2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup
| Copa Mundial Sub-20 de la FIFA 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Chile |
| Dates | 27 September – 19 October |
| Teams | 24 (from 6 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 5 (in 5 host cities) |
← 2023 2027 → | |
The 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup will be the 24th edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, the biennial international men's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since its inception in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Championship. It will be held in Chile from 27 September to 19 October 2025.[1][2]
Uruguay are the defending champions.
Host selection
[edit]Chile were announced as the 2025 U-20 World Cup hosts following the FIFA Council meeting on 17 December 2023 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.[1] It is believed the decision was made as a compensation for Chile losing hosting rights for the 2030 FIFA World Cup to Morocco, Portugal and Spain, as Chile was the only nation in the four-nation bid of Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay not included in the eventual outcome for the opening matches.[3][4]
This is the second time that Chile hosts the tournament after doing so in 1987. Chile will be the third country to host the tournament multiple times after Australia (1981, 1993) and Argentina (2001 and 2023).
Venues
[edit]On 18 December 2023, Pablo Milad, president of the Football Federation of Chile, revealed a preliminary list with 12 stadia in 10 cities. Milad also announced that between 4 and 6 stadia will be chosen by FIFA for the final tournament.[5][6]
| City | Stadium | Capacity |
|---|---|---|
| Valparaíso | Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander | 20,575 |
| Santiago | Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos | 46,665 |
| Rancagua | Estadio El Teniente | 14,087 |
| Talca | Estadio Fiscal de Talca | 16,074 |
Teams
[edit]Qualification
[edit]A total of 24 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Chile, who qualified automatically as hosts, 23 other teams qualify through six separate continental competitions. The slot allocation remain unchanged from the previous editions and was confirmed by the FIFA Council on the same day the host country was announced.[1]
New Caledonia will make their debut in the tournament.[7][8]
| Confederation | Qualifying tournament | Team qualified | Appearances | Previous best performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | First | Last | ||||
| AFC (Asia) (4 teams) |
2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup | TBD | ||||
| TBD | ||||||
| TBD | ||||||
| TBD | ||||||
| CAF (Africa) (4 teams) |
2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations | TBD | ||||
| TBD | ||||||
| TBD | ||||||
| TBD | ||||||
| CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean) (4 teams) |
2024 CONCACAF U-20 Championship |  Cuba
|
2nd | 2013 | 2013 | Group stage (2013) |
 Mexico
|
17th | 1977 | 2019 | Runners-up (1977) | ||
 Panama
|
7th | 2003 | 2019 | Round of 16 (2019) | ||
 United States
|
18th | 1981 | 2023 | Fourth place (1989) | ||
| CONMEBOL (South America) (Hosts + 4 teams) |
Host nation |  Chile
|
7th | 1987 | 2013 | Third place (2007) |
| 2025 South American U-20 Championship | TBD | |||||
| TBD | ||||||
| TBD | ||||||
| TBD | ||||||
| OFC (Oceania) (2 teams) |
2024 OFC U-19 Men's Championship |  New Caledonia
|
1st | Debut | None | |
 New Zealand
|
8th | 2007 | 2023 | Round of 16 (2015, 2017, 2019, 2023) | ||
| UEFA (Europe) (5 teams) |
2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship |  France
|
9th | 1977 | 2023 | Champions (2013) |
 Italy
|
9th | 1977 | 2023 | Runners-up (2023) | ||
 Norway
|
4th | 1989 | 2019 | Group stage (1989, 1993, 2019) | ||
 Spain
|
16th | 1977 | 2013 | Champions (1999) | ||
 Ukraine
|
5th | 2001 | 2019 | Champions (2019) | ||
Squads
[edit]Players born between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2009 (inclusive) are eligible to compete in the tournament.
Seeding
[edit]The 24 teams involved will be organised into four pots of six teams based on a performance ranking system, in order to be subsequently drawn into six groups of 4 teams. The hosts Chile were automatically seeded to Pot 1 and assigned into the first position of Group A, while the remaining teams were seeded into pots based on their results in the last five FIFA U-20 World Cups (with more recent tournaments weighted more heavily), and with five bonus points added to each of the 6 continental champions from the qualifying tournaments, as follows:
| Pot | Team | Confederation | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2023 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points (20%) |
Points (40%) |
Points (60%) |
Points (80%) |
Points (100%) |
Bonus [a] |
Total points | |||||||
| 1 | Chile (H) |
CONMEBOL | Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1 | ||||||||||
| Italy |
UEFA | DNQ | DNQ | 6.6 | 10.4 | 15 | 32 | ||||||
| TBD | United States |
CONCACAF | 0.2 | 4 | 4.8 | 7.2 | 12 | 28.2 | |||||
| New Zealand |
OFC | 0 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 5.6 | 4 | +5 | 18.6 | |||||
| France |
UEFA | 2.8 | DNQ | 5.4 | 7.2 | 3 | 18.4 | ||||||
| Ukraine |
UEFA | DNQ | 3.2 | DNQ | 15.2 | DNQ | 18.4 | ||||||
| TBD | |||||||||||||
| Mexico |
CONCACAF | 0.6 | 1.2 | 4.2 | 0 | DNQ | +5 | 11 | |||||
| Spain |
UEFA | 2.4 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | +5 | 7.4 | |||||
| Panama |
CONCACAF | DNQ | 0.4 | DNQ | 3.2 | DNQ | 3.6 | ||||||
| Norway |
UEFA | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 2.4 | DNQ | 2.4 | ||||||
| Cuba |
CONCACAF | 0 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
| New Caledonia |
OFC | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | ||||||
| TBD | |||||||||||||
| AFC | |||||||||||||
| CAF | |||||||||||||
| TBD | |||||||||||||
| CAF | |||||||||||||
| CONMEBOL | |||||||||||||
Draw
[edit]The draw is expected to take place in early 2025.
Group stage
[edit]All times are local, Chile Standard Time (UTC–3).
Group A
[edit]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chile (H)
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | A2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | A3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage |
| 4 | A4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Group B
[edit]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | B1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | B2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | B3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage |
| 4 | B4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Group C
[edit]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | C2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | C3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage |
| 4 | C4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Group D
[edit]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | D1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | D2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | D3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage |
| 4 | D4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Group E
[edit]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | E1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | E2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | E3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage |
| 4 | E4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Group F
[edit]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | F2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | F3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage |
| 4 | F4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Ranking of third-placed teams
[edit]The four best third-placed teams from the six groups advance to the knockout stage along with the six group winners and six runners-up.
| Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | Third place Group A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | B | Third place Group B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | C | Third place Group C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | D | Third place Group D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | E | Third place Group E | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | F | Third place Group F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Continental champions bonus points
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "FIFA Council appoints Chile and Poland as hosts of FIFA youth competitions". FIFA. 17 December 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ "FIFA Council takes key decisions on FIFA Member Associations and upcoming FIFA competitions". FIFA. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "ANFP FIFA 2025 Sub-20". El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 December 2023.[dead link]
- ^ Scott (6 December 2023). "With a letter to FIFA: Milad applies for the U20 World Cup with the threat of resigning from Conmebol after Chile's failure at the 2030 Cup - Athletistic". athletistic.com. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ Huerta, Rodrigo (18 December 2023). ""Entre cuatro a seis recintos": Milad revela las sedes que postularán para el Mundial Sub 20" ["Between four and six stadia": Milad reveals the potential host cities for the U-20 World Cup]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 December 2023.
- ^ Ortega, Claudio (19 December 2023). "Las diez ciudades que pelearán por ser sede del Mundial Sub 20 de Chile, sus estadios y cuántos serán finalmente elegidos" [The ten cities that will compete on hosting the U-20 World Cup in Chile, their stadis and how many will finally be chosen]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 December 2023.
- ^ "New Caledonia and New Zealand qualify for 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup". FIFA. 16 July 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ^ Guillot, Pierre (15 July 2024). "Mondial 2025 : la Calédonie qualifiée au bout du suspense face aux Salomon" [World Cup 2025: Caledonia qualify after a thriller against the Solomons]. Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes (in French). Retrieved 24 July 2024.