2023 South American U-20 Championship

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

Colombia had been originally chosen to host the South American U-20 Championship that was to be held in 2021. That tournament ended up being canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, Colombia maintained its right to hold the South American U-20 Championship but in 2023. This was the fifth time that Colombia hosts the tournament having previously done so in 1964, 1987, 1992 and 2005. Cali, Palmira and Bogotá were selected as host cities. ==Match officials==

On 9 December 2022, CONMEBOL announced a total of 11 referees and 22 assistant referees appointed for the tournament, included a Portuguese refereeing team. For the first time, a UEFA refereeing team will participate in the South American U-20 Championship as part of the UEFA–CONMEBOL memorandum of understanding signed in February 2020, which included a referee exchange programme. Portuguese referee João Pinheiro was replaced by his fellow countryman António Nobre. • Nicolás Lamolina • Assistants: Maximiliano Del Yesso and Facundo Rodríguez • Ivo Méndez • Assistants: Ariel Guizada and Carlos Tapia • Braulio Machado • Assistants: Fabricio Vilarinho and Rafael Alves • Cristian Garay • Assistants: Claudio Urrutia and Alejandro Molina • Carlos Ortega • Assistants: Jhon León and John Gallego • Guillermo Guerrero • Assistants: Ricardo Barén and Dennys Guerrero • Derlis López • Assistants: Roberto Cañete and Luis Onieva • Augusto Menéndez • Assistants: Stephen Atoche and Leonar Soto • António Nobre • Assistants: Bruno Alves and Luciano Maia • Gustavo Tejera • Assistants: Andrés Nievas and Horacio Ferreiro • Yender Herrera • Assistants: Lubin Torrealba and Alberto Ponte ==Squads==

Players born between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2007 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 23 and a minimum of 19 players, including at least 3 goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 46 and 49). ==Draw==

The draw of the tournament was held on 21 December 2022, 14:00 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Colombia and defending champions Ecuador 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 2019 South American U-20 Championship (shown in brackets). 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. The draw resulted in the following groups: ==First stage==

The top three teams in each group advanced to the final stage. ;Tiebreakers In the first 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 21): Group A ---- ---- ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- ---- ---- ==Final stage==

If teams finished level on points, the final rankings would be determined according to the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage. All match times are in COT (UTC−5), as listed by CONMEBOL. ---- ---- ---- ---- ==Goalscorers==

==Qualification for international tournaments==

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup, including Argentina which qualified as hosts. :1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year. Qualified teams for Pan American Games The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2023 Pan American Games men's football tournament, including Chile which qualified as hosts. :2 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year. == Broadcasting rights ==

Radio • : Blu Radio, Caracol Radio, RCN Radio Television • Argentina: TyC Sports • Brazil: TV Globo, SporTV • Bolivia: Unitel • Chile: Canal 13 • Colombia: Caracol Televisión, RCN Televisión, Telepacífico • Ecuador: DSports • Paraguay: and Datisa • Peru: DSports, Latina • Uruguay: Dexary • Venezuela: Televen ==References==