tournament.

The draw of the tournament was held on 19 December 2024, 14:15 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay.^[4] The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Colombia and defending champions Brazil were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their results in the 2024 South American U-17 Women's Championship (shown in brackets).^[4]

From each pot, the first team drawn was placed into Group A and the second team drawn was placed into Group B. In both groups, teams from pot 1 were allocated in position 2, teams from pot 2 in position 3, teams from pot 3 in position 4 and teams from pot 4 in position 5.^[5]

The draw resulted in the following groups:^[6]

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points earned (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order (Regulations Article 20):

1. Head-to-head result between tied teams;
   • Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
   • Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
   • Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
2. Goal difference in all group matches;
3. Goals scored in all group matches;
4. Fewest red cards received;
5. Fewest yellow cards received;
6. Drawing of lots.

All match times are local times, COT (UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL.

In the final stage, the teams are ranked according to points earned (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order, taking into account only matches in the final stage (Regulations Article 21):

1. Head-to-head result in games between tied teams;
   1. Points in the matches played between the teams in question;
   2. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
   3. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
2. Goal difference in all group matches;
3. Number of goals scored in all group matches;
4. Fewest red cards received;
5. Fewest yellow cards received
6. Drawing of lots.

All match times are local times, COT (UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL.

There were 100 goals scored in 35 matches, for an average of 2.86 goals per match.

10 goals

7 goals

6 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco.

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

• CONMEBOL Sudamericano Femenino Sub 17 2025, CONMEBOL.com