2019 CONCACAF U-17 Championship

2019 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
Premundial CONCACAF Sub-17 2019 (in Spanish)
Tournament details
Host country	United States
City	Bradenton, Florida
Dates	1–16 May
Teams	20 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Mexico (8th title)
Runners-up	United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played	39
Goals scored	152 (3.9 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Geancarlo Castro; (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Israel Luna
Best goalkeeper	Eduardo García
Fair play award	United States

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.

Qualified teams

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	Team	Qualification	Appearance	Previous best performance	Previous FIFA U-17 World Cup appearances
Group stage	Mexico (title holders)	1st ranked entrant	17th	Champions (1985, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2013, 2015, 2017)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	13
	United States (host)	2nd ranked entrant	18th	Champions (1983, 1992, 2011)^{[lower-alpha 2]}	16
	Honduras	3rd ranked entrant	18th	Runners-up (2015)	5
	Costa Rica	4th ranked entrant	17th	Champions (1994)^{[lower-alpha 3]}	10
	Panama	5th ranked entrant	9th	Runners-up (2013)	2
	Canada	6th ranked entrant	17th	Runners-up (2011)	6
	Jamaica	7th ranked entrant	14th	Final group winner (1999)	2
	Haiti	8th ranked entrant	8th	Final group winner (2007)	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	9th ranked entrant	14th	Runners-up (1983)	2
	Guatemala	10th ranked entrant	11th	Quarter-finals (2013)	0
	El Salvador	11th ranked entrant	15th	Fourth place (1999)	0
	Suriname	12th ranked entrant	2nd	First round (2017)	0
	Curaçao^{[lower-alpha 4]}	13th ranked entrant	7th	First round (1985, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2017)	0
	Barbados	14th ranked entrant	3rd	First round (2011, 2013)	0
	Bermuda	15th ranked entrant	2nd	First round (1996)	0
	Guyana	16th ranked entrant	1st	Debut	0
Round of 16	Nicaragua	Qualifying Group A winner	2nd	First round (1994)	0
	Dominican Republic	Qualifying Group B winner	3rd	First round (1994, 1996)	0
	Guadeloupe	Qualifying Group C winner	1st	Debut	0
	Puerto Rico	Qualifying Group D winner	3rd	First round (1983, 1991)	0

Notes

↑ Also final group winner in 1999 and 2005.
↑ Also final group winner in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007.
↑ Also final group winner in 2001 and 2003.
↑ Includes five appearances as the Netherlands Antilles before 2010.

Venues

Matches were played at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida:

Bradenton, Florida
IMG Academy
27°26′27″N 82°36′29″W / 27.4409°N 82.6081°W / 27.4409; -82.6081 (IMG Academy)
Capacity: 5,000

Match officials

Referees

Marco Antonio Ortiz Nava (Mexico)
Fernando Guerrero (Mexico)
Adonai Escobedo (Mexico)
John Pitti (Panama)
Iván Barton (El Salvador)
Ismael Cornejo (El Salvador)
Henry Bejarano (Costa Rica)
Juan Gabriel Calderón (Costa Rica)
Jair Marrufo (United States)
Armando Villarreal (United States)
Ismail Elfath (United States)
Yadel Martinez (Cuba)
Mario Escobar (Guatemala)
Walter López Castellanos (Guatemala)
Oshane Nation (Jamaica)
Daneon Parchment (Jamaica)
Kimbell Ward (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
Hector Saíd Martínez (Honduras)

Draw

The draw for the group stage took place on 19 February 2019, 11:00 EST (UTC−5), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. 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]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Mexico (E1) United States (F1) Honduras (G1) Costa Rica (H1)	Panama Canada Jamaica Haiti	Trinidad and Tobago Guatemala El Salvador Suriname	Curaçao Barbados Bermuda Guyana

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2002 were eligible to compete.

Group stage

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:

Greater number of points in matches between the tied teams;
Greater goal difference in matches between the tied teams (if more than two teams finished equal on points);
Greater number of goals scored in matches among the tied teams (if more than two teams finished equal in points);
Greater goal difference in all group matches;
Greater number of goals scored in all group matches;
Drawing of lots.

All times are local, EDT (UTC−4).^[4]

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mexico	3	3	0	11	0	+11	9	Round of 16
2	Trinidad and Tobago	3	2	1	6	8	−2	6
3	Jamaica	3	1	2	6	6	0	3
4	Bermuda	3	0	3	3	12	−9	0

Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: Tie-breakers

1 May 2019