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.
The competition was used to determine the four CONCACAF representatives at the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India.
Maps, Directions, and Place Reviews
Qualified teams
The qualifying competition for the tournament began in July 2016.
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.
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Venues
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.
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.
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 can contain 20 players (including two goalkeepers).
Group stage
The top two teams from each group in the group stage advance to the classification stage.
The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are 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 finish equal on points);
- Greater number of goals scored in matches among the tied teams (if more than two teams finish 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, EST (UTC-5).
Group A
Group B
Group C
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.
Group D
Group E
Final
If the final is level at the end of 90 minutes, no extra time is played and the match is decided by a penalty shoot-out.
Awards
Winners
Individual awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.
- Jairo Torres
- Carlos Mejía (7 goals)
- Justin Garces
- 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
Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup
The following four teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
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