The Benin national U-20 football team is the youth football team of the Benin national football team. They participated in the FIFA U-20 World Cup in the Netherlands in 2005. They also participated in the U-20 Africa Cup of Nations in Algeria in 2013.[1] [2]
Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place
| FIFA U-20 World Cup | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA | GD | |
 1977 | did not qualify | ||||||||
 1979 | |||||||||
 1981 | |||||||||
 1983 | |||||||||
| 1985 | |||||||||
 1987 | |||||||||
 1989 | |||||||||
 1991 | |||||||||
| 1993 | |||||||||
 1995 | |||||||||
 1997 | |||||||||
 1999 | |||||||||
 2001 | |||||||||
| 2003 | |||||||||
 2005 | Group Stage | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | |
 2007 | did not qualify | ||||||||
 2009 | |||||||||
 2011 | |||||||||
 2013 | |||||||||
 2015 | |||||||||
| 2017 | |||||||||
 2019 | |||||||||
| 2023 | |||||||||
| 2025 | to be determined | ||||||||
| Total | Group Stage | 1/24 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Africa U-20 Cup of Nations | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA | GD | |
| 1979 | did not qualify | ||||||||
| 1981 | |||||||||
| 1983 | |||||||||
| 1985 | |||||||||
| 1987 | |||||||||
| 1989 | |||||||||
| 1991 | |||||||||
| 1993 | |||||||||
| 1995 | |||||||||
 1997 | |||||||||
 1999 | |||||||||
 2001 | |||||||||
 2003 | |||||||||
 2005 | Third place | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 0 | |
| 2007 | did not qualify | ||||||||
 2009 | |||||||||
| 2011 | |||||||||
| 2013 | Group stage | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | -2 | |
 2015 | did not qualify | ||||||||
| 2017 | |||||||||
| 2019 | |||||||||
| 2021 | |||||||||
| 2023 | Quarter finals | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | -1 | |
| Total | Third place | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 13 | -3 | |