| Tourney Name: | South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Other Titles: | Sudamericano Sub-20 Futbol Playa Chile 2023 |
| Size: | 260px |
| Country: | Chile |
| Dates: | 6–13 August |
| Num Teams: | 10 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Count: | 1 |
| Matches: | 27 |
| Goals: | 221 |
| Prevseason: | 2019 |
| Nextseason: | 2025 |
The 2023 CONMEBOL South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship was the third edition of the South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship (known natively in Spanish and Portuguese as the CONMEBOL Sub-20 Fútbol Playa), an international youth beach soccer tournament for South American men's national teams comprising players under the age of 20. A biennial event, the tournament took place for the first time in four years after being unable to take place in 2021 due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in South America.[1]
The event took place between 6 and 13 August in Iquique, Chile.[2] The championship was organised by CONMEBOL, the governing body for football in South America, in cooperation with the local organisers, the Football Federation of Chile (FFC).[3]
Argentina were the defending champions, but finished in the last position of the tournament. Paraguay won its first title in the championship.
Under 20s teams representing all 10 members of CONMEBOL will take part.[4]
All matches will take place at one venue in the city of Iquique, Chile: Arena Cavancha on Cavancha Beach, with a capacity of 1,542.[5]
The draw to split the ten teams into two groups of five took place on 26 June at 12:00 PYT (UTC–3) in Asunción, Paraguay at the headquarters of CONMEBOL.[4] The draw took place under the following procedure:[6]
Initially, two teams were automatically assigned to the groups:
The remaining eight teams were split into four pots of two, shown in the below table.
The teams were seeded based on their final ranking in the previous edition of the South American Under-20 Beach Soccer Championship; the highest ranked teams were placed in Pot 1, next highest in Pot 2 and so on, down to the lowest ranked team placed in Pot 4. From each pot, one team was drawn into Group A and the other team was drawn into Group B.
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The draw resulted in the following groups:[2] [7] [8]
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The group stage schedule is defined by Regulations Article 15.[6]
Each team earns three points for a win in regulation time, two points for a win in extra time, one point for a win in a penalty shoot-out, and no points for a defeat (Regulations Article 19). The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows (Regulations Article 20):[6] If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above criterion, their rankings are determined as follows:
All times are local, CLT (UTC–3).
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The teams finishing in third, fourth and fifth place in the groups are knocked out of title-winning contention; they recede to play in consolatory classification matches to determine fifth through tenth place in the final standings (Regulations Article 18).[6]
The group winners and runners-up progress to the knockout stage to continue to compete for the title (Regulations Article 18).[6]
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