The 2025 South American U-20 Championship will be the 31st edition of the South American U-20 Championship (Spanish: CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-20, Portuguese: CONMEBOL Sul-Americano Sub-20), the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONMEBOL for the men's under-20 national teams of South America.

The top four teams will qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile as the CONMEBOL representatives besides Chile who automatically qualified as host. If Chile reaches the semi-finals, the two teams that finish 3rd in the group stage will play a play-off game for the spot instead.^[1]

Brazil are the defending champions.

Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams are eligible to enter the tournament.

Team	Appearance	Previous best performance
Argentina	29th	Champions (5 times, most recent 2015)
Bolivia	26th	Fourth place (2 times, most recent 1983)
Brazil (holders)	30th	Champions (12 times, most recent 2023)
Chile	31st	Runners-up (1 time, 1975)
Colombia	29th	Champions (3 times, most recent 2013)
Ecuador	26th	Champions (1 time, 2019)
Paraguay	27th	Champions (1 time, 1971)
Peru	27th	Fourth place (5 times, most recent 1975)
Uruguay	27th	Champions (8 times, most recent 2017)
Venezuela	27th	Third place (2 times, most recent 2017)

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following five teams from CONMEBOL will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup, including Chile which qualified as hosts.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup1
Chile	17 December 2023	6 (1987, 1995, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2013)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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