FIFA U-20 World Cup

The FIFA U-20 World Cup is an football world championship for male players under the age of 20. It is organized by FIFA. The competition has been staged every two years since the first tournament in 1977.^[1] It was known as the FIFA World Youth Championship until 2005.

FIFA U-20 World Cup

Founded	1977; 48 years ago (1977)
Region	International (FIFA)
Number of teams	24
Current champions	Ukraine (1st title)
Most successful team(s)	Argentina (6 titles)
Website	www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/
2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup

Tournaments
1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021

Qualification

Confederation	Championship
AFC (Asia)	AFC U-20 Asian Cup
CAF (Africa)	African Youth Championship
CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean)	CONCACAF Under-20 Championship
CONMEBOL (South America)	South American Youth Football Championship
UEFA (Europe)	UEFA European U-19 Championship
OFC (Oceania)	OFC Under 20 Qualifying Tournament

Results

Summaries

Edition	Year	Hosts	Final			Third place match			Number of teams
			Champions	Score	Runners-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1	1977 Details	Tunisia	Soviet Union	2–2 (aet) 9–8 (p)	Mexico	Brazil	4–0	Uruguay	16
2	1979 Details	Japan	Argentina	3–1	Soviet Union	Uruguay	1–1 (aet) 5–3 (p)	Poland	16
3	1981 Details	Australia	West Germany	4–0	Qatar	Romania	1–0	England	16
4	1983 Details	Mexico	Brazil	1–0	Argentina	Poland	2–1 (aet)	South Korea	16
5	1985 Details	Soviet Union	Brazil	1–0 (aet)	Spain	Nigeria	0–0 (aet) 3–1 (p)	Soviet Union	16
6	1987 Details	Chile	Yugoslavia	1–1 (aet) 5–4 (p)	West Germany	East Germany	2–2 (aet) 3–1 (p)	Chile	16
7	1989 Details	Saudi Arabia	Portugal	2–0	Nigeria	Brazil	2–0	United States	16
8	1991 Details	Portugal	Portugal	0–0 (aet) 4–2 (p)	Brazil	Soviet Union	1–1 (aet) 5–4 (p)	Australia	16
9	1993 Details	Australia	Brazil	2–1	Ghana	England	2–1	Australia	16
10	1995 Details	Qatar	Argentina	2–0	Brazil	Portugal	3–2	Spain	16
11	1997 Details	Malaysia	Argentina	2–1	Uruguay	Republic of Ireland	2–1	Ghana	24
12	1999 Details	Nigeria	Spain	4–0	Japan	Mali	1–0	Uruguay	24
13	2001 Details	Argentina	Argentina	3–0	Ghana	Egypt	1–0	Paraguay	24
14	2003 Details	United Arab Emirates	Brazil	1–0	Spain	Colombia	2–1	Argentina	24
15	2005 Details	Netherlands	Argentina	2–1	Nigeria	Brazil	2–1	Morocco	24

16	2007 Details	Canada	Argentina	2–1	Czech Republic	Chile	1–0	Austria	24
17	2009 Details	Egypt	Ghana	0–0 (aet) 4–3 (p)	Brazil	Hungary	1–1 (aet) 2–0 (p)	Costa Rica	24
18	2011 Details	Colombia	Brazil	3–2 (aet)	Portugal	Mexico	3–1	France	24
19	2013 Details	Turkey	France	0–0 (aet) 4–1 (p)	Uruguay	Ghana	3–0	Iraq	24
20	2015 Details	New Zealand	Serbia	2–1 (aet)	Brazil	Mali	3–1	Senegal	24
21	2017 Details	South Korea	England	1–0	Venezuela	Italy	0–0 (aet) 4–1 (p)	Uruguay	24
22	2019 Details	Poland	Ukraine	3–1	South Korea	Ecuador	1–0 (aet)	Italy	24
23	2021 Details	Indonesia	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic[2]						24
23	2023 Details	Indonesia							24

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Awards

Golden Ball

World Cup	Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball	Ref(s)
1977 Tunisia	Volodymyr Bessonov	Júnior Brasília	Cléber	[3]
1979 Japan	Diego Maradona	Julio César Romero	Ramón Díaz	[4]
1981 Australia	Romulus Gabor	Michael Zorc	Roland Wohlfarth	[5]
1983 Mexico	Geovani	Roberto Zárate	Luis Islas	[6]
1985 Soviet Union	Paulo Silas	Gérson	Juan Carlos Unzué	[7]
1987 Chile	Robert Prosinečki	Zvonimir Boban	Marcel Witeczek	[8]
1989 Saudi Arabia	Bismarck	Kasey Keller	Christopher Nwosu	[9]
1991 Portugal	Emílio Peixe	Giovane Élber	Paulo Torres	[10]
1993 Australia	Adriano	Not awarded	Not awarded	[11]
1995 Qatar	Caio	Dani	Joaquín Irigoytía	[12]
1997 Malaysia	Nicolás Olivera	Marcelo Zalayeta	Pablo Aimar	[13]
1999 Nigeria	Seydou Keita	Pius Ikedia	Pablo Couñago	[14]
2001 Argentina	Javier Saviola	Andrés D'Alessandro	Djibril Cissé	[15]
2003 United Arab Emirates	Ismail Matar	Dudu	Dani Alves	[16]
2005 Netherlands	Lionel Messi	John Obi Mikel	Taye Taiwo	[17]
2007 Canada	Sergio Agüero	Maxi Moralez	Giovani dos Santos	[18]
2009 Egypt	Dominic Adiyiah	Alex Teixeira	Giuliano	[19]
2011 Colombia	Henrique Almeida	Nélson Oliveira	Jorge Enríquez	[20]
2013 Turkey	Paul Pogba	Nicolás López	Clifford Aboagye	[21]
2015 New Zealand	Adama Traoré	Danilo	Sergej Milinković-Savić	[22]
2017 South Korea	Dominic Solanke	Federico Valverde	Yangel Herrera	[23]
2019 Poland	Lee Kang-in	Serhiy Buletsa	Gonzalo Plata	[24]
2023 Indonesia

Golden Boot

World Cup	Golden Boot	Goals	Silver Boot	Goals	Bronze Boot	Goals	Ref(s)
1977 Tunisia	Guina	4	Hussein Saeed	3	Luis Placencia	3	[3]
1979 Japan	Ramón Díaz	8	Diego Maradona	6	Andrzej Palasz	5	[4]
1981 Australia	Mark Koussas	4	Taher Abouzaid	4	Ralf Loose	4	[5]
1983 Mexico	Geovani	6	Joachim Klemenz	5	Jorge Luis Gabrich	4	[6]
1985 Soviet Union	Sebastián Losada	3	Fernando	3	Odiaka Monday	3	[7]
1987 Chile	Marcel Witeczek	7	Davor Šuker	6	Camilo Pino	5	[8]
1989 Saudi Arabia	Oleg Salenko	5	Marcelo Henrique	3	Christopher Ohen	3	[9]
1991 Portugal	Sergei Sherbakov	5	Ismael Urzaiz	4	Pedro Pineda	4	[10]
1993 Australia	Henry Zambrano	3	Chris Faklaris	3	Vicente Nieto	3	[11]
1995 Qatar	Joseba Etxeberria	7	Caio	5	Dani	4	[12]
1997 Malaysia	Adaílton	10	David Trezeguet	5	Kostas Salapasidis	4	[13]
1999 Nigeria	Pablo Couñago	5	Mahamadou Dissa	5	Taylor Twellman	4	[14]
2001 Argentina	Javier Saviola	11	Adriano	6	Djibril Cissé	6	[15]
2003 United Arab Emirates	Eddie Johnson	4	Daisuke Sakata	4	Fernando Cavenaghi	4	[16]
2005 Netherlands	Lionel Messi	6	Fernando Llorente	5	Oleksandr Aliyev	5	[17]
2007 Canada	Sergio Agüero	6	Adrián	5	Maxi Moralez	4	[18]
2009 Egypt	Dominic Adiyiah	8	Vladimir Koman	5	Aarón	4	[19]
2011 Colombia	Henrique Almeida	5	Álvaro Vázquez	5	Alexandre Lacazette	5	[20]
2013 Turkey	Ebenezer Assifuah	6	Bruma	5	Jesé	5	[21]
2015 New Zealand	Viktor Kovalenko	5	Bence Mervo	5	Marc Stendera	4	[22]
2017 South Korea	Riccardo Orsolini	5	Josh Sargent	4	Jean-Kévin Augustin	4	[23]
2019 Poland	Erling Haaland	9	Danylo Sikan	4	Amadou Sagna	4	[24]
2023 Indonesia

Golden Glove

World Cup	Golden Gloves	Ref(s)
2009 Egypt	Esteban Alvarado	[19]
2011 Colombia	Mika	[20]
2013 Turkey	Guillermo de Amores	[21]
2015 New Zealand	Predrag Rajković	[22]
2017 South Korea	Freddie Woodman	[23]
2019 Poland	Andriy Lunin	[24]
2021 Indonesia

FIFA Fair Play Award

FIFA Fair Play Award is given to the team who has the best fair play record during the tournament with the criteria set by FIFA Fair Play Committee.

Tournament	FIFA Fair Play Award	Ref(s)
1977 Tunisia	Brazil	[3]
1979 Japan	Poland	[4]
1981 Australia	Australia	[5]
1983 Mexico	South Korea	[6]
1985 USSR	Colombia	[7]
1987 Chile	West Germany	[8]
1989 Saudi Arabia	United States	[9]
1991 Portugal	Soviet Union	[10]
1993 Australia	England	[11]
1995 Qatar	Japan	[12]
1997 Malaysia	Argentina	[13]
1999 Nigeria	Croatia	[14]
2001 Argentina	Argentina	[15]
2003 United Arab Emirates	Colombia	[16]
2005 Netherlands	Colombia	[17]
2007 Canada	Japan	[18]
2009 Egypt	Brazil	[19]
2011 Colombia	Nigeria	[20]
2013 Turkey	Spain	[21]
2015 New Zealand	Ukraine	[22]
2017 South Korea	Mexico	[23]
2019 Poland	Japan	[24]
2023 Indonesia

• Key:
  • a.e.t. – after extra time
  • pen. – match won on penalty shootout

Records

Most World Cup appearances

18,  Brazil^[25]

Most consecutive finals tournaments

16,  Brazil (1981–2011).

Most wins (players)

2, three players:

• Fernando Brassard ( Portugal; 1989 and 1991)
• João Vieira Pinto ( Portugal; 1989 and 1991)
• Sergio Agüero ( Argentina; 2005 and 2007)

Largest win margin in one match

12 goals ( Norway 12–0  Honduras, 2019)^[26]

Most goals scored in a match by a single player

9 goals (Haaland for  Norway against  Honduras, 2019)^[26]