2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
Copa Mundial Femenina Sub-20 de la FIFA Colombia 2024
Tournament details
Host countryColombia
Dates31 August – 22 September
Teams24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)TBD

The 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup (Spanish: Copa Mundial Femenina Sub-20 de la FIFA Colombia 2024) will be the 11th edition of the FIFA Women's U-20 World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It will be hosted by Colombia from 31 August to 22 September 2024. It will be the third time that Colombia has hosted a FIFA tournament. It will also be the first time that Colombia has hosted a FIFA women's tournament.[1] On 4 October 2023, FIFA decided the expansion of the tournament to 24 teams.[2]

Spain are the defending champions.

Host selection

Colombia were announced as the 2024 Women's U-20 World Cup hosts following the FIFA Council meeting on 25 June 2023 in Zürich, Switzerland.[1]

Expansion

On 4 October 2023, FIFA decided the expansion of the tournament to 24 teams.[2] The slot allocation is as follows:

  • AFC (Asia): 4 slots
  • CAF (Africa): 4 slots
  • CONCACAF (North America, Central America and the Caribbean): 4 slots
  • CONMEBOL (South America): 5 slots (including hosts Colombia)
  • OFC (Oceania): 2 slots
  • UEFA (Europe): 5 slots

The slot allocation mirrors what it is in the men's tournament.

Qualified teams

A total of 24 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Colombia who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 23 teams qualify from six separate continental competitions.

Confederation Qualifying Tournament Team Appearance Last appearance Previous best performance
AFC (Asia)
(4 teams)		 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup TBD
TBD
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CAF (Africa)
(4 teams)		 2024 African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification TBD
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CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)
(4 teams)		 2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship  Canada 9th 2022 Runners-up (2002)
 Costa Rica[lower-alpha 1] 4th 2022 Group stage (2010, 2014, 2022)
 Mexico 10th 2022 Quarter-finals (2010, 2012, 2016, 2022)
 United States 11th 2022 Champions (2002, 2008, 2012)
CONMEBOL (South America)
(Hosts + 4 teams)		 Host nation  Colombia 3rd 2022 Fourth place (2010)
2024 South American Under-20 Women's Championship TBD
TBD
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OFC (Oceania)
(2 teams)		 2023 OFC U-19 Women's Championship  Fiji[lower-alpha 2] 1st None Debut
 New Zealand 9th 2022 Quarter-finals (2014)
UEFA (Europe)
(5 teams)		 2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship  Austria[lower-alpha 3] 1st None Debut
 France 9th 2022 Runners-up (2016)
 Germany 11th 2022 Champions (2004, 2010, 2014)
 Netherlands 3rd 2022 Fourth place (2022)
 Spain 5th 2022 Champions (2022)
  1. ↑ After the announcement of the expansion of the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to 24 teams, Costa Rica took the new fourth spot as CONCACAF representative as they ended fourth in the qualifying tournament.
  2. ↑ After the announcement of the expansion of the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to 24 teams, Fiji took the new second spot as OFC representative as they ended second in the qualifying tournament.
  3. ↑ After the announcement of the expansion of the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to 24 teams, UEFA decided to organize a play-off between Austria and Iceland, the group stage third-placed teams, on 4 December 2023. The fifth place play-off winner would qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.[3]

Venues

TBD

Draw

The official draw will take place in Summer 2024 in Bogotá. The teams were allocated based on their performances in the 5 previous U-20 Women's World Cups, five bonus points are added to each of the confederation's current champions that won the respective qualifying tournament (for this cycle). The hosts Colombia are automatically seeded and assigned to position A1. Teams of the same confederation will not meet in the group stage.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

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Squads

Players born between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2008 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Group stage

All times are local, COT (UTC−5).

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Colombia (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
First match(es) will be played: 31 August 2024. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

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
First match(es) will be played: 31 August 2024. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group C

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
First match(es) will be played: 1 September 2024. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group D

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
First match(es) will be played: 1 September 2024. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group E

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
First match(es) will be played: 2 September 2024. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group F

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
First match(es) will be played: 2 September 2024. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Ranking of third-placed teams

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
First match(es) will be played: 31 August 2024. Source:

References

  1. 1 2 "FIFA Council appoints United States as host of new and expanded FIFA Club World Cup". FIFA. 23 June 2023. Archived from the original on 23 June 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  2. 1 2 "FIFA Council takes key decisions on FIFA World Cup editions in 2030 and 2034". www.fifa.com.
  3. ↑ https://www.oefb.at/oefb/News/Showdown-um-WM-Ticket-fuer-U20-Frauen
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