| Tourney Name: | CONCACAF U-17 Championship |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Country: | United States |
| Dates: | 1 – 16 May |
| Num Teams: | 20 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Count: | 8 |
| Matches: | 39 |
| Goals: | 152 |
| Top Scorer: | Geancarlo Castro |
| Player: | Israel Luna |
| Goalkeeper: | Eduardo García |
| Prevseason: | 2017 |
| Nextseason: | 2023 |
The 2019 CONCACAF U-17 Championship was the 6th edition of the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship (19th edition if all eras included), the men's under-17 international football tournament organized by CONCACAF. It was hosted in the United States between 1 May and 16 May 2019.[1] [2] The top four teams qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil as CONCACAF representatives.
Mexico were the defending champions, and won a fourth consecutive title.
The format for qualification had changed since the 2017 edition. The qualifying competition no longer featured Caribbean and Central American zones.
The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Men’s Under-17 Ranking as of May 2017. A total of 35 teams entered the tournament. The sixteen highest-ranked entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked nineteen entrants had to participate in qualifying, where the four group winners advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.[1] [2]
| Round | width=160px | Team | width=150px | Qualification | width=120px data-sort-type="number" | Appearance | width=400px | Previous best performance | width=90px | Previous FIFA U-17 World Cup appearances |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center rowspan=16 | Group stage | (title holders) | 17th | Champions (1985, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2013, 2015, 2017) | 13 | |||||
| (host) | 18th | Champions (1983, 1992, 2011) | 16 | |||||||
| 18th | Runners-up (2015) | 5 | ||||||||
| 17th | Champions (1994) | 10 | ||||||||
| 9th | Runners-up (2013) | 2 | ||||||||
| 17th | Runners-up (2011) | 6 | ||||||||
| 14th | Final group winner (1999) | 2 | ||||||||
| 8th | Final group winner (2007) | 1 | ||||||||
| 14th | Runners-up (1983) | 2 | ||||||||
| 11th | Quarter-finals (2013) | 0 | ||||||||
| 15th | Fourth place (1999) | 0 | ||||||||
| 2nd | First round (2017) | 0 | ||||||||
| 7th | First round (1985, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2017) | 0 | ||||||||
| 3rd | First round (2011, 2013) | 0 | ||||||||
| 2nd | First round (1996) | 0 | ||||||||
| 1st | Debut | 0 | ||||||||
| align=center rowspan=4 | Round of 16 | 2nd | First round (1994) | 0 | ||||||
| 3rd | First round (1994, 1996) | 0 | ||||||||
| 1st | Debut | 0 | ||||||||
| 3rd | First round (1983, 1991) | 0 |
Matches were played at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida:
| IMG Academy | |
| 27.4409°N -82.6081°W | |
| Capacity: 5,000 | |
Referees
Marco Antonio Ortiz Nava (Mexico) Fernando Guerrero (Mexico) Adonai Escobedo (Mexico)
John Pitti (Panama)
Iván Barton (El Salvador) Ismael Cornejo (El Salvador)
Jair Marrufo (United States) Armando Villarreal (United States) Ismail Elfath (United States)
Yadel Martinez (Cuba)
Oshane Nation (Jamaica) Daneon Parchment (Jamaica)The draw for the group stage took place on 19 February 2019, 11:00 EST (UTC−5), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami, Florida, United States. The sixteen teams were drawn into four groups of four teams.[1] [2] Based on the CONCACAF Men's Under-17 Ranking, the top four ranked teams were seeded into position one of each group, while the remaining twelve teams were distributed in the other pots, as follows:[3]
Players born on or after 1 January 2002 were eligible to compete.
The top three teams in each group advanced to the round of 16, where they were joined by the four teams advancing from the qualifying round.The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
All times are local, EDT (UTC−4).[4]
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The four quarter-final winners qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
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The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.[5]
| Position | Player | |
|---|---|---|
| GK | Eduardo García | |
| align=center rowspan=4 | DF | Jean Geffrard |
| Kobe Hernandez-Foster | ||
| Alejandro Gómez | ||
| Stanley Guirand | ||
| align=center rowspan=3 | MF | Danny Leyva |
| Eugenio Pizzuto | ||
| Gianluca Busio | ||
| align=center rowspan=3 | FW | Geancarlo Castro |
| Israel Luna | ||
| Giovanni Reyna |
The following four teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup.[6]
| Team | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 (1987, 1989, 1993, 1995, 2011, 2013) | |||
| 16 (1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017) | |||
| 13 (1985, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) | |||
| 1 (2007) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.