The 2017 South American Under-17 Football Championship (, ) was the 17th edition of the South American Under-17 Football Championship, a football competition for the under-17 national teams in South America organized by CONMEBOL. It was held in Chile from 23 February to 19 March 2017.
Brazil were crowned champions, and together with Chile, Paraguay and Colombia, which were the top four teams of this tournament, qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India.
All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.
According to ANFP sources, Chile was named as host country of the tournament during the CONMEBOL Executive Committee meeting held on 12 May 2015, this was ratified by CONMEBOL at another meeting of its executive committee held on 4 April 2016. The chosen venues were Estadio El Teniente, Rancagua (Group A and final stage) and Estadio Fiscal, Talca (Group B). On 22 February 2017, Estadio La Granja, Curicó was added as an emergency venue to host the first two matchdays of Group B since Estadio Fiscal field was in poor condition.
Each team registered a squad of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).
The draw of the tournament was held on 12 January 2017, 14:00 CLST (), at the Chilean Football Federation headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Chile and the defending champions Brazil were seeded into Group A and Group B respectively and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining eight teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their final positions in the 2015 South American Under-17 Football Championship (shown in brackets).
The referees and assistants referees were:
Jorge Baliño and Fernando Rapallini
Leodán González and ÃÂscar Rojas
The top three teams in each group advanced to the final stage.
When teams finished level of points, the final rankings were determined according to:
All times local, CLST ().
When teams finished level of points, the final rankings were determined according to the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage.
The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.