Host country Costa Rica Goals scored 59 (2.95 per match) Teams 12 | Matches played 20 Dates 17 Feb 2017 – 5 Mar 2017 Venues 2 | |
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Top scorer(s) Ronaldo Cisneros (5 goals) Similar 1981 FIFA World Youth Ch, 1993 FIFA World Youth Ch, 1989 FIFA World Youth Ch, 1985 FIFA World Youth Ch, 1995 FIFA World Youth Ch | ||
The 2017 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship is the 5th edition of the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship (26th edition if all eras included), the men's under-20 international football tournament organised by CONCACAF. It is hosted in Costa Rica between 17 February and 5 March 2017.
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The competition will be used to determine the four CONCACAF representatives at the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea.
The tournament will also be used to determine which two Caribbean nations participate in the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games.
Qualification
Draw
The draw took place on November 29, 2016 at 18:00 CST (UTC−6) at El Cubo, Estadio Nacional, San José, Costa Rica, 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. Costa Rica, Mexico and the United States 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.
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-20 World Cup, with the group winners also advancing to the final to decide the champions of the CONCACAF U-20 Championship.
Group stage
The top two teams from each group in the group stage advance to the classification stage.
All times are local, CST (UTC−6).
Classification stage
The top two teams from each group in the classification stage qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup, with the group winners also advancing to the final to decide the champions of the CONCACAF U-20 Championship.