| Tourney Name: | CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Other Titles: | Campeonato de Niños Sub-15 CONCACAF 2023 |
| Country: | Curaçao (League B) |
| City: | Santo Domingo Willemstad |
| Dates: | 6–13 August |
| Num Teams: | 42 |
| Confederations: | 2 |
| Venues: | 2 |
| Cities: | 2 |
| Prevseason: | 2019 |
| Nextseason: | 2025 |
The 2023 CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship (Spanish; Castilian: Campeonato de Niños Sub-15 CONCACAF 2023) is the fourth edition of the CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship, the biennial international youth football tournament organized by CONCACAF for the men's under-15 national teams of North, Central America and Caribbean. It is held in Dominican Republic and Curaçao from 6 to 13 August 2023.[1]
The CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship returned after 4 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced CONCACAF to cancel the tournament in 2021.
UEFA guest team Portugal were the defending champions having won the 2019 League A, however, they were unable to defend their title as they were not invited for this edition..
A total of 41 teams entered the tournament, 39 out of the 41 CONCACAF member national teams and two invited teams from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Montserrat was scheduled to participate in League C but finally withdrew. Bahamas did not enter the tournament.
Like previous editions, the teams were split into three divisions, named League A (with 16 teams), League B (with 16 teams) and League C (with 9 teams), according to the CONCACAF Men's Under-17 Ranking as of February 2023,[2] with the two invited teams being included within the League A.
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In League A, the 16 teams were divided into four groups (A to D) of four, with each group played on a single round-robin basis. The top two teams of each group advanceD to the quarter-finals, where the winners advance to the semi-finals, the winners of the semi-finals played the final while the losers played the third place match. The eight teams that not advanced to the quarter-finals were paired, based on their results in the group stage, to play in a final play-offs round.
In League 2, the 16 teams are also divided into four groups (E to H) of four and the same competition format as in League A was used.
In Division 3, the 9 teams are divided into three groups (I to K) one of three and the same competition format as in League A and B was used, with the difference that only the winners of each group and the best runner-up advanced directly to the semi-finals.
Each match was to last 70 minutes, comprising two periods of 35 minutes with an interval of 10 minutes in between. If a game in quarter-finals, semi-finals or third place match of each league was tied at the end of regulation time, the winner would be decided directly by a penalty shoot-out. If the final match of each league was tied at the end of regulation time an extra time of two 10 minute periods would be played, if the score was still tied at the end of overtime, the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out.[4]
All match times are in DOT (UTC−4), as listed by CONCACAF.[5]
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Teams that not advanced to the quarter-finals were seeded based on their group stage results in order to establish the match-ups for the play-offs round.