Biography

The 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup (Arabic: كأس العالم للسيدات تحت 17 سنة المغرب 2025) (French: Coupe du Monde Féminine U-17 de la FIFA Maroc 2025) will be the 9th edition of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, the international women's youth football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It will be hosted by Morocco. It will be the first time the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup to be held in Africa and the second Arab country to host it after Jordan in 2016. It will also be the first edition to feature 24 teams and played annually.^[1]

Host selection

Morocco was announced as the 2025-2029 Women's U-17 World Cup hosts following the FIFA Council meeting on 14 March 2024 in Zürich, Switzerland.

Venues

TBD.

Qualified teams

A total of 24 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Morocco 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)	2025 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
CAF (Africa) (Hosts + 4 teams)	Host nation	Morocco	2nd	2022	Group stage (2022)
	2025 African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean) (4 teams)	2025 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
CONMEBOL (South America) (4 teams)	2025 South American Under-17 Women's Championship	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
OFC (Oceania) (2 teams)	2025 OFC U-16 Women's Championship	TBD
		TBD
UEFA (Europe) (5 teams)	2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD

Draw

The official draw will take place in Early 2025. The teams were allocated based on their performances in the 5 previous U-17 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 Morocco 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 2005 and 31 December 2009 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Group stage

All times are local, MST (UTC+1).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Morocco (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:

References

External links

• Official website