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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)
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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]

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

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

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

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	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
OFC (Oceania) (2 teams)	2023 OFC U-19 Women's Championship	Fiji[b]	1st	None	Debut
		New Zealand	9th	2022	Quarter-finals (2014)
UEFA (Europe) (5 teams)	2023 UEFA Women's Under-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)

Venues

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

1 Bogotá 2 Medellín 3 Cali

2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup venues

Bogotá
Estadio Nemesio Camacho El Campín	Estadio Metropolitano de Techo
Capacity: 39,512	Capacity: 10,000
Medellín	Cali
Estadio Atanasio Girardot	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Capacity: 44,826	Capacity: 37,000

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.

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

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

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.

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time shall be played (two periods of five minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner. However, for the third place match, if it is played directly before the final, no extra time shall be played and the winner shall be determined by a penalty shoot-out.

Bracket

Combinations of matches in the Round of 16

The specific match-ups involving the third-placed teams depend on which four third-placed teams qualified for the round of 16:

Marketing

The official emblem was unveiled on 8 April 2024. The vibrant design is inspired by the stunning nature and colour of host nation Colombia as well as the tournament's fundamental role in forging the Future Stars of Football.

Using the South American country's unique and iconic Caño Cristales river, nicknamed 'Liquid Rainbow', as the central theme of the design, the tournament emblem also features the yellow, blue and red of the Colombian flag to make it the perfect blended reflection of the tournament hosts and the competition itself.^[5]

References

External links

• Official website