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2017 CONCACAF U-17 Championship

Premundial CONCACAF Sub-17 2017 (in Spanish)
Tournament details
Host country	Panama
Dates	21 April – 7 May
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Mexico (7th title)
Runners-up	United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played	25
Goals scored	93 (3.72 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Carlos Mejía (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Jairo Torres
Best goalkeeper	Justin Garces
Fair play award	Mexico
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The 2017 CONCACAF Under-17 Championship was the 5th edition of the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship (18th edition if all eras included), the men's under-17 international football tournament organized by CONCACAF. It was hosted in Panama between 21 April and 7 May 2017.^[1][2]

The competition was used to determine the four CONCACAF representatives at the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India.

Qualified teams

The qualifying competition for the tournament began in July 2016.

Team	Qualification	Appearances	Previous best performances	FIFA U-17 World Cup Participations
North American zone
Mexico (TH)	Automatic	16th	Champions (1985, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2013, 2015)	12
United States	Automatic	17th	Champions (1983, 1992, 2011)	15
Canada	Automatic	16th	Runners-up (2011)	6
Central American zone qualified through the Central America qualifying
Panama	Host	8th	Runners-up (2013)	2
Costa Rica	First place	16th	Champions (1994)	9
Honduras	Second place	17th	Runners-up (2015)	4
El Salvador	Third place	14th	Final round play-off (1999)	0
Caribbean zone qualified through the Caribbean qualifying
Haiti	Group A winner	7th	Final round group winner (2007)	1
Jamaica	Group A runner-up	13th	Final round group winner (1999)	2
Cuba	Group B winner	10th	Champions (1988)	2
Curaçao	Group B runner-up	6th	First round	0
Suriname	Best third place	1st	—	0

Note: no titles or runners-up between 1999 and 2007.
All previous appearances of Curaçao as the former Netherlands Antilles.
Bold indicates that the corresponding team was hosting the event.

Venues

Panama City	Panama City
	Estadio Rommel Fernández	Estadio Maracaná
	Capacity: 32,000	Capacity: 5,500

Draw

The draw took place on December 13, 2016 at 19:00 EST (UTC−5) at Sheraton Grand Panama, Panama City, Panama, and was streamed live via CONCACAF.com.^[3]

Different from previous tournaments, the 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams in the group stage. Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica were seeded into each of the three groups.

• Panama, as hosts, were seeded in position A1.
• Costa Rica, as the best-ranked CONCACAF team in the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, excluding Mexico, were seeded in position B1.
• Mexico, as champions of the 2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, were seeded in position C1.

The remaining nine teams were allocated to pots 2–4 designed to ensure balanced and competitive groups weighted equally by region. They were drawn in order and placed in the group position drawn from Pots A, B and C.^[4]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Panama  Costa Rica  Mexico	United States  Canada  Honduras	Jamaica  Cuba  Haiti	El Salvador  Curaçao  Suriname

The top two teams from each group in the group stage advance to the classification stage, where the six teams are drawn into two groups of three teams. The positions of each group winner and runner-up from the group stage were then drawn in group pairs, randomly into the two groups (D and E) for the classification stage.

The top two teams from each group in the classification stage qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, with the group winners also advancing to the final to decide the champions of the CONCACAF U-17 Championship.

Referees

Squads

Each squad could contain 20 players (including two goalkeepers).^[5]

Group stage

The top two teams from each group in the group stage advanced to the classification stage.

Tiebreakers (for both group stage and classification stage)

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:^[5]

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

All times are local, EST (UTC−5).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Panama (H)	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Classification stage
2	Honduras	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	6
3	Curaçao	3	1	0	2	1	4	−3	3
4	Haiti	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Costa Rica	3	3	0	0	8	2	+6	9	Classification stage
2	Cuba	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	4
3	Canada	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3
4	Suriname	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	0	10	3	+7	9	Classification stage
2	Mexico	3	2	0	1	14	5	+9	6
3	Jamaica	3	1	0	2	4	11	−7	3
4	El Salvador	3	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0

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Classification stage

The top two teams from each group in the classification stage qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, with the group winners also advancing to the final to decide the champions of the CONCACAF U-17 Championship.

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	2	2	0	0	9	2	+7	6	Final and 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2	Honduras	2	1	0	1	7	4	+3	3	2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup
3	Cuba	2	0	0	2	3	13	−10	0

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Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mexico	2	2	0	0	7	1	+6	6	Final and 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2	Costa Rica	2	1	0	1	3	7	−4	3	2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup
3	Panama (H)	2	0	0	2	1	3	−2	0

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Final

If the final was level at the end of 90 minutes, no extra time would be played and the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out.^[5]

Awards

Winners

2017 CONCACAF U-17 Championship winners
Mexico Seventh title

Individual awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.^[6]

Golden Ball

• Jairo Torres

Golden Boot

• Carlos Mejía (7 goals)

Golden Glove

• Justin Garces

Fair Play Award

•  Mexico

Best XI

• Goalkeeper: Justin Garces
• Right back: Jaylin Lindsey
• Center back: James Sands
• Center back: Luis Olivas
• Left back: Walter Cortés
• Right midfielder: Jairo Torres
• Central midfielder: Chris Durkin
• Central midfielder: Alexis Gutiérrez
• Left midfielder: Carlos Mejía
• Forward: Daniel López
• Forward: Josh Sargent

Goalscorers

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

2 own goals

1 own goal

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following four teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.^[7]

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament1
Mexico	3 May 2017	12 (1985, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015)
United States	5 May 2017	15 (1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015)
Honduras	3 May 2017	4 (2007, 2009, 2013, 2015)
Costa Rica	3 May 2017	9 (1985, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2015)

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

References

External links

• Under 17s – Men, CONCACAF.com