2025 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship

The 2025 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship was the 13th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, an international youth football championship organised by CONCACAF for the women's under-20 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. It took place from 29 May to 8 June 2025.^[1]

2025 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Costa Rica
City	Alajuela
Dates	29 May – 8 June
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (3rd title)
Runners-up	Mexico
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	76 (5.07 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Montserrat Saldívar (8 goals)
Best player(s)	Montserrat Saldívar
Best goalkeeper	Noelle Henning
Fair play award	Canada
← 2023 2027 →

Canada defeated the defending champions Mexico in the final.

The four semi-finalist teams from the tournament qualified for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Poland as the CONCACAF representatives.^[2][3]

Qualification

Main article: 2025 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification

Qualified teams

Twenty-four teams competed for six spots in the final tournament, where they will joined the two highest-seeded teams on the CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Ranking as of 23 September 2024, the United States and Mexico.

Team	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Finals appearance	Previous best performance	Previous World Cup appearances
United States	Two top-ranked entrants	31 October 2024	13th	Champions (2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2020, 2022)	11
Mexico (title holders)			13th	Champions (2018, 2023)	10
Guyana	Qualification Group A winners	25 February 2025	3rd	Quarter-finals (2020)	0
Puerto Rico	Qualification Group B winners	24 February 2025	4th	Fourth place (2022)	0
Panama	Qualification Group C winners	25 February 2025	8th	Fourth place (2012)	0
Nicaragua	Qualification Group D winners	24 February 2025	5th	Group stage (2008, 2018, 2020, 2022)	0
Canada	Qualification Group E winners	25 February 2025	5th	Champions (2004, 2008)	9
Costa Rica	Qualification Group F winners	24 February 2025	8th	Third place (2004, 2010, 2014)	4

Venue

On 6 March 2025, CONCACAF announced that Costa Rica would host the tournament.^[4]

Alajuela	Alajuela
	Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto
	Capacity: 17,895

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 26 March 2025 at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami, Florida. The 8 teams were drawn into two groups of four teams, with the pots based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Ranking at 6 March 2025.^[4][5][6]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
United States (1)  Mexico (2)	Canada (3)  Costa Rica (4)	Puerto Rico (5)  Panama (10)	Guyana (11)  Nicaragua (13)

Group A Pos Team A1  United States A2  Costa Rica A3  Puerto Rico A4  Guyana

Group B Pos Team B1  Mexico B2  Canada B3  Panama B4  Nicaragua

Squads

Main article: 2025 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship squads

Players born on or between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2010 were eligible to compete. Each team registered a squad of 21 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers.^[3][7]

Format

The tournament had two groups of four teams. After round-robin play, the top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals. The four semi-finalists also qualified for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.^[4]

In the knockout stage, if a match was tied at the end of 90 minutes, extra time was played, and if still tied after extra time, the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article 12.10).^[3]

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in each group was determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.7):

1. Points obtained in all group matches;
2. Goal difference in all group matches;
3. Goals scored in all group matches;
4. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
5. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
6. Goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
7. Fair play points in all group matches:
   • Yellow card: −1 point
   • Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points
   • Direct red card: −4 points
   • Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points
8. Drawing of lots.

Group stage

All times are local, CST (UTC−6).^[8]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	0	15	1	+14	9	2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and Knockout stage
2	Costa Rica (H)	3	1	1	1	9	4	+5	4
3	Puerto Rico	3	1	1	1	8	3	+5	4
4	Guyana	3	0	0	3	0	24	−24	0

Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

30 May 2025 (2025-05-30)

11:00

United States	8–0	Guyana
Engle 5', 24', 41', 48' Fuller 13' (pen.) Strawn 25' Ullmark 37' Johnson 77'	Report

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Lizzet García (Mexico)

30 May 2025 (2025-05-30)

14:00

Costa Rica	0–0	Puerto Rico
	Report

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Vimarest Díaz (Dominican Republic)

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1 June 2025 (2025-06-01)

11:00

Puerto Rico	1–3	United States
Gaines 67'	Report	Scott 4' Long 24', 65'

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Dilia Bradley (Guatemala)

1 June 2025 (2025-06-01)

14:00

Guyana	0–9	Costa Rica
	Report	Scott 5' (pen.), 22' (pen.), 25', 45+6', 90+5' Azofeifa 29', 90+3' Paniagua 63' Ocampo 84'

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Merlin Soto (Honduras)

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3 June 2025 (2025-06-03)

11:00

Puerto Rico	7–0	Guyana
McMahon 5', 85' González 9' Roberts 34', 90+3' Garnett 59', 68'	Report

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Merlin Soto (Honduras)

3 June 2025 (2025-06-03)

14:00

United States	4–0	Costa Rica
Ullmark 22' Long 60' Restovich 65' Fuller 87'	Report

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Lizzet García (Mexico)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mexico	3	3	0	0	14	2	+12	9	2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and Knockout stage
2	Canada	3	2	0	1	13	6	+7	6
3	Panama	3	1	0	2	5	12	−7	3
4	Nicaragua	3	0	0	3	2	14	−12	0

Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

29 May 2025 (2025-05-29)

11:00

Canada	7–1	Panama
Collin 12' Hernandez Gray 18' Chukwu 21', 45+1' Larouche 45+9' Schoeley 85' Tarasco 90+3'	Report	King 24'

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Deily Gómez (Costa Rica)

29 May 2025 (2025-05-29)

14:00

Mexico	6–0	Nicaragua
Fragoso 2', 61' Saldívar 9', 26' Valadez 40' Ali. Soto 64'	Report

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Alyssa Nichols (United States)

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31 May 2025 (2025-05-31)

11:00

Nicaragua	1–4	Canada
Sarantes 37' (pen.)	Report	Ad. Munguia 23' (o.g.) Melenhorst 45+3' Chukwu 45+8' Tarasco 85'

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Crystal Sobers (Trinidad and Tobago)

31 May 2025 (2025-05-31)

14:00^[a]

Panama	0–4	Mexico
	Report	Ramírez 2', 43' Ali. Soto 47' (pen.) Saldívar 86'

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Janeishka Caban (Puerto Rico)

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2 June 2025 (2025-06-02)

11:00

Panama	4–1	Nicaragua
Pérez 16', 48' King 32' Bello 82'	Report	Ad. Munguia 75'

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Deily Gómez (Costa Rica)

2 June 2025 (2025-06-02)

14:00^[b]

Mexico	4–2	Canada
Okeke 26' (o.g.) M. González 37' Saldívar 45+2', 84'	Report	Melenhorst 18' Chukwu 59'

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Alyssa Nichols (United States)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match was tied at the end of 90 minutes, extra time was played, and if still tied after extra time, the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article 12.10).^[3]

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	6 June – Alajuela
	Mexico	4
					8 June – Alajuela
	Costa Rica	0
					Mexico	2
	6 June – Alajuela
					Canada (a.e.t.)	3
	United States	0
	Canada	1

Semi-finals

6 June 2025 (2025-06-06)

09:30

United States	0–1	Canada
	Report	Larouche 56'

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Janeishka Caban (Puerto Rico)

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6 June 2025 (2025-06-06)

12:30

Mexico	4–0	Costa Rica
Saldívar 6' Muñoz 26' Ali. Soto 44', 78'	Report

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Vimarest Díaz (Dominican Republic)

Final

8 June 2025 (2025-06-08)

11:30

Mexico	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Canada
Saldívar 61' (pen.), 98'	Report	Gibson 50' Bianchin 96' Chukwu 120+2'

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Referee: Dilia Bradley (Guatemala)

2025 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship winners
Canada Third title

Goalscorers

There were 76 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 5.07 goals per match.

8 goals

• Montserrat Saldívar

5 goals

• Annabelle Chukwu
• Sheika Scott

4 goals

• Alice Soto
• Izzy Engle

3 goals

• Mary Long

2 goals

• Léa Larouche
• Teegan Melenhorst
• Liana Tarasco
• Emma Azofeifa
• Abril Fragoso
• Deiry Ramírez
• Sherline King
• Kayra Pérez
• Gabriella Garnett
• Ashley McMahon
• Susana Roberts
• Kennedy Fuller
• Linda Ullmark

1 goal

• Adriana Bianchin
• Jadea Collin
• Sienna Gibson
• Jeneva Hernandez Gray
• Stephanie Schoeley
• Daniela Ocampo
• Lucía Paniagua
• María González
• Natalia Muñoz
• Julia Valadez
• Adriana Munguia
• Jennifer Sarantes
• Nathalie Bello
• Aurora Gaines
• Estefanía González
• Emma Johnson
• Grace Restovich
• Katie Scott
• Sealey Strawn

1 own goal

• Janet Okeke (against Mexico)
• Adriana Munguia (against Canada)

Source: CONCACAF

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The following four teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Poland.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup1
Canada	31 May 2025	9 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2022, 2024)
Mexico	31 May 2025	10 (2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024)
United States	1 June 2025	11 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024)
Costa Rica	3 June 2025	4 (2010, 2014, 2022, 2024)

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

Awards

Golden Ball	Golden Boot	Golden Glove
Montserrat Saldívar	Montserrat Saldívar	Noelle Henning
CONCACAF Fair Play Award
Canada

Best XI^[9]

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Noelle Henning	Jadea Collin Estefanía González Katie Scott	Teegan Melenhorst Abril Fragoso Alice Soto Linda Ullmark	Annabelle Chukwu Sheika Scott Montserrat Saldívar

Notes

1. The match was interrupted at the 30th minute due to adverse weather conditions. Play resumed 1 hour later.
2. The match was interrupted at the 30th minute due to adverse weather conditions. Play resumed at 17:10.