| Tourney Name: | Men's football at the 2022 South American Games |
| Country: | Paraguay |
| Dates: | 4–12 October |
| Num Teams: | 8 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Count: | 2 |
| Matches: | 16 |
| Goals: | 49 |
| Top Scorer: | Allan Wlk (6 goals) |
The men's tournament of the football at the 2022 South American Games was held from 4 to 12 October 2022 at the Complejo de Fútbol in Luque, Paraguay, a sub-venue outside Asunción.[1] It was the ninth staging of the football men's tournament since its first appearance in the South American Games' first edition in La Paz 1978.
The tournament was officially restricted to under-19 players (born on or after 1 January 2003).[1]
The defending champions Chile were unable to retain their title after being eliminated in the group stage.[2]
Paraguay won the gold medal and their second South American Games men's football title after defeating Ecuador by a 1–0 score in the final.[3] Colombia beat Uruguay 2–1 in the third place match to win the bronze medal.
The tournament was held over a 9-day period, from 4 to 12 October.[1]
| GS | Group stage | SF | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| Tue 4 | Wed 5 | Thu 6 | Fri 7 | Sat 8 | Sun 9 | Mon 10 | Tue 11 | Sun 12 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GS | GS | GS | SF | B | F | |||||
| 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
A total of eight ODESUR NOCs entered teams for the men's tournament.
| Teams | Previous best performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 5th | Gold medal (1982, 1986) | ||
| 8th | Silver medal (1978, 1982, 1990, 2010) | ||
| 7th | Gold medal (2018) | ||
| 7th | Gold medal (2010, 2014) | ||
| 6th | Gold medal (1978) | ||
| 7th | Gold medal (1990) | ||
| 3rd | Silver medal (2018) | ||
| 4th | Silver medal (1994) |
Each participating NOC had to enter a squad of 18 players (Technical manual Article 9). Players had to be born on or after 1 January 2003 to be eligible (Technical manual Article 1).[1]
All matches were played at the Complejo de Fútbol courts located within the Parque Olímpico cluster in Luque, Paraguay, owned by the Paraguayan Olympic Committee.[4]
All match times are in PYST (UTC−3).[1]
The group stage consisted of two groups of 4 teams, each group was played under the round-robin format with the top two teams progressing to the semi-finals.
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, the following tiebreakers were applied (Technical manual Article 10.1):[1]
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The final stage consisted of the semi-finals and bronze and gold medal matches. The semi-finals match-ups were:[1]
In the final stage, if a match had been tied after 90 minutes, the match would have been decided by a penalty shoot-out. Winners of semi-finals played the gold medal match, while losers played the bronze medal match.
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||
| align=top | Ángel González Alan Núñez Gilberto Flores Alexis Cantero Thiago Servín Víctor Quintana Fernando Ovelar Diego Gómez (c) Allan Wlk Matías Segovia Leonardo Rolón Carlos Urán Luis Rolón Nelson Gauto Leandro Caballero Blas Duarte Kevin Pereira Hugo Benítez Head coach: Aldo Bobadilla | align=top | Tony Jiménez Randy Meneses Luis Mario Córdova Davis Bautista Denil Castillo (c) Yeltzin Erique Emerson Pata Patrik Mercado Justin Cuero José Andrés Klinger Madison Mina Ethan Minda Steven Cortez Orlando Herrera Gilbert Sánchez Ariel Suárez Mathías Solís Jean Pierre Arroyo Head coach: Jimmy Bran | align=top | Cristian Santander Daniel Pedrozo Edier Ocampo Julián Palacios Kevin Mantilla (c) Jhon Vélez Sebastián Girado Gustavo Puerta Ricardo Caraballo Alexis Castillo José Mulato Luis Marquinez Oscar Cortés Juan José Córdoba Andrés Salazar Miguel Monsalve Stiven Valencia Daniel Luna Head coach: Héctor Cardenas |