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.

Qualified teams

The qualifying competition for the tournament began in July 2016.

TeamQualificationAppearancesPrevious best performancesFIFA U-17 World Cup Participations
North American zone
Mexico (TH)Automatic16thChampions (1985, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2013, 2015)12
United StatesAutomatic17thChampions (1983, 1992, 2011)15
CanadaAutomatic16thRunners-up (2011)6
Central American zone qualified through the Central America qualifying
PanamaHost8thRunners-up (2013)2
Costa RicaFirst place16thChampions (1994)9
HondurasSecond place17thRunners-up (2015)4
El SalvadorThird place14thFinal round play-off (1999)0
Caribbean zone qualified through the Caribbean qualifying
HaitiGroup A winner7thFinal round group winner (2007)1
JamaicaGroup A runner-up13thFinal round group winner (1999)2
CubaGroup B winner10thChampions (1988)2
CuraçaoGroup B runner-up6thFirst round0
SurinameBest third place1st—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 CityPanama City
Estadio Rommel FernándezEstadio Maracaná
Capacity: 32,000Capacity: 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.

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.

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.

Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4
Panama Costa Rica MexicoUnited States Canada HondurasJamaica Cuba HaitiEl 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).

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:

  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

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Panama (H)321052+37Classification stage
2Honduras320185+36
3Curaçao310214−33
4Haiti301214−31
Curaçao1–0Haiti
Bernadina 43'
Panama4–2Honduras
Guerrero 21', 24' Orelien 87' (pen.), 89'Palma 16' Mejía 49' (pen.)
Honduras3–0Curaçao
Mejía 50', 52' Cardona 90+3'
Panama0–0Haiti
Honduras3–1Haiti
López 70' Mejía 82' Palma 88'Leveille 10'
Panama1–0Curaçao
Guerrero 35'

Group B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Costa Rica330082+69Classification stage
2Cuba311145−14
3Canada31024403
4Suriname301216−51
Cuba1–1Suriname
Rendón 57'Hoever 83'
Costa Rica2–1Canada
Alfaro 44', 90+5'Romeo 51'
Canada1–2Cuba
Hojabrpour 71'Romero 26' Cruz 59'
Costa Rica3–0Suriname
Cordero 14' Abarca 64' Montero 80'
Canada2–0Suriname
David 13', 56'
Costa Rica3–1Cuba
Coll 37' (o.g.) Gómez 68' Jarquin 71'Savigne 49'

Group C

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1United States3300103+79Classification stage
2Mexico3201145+96
3Jamaica3102411−73
4El Salvador3003110−90
Jamaica0–5United States
Durkin 53' Weah 77' Sargent 87' Akinola 88', 90+2'
Mexico6–0El Salvador
Menjívar 1' (o.g.) Olivas 31' López 35', 46' Ávila 41' (o.g.) Maeda 75'
El Salvador1–3Jamaica
Cerritos 53' (pen.)McIntosh 18' Parris 83', 90+1'
Mexico3–4United States
De la Rosa 6', 44' Lindsey 90+2' (o.g.)Sargent 26', 40' Ferri 51' Akinola 84'
El Salvador0–1United States
Jones 52'
Mexico5–1Jamaica
Torres 24', 35' López 32', 62' Vázquez 61'Verley 71'

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

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1United States220092+76Final and 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2Honduras210174+332017 FIFA U-17 World Cup
3Cuba2002313−100
Cuba1–7Honduras
Savigne 87'Mejía 11', 36', 42' Palacios 16', 31', 73' Pérez 24'
Honduras0–3United States
Sargent 25', 82' Akinola 65'
Cuba2–6United States
Savigne 19' Vasquez 47' (o.g.)Vassilev 16' Coll 37' (o.g.) Carleton 39' Jones 49' Reynolds 84' Weah 88'

Group E

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Mexico220071+66Final and 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2Costa Rica210137−432017 FIFA U-17 World Cup
3Panama (H)200213−20
Costa Rica2–1Panama
Alfaro 31' Arce 41'Guerrero 44'
Panama0–1Mexico
Torres 32'
Costa Rica1–6Mexico
Abarca 4'Olivas 2', 40' (pen.) De la Rosa 20' López 30', 51' Sandoval 80'

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.

United States1–1Mexico
Carleton 62'Robles 90+2'
Penalties
SargentWeahGoslinWattsSands4–5LópezRoblesTorresGutiérrezDe la Rosa

Awards

Winners

2017 CONCACAF U-17 Championship winners
Mexico Seventh title

Individual awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.

Golden Ball

Golden Boot

Golden Glove

Fair Play Award

Best XI

Goalscorers

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

2 own goals

  • Cuba Miguel Coll (playing against Costa Rica and United States)

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.

TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament1
Mexico3 May 201712 (1985, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015)
United States5 May 201715 (1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015)
Honduras3 May 20174 (2007, 2009, 2013, 2015)
Costa Rica3 May 20179 (1985, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2015)

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

External links

  • , CONCACAF.com