FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup explained

FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
Organiser:FIFA
Region:International
Number Of Teams:16 (finals)
Related Comps:FIFA U-17 World Cup
Current:2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

The FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup is a biennial international women's association football tournament for female players under the age of 17. It is organized by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) since 2008. The current champions are Spain, who won its second title at the 2022 edition in India.

History

In 2003, after the inaugural success of the 2002 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship, held in Canada, FIFA proposed adding a second youth tournament for girls. Continental confederations told FIFA it would be difficult to create a second championship, with the age limits in place at the time. Therefore, FIFA created the U-17 Women's World Cup and the U-20 Women's World Championship (renamed the "U-20 Women's World Cup" in 2007), the same age groups as its men's youth tournaments. Accordingly, the age limit for the U-19 championship was increased to 20, effective with the 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship in Russia. FIFA committed to creating a U-17 women's championship, stated to begin in 2008.[1]

The first tournament was held in 2008 in New Zealand from 28 October to 16 November. Four cities hosted matches during the inaugural tournament – North Shore City (North Harbour Stadium), Hamilton (Waikato Stadium), Wellington (Wellington Stadium) and Christchurch (QEII Park). New Zealand won hosting rights at the same time that Chile received hosting honours for the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup; Ecuador also bid for the event.[2] [3]

On 4 April 2020, FIFA announced the decision of postponing the 2020 World Cup which was originally scheduled in five venues to be held from 2 to 21 November in India.[4] The tournament was initially postponed to 2021, subject to further monitoring.[5] On 17 November 2020, FIFA announced that the 2020 edition of the tournamenth would be cancelled, and India were appointed as hosts of the next edition of the tournament in 2022.[6] However, on 16 August 2022, India were stripped of their hosting rights for 2022 as the All India Football Federation was suspended by FIFA.[7] The rights were given back to India on 26 August 2022 as the AIFF was reinstated by FIFA.[8] Dominican Republic was selected as host for the 2024 edition on 23 June 2023.[9]

Starting from 2025 the U-17 Women's World Cup and its men's counterpart will be held annually.[10] Morocco was selected to host these edition on 14 March 2024 becoming the first African country to host the event.[11]

Qualification

Qualifying tournaments are:

ConfederationChampionship
AFC (Asia)AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup
CAF (Africa)African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification
CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean)CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship
CONMEBOL (South America)South American Under-17 Women's Football Championship
OFC (Oceania)OFC U-16 Women's Championship
UEFA (Europe)UEFA Women's U-17 Championship

Results

YearHostFinalThird place game
width= 100px Championswidth= Scorewidth= 100px Runners-upwidth= 100px Third placewidth= Scorewidth= 100pxFourth place
12008 New Zealand2–1 3–0 16
220103–3
1–0 16
32012 Azerbaijan1–1 1–0 16
42014 Costa Rica2–0 4–4 16
52016 Jordan0–0 4–0 16
62018 Uruguay2–12–1 16
72022 India1–03–3 16
82024 Dominican Republic16
92025 Morocco24
10202624
11202724
12202824
13202924

Teams reaching the top four

TeamTitlesRunners-upThird placeFourth place
2 (2018, 2022)1 (2014)2 (2010, 2016)
2 (2008, 2016)1 (2012)1 (2010)
1 (2014)2 (2010, 2016)
1 (2010)
1 (2012)
1 (2008)
1 (2018)
1 (2022)
1 (2008)2 (2012, 2022)
1 (2012)
1 (2014)
1 (2018)
1 (2022)
2 (2014, 2016)
1 (2008)
1 (2018)

Awards

TournamentGolden BallGolden BootGoalsGolden GloveFIFA Fair Play Trophy
New Zealand 2008 Mana Iwabuchi Dzsenifer Marozsán6 Taylor Vancil
Trinidad and Tobago 2010 Yeo Min-ji Yeo Min-ji8 Dolores Gallardo
Azerbaijan 2012 Griedge Mbock Bathy Ri Un-sim8 Romane Bruneau
Costa Rica 2014 Hina Sugita Deyna Castellanos
Gabriela García
6 Mamiko Matsumoto
Jordan 2016 Fuka Nagano Lorena Navarro8 Noelia Ramos
Uruguay 2018 Clàudia Pina Mukarama Abdulai7 Catalina Coll
India 2022 Vicky López Loreen Bender4 Sofía Fuente
Dominican Republic 2024
Morocco 2025

Overall team records

In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.[12]

width=20Rankwidth=200Teamwidth=20Partwidth=20Pldwidth=20Wwidth=20Dwidth=20Lwidth=20GFwidth=20GAwidth=20GDwidth=20Points
1734256311724+9381
253022356522+4369
363117956232+3060
4733185108436+4859
562413383727+1042
662411765230+2240
772798102836–835
862394103542–731
95198564626+2029
1062183102729–227
113158162630–425
123136252728–120
135184591826–817
1472452172354–3117
153123632419+515
162103341217–512
17393151114–310
18162229908
191420264+26
201412136–35
211411239–64
221310234–13
231310235–23
241310227–53
2526105512–73
2626105519–143
271301225–31
2826015422–181
2926015327–241
3039018846–381
3126006214–120
3213003115–140
3313003016–160
3413003016–160
3513003227–250
36100000000
37100000000
38100000000
39100000000

Comprehensive team results by tournament

Legend

For each tournament, the flag of the host country and the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

TeamConfederation
2008
(16)

2010
(16)

2012
(16)

2014
(16)

2016
(16)

2018
(16)

2022
(16)

2024
(16)

2025
(24)
Total
UEFAGS1
CONMEBOLGSQFQFGSGSQFQ7
CAF××GSGS2
CONCACAFQFGSQFQFGS4thGS7
CONMEBOLGSGS2
AFCGSGSGS3
CONMEBOLGSGSGSGSbgcolor=silver2ndQ6
CONCACAFGSGS2
UEFAQF1
CONCACAF×Q1
CONMEBOLQ1
UEFA4thQFQ3
UEFAGS1
UEFAGSbgcolor=gold1stGS3
CAF××GS××××1
UEFA3rdQF4thGSQFQF4th7
CAFGSGS3rdQFQFQF×6
AFCGS1
UEFA3rd1
AFCQFbgcolor=silver2ndQFbgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=silver2ndQFQFQ8
AFCGS1
CAFQ1
CONCACAFGSGSQFQFbgcolor=silver2ndGSQ7
CAF××××GSQ2
OFCGSGSGSGSGS3rdGSQ8
CAFGSQFQFQFGS3rdQ 7
AFCbgcolor=gold1st4thbgcolor=silver2ndGSbgcolor=gold1stQF×Q7
CONMEBOLGSGSGS3
UEFAQ1
UEFAQF1
CAFGSGS2
AFCQFbgcolor=gold1stGSQ4
UEFA3rdbgcolor=silver2nd3rdbgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=gold1stQ6
CAF××××××QF1
CONCACAFGS1
CONCACAFbgcolor=silver2ndGSGSGSQFQ6
CONMEBOLGSGS2
CONMEBOLGS4th4th3
CAF×GS×Q2

Debut of national teams

YearDebuting teams
Teamswidth=40width=40
valign=top; align=center,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 1616
valign=top; align=center,,,,,, 723
valign=top; align=center,,, 427
valign=top; align=center, 229
valign=top; align=center, 231
valign=top; align=center132
valign=top; align=center,, 335
valign=top; align=center,,, 439

Results by confederation

— Hosting confederation

AFC

2008

(16)
2010

(16)
2012

(16)
2014

(16)
2016

(16)
2018

(16)
2022

(16)
2024

(16)
2025

(24)
Total
Teams 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 28
Top 8 3 3 2 1 2 2 1 14
Top 4 1 3 1 1 2 0 0 8
Top 2 1 2 1 1 2 0 0 7
bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=goldbgcolor=goldbgcolor=goldbgcolor=gold4
bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silverbgcolor=silverbgcolor=silver3
3rd 0
4th 1

CAF

2008

(16)
2010

(16)
2012

(16)
2014

(16)
2016

(16)
2018

(16)
2022

(16)
2024

(16)
2025

(24)
Total
Teams 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 5 28
Top 8 0 1 2 2 1 1 2 9
Top 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2
Top 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
bgcolor=gold1st 0
bgcolor=silver2nd 0
3rd 2
4th 0

CONCACAF

2008

(16)
2010

(16)
2012

(16)
2014

(16)
2016

(16)
2018

(16)
2022

(16)
2024

(16)
2025

(24)
Total
Teams 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 28
Top 8 2 0 1 2 1 2 1 9
Top 4 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 3
Top 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
bgcolor=gold1st 0
bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silverbgcolor=silver2
3rd 0
4th 1

CONMEBOL

2008

(16)
2010

(16)
2012

(16)
2014

(16)
2016

(16)
2018

(16)
2022

(16)
2024

(16)
2025

(24)
Total
Teams 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 28
Top 8 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 6
Top 4 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 3
Top 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
bgcolor=gold1st 0
bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silver1
3rd 0
4th 2

OFC

2008

(16)
2010

(16)
2012

(16)
2014

(16)
2016

(16)
2018

(16)
2022

(16)
2024

(16)
2025

(24)
Total
Teams 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 10
Top 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Top 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Top 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
bgcolor=gold1st 0
bgcolor=silver2nd 0
3rd 1
4th 0

UEFA

2008

(16)
2010

(16)
2012

(16)
2014

(16)
2016

(16)
2018

(16)
2022

(16)
2024

(16)
2025

(24)
Total
Teams 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 5 30
Top 8 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 17
Top 4 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 11
Top 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 4
bgcolor=gold1st bgcolor=goldbgcolor=goldbgcolor=gold3
bgcolor=silver2nd bgcolor=silver1
3rd 4
4th 3

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup . 2024-02-04 . www.fifa.com . en.
  2. Web site: 2024-02-05 . Soccer: NZ to host 2008 Fifa under 17 women's World Cup . 2024-02-04 . NZ Herald . en-NZ.
  3. Web site: FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Chile 2008 . 2024-02-04 . www.fifa.com . en.
  4. News: FIFA postpones U-17 Women's World Cup in India due to Covid-19 pandemic . 4 April 2020 . India Today.
  5. Web site: Bureau of the FIFA Council decisions on FIFA events. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. FIFA.com. 12 May 2020.
  6. Web site: Update on FIFA Club World Cup 2020 and women's youth tournaments. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. FIFA.com. 24 December 2020. 17 November 2020.
  7. Web site: FIFA suspends All India Football Federation . FIFA.com . 16 August 2022 . en.
  8. Web site: FIFA lifts suspension of All India Football Federation . FIFA.com . 27 August 2022 . en.
  9. Web site: FIFA Council appoints United States as host of new and expanded FIFA Club World Cup . FIFA.com . 1 July 2023. 23 June 2023.
  10. Web site: FIFA President hails return of "inspiring" FIFA U-17 World Cup. It is the key reason why this and the FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup tournament will be held every year, rather than every two years, from 2025 onwards... . FIFA.com . 27 September 2023. 15 September 2023.
  11. Web site: Morocco awarded multi-year hosting rights to FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup™. 14 March 2024. FIFA.
  12. Web site: Women U-17 World Cup - All-time tables. RSSSF. 23 November 2022.