2012 Women's U-20 World Cup

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2012 Women's U-20 World Cup
2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
Fifa U20-world-cup-japan 1.jpg
Number of nations 16
World Champion United StatesUnited States USA (3rd title)
venue JapanJapan Japan
Opening game 19th August 2012
Endgame September 8, 2012
Games 32
Gates 104  (⌀: 3.25 per game)
spectator 302,689  (⌀: 9,459 per game)
Top scorer Korea NorthNorth Korea Kim Un Hwa (7 goals)
Best player GermanyGermany Dzsenifer Marozsán
Best goalkeeper GermanyGermany Laura Benkarth
Yellow card yellow cards 66  (⌀: 2.06 per game)
Yellow-red card Yellow-red cards (⌀: 0.06 per game)
Red card Red cards (⌀: 0.06 per game)

The FIFA U-20 World Cup Women 2012 (officially 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup ) was the sixth playout this competition for football players under 20 (date: January 1, 1992) and took place from 19 August to 8th September 2012 in Japan . It was the third time that Japan hosted a FIFA youth tournament after the 1979 Men's World Cup and the 1993 Men's U-17 World Cup . The game was played in the cities of Hiroshima , Kobe , Rifu , Saitama and Tokyo . 16 teams took part in the tournament, initially in four groups and then in the knockout system . The winner for the third time was the USA team , which also became the record world champions in this age group, with a 1-0 victory in the final against the German team , which had not conceded a goal in the tournament until then.

Award of the tournament

Originally, the tournament was to be awarded at the FIFA Executive Committee meeting on March 19, 2010. The decision was postponed in order to give those who might be interested more time to prepare. Vietnam was then awarded the contract, but later renounced the hosting. The reason for this was that the Vietnamese association received too little support from the government. On March 3, 2011, FIFA awarded the tournament to Uzbekistan. On December 18, 2011, FIFA revoked the right to host Uzbekistan “because of a number of logistical and technical problems”. Japan was proposed as the new host country , which was confirmed on February 8, 2012.

Venues

Rifu Saitama
Venues 2012 in Japan
Miyagi Stadium Urawa Komaba Stadium
Capacity (WM): 49,133 Capacity (WM): 21,500
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Tokyo Hiroshima Kobe
Tokyo Olympic Stadium Hiroshima Big Arch Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium
Capacity (WM): 48,000 Capacity (WM): 50,000 Capacity (WM): 45,000
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qualification

The four European representatives qualified at the U-19 European Championship 2011 in Italy . The two best teams of the two preliminary round groups each qualified for the world championship. In addition to European champions Germany , Italy , Norway and Switzerland also qualified .

Asia's participants were determined at the U-19 Asian Cup 2011 in Vietnam . The tournament was held from October 6 to 16, 2011 in tournament mode in the form of a round-robin tournament. Even before the last group match day, the three finalists of the Asian Football Association had been determined: Japan , North Korea and China . Since Japan is qualified as host, the South Koreans could also qualify.

Brazil as the winner and Argentina as second qualified at the U-20 South American Championship .

The North and Central American representatives were determined at the CONCACAF U-20 Championship for women , which took place from March 1 to 11, 2012. In addition to the tournament winner USA, the finalist from Canada also qualified. Mexico secured third qualifying place in the game for third place against hosts Panama .

The African representatives were determined in May 2012 at the U-20 African Cup of Nations for women . Ghana and vice world champions Nigeria were able to qualify.

New Zealand's oceanic representative was determined at the Women's U-20 Oceania Football Championship from April 10-14, 2012.

Attendees

4 from Europe GermanyGermany Germany ItalyItaly Italy NorwayNorway Norway SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
4 from Asia JapanJapan Japan Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea
3 from North, Central America, the Caribbean United StatesUnited States United States CanadaCanada Canada MexicoMexico Mexico  
2 from Africa GhanaGhana Ghana NigeriaNigeria Nigeria  
2 from South America BrazilBrazil Brazil ArgentinaArgentina Argentina  
1 from Oceania New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand

Preliminary round

The group draw took place in Tokyo on June 4th.
All times are in Central European Summer Time (UTC + 2) , which is seven hours behind the time at the venues.

Group A

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. JapanJapan Japan  3  2  1  0 010: 300  +7 07th
 2. MexicoMexico Mexico  3  2  0  1 007: 400  +3 06th
 3. New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand  3  1  1  1 004: 700  −3 04th
 4th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland  3  0  0  3 001: 800  −7 00
Sunday, August 19, 2012, 12:20 p.m. in Miyagi
Japan - Mexico 4: 1 (1: 0)
Sunday, August 19, 2012, 9:20 a.m. in Miyagi
New Zealand - Switzerland 2: 1 (1: 0)
Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 9:20 a.m. in Miyagi
Mexico - Switzerland 2: 0 (0: 0)
Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 12:20 p.m. in Miyagi
Japan - New Zealand 2: 2 (1: 2)
Sunday, August 26, 2012, 12:20 p.m. in Kobe
Mexico - New Zealand 4: 0 (0: 0)
Sunday, August 26, 2012, 12:20 p.m. in Tokyo
Switzerland - Japan 0: 4 (0: 1)

Group B

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. NigeriaNigeria Nigeria  3  2  1  0 007: 100  +6 07th
 2. Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea  3  2  0  1 004: 200  +2 06th
 3. BrazilBrazil Brazil  3  0  2  1 002: 400  −2 02
 4th ItalyItaly Italy  3  0  1  2 001: 700  −6 01
Sunday, August 19, 2012, 8:00 a.m. in Saitama
Brazil - Italy 1: 1 (0: 1)
Sunday, August 19, 2012, 11:00 a.m. in Saitama
Nigeria - South Korea 2: 0 (1: 0)
Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 8:00 a.m. in Saitama
Brazil - Nigeria 1: 1 (0: 1)
Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 11:00 a.m. in Saitama
Italy - South Korea 0: 2 (0: 0)
Sunday, August 26, 2012, 9:20 a.m. in Kobe
Italy - Nigeria 0: 4 (0: 2)
Sunday, August 26, 2012, 9:20 a.m. in Tokyo
South Korea - Brazil 2: 0 (0: 0)

Group C

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea  3  3  0  0 015: 300 +12 09
 2. NorwayNorway Norway  3  2  0  1 008: 600  +2 06th
 3. CanadaCanada Canada  3  1  0  2 008: 400  +4 03
 4th ArgentinaArgentina Argentina  3  0  0  3 001:190 −18 00
Monday, August 20, 2012, 9:00 a.m. in Kobe
North Korea - Norway 4: 2 (2: 1)
Monday, August 20, 2012, 12:00 p.m. in Kobe
Argentina - Canada 0: 6 (0: 5)
Thursday, August 23, 2012, 9:00 a.m. in Kobe
North Korea - Argentina 9: 0 (7: 0)
Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:00 p.m. in Kobe
Norway - Canada 2: 1 (0: 1)
Monday, August 27, 2012, 12:00 p.m. in Miyagi
Norway - Argentina 4: 1 (1: 0)
Monday, August 27, 2012, 12:00 p.m. in Saitama
Canada - North Korea 1: 2 (1: 1)

Group D

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. GermanyGermany Germany  3  3  0  0 008-000  +8 09
 2. United StatesUnited States United States  3  1  1  1 005: 400  +1 04th
 3. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China  3  1  1  1 002: 500  −3 04th
 4th GhanaGhana Ghana  3  0  0  3 000: 600  −6 00
Monday, August 20, 2012, 9:00 a.m. in Hiroshima
Ghana - United States 0: 4 (0: 1)
Monday, August 20, 2012, 12:00 p.m. in Hiroshima
Germany - China 4: 0 (2: 0)
Thursday, August 23, 2012, 9:00 a.m. in Hiroshima
Ghana - Germany 0: 1 (0: 0)
Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:00 p.m. in Hiroshima
United States - China 1: 1 (1: 1)
Monday, August 27, 2012, 9:00 a.m. in Miyagi
United States - Germany 0: 3 (0: 1)
Monday, August 27, 2012, 9:00 a.m. in Saitama
China - Ghana 1: 0 (1: 0)

Final round

Quarter finals

World Cup third Japan
"Vice World Champion" Germany
World Champion USA
Thursday, August 30, 2012, 9:00 a.m. in Tokyo
NigeriaNigeria Nigeria - MexicoMexico Mexico 1: 0 a.d.
Thursday, August 30, 2012, 12:30 p.m. in Tokyo
JapanJapan Japan - Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 3: 1 (3: 1)
Friday, August 31, 2012, 9:00 a.m. in Saitama
GermanyGermany Germany - NorwayNorway Norway 4: 0 (3: 0)
Friday, August 31, 2012, 12:30 p.m. in Saitama
Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea - United StatesUnited States United States 1: 2 a.d. (1: 1, 0: 0)

Semifinals

Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 9:00 a.m. in Tokyo
NigeriaNigeria Nigeria - United StatesUnited States United States 0: 2 (0: 1)
Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 12:30 p.m. in Tokyo
JapanJapan Japan - GermanyGermany Germany 0: 3 (0: 3)

3rd place match

Saturday, September 8, 2012, 8:30 a.m. in Tokyo
NigeriaNigeria Nigeria - JapanJapan Japan 1: 2 (0: 1)

final

Saturday, September 8, 2012, 12:20 p.m. in Tokyo
United StatesUnited States United States - GermanyGermany Germany 1: 0 (1: 0)

Best goalscorers

rank Player Gates
1 Korea NorthNorth Korea Kim Un Hwa 7th
2 GermanyGermany Lena Lotzen 6th
JapanJapan Yoko Tanaka 6th
4th Korea NorthNorth Korea Kim Su Gyong 5
5 United StatesUnited States Maya Hayes 4th
NigeriaNigeria Francisca Ordega 4th
Korea SouthSouth Korea Jeoun Eunha 4th
Korea NorthNorth Korea Yun Hyon-hi 4th
9 GermanyGermany Melanie Leupolz 3
CanadaCanada Adriana Leon 3
MexicoMexico Sofia Huerta 3
JapanJapan Hanae Shibata 3
NigeriaNigeria Desire Oparanoia 3

There are also 8 players with two goals each, including the Germans Anja Maike Hegenauer , Lina Magull and Dzsenifer Marozsán , 29 players with one goal each, including the Swiss Eseosa Aigbogun and 3 own goals.

Awards

Golden ball

Dzsenifer Marozsán was honored with the Golden Ball as the best player of the tournament , the Silver Ball went to Japanese Hanae Shibata and the Bronze Ball went to the US team player Julie Johnston .

Golden Shoe

The North Korean Kim Un-hwa was awarded the Golden Shoe as the tournament's top scorer . Kim scored seven goals during the tournament, five of them in a 9-0 win over Argentina. Second place went to the Japanese Yōko Tanaka ahead of the German Lena Lotzen , who both scored six goals, but differed in the number of templates.

Golden glove

The Golden Glove for the best goalkeeper , awarded for the third time, went to German Laura Benkarth , who only suffered a goal in the final against the USA. A silver or bronze glove was not awarded.

Fair play award

The team from Japan was honored as the fairest team .

Referees

FIFA nominated 14 referees and 28 assistants for the 32 games in the tournament. Hosts Japan and the People's Republic of China provide the largest contingent with two referees and two assistants and one referee and three assistants. The official opening game between Japan and Mexico was directed by Christine Baitinger . Pernilla Larsson directed the final .

Referees of the 2012 U-20 Women's World Cup
  • GuyanaGuyana Dianne Ferreira-James
  • JapanJapan Fusako Kajiyama
  • SwedenSweden Pernilla Larsson
  • BrazilBrazil Ana Marques
  • China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Qin Lang
  • JapanJapan Nami Sato
  • ItalyItaly Silvia Spinelli
  • SwitzerlandSwitzerland Esther Staubli
  • MexicoMexico Lucila Venegas

Squad

From the German-speaking area, Germany and Switzerland were able to qualify for the World Cup.

Germany

The German national coach Maren Meinert nominated the following 21-man squad:

No. Player Date of birth position society
01 Laura Benkarth 10/14/1992 goal Sc freiburg
02 Leonie Maier 29.09.1992 Defense SC 07 Bad Neuenahr
03 Carolin Simon 11/24/1992 Defense VfL Wolfsburg
04th Jennifer Cramer 02/24/1993 Defense 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
05 Luisa Wensing 02/08/1993 Defense VfL Wolfsburg
06th Kathrin Hendrich 04/06/1992 midfield Bayer 04 Leverkusen
07th Annabel Hunter 01/06/1994 midfield VfL Wolfsburg
08th Melanie Leupolz 04/14/1994 midfield Sc freiburg
09 Nicole Rolser 02/07/1992 Storm SC 07 Bad Neuenahr
10 Ramona Petzelberger 11/13/1992 Storm Bayer 04 Leverkusen
11 Lena Lotzen 09/11/1993 Storm FC Bayern Munich
12 Meike Kämper 04/23/1994 goal FCR 2001 Duisburg
13 Sophie Howard 09/17/1993 Defense UCF Knights
14th Dzsenifer Marozsán 04/18/1992 Storm 1. FFC Frankfurt
15th Karoline Heinze 10/15/1993 midfield FF USV Jena
16 Anja Maike Hegenauer 12/09/1992 midfield Sc freiburg
17th Katharina Leiding 03/17/1994 Defense SGS Essen
18th Silvana Chojnowski 04/17/1994 midfield 1. FFC Frankfurt
19th Marie Pyko 08/08/1993 midfield SC 07 Bad Neuenahr
20th Lina Magull 08/15/1994 midfield VfL Wolfsburg
21st Anke Preuss 09/22/1992 goal TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

Clara Schöne and Lisa Schmitz , who initially belonged to the squad for the tournament, had to cancel due to injury. Katharina Leiding and Meike Kämper were nominated for them.

Switzerland

Yannick Schwery, the Swiss coach, nominated the following squad for the World Cup:

No. Player Date of birth position society
01 Pascale Küffer 11/13/1992 goal VfL Sindelfingen
02 Audrey Wuichet 06/29/1995 midfield Yverdon FC Féminin
03 Carolyn Mallaun 03/30/1992 Defense Yverdon FC Féminin
04th Carina Gerber 05/08/1993 Defense BSC Young Boys
05 Anja Thürig 05/03/1995 midfield Grasshopper Club Zurich
06th Lia Wälti 04/19/1993 midfield BSC Young Boys
07th Cinzia Jörg 05/23/1992 midfield FC St. Gallen
08th Egzona Seljimi 09/13/1993 midfield FC Zurich women
09 Eseosa Aigbogun 05/23/1993 Storm FC Basel
10 Mirnije Selimi 10/22/1996 midfield Grasshopper Club Zurich
11 Cora Canetta 01/06/1992 Storm FCF Rapid Lugano
12 Nadine Böni 05/03/1994 goal SC Kriens
13 Sabrina Ribeaud 05/07/1995 Storm FC Basel
14th Nadine Fässler 08/07/1993 midfield FC St. Gallen
15th Sarina Schenkel 08/05/1993 Defense BSC Young Boys
16 Carmen powder 09/18/1995 midfield Grasshopper Club Zurich
17th Fabienne Rochaix 09/30/1994 Defense Grasshopper Club Zurich
18th Natasha Genstetter 04/12/1993 midfield Grasshopper Club Zurich
19th Karin Bernet 11/30/1994 midfield FC Zurich women
20th Noëlle Maritz December 23, 1995 Defense FC Zurich women
21st Sina Autino 05/25/1992 goal FC Basel

TV broadcast

29 of the 32 games were broadcast live by Eurosport (18 games) and Eurosport 2 (11 games), including all games with German participation and all games from the quarter-finals.

Trivia

  • With the victory in the quarter-finals against Norway, the German team was the first team to win or not lose 11 games in a row across all competitions (both records were previously held by the USA with 10 games between 2002 and 2004), and as the first team to play five games in a row without End conceded goal. In the semifinals, the records were extended to 12 and six games, respectively, and at the same time the previous record of the Chinese U-20 team, which conceded 508 minutes without conceding a goal in 2006, increased to 566 minutes. In the final, the series ended after a total of 610 minutes.
  • In the semifinals, Melanie Leupolz scored the fastest goal of the tournament after 58 seconds, which is also the second fastest goal of the U-20 World Championships. Only the Canadian Loredana Riverso was faster with 40 seconds in the game against the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • North Korea's 9-0 win against Argentina in the preliminary round is their biggest win at the U-20 Women's World Cup to date. The previous record has been held by Germany with a 9-1 win against Mexico since 2006.
  • With nine defeats in a row, Switzerland is now the sole negative record holder.
  • Maren Meinert became the sole record coach of the U-20 World Championships with 22 games, previously she held the record of 16 games together with Ian Bridge (Canada) and Choe Kwang-sok (North Korea). In the following two World Cup tournaments, she increased the record to initially 28 and then 32 games.
  • For the first time at a FIFA tournament, Germany and the USA met in a final. With the win against Germany, the USA became the sole U-20 record world champion for women. But Germany was able to catch up two years later.
  • Dzsenifer Marozsán is the first player to appear in two U-20 finals.

Web links

Commons : FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup 2012  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. uefa.com: FIFA Executive Committee approves special funding for Chile and Haiti
  2. ft.com: Vietnam bins its football dream
  3. fifa.com: Financial report presented, Brazil 2014 slots & host countries decided
  4. fifa.com: New host for the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup (December 18, 2011)
  5. fifa.com: FIFA confirms Japan to host the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup 2012
  6. fifa.com: Brazil defends continental title
  7. concacaf.com: Schedule of the CONCACAF U-20 Women's Championship ( Memento from December 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  8. cafonline.com. Schedule of the CAF U-20 Women's Championship (PDF; 145 kB)
  9. FIFA.com: Nigeria and Ghana easily qualified
  10. FIFA.com : New Zealand makes World Cup participation perfect
  11. Germany already in the group stage against USA . In: Fifa.com , June 4, 2012, accessed June 4, 2012.
  12. a b c d fifa.com: Marozsan impressed despite losing the final
  13. fifa.com FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Japan 2012 - Referee
  14. Germany's squad list , fifadata.com
  15. U20 World Cup without Schöne and Schmitz , womensoccer.de
  16. Squad List Switzerland , fifadata.com
  17. U20 World Cup: Eurosport will broadcast 29 games live  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Source: Framba.de - women's football, August 15, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.framba.de  
  18. fifa.com:Semi-finals with the usual suspects
  19. fifa.com: Germany with a gala performance in the final
  20. fifa.com: Statistics of the day (accessed on September 5, 2012)