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 North Korea, who won a record third title at the 2024 edition in the Dominican Republic.

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:

Confederation	Championship
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

	Year	Hosts	Final			Third place match
width= 100px	Champions	width=	Score	width= 100px	Runners-up	width= 100px	Third place	width=	Score	width= 100px	Fourth place
1	2008	New Zealand		2–1			3–0		16
2	2010			3–3			1–0		16
3	2012	Azerbaijan		1–1			1–0		16
4	2014	Costa Rica		2–0			4–4		16
5	2016	Jordan		0–0			4–0		16
6	2018	Uruguay		2–1			2–1		16
7	2022	India		1–0			3–3		16
8	2024	Dominican Republic		1–1			3–0		16
9	2025	Morocco							24
10	2026							24
11	2027							24
12	2028							24
13	2029							24

Teams reaching the top four

Title(s)	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place
3 (2008, 2016, 2024)	1 (2012)	–	1 (2010)
2 (2018, 2022)	2 (2014, 2024)	2 (2010, 2016)	–
1 (2014)	2 (2010, 2016)	–	–
1 (2010)	–	–	–
1 (2012)	–	–	–
–	1 (2008)	1 (2024)	–
–	1 (2018)	–	–
–	1 (2022)	–	–
–	–	1 (2008)	2 (2012, 2022)
–	–	1 (2012)	–
–	–	1 (2014)	–
–	–	1 (2018)	–
–	–	1 (2022)	–
–	–	–	2 (2014, 2016)
–	–	–	2 (2008, 2024)
–	–	–	1 (2018)

Awards

Tournament	Golden Ball	Golden Boot	Goals	Golden Glove
New Zealand 2008	Mana Iwabuchi	Dzsenifer Marozsán	6	Taylor Vancil
Trinidad and Tobago 2010	Yeo Min-ji	Yeo Min-ji	8	Dolores Gallardo
Azerbaijan 2012	Griedge Mbock Bathy	Ri Un-sim	8	Romane Bruneau
Costa Rica 2014	Hina Sugita	Deyna Castellanos Gabriela García	6	Mamiko Matsumoto
Jordan 2016	Fuka Nagano	Lorena Navarro	8	Noelia Ramos
Uruguay 2018	Clàudia Pina	Mukarama Abdulai	7	Catalina Coll
India 2022	Vicky López	Loreen Bender	4	Sofía Fuente
Dominican Republic 2024	Jon Il-chong	Pau Comendador	5	Evan O'Steen
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=20	Rank	width=200	Team	width=20	Part	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	D	width=20	L	width=20	GF	width=20	GA	width=20	GD	width=20	Points
1		8	38	27	8	3	125	28	+97	89
2		6	36	27	4	5	84	25	+59	85
3		7	37	22	10	5	76	34	+42	76
4		7	33	18	5	10	84	36	+48	59
5		7	28	14	7	7	61	33	+28	49
6		6	24	13	3	8	37	27	+10	42
7		6	25	12	5	8	59	30	+29	41
8		7	27	9	8	10	28	36	–8	35
9		7	24	9	4	11	29	31	–2	31
10		7	26	9	4	13	39	52	–13	31
11		3	15	8	1	6	26	30	–4	25
12		4	16	6	3	7	28	39	–11	21
13		3	16	5	4	7	20	31	–11	19
14		6	21	4	6	11	20	31	–11	18
15		8	27	5	3	19	25	63	–38	18
16		3	12	3	6	3	24	19	+5	15
17		3	9	3	1	5	11	14	–3	10
18		1	6	2	2	2	9	9	0	8
19		1	4	2	0	2	6	4	+2	6
20		1	4	2	0	2	6	9	–3	6
21		1	4	1	2	1	2	1	+1	5
22		1	4	1	2	1	3	6	–3	5
23		1	4	1	1	2	3	9	–6	4
24		1	3	1	0	2	3	4	–1	3
25		1	3	1	0	2	3	5	–2	3
26		1	3	1	0	2	2	6	–4	3
27		2	6	1	0	5	5	12	–7	3
28		2	6	1	0	5	3	14	–11	3
29		2	6	1	0	5	5	19	–14	3
30		1	3	0	1	2	2	5	–3	1
31		1	3	0	1	2	1	4	–3	1
32		2	6	0	1	5	4	22	–18	1
33		2	6	0	1	5	3	27	–24	1
34		3	9	0	1	8	8	46	–38	1
35		2	6	0	0	6	2	14	–12	0
36		1	3	0	0	3	1	15	–14	0
37		1	3	0	0	3	0	16	–16	0
38		1	3	0	0	3	0	16	–16	0
39		1	3	0	0	3	2	27	–25	0

Comprehensive team results by tournament

Legend

– Champions
– Runners-up
– Third place
– Fourth place
QF – Quarter-finals
GS – Group stage
– Did not qualify
– Did not enter / Withdrew / Banned
– Country did not exist or national team was inactive
– Hosts
Q – Qualified for upcoming tournament

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

Confederation	2008 (16)	2010 (16)	2012 (16)	2014 (16)	2016 (16)	2018 (16)	2022 (16)	2024 (16)	2025 (24)	Total
UEFA	•	•	GS	•	•	•	•	•	•	1
CONMEBOL	GS	QF	QF	•	GS	GS	QF	GS		7
CAF	•	×	•	×	GS	GS	•	•		2
CONCACAF	QF	GS	QF	QF	GS	4th	GS	•		7
CONMEBOL	•	GS	•	•	•	•	GS	•		2
AFC	•	•	GS	GS	•	•	GS	•	Q	4
CONMEBOL	GS	•	GS	GS	•	GS	bgcolor=silver	2nd	GS		6
CONCACAF	GS	•	•	GS	•	•	•	•		2
UEFA	QF	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		1
CONCACAF	×	×	•	•	•	•	•	GS		1
CONMEBOL	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	QF		1
UEFA	4th	•	•	•	QF	•	•	4th		3
UEFA	•	•	•	•	•	GS	•	•		1
UEFA	GS	•	bgcolor=gold	1st	•	•	•	GS		•		3
CAF	×	×	GS	×	×	•	×	×		1
UEFA	3rd	QF	4th	GS	QF	QF	4th	•		7
CAF	GS	GS	3rd	QF	QF	QF	•	×		6
AFC	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	•	•	1
UEFA	•	•	•	3rd	•	•	•	•		1
AFC	QF	bgcolor=silver	2nd	QF	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=silver	2nd	QF	QF	QF	Q	9
AFC	•	•	•	•	GS	•	•	•	•	1
CAF	×	×	•	×	×	×	×	GS		1
CONCACAF	•	GS	GS	QF	QF	bgcolor=silver	2nd	GS	GS		7
CAF	×	×	×	×	•	•	GS	•	Q	2
OFC	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	3rd	GS	GS	Q	9
CAF	GS	QF	QF	QF	GS	•	3rd	QF		7
AFC	bgcolor=gold	1st	4th	bgcolor=silver	2nd	GS	bgcolor=gold	1st	QF	×	bgcolor=gold	1st	Q	8
CONMEBOL	GS	•	•	GS	GS	•	•	•		3
UEFA	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	QF		1
UEFA	•	QF	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	1
OFC	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	×	Q	1
CAF	•	GS	•	•	•	GS	•	•		2
AFC	QF	bgcolor=gold	1st	•	•	•	GS	•	GS	Q	5
UEFA	•	3rd	•	bgcolor=silver	2nd	3rd	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=silver	2nd		6
CAF	×	×	×	×	×	×	QF	•		1
CONCACAF	•	GS	•	•	•	•	•	•		1
CONCACAF	bgcolor=silver	2nd	•	GS	•	GS	GS	QF	3rd		6
CONMEBOL	•	•	GS	•	•	GS	•	•		2
CONMEBOL	•	GS	•	4th	4th	•	•	•		3
CAF	•	×	•	GS	×	•	•	GS		2

Debut of national teams

Year	Debuting teams
Year	Teams	width=40		width=40
valign=top; align=center		,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,	16	16
valign=top; align=center		,,,,,,	7	23
valign=top; align=center		,,,	4	27
valign=top; align=center		,	2	29
valign=top; align=center		,	2	31
valign=top; align=center			1	32
valign=top; align=center		,,	3	35
valign=top; align=center		,,,	4	39
valign=top; align=center			1	40

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 16	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		0
Top 8	3	3	2	1	2	2	1	2		16
Top 4	1	3	1	1	2	0	0	1		9
Top 2	1	2	1	1	2	0	0	1		8
bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold		bgcolor=gold			bgcolor=gold		bgcolor=gold		bgcolor=gold		5
bgcolor=silver	2nd		bgcolor=silver		bgcolor=silver			bgcolor=silver				3
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 16	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		0
Top 8	0	1	2	2	1	1	2	1		10
Top 4	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0		2
Top 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0
bgcolor=gold	1st										0
bgcolor=silver	2nd										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 16	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		0
Top 8	2	0	1	2	1	2	1	1		10
Top 4	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	1		4
Top 2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0		2
bgcolor=gold	1st										0
bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver						bgcolor=silver				2
3rd										1
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 16	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		0
Top 8	0	1	1	1	1	0	2	1		7
Top 4	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0		3
Top 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1
bgcolor=gold	1st										0
bgcolor=silver	2nd							bgcolor=silver				1
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 16	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		0
Top 8	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0		1
Top 4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0		1
Top 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0
bgcolor=gold	1st										0
bgcolor=silver	2nd										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 16	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		0
Top 8	3	3	2	2	3	2	2	3		20
Top 4	2	1	2	2	1	1	2	2		13
Top 2	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	1		5
bgcolor=gold	1st			bgcolor=gold				bgcolor=gold		bgcolor=gold		3
bgcolor=silver	2nd				bgcolor=silver					bgcolor=silver	2
3rd										4
4th										4

External links

- Women U-17 World Cup at the RSSSF

Notes and References

Web site: FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup . 2024-02-04 . www.fifa.com . en.
Web site: 2024-02-05 . Soccer: NZ to host 2008 Fifa under 17 women's World Cup . 2024-02-04 . NZ Herald . en-NZ.
Web site: FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Chile 2008 . 2024-02-04 . www.fifa.com . en.
News: FIFA postpones U-17 Women's World Cup in India due to Covid-19 pandemic . 4 April 2020 . India Today.
Web site: Bureau of the FIFA Council decisions on FIFA events. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. FIFA.com. 12 May 2020.
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.
Web site: FIFA suspends All India Football Federation . FIFA.com . 16 August 2022 . en.
Web site: FIFA lifts suspension of All India Football Federation . FIFA.com . 27 August 2022 . en.
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.
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.
Web site: Morocco awarded multi-year hosting rights to FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup™. 14 March 2024. FIFA.
Web site: Women U-17 World Cup - All-time tables. RSSSF. 23 November 2022.