2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup

The 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup will be the 24th edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, the biennial international men's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since its inception in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Championship. It will be held in Chile from 27 September to 19 October 2025.^[1][2]

2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup

Copa Mundial Sub-20 de la FIFA Chile 2025
Legends in the Making
Tournament details
Host country	Chile
Dates	27 September – 19 October
Teams	24 (from 6 confederations)
← 2023 2027 →

Reigning champions Uruguay could not defend their title as they finished fifth in the 2025 South American U-20 Championship. In doing so, they became the eighth consecutive title holders to fail to qualify for the subsequent tournament.

Host selection

Chile were announced as the 2025 U-20 World Cup hosts following the FIFA Council meeting on 17 December 2023 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.^[1] It is believed the decision was made as a compensation for Chile losing hosting rights for the 2030 FIFA World Cup to Morocco, Portugal and Spain, as Chile was the only nation in the four-nation bid of Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay not included in the eventual outcome for the opening matches.^[3][4]

This is the second time that Chile will host the tournament, after doing so in 1987. Only Australia (1981, 1993) and Argentina (2001, 2023) have also hosted the tournament multiple times.

Venues

On 18 December 2023, Pablo Milad, president of the Football Federation of Chile, revealed a preliminary list with 12 stadia in 10 cities. Milad also announced that between 4 and 6 stadia will be chosen by FIFA for the final tournament.^[5][6]

Teams

Qualification

A total of 24 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Chile, who qualified automatically as the hosts, 23 other teams qualify through six separate continental competitions. The slot allocation remain unchanged from the previous editions and was confirmed by the FIFA Council on the same day the host country was announced.^[1]

• AFC (Asia): 4
• CAF (Africa): 4
• CONCACAF (North America, Central America and the Caribbean): 4
• CONMEBOL (South America): 5 (including the hosts Chile)
• OFC (Oceania): 2
• UEFA (Europe): 5

New Caledonia will make their debut in the tournament.^[7][8] Of the returnees, Australia, Cuba, Chile, Paraguay, and Spain will make a 10-year return as they last qualified in 2013. Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Panama, Norway, and Ukraine will make a return from 2019.

Regarding the absentees, reigning champions Uruguay failed to qualify for the first time since 2005. Honduras and Ecuador failed to qualify after appearing in the last four and three consecutive editions respectively. From UEFA, Israel failed to qualify this time around after finishing 3rd place in the last edition. Dominican Republic, England, Fiji, Guatemala, Iraq, Slovakia and Uzbekistan failed to qualify after appearing in 2023.

Qualifying tournament	Team	Date of qualification	Total	First	Last	Streak	Previous best performance
2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup	Australia	22 February 2025	16th	1981	2013	1	Fourth place (1991, 1993)
	Saudi Arabia		10th	1985	2019	1	Round of 16 (2011, 2017)
	Japan	23 February 2025	12th	1979	2023	4	Runners-up (1999)
	South Korea		17th	1979	2023	4	Runners-up (2019)
2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations	TBD	12 May 2025
	TBD
	TBD
	TBD
2024 CONCACAF U-20 Championship	Panama	30 July 2024	7th	2003	2019	1	Round of 16 (2019)
	United States		18th	1981	2023	6	Fourth place (1989)
	Cuba	31 July 2024	2nd	2013		1	Group stage (2013)
	Mexico		17th	1977	2019	1	Runners-up (1977)
Host nation	Chile	17 December 2023	7th	1987	2013	1	Third place (2007)
2025 South American U-20 Championship	Argentina	10 February 2025	18th	1979	2023	5	Champions (Six times)[a]
	Brazil		20th	1977	2023	2	Champions (Five times)[b]
	Colombia	13 February 2025	12th	1985	2023	3	Third place (2003)
	Paraguay		10th	1977	2013	1	Fourth place (2001)
2024 OFC U-19 Men's Championship	New Caledonia	15 July 2024	1st	Debut
	New Zealand		8th	2007	2023	7	Round of 16 (2015, 2017, 2019, 2023)
2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship	Italy	18 July 2024	9th	1977	2023	4	Runners-up (2023)
	France	19 July 2024	9th	1977	2023	4	Champions (2013)
	Ukraine	21 July 2024	5th	2001	2019	1	Champions (2019)
	Spain	22 July 2024	16th	1977	2013	1	Champions (1999)
	Norway	25 July 2024	4th	1989	2019	1	Group stage (1989, 1993, 2019)

Squads

Main article: 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup squads

Players born between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2009 (inclusive) are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Seeding

The 24 teams involved will be organised into four pots of six teams based on a performance ranking system, in order to be subsequently drawn into six groups of four teams. The hosts Chile were automatically seeded to Pot 1 and assigned into the first position of Group A, while the remaining teams were seeded into pots based on their results in the last five FIFA U-20 World Cups (with more recent tournaments weighted more heavily), and with five bonus points added to each of the 6 continental champions from the qualifying tournaments, as follows:

Pot	Team	Confederation	2013	2015	2017	2019	2023	Bonus [c]	Total points
			Points (20%)	Points (40%)	Points (60%)	Points (80%)	Points (100%)
1	Chile (H)	CONMEBOL	Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1
	Italy	UEFA	DNQ	DNQ	6.6	10.4	15		32
	United States	CONCACAF	0.2	4	4.8	7.2	12		28.2
	South Korea	AFC	1.2	DNQ	3.6	10.4	11		26.2
	Brazil	CONMEBOL	DNQ	5.6	DNQ	DNQ	9	+5	19.6
TBD	Colombia	CONMEBOL	1.6	1.6	DNQ	5.6	10		18.8
2	New Zealand	OFC	0	1.6	2.4	5.6	4	+5	18.6
	France	UEFA	2.8	DNQ	5.4	7.2	3		18.4
	Ukraine	UEFA	DNQ	3.2	DNQ	15.2	DNQ		18.4
	Argentina	CONMEBOL	DNQ	0.8	1.8	5.6	9		17.6
TBD	Mexico	CONCACAF	0.6	1.2	4.2	0	DNQ	+5	11
	Japan	AFC	DNQ	DNQ	2.4	4	3		9.4
3	Spain	UEFA	2.4	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	+5	7.4
	Australia	AFC	0.2	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	+5	5.2
TBD	Panama	CONCACAF	DNQ	0.4	DNQ	3.2	DNQ		3.6
	Norway	UEFA	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	2.4	DNQ		2.4
	Saudi Arabia	AFC	DNQ	DNQ	2.4	0	DNQ		2.4
	Paraguay	CONMEBOL	1	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ		1
4	Cuba	CONCACAF	0	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ		0
	New Caledonia	OFC	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ		0
TBD		CAF

Draw

The draw will take place approximately three months prior to the start of the competition, which would be late June 2025.^[9]

Group stage

The top two teams of each group and the four best third-placed teams advanced to the round of 16.

All times are local, Chile Summer Time (UTC–3).

Tiebreakers

The rankings of teams in each group were determined as follows (regulations Article 13.1):^[9]

1. points obtained among games between tied teams;
2. goal difference among games between tied teams;
3. goals scored among games between tied teams;
4. goal difference in all group matches;
5. goals scored in all group matches;
6. fair play points:
   • first yellow card: –1 point;
   • indirect red card (second yellow card): –3 points;
   • direct red card: –4 points;
   • yellow card and direct red card: –5 points;
7. drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Chile (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage
4	A4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	B1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	B2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	B3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage
4	B4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	C2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	C3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage
4	C4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage
4	D4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	E1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	E2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	E3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage
4	E4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	F1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	F2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	F3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage
4	F4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Ranking of third-placed teams

The four best third-placed teams from the six groups advance to the knockout stage along with the six group winners and six runners-up.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A	Third place Group A	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	B	Third place Group B	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	C	Third place Group C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	D	Third place Group D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	E	Third place Group E	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	F	Third place Group F	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 27 September 2025. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) fair play points; 5) drawing of lots.

Marketing

Emblem

The Emblem draws inspiration from Chile’s unique geography and heritage. The design prominently features elements such as the Andes Mountains, the Pacific Ocean, and the vibrant colors of Chilean culture, reflecting the nation’s deep love for football. The emblem is expected to resonate with both local fans and the global football community.^[10]

Notes

1. Argentina have won in 1979, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2007.
2. Brazil have won in 1983, 1985, 1993, 2003 and 2011.
3. Continental champions bonus points