TheFIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennialfootball world championship tournament forFIFA members' men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in1977 when it was hosted byTunisia[1] under the tournament name ofFIFA World Youth Championship until2005.[2] In2007 the name was changed to its present form. FIFA bills the men's Under-20 World Cup as "the tournament of tomorrow's superstars."[3]Diego Maradona,Lionel Messi andPaul Pogba are previous winners of the official player of the tournament award, andErling Haaland was the top scorer at the2019 edition. The reigning champions areMorocco, which won their first title at the2025 tournament in Chile.
A corresponding event for women's teams, theFIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, began in 2002 with the name "FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship" and an age limit of 19. The age limit for the women's competition was changed to 20 beginning with the2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship, and the competition was renamed as a "World Cup" in 2007 in preparation for the2008 event. The next edition is planned to be held in 2027 inAzerbaijan andUzbekistan.
24 national teams appear in the final tournament. 23 teams, including the defending champions, have to qualify in the youth championships of the six confederations. The team representing the host nation automatically qualifies.
All continental confederations except for theOFC (Oceania) have made an appearance in the final match of the tournament. To date,CONMEBOL (South America) leads with twelve titles, followed byUEFA (Europe) with ten titles and theCAF (Africa) with two titles. Teams reprensenting theAFC (Asia) have made the final three times, but were defeated by strong UEFA teams. Mexico is the only team fromCONCACAF (North, Central America and the Caribbean) which has made the final. Mexico lost to the Soviet Union in the final of the inaugural tournament in 1977, which is also their only appearance in a final. No current OFC member has ever made the semi-finals; Australia reached the last four as an OFC member in 1991 and 1993, finishing fourth on both occasions, before the country joined the AFC in 2006.