Women's U-20 World Cup

This article describes the Women's U-20 World Cup ; for the U-20 World Cup for men, see U-20 World Cup ; for further soccer world championships see soccer world championship (explanation of terms) .

Women's U-20 World Cup
abbreviation	U-20 Women's World Cup
Association	FIFA
First edition	2002
Teams	16
Game mode	Round-robin tournament (4 groups of 4 teams each) / knockout system (from quarterfinals)
Title holder	Japan (1st title)
Record winner	Germany USA (3 titles each)
Record player	Renata Costa (18 games)
Record scorer	Sydney Leroux Alexandra Popp Christine Sinclair (10 goals each)
Website	www.fifa.com

The trophy of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship (English: U-20 Women's World Cup FIFA ), also known as short only U-20 Women's World Cup, the football competition between the best national teams for football players under 20 years. For the men's U-20 juniors, a corresponding world championship was introduced as early as 1977. The age limit was 20 years from the start, while for women the age limit for the first two tournaments was 19 years.

history

The tournament takes place every two years and is organized by the world football association FIFA . This tournament was held for the first time in Canada in 2002 . The final took place in front of 30,000 spectators at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton between hosts Canada and the USA . The USA won 1-0 with a golden goal from Lindsay Tarpley . Third in the tournament was the German national team with a 1-1 (4-3 on penalties ) against Brazil.

The second tournament took place in 2004 in Thailand . The German women became world champions this time with a 2-0 win over China . The USA came third with a 3-0 win against Brazil. For the 2006 tournament in Russia , the age limit for the competition was increased to 20 years. The winner was North Korea by a 5: 0 victory over China. Defending champion Germany failed in the quarter-finals to the USA. In 2008 the tournament was held in Chile . Since 2010, the tournament - similar to the men's Confederation Cup - has been held as a dress rehearsal in the year before the women's World Cup in the country of the World Cup host. Such was Germany 2010, the host and the home team won the final and his second world title after a sovereign tournament performance using a 2: 0 victory over the African surprise finalists Nigeria. Since France will host the World Cup in 2019 , France also hosted the U-20 World Cup in 2018.

First participation

There have been a total of 33 different participants in the eight world championship finals held so far. Two more will be added in 2018. The following overview shows which country took part in which final round for the first time. First-time participants marked with "*" were automatically qualified as hosts.

year	First time participant
2002	Australia	Brazil	Denmark	Germany
	England	France	Japan	Canada*
	Mexico	Nigeria	Chinese Taipei	United States
2004	China	Italy	Russia	Spain
	South Korea	Thailand*
2006	Argentina	Finland	DR Congo	New Zealand
	North Korea	Switzerland
2008	Chile*	Norway
2010	Costa Rica	Ghana	Colombia	Sweden
2012	no new participants
2014	Paraguay
2016	Papua New Guinea*	Venezuela
2018	Netherlands	Haiti

The tournaments at a glance

year	host	final			3rd place match
		winner	Result	2nd place	3rd place	Result	4th Place
U-19 World Championship
2002 details	Canada	United States	1: 0 according to GG.	Canada	Germany	1: 1 4: 3 i. E.	Brazil
2004 details	Thailand	Germany	2-0	China	United States	3-0	Brazil
U-20 World Championship
2006 details	Russia	North Korea	5-0	China	Brazil	0: 0 n.v. 6: 5 in E.	United States
2008 details	Chile	United States	2: 1	North Korea	Germany	5: 3	France
2010 details	Germany	Germany	2-0	Nigeria	South Korea	1-0	Colombia
2012 details	Japan	United States	1-0	Germany	Japan	2: 1	Nigeria
2014 details	Canada	Germany	1: 0 a.d.	Nigeria	France	3: 2	North Korea
2016 details	Papua New Guinea	North Korea	3: 1	France	Japan	1-0	United States
2018 details	France	Japan	3: 1	Spain	England	1: 1 4: 2 i. E.	France
2020 details	Costa Rica
2022 details	Australia / New Zealand

Leaderboards

by country rank country title Year (s) 2. 3. 4th 1  Germany 3 2004, 2010, 2014 1 2 / 2  United States 3 2002, 2008, 2012 / 1 2 3  North Korea 2 2006, 2016 1 / 1 4th  Japan 1 2018 / 2 / 5  Nigeria 2 / 1 6th  China 2 / / 7th  France 1 1 2 8th  Canada 1 / /  Spain 1 / / 10  Brazil / 1 2 11  England / 1 /  South Korea / 1 / 13  Colombia / / 1

after confederations rank confederacy title 2. 3. 4th 1 UEFA 3 3 4th 2 2 AFC 3 3 3 1 3 CONCACAF 3 1 1 2 4th CAF / 2 / 1 5 CONMEBOL / / 1 3 6th OFC / / / /

Eternal table

This list summarizes the results of all world championships. Games played in the penalty shoot-out were to be decided, a tie with the result after extra time scored.

rank	country	Participation	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1	Germany	9	48	35	04th	09	127: 49	109
2	United States	9	47	31	09	07th	101: 31	102
3	North Korea	7th	36	25th	01	10	090:47	076
4th	Nigeria	9	40	17th	10	13	065:53	061
5	Japan	6th	29	18th	03	08th	065:33	057
6th	France	7th	34	17th	06th	11	059:42	057
7th	Brazil	9	38	14th	11	13	069:55	053
8th	China	6th	24	11	06th	07th	032:32	039
9	Canada	7th	26th	11	02	13	051:43	035
10	South Korea	5	20th	09	02	09	028:27	029
11	Mexico	8th	27	07th	04th	16	039:70	025th
12	England	5	20th	05	08th	07th	029:32	023
13	Spain	3	13	07th	01	05	023:18	022nd
14th	New Zealand	6th	22nd	05	04th	13	025:44	019th
15th	Ghana	5	15th	04th	03	08th	013:27	015th
16	Sweden	2	07th	03	02	02	013: 09	011
17th	Australia	3	11	03	02	06th	018:20	011
18th	Norway	2	07th	03	00	04th	012:17	009
19th	Russia	2	08th	02	02	04th	011:18	008th
20th	Colombia	1	06th	02	01	03	007: 06	007th
21st	Netherlands	1	04th	02	00	02	007: 07	006th
22nd	Argentina	3	09	01	01	07th	007:34	004th
23	Denmark	1	04th	01	00	03	005:12	003
24	Paraguay	2	06th	01	00	05	003:22	003
25th	Italy	2	06th	00	02	04th	004:12	002
26th	Haiti	1	03	00	00	03	003: 06	000
27	Chile	1	03	00	00	03	003: 08	000
28	Venezuela	1	03	00	00	03	003: 09	000
29	Finland	2	06th	00	00	06th	005:19	000
30th	Taiwan	1	03	00	00	03	001:15	000
31	Costa Rica	2	06th	00	00	06th	004:19	000
32	DR Congo	2	06th	00	00	06th	002:19	000
33	Thailand	1	03	00	00	03	000:18	000
34	Papua New Guinea	1	03	00	00	03	001:22	000
35	Switzerland	3	09	00	00	09	003:33	000

(As of August 24, 2018)

Awards

At the end of every U-20 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
2002	Christine Sinclair	Christine Sinclair (10)	not forgiven	Japan
2004	Marta	Brittany Timko (7)		United States
2006	Ma Xiaoxu	Ma Xiaoxu (5)		New Zealand North Korea Russia
2008	Sydney Leroux	Sydney Leroux (5)	Alyssa Naeher	United States
2010	Alexandra Popp	Alexandra Popp (10)	Bianca Henninger	South Korea
2012	Dzsenifer Marozsán	Kim Un-hwa (7)	Laura Benkarth	Japan
2014	Asisat Oshoala	Asisat Oshoala (7)	Meike Kämper	Canada
2016	Hina Sugita	Mami Ueno (5)	Mylène Chavas	Japan
2018	Patricia Guijarro	Patricia Guijarro (6)	Sandy Maciver	Japan

Varia

competition	places	Stages	Messages 1	Teams	Games		⌀	spectator	viewers ⌀		⌀		⌀		⌀
2002	3	3	87	12	26th	101	3.88	295.133	11,351	50	1.92	3	0.12	2	0.08
2004	3	4th	110	12	26th	92	3.54	288,324	11,089	77	2.96	0	0.00	3	0.12
2006	2	5	124	16	32	106	3.31	52,630	1,645	90	2.81	2	0.06	2	0.06
2008	4th	4th	115	16	32	113	3.53	215.976	6,749	66	2.06	3	0.09	0	0.00
2010	4th	4th	113	16	32	99	3.09	373,800	11,681	48	1.50	1	0.03	1	0.03
2012	5	5	117	16	32	104	3.25	302,689	9,459	66	2.06	2	0.06	2	0.06
2014	4th	4th	120	16	32	102	3.19	288,558	9,017	55	1.72	0	0.00	0	0.00
2016	1	4th	124	16	32	113	3.53	159,089	4,972	55	1.72	3	0.09	0	0.00
2018	4th	4th	128	16	32	98	3.06	75,750	2,367	71	2.22	1	0.03	0	0.00
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.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The weight of the cup is 2.74 kilograms. It is 45 centimeters high and has a diameter of 25 centimeters.
2. ↑ At first Panama was supposed to be co-host, but withdrew on July 24, 2020.

Web links

• fifa.com: Statistical overview (PDF; 611 kB)