FIFA U-20 & U-17 World Cups

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The 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup will be held in Poland. It will be the second time that Poland has hosted a FIFA tournament after they did with the Men's FIFA U-20 World Cup back in 2019. It will also be the first time that Poland has ever hosted a FIFA women's tournament.

The 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup will be held in Chile. Chile will be the third country to host the FIFA U-20 World Cup multiple times after Australia (1981 and 1993) and Argentina (2001 and 2023).

The 2025 through 2029 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cups will be held in Morocco. It will be held annually instead of biannually. It will also be expanded to 48 teams. This is expecting to be among the two the biggest FIFA youth tournaments ever.

 

The 2025 through 2029 FIFA U-17 World Cups will be held in Qatar. It will be held annually instead of biannually. It will also be expanded to 48 teams. This is expecting to be among the two the biggest FIFA youth tournaments ever.

 

Edited March 14, 2024 by Sir Rols

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I really don’t think many people here are that interested in the junior FIFA hostings. Certainly not enough to clog up the forums with separate threads for each of them, which only you are likely to contribute to. 

Let’s just keep them together in this one thread in future to avoid too much board confusion.

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After what we witnessed with the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia, this month we are about to begin the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic as it will be the first time that Dominican Republic has ever hosted the FIFA tournament. This will also be the final edition to both feature 16 teams and held biannually before expanding to 24 teams and to be held annually beginning next year in Morocco.

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The teams who will taking part at this year's FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup are:

 

Africa:

Kenya*

Nigeria

Zambia

 

Asia:

Japan

North Korea

South Korea

 

Europe:

England

Poland*

Spain

 

North, Central American and Caribbean:

Mexico

United States

 

Oceania:

New Zealand

 

South Amrica:

Brazil

Colombia

Ecuador*

 

*Team making tournament debut.

 

Host:

 

Dominican Republic