2025 South American U-20 Championship

Original host Peru was originally announced as host country for the tournament by the CONMEBOL President Alejandro Domínguez during a CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 10 April 2024, with Arequipa as host city. The Peruvian Football Federation had submitted to CONMEBOL in March 2024 the bid to organize this competition. With three venues required as a minimum by CONMEBOL, four possible venues were initially considered: Estadio Monumental UNSA, Estadio Melgar, Estadio La Tomilla and Estadio Municipal de Sachaca, with the latter three needing considerable improvements to host the matches. In October 2024, it was announced that Lima would be added as host city due to the lack of suitable stadiums in Arequipa, with the first stage planned to be held in Lima and the final stage to take place in Arequipa. On 13 November 2024, local Peruvian media announced that Peru had lost the hosting of the tournament, presumably due to institutional instability in the Peruvian Football Federation as a result of the arrest of its president Agustín Lozano a week earlier. Venezuela, the new host On 15 November 2024, CONMEBOL announced some changes to its competition calendar for 2025 in a letter sent to its member associations, confirming Venezuela as the new host of the South American U-20 Championship, replacing Peru. Venezuelan Football Federation president Jorge Giménez announced that the potential host cities would be Barquisimeto, Valencia, Puerto La Cruz and Maturín. These host cities were confirmed by CONMEBOL when publishing the tournament's match schedule, with the exception of Maturín, which was replaced by Caracas. ==Teams==

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament. ==Squads==

Each team could register a maximum of 23 and a minimum of 19 players, including at least 3 goalkeepers. Players born between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2009 (ages 16 to 20) were eligible to compete in the tournament (Regulations Articles 47 and 50). ==Draws==

Original draw The original draw of the tournament was held on 29 October 2024, 12:00 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay. The ten involved teams will be drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Peru 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 final position in the 2023 South American U-20 Championship (shown in brackets). The original draw resulted in the following groups: Second draw As a result of the change of the host country, CONMEBOL decided to hold a second draw on 6 December 2024 under the same procedures as the previous one, but with the seedings and pots updated. The second draw resulted in the following groups: ==Match officials==

On 10 December 2024, CONMEBOL announced a total of 11 referees and 22 assistant referees appointed for the tournament, including an Italian refereeing team from UEFA. This is the second time that a UEFA refereeing team will participate in the South American U-20 Championship because of the continuation of the UEFA–CONMEBOL memorandum of understanding signed in February 2020, which included a referee exchange programme since 2021. • Maximiliano Ramírez • Assistants: Pablo González and Pablo Acevedo • Jordy Alemán • Assistants: Carlos Tapia and Rubén Flores • Paulo Zanovelli • Assistants: Nailton Sousa and Luanderson de Lima • José Cabero • Assistants: Juan Serrano and Alejandro Molina • Jhon Hinestroza • Assistants: Miguel Roldán and David Fuentes • Alex Cajas • Assistants: Edison Vásquez and Dennys Guerrero • Derlis López • Assistants: José Villagra and Luis Onieva • Michael Espinoza • Assistants: Stephen Atoche and Coty Carrera • Andrea Colombo • Assistants: Luigi Rossi and Marcello Rossi • Mathías De Armas • Assistants: Agustín Berisso and Horacio Ferreiro • Yender Herrera • Assistants: Antoni García and José Martínez ==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 20): Group A ---- ---- ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- ---- ---- ==Final stage==

The ranking of teams in the final stage was determined using the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage, with the exception of red and yellow card counts which carry over from the first stage (Regulations Article 21). All match times are in VET (UTC−4), as listed by CONMEBOL. ---- ---- ---- ---- ==Goalscorers==

==Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup==

The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup, including Chile which qualified as hosts. 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year. ==References==