2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship
| Premundial CONCACAF Sub-20 2017 (Spanish) | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country |
 Costa Rica
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| Dates | 17 February – 5 March 2017 |
| Teams | 12 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 2 (in 2 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |
 United States (1st title)
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| Runners-up |
 Honduras
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| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 25 |
| Goals scored | 74 (2.96 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
 Ronaldo Cisneros (6 goals)
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| Best player |
Erik Palmer-Brown
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| Best goalkeeper |
Jonathan Klinsmann
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| Fair play award |
Mexico
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The 2017 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship was the 5th edition of the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship (26th edition if all eras included), the men's under-20 international football tournament organized by CONCACAF. It was hosted in Costa Rica between 17 February and 5 March 2017.
The competition determined the four CONCACAF representatives at the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea. The United States, Mexico, Honduras, and Costa Rica qualified.
The tournament determined which two Caribbean nations participate in the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games.
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.
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