2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

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 U-20 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament has been expanded by FIFA to feature 24 teams.^[1]

2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
Copa Mundial Femenina Sub-20 de la FIFA Colombia 2024
Tournament details
Host country	Colombia
Dates	31 August – 22 September
Teams	24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 3 host cities)
← 2022 2026 →

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.^[2]

Spain are the defending champions.

Host selection edit

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.^[2]

Expansion edit

On 4 October 2023, FIFA decided the expansion of the tournament to 24 teams.^[1] The slot allocation mirrors the men's tournament and 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

Qualified teams edit

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	Australia	5th	2022	Quarter-finals (2002, 2004)
		Japan	8th	2022	Champions (2018)
		North Korea	8th	2018	Champions (2006, 2016)
		South Korea	7th	2022	Third place (2010)
CAF (Africa) (4 teams)	2024 African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification	Cameroon	1st	None	Debut
		Ghana	7th	2022	Group stage (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022)
		Morocco	1st	None	Debut
		Nigeria	11th	2022	Runners-up (2010, 2014)
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean) (4 teams)	2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship	Canada	9th	2022	Runners-up (2002)
		Costa Rica^[a]	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 U-20 Women's Championship	Argentina	4th	2012	Group stage (2006, 2008, 2012)
		Brazil	11th	2022	Third place (2006, 2022)
		Paraguay	3rd	2018	Group stage (2014, 2018)
		Venezuela	2nd	2016	Group stage (2016)
OFC (Oceania) (2 teams)	2023 OFC U-19 Women's Championship	Fiji^[b]	1st	None	Debut
OFC (Oceania) (2 teams)	2023 OFC U-19 Women's Championship	New Zealand	9th	2022	Quarter-finals (2014)
UEFA (Europe) (5 teams)	2023 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship	Austria^[c]	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)

^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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 edit

Bogotá, Cali and Medellín were the three cities chosen to host the competition on 20 February 2024.^[4]

400km
250miles

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Host cities and venues of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Colombia 2024

2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup venues
Bogotá
Estadio El Campín	Estadio El Techo
Capacity: 39,512	Capacity: 10,000

Medellín	Cali
Estadio Atanasio Girardot	Estadio Pascual Guerrero
Capacity: 44,826	Capacity: 37,000

Draw edit

The official draw will take place on 5 June 2024, 10:00 local time (UTC-5), at the Hall 74 in Bogotá.^[5] 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
Colombia ^H Spain Japan France North Korea Germany	Nigeria Brazil Mexico United States Netherlands New Zealand	South Korea Ghana Australia Canada Paraguay Argentina	Austria Cameroon Costa Rica Fiji Morocco Venezuela

Squads edit

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

Group stage edit

The draw for the group stage will take place on 5 June 2024.

Tiebreakers edit

All times are local, COT (UTC−5).^[6]

Group A edit

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Colombia (H)	Knockout stage
2	A2	Knockout stage
3	A3	Possible knockout stage
4	A4

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

31 August 2024