| Tourney Name: | South American U-20 Championship |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Other Titles: | CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-20 2025 |
| City: | Arequipa |
| Country: | Peru |
| Dates: | TBD |
| Num Teams: | 10 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 4 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Prevseason: | 2023 |
| Nextseason: | 2027 |
The 2025 South American U-20 Championship will be the 31st edition of the South American U-20 Championship (Spanish; Castilian: CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-20, Portuguese: CONMEBOL Sul-Americano Sub-20), the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONMEBOL for the men's under-20 national teams of South America. It will be held in Arequipa, Peru in dates to be confirmed.[1]
Same as previous editions, the tournament will act as the CONMEBOL qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top four teams will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile as the CONMEBOL representatives, besides Chile who automatically qualify as host (if Chile were among the top four teams, the fifth-placed team would also qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup).
Brazil are the defending champions.
Peru was 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.[1] [2] The Peruvian Football Federation had submitted to CONMEBOL in March 2024 the bid to organize this competition.[3]
This will be the third time that Peru hosts the tournament, having previously done so in 1975 and 2011.[4] Arequipa will once again be the host city as in 2011 when it shared the organization with Tacna and Moquegua.[5]
With three venues required as a minimum by CONMEBOL,[6] 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.[7] [8]
All ten CONMEBOL member national teams are eligible to enter the tournament.
| Team | data-sortype="number" | Appearance | Previous best performance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29th | (5 times, most recent 2015) | ||
| 26th | (2 times, most recent 1983) | ||
| (holders) | 30th | (12 times, most recent 2023) | |
| 31st | (1 time, 1975) | ||
| 29th | (3 times, most recent 2013) | ||
| 26th | (1 time, 2019) | ||
| 29th | (1 time, 1971) | ||
| (hosts) | 30th | (5 times, most recent 1975) | |
| 30th | (8 times, most recent 2017) | ||
| 27th | (2 times, most recent 2017) |
The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup, including Chile which qualified as hosts.
| Team | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| [9] | 6 (1987, 1995, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2013) | ||