Women's U-17 World Cup

This article describes the Women's U-17 World Cup ; for the U-17 World Cup for men, see U-17 World Cup ; for further soccer world championships see soccer world championship (explanation of terms) .

Women's U-17 World Cup
abbreviation	U-17 Women's World Cup
Association	FIFA
First edition	2008
Teams	16
Game mode	Round-robin tournament (4 groups of 4 teams each) / knockout system (from quarterfinals)
Title holder	Spain
Record winner	North Korea (2 titles)
Record player	Yōko Tanaka (9 games)
Record scorer	Yeo Min-ji Ri Un-sim (8 goals each)
Website	www.fifa.com

The FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup (English: FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup ) is the competition for the best U-17 national teams in the world. The tournament is organized by the world association FIFA and was held for the first time in 2008. Back then, New Zealand was the host . The last tournament so far took place in Uruguay in 2018 .

The U-17 World Cup is usually held every two years in even years, while the male juniors' competitions are held in odd years.

Reigning world champion (2018) is Spain.

history

After the positive outcome of the first U-19 Women's World Cup , which was held in Canada in 2002 , FIFA wanted to introduce a second world youth tournament. Because of the age restrictions at the time, the continental associations spoke out against this proposal. To solve the problem, FIFA created the U-17 and U-20 Women's World Cups, bringing the age limits into line with those of the male juniors' competitions. The age limit for the U-19 competition was thus increased to 20 and became effective for the first time for the 2006 tournament in Russia . So far, the tournament has been won four times by Asian teams (Japan, South and North Korea). The title went twice to Europe, which found its way onto the list of winners thanks to the French and Spanish women. None of the hosts have been able to survive the group stage and make it into the knockout round.

First participation

There were a total of 30 different participants in the six world championship finals held so far. The following overview shows which country took part in which final round for the first time.

year	First time participant
2008	Brazil	Costa Rica	Denmark	Germany
	England	France	Ghana	Japan
	Canada	Colombia	New Zealand	Nigeria
	North Korea	Paraguay	South Korea	United States
2010	Chile	Ireland	Mexico	Spain
	South Africa	Trinidad & Tobago	Venezuela
2012	Azerbaijan	China	Gambia	Uruguay
2014	Italy	Zambia
2016	Jordan	Cameroon
2018	Finland
2021	India

The tournaments at a glance

year	host	final			3rd place match
		winner	Result	2nd place	3rd place	Result	4th Place
2008 details	New Zealand	North Korea	2: 1 a.d.	United States	Germany	3-0	England
2010 details	Trinidad and Tobago	South Korea	3: 3 n.v. 5: 4 i. E.	Japan	Spain	1-0	North Korea
2012 details	Azerbaijan	France	1: 1 7: 6 i. E.	North Korea	Ghana	1-0	Germany
2014 details	Costa Rica	Japan	2-0	Spain	Italy	4: 4 2: 0 i. E.	Venezuela
2016 details	Jordan	North Korea	0: 0 5: 4 i. E.	Japan	Spain	4-0	Venezuela
2018 details	Uruguay	Spain	2: 1	Mexico	New Zealand	2: 1	Canada
2021 details	India

Leaderboards

by country rank country title Year (s) 2. 3. 4th 1  North Korea 2 2008, 2016 1 / 1 2  Japan 1 2014 2 / / 3  Spain 1 2018 1 2 / 4th  South Korea 1 2010 / / /  France 1 2012 / / / 6th  United States 1 / /  Mexico 1 / / 8th  Germany / 1 1 9  Ghana / 1 /  Italy / 1 /  New Zealand / 1 / 12  Venezuela / / 2 13  England / / 1  Canada / / 1

after confederations rank confederacy title 2. 3. 4th 1 AFC 4th 3 / 1 2 UEFA 2 1 4th 2 3 CONCACAF / 1 / 1 4th CONMEBOL / 1 / 2 5 CAF / / 1 / OFC / / 1 /

Eternal table

This list summarizes the results of all world championships. Games that are decided on penalties will be counted as a tie with the score prior to the penalty shootout.

rank	country	Participation	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
01	Japan	6th	30th	22nd	6th	02	106: 22	72
02	North Korea	6th	31	17th	8th	06th	062:32	59
03	Spain	4th	24	17th	3	04th	058:19	54
04th	Germany	6th	27	14th	4th	09	068:30	46
05	Ghana	6th	24	13	3	08th	037:27	42
06th	Canada	6th	24	09	6th	09	026:30	33
07th	Nigeria	5	18th	09	4th	05	041:23	31
08th	Mexico	5	20th	08th	4th	08th	031:37	28
09	Venezuela	3	15th	08th	1	06th	026:30	25th
10	United States	4th	15th	06th	3	06th	032:24	21st
11	South Korea	3	13	06th	2	05	027:28	20th
12	Brazil	5	17th	06th	2	09	020:26	20th
13	New Zealand	6th	21st	05	2	14th	021:44	17th
14th	France	2	09	03	5	01	022:14	14th
15th	England	2	10	03	3	04th	012:17	12
16	Italy	1	06th	02	2	02	009: 09	08th
17th	China	2	06th	02	1	03	009:10	07th
18th	Colombia	4th	12	01	4th	07th	011:23	07th
19th	Ireland	1	04th	02	0	02	006: 04	06th
20th	Denmark	1	04th	01	2	01	003: 06	05
21st	Trinidad and Tobago	1	03	01	0	02	003: 04	03
22nd	Zambia	1	03	01	0	02	002: 07	03
23	Cameroon	2	06th	01	0	05	005:12	03
24	Finland	1	03	00	1	02	002: 08	01
25th	Uruguay	2	06th	00	1	05	004:19	01
26th	South Africa	2	06th	00	1	05	003:27	01
27	Paraguay	3	09	00	1	08th	008:46	01
28	Chile	1	03	00	0	03	001:10	00
29	Costa Rica	2	06th	00	0	06th	002:14	00
30th	Jordan	1	03	00	0	03	001:15	00
31	Azerbaijan	1	03	00	0	03	000:16	00
32	Gambia	1	03	00	0	03	002:27	00

(As of December 2, 2018)

Awards

At the end of every U-17 Women's World Cup, several awards are given to the best female players and the fairest team. There are currently four different awards:

• the Adidas Golden Ball for the best female player
• the Adidas Golden Shoe for the best goalscorer
• the Adidas Golden Glove for the best goalkeeper
• the FIFA Fair Play Award for the fairest team

year	Golden ball	Golden shoe (gates)	Golden glove	FIFA Fair Play Award
2008	Mana Iwabuchi	Dzsenifer Marozsán (6)	Taylor Vancil	Germany
2010	Yeo Min-ji	Yeo Min-ji (8)	Dolores Gallardo	Germany
2012	Griedge Mbock Bathy	Ri Un-sim (8)	Novels Bruneau	Japan
2014	Hina Sugita	Deyna Castellano (6) Gabriela Garcia (6)	Mamiko Matsumoto	Japan
2016	Fuka Nagano	Lorena Navarro (8)	Noelia Ramos	Japan
2018	Claudia Pina	Mukarama Abdulai (7)	Catalina Coll	Japan

Varia

competition	places	Stages	Messages 1	Teams	Games		⌀	spectator	viewers ⌀		⌀		⌀		⌀
2008	4th	4th	87	16	32	113	3.53	212.504	6,641	36	1.13	3	0.09	3	0.09
2010	5	5	93	16	32	125	3.91	146.156	4,567	52	1.63	1	0.03	0	0.00
2012	2	6th	107	16	32	119	3.72	257.766	8,055	37	1.16	1	0.03	3	0.09
2014	4th	4th	103	16	32	113	3.53	284,320	8,885	67	2.09	0	0.00	1	0.03
2016	3	4th	132	16	32	104	3.25	104,095	3,253	79	2.47	2	0.06	0	0.00
2018	3	3	138	16	32	86	2.69	38,272	1,196	71	2.21	4th	0.13	3	0.09
2021	5	5	142	16	32
Respective record

¹The sum of the entries submitted in due time for the six continental qualification tournaments will be calculated regardless of whether they were withdrawn or not started before the start of qualification; including host.

Web links

• Statistical kit on fifa.com (pdf.)

References and footnotes

1. ↑ On February 28, 2013, FIFA announced that the World Cup was being postponed and that a new host was being sought because of delays in the construction of the stadium. On March 22nd, after receiving new guarantees from the responsible Costa Rican authorities, FIFA overturned the decision. [1] [2]