South_American_Under-20_Beach_Soccer_Championship Knowpia

South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship
Organizing body	CONMEBOL
Founded	2017; 7 years ago
Region	South America (CONMEBOL)
Number of teams	10
Current champion(s)	Paraguay (1st title)
Most successful team(s)	Argentina; Brazil; Paraguay ; (1 title each)
	2023 South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship

The CONMEBOL South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship (named natively in Spanish as the Sudamericano Sub-20 Futbol Playa) is a biennial international youth beach soccer tournament contested between the national teams of men aged under 20 years of the 10 members of CONMEBOL. It is the under-20s version of the Copa América de Beach Soccer and beach soccer's version of the better known South American Youth Football Championship in its parent sport, association football.

The tournament is organized by the governing body for football in South America, CONMEBOL, who commissioned the event in 2015 as part of a declaration of commitment to develop beach soccer on the continent which involved establishing new tournaments, including an under-20s championship.^[1]^[2] The first edition subsequently took place in 2017.^[3]

Paraguay are the current champions.^[4]

Results edit

Year	Location	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
Year	Location	Final			Third Place Play-off
2017 details	Montevideo, Uruguay	Brazil	1–1 (a.e.t.) (1–0 pen.)	Argentina	Paraguay	8–1	Colombia
2019 details	Luque, Paraguay	Argentina	5–3	Brazil	Paraguay	5–4	Peru
2021	No tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2023 details	Iquique, Chile	Paraguay	5–3	Brazil	Chile	4–4 (a.e.t.) (4–2 pen.)	Colombia

Performance edit

Successful nations edit

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third Place	Fourth Place
Brazil	1 (2017)	2 (2019, 2023)	–	–
Argentina	1 (2019)	1 (2017)	–	–
Paraguay	1 (2023	–	2 (2017, 2019)	–
Chile	–	–	1 (2023)	–
Colombia	–	–	–	2 (2017, 2023)
Peru	–	–	–	1 (2019)

Overall standings edit

Pos	Team	App	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Avg. Pts
1	Brazil	3	18	13	1	1	3	106	50	+56	42	2.33
2	Paraguay	3	17	13	0	0	4	106	57	+49	39	2.29
3	Argentina	3	17	12	0	0	5	67	58	+9	36	2.12
4	Peru	3	15	6	0	0	9	55	68	–13	18	1.2
5	Chile	3	16	5	0	2	9	47	59	–12	17	1.06
6	Colombia	3	16	5	1	0	10	53	74	–21	17	1.06
7	Ecuador	3	15	5	0	0	10	58	63	-5	15	1
8	Venezuela	2	10	4	0	0	6	38	48	–10	12	1.2
9	Uruguay	3	14	3	1	1	9	46	79	–33	12	0.86
10	Bolivia	3	14	3	0	0	11	44	68	–24	9	0.64

Updated on 13 August 2023.
Key: Appearances App / Won in Normal Time W = 3 Points / Won in Extra Time W+ = 2 Points / Won in Penalty shoot-out WP = 1 Point / Lost L = 0 Points

Appearances & performance timeline edit

Key

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place

5th–10th — Fifth to tenth place
× — Did not participate
– Hosts
Apps — Total appearances

Teams \ Years	2017 (10)	2019 (9)	2023 (10)	Apps
Argentina	2nd	1st	10th	2
Bolivia	7th	8th	9th	3
Brazil	1st	2nd	2nd	3
Chile	10th	7th	3rd	3
Colombia	4th	6th	4th	3
Ecuador	9th	5th	8th	3
Paraguay	3rd	3rd	1st	3
Peru	8th	4th	5th	3
Uruguay	5th	9th	6th	3
Venezuela	6th	×	7th	2

References edit

^ "Beach soccer: CONMEBOL bets on its competitive expansion". CONMEBOL. 29 September 2015. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
^ "Apoio da CONMEBOL eleva visibilidade do beach soccer na América do Sul" (in Portuguese). CBSB - Confederação de Beach Soccer do Brasil. 23 September 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
^ "Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 headed for Uruguay". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 24 November 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
^ "Paraguay venció a Brasil para ganar el Sudamericano Sub 20 de Fútbol Playa" (in Spanish). DSPORTS. 13 August 2023. Retrieved 13 August 2023.