2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup

2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup

2017년 FIFA U-20 월드컵
2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup logo
Tournament details
Host country	South Korea
Dates	20 May – 11 June
Teams	24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	England (1st title)
Runners-up	Venezuela
Third place	Italy
Fourth place	Uruguay
Tournament statistics
Matches played	52
Goals scored	140 (2.69 per match)
Attendance	410,795 (7,900 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Riccardo Orsolini (5 goals)[1]
Best player	Dominic Solanke[1]
Best goalkeeper	Freddie Woodman[1]
Fair play award	Mexico[1]

The 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the 21st 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. The tournament was hosted by South Korea between 20 May and 11 June 2017.^[2]

Along with Japan and Mexico, South Korea became the third nation to have hosted all of FIFA Men's international competitions, namely the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the 2001 Confederations Cup and the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

The South Korean FA originally placed a request of hosting the tournament away from the traditional June/July period, as it would clash with South Korea's rainy season, as well as any possible national team selection were they to qualify for the Confederations Cup.^[3]

Serbia, the 2015 champions, were not able to defend their title as they failed to reach the final round of the UEFA qualifying tournament. In doing so, they became the fifth consecutive incumbent title holder to fail to qualify for the subsequent tournament.

England won their first FIFA U-20 World Cup title after beating Venezuela 1–0 in the final.^[4][5]

Host selection

Along with asking member associations whether it wished to host the Under 20, Under 17 or the Beach Soccer World Cup in 2017 (along with Women's Tournaments a year previous), a declaration of interest would need to have been sent by 15 May 2013.^[6] A total of 12 countries submitted a bid to host the tournament by the May 2013 deadline:^[7]

The final decision on who would be hosts were made as part of FIFA's Executive Committee meetings in Brazil on 5 December 2013 with Korea Republic being awarded the hosting rights.^[10]

Qualified teams

A total of 24 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to South Korea who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 23 teams qualified from six separate continental competitions. Starting from 2017, the Oceania Football Confederation received an additional slot (in total two), while UEFA will have five instead of six slots.^[11]

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)	Host Nation	South Korea
	2016 AFC U-19 Championship	Iran  Japan  Saudi Arabia  Vietnam1
CAF (Africa)	2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations	Guinea  Senegal  South Africa  Zambia
CONCACAF (Central, North America and Caribbean)	2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship	Costa Rica  Honduras  Mexico  United States
CONMEBOL (South America)	2017 South American Youth Championship	Argentina  Ecuador  Uruguay  Venezuela
OFC (Oceania)	2016 OFC U-20 Championship	New Zealand  Vanuatu1
UEFA (Europe)	2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship	England  France  Germany  Italy  Portugal

Venues

Cheonan, Daejeon, Incheon, Jeju, Jeonju and Suwon were the six cities chosen to host the competition from a shortlist of nine, with Seoul, Pohang, and Ulsan not chosen.^[2][3]

Cheonan	Daejeon	Incheon
Cheonan Stadium	Daejeon World Cup Stadium	Incheon Football Stadium
Capacity: 25,814	Capacity: 39,654	Capacity: 19,649
Cheonan Daejeon Incheon Jeju Jeonju Suwon 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup (South Korea)
Jeju	Jeonju	Suwon
Jeju World Cup Stadium	Jeonju World Cup Stadium	Suwon World Cup Stadium
Capacity: 29,346	Capacity: 41,785	Capacity: 42,655

Organization

The following were key milestones in the organization of the tournament:

• The match schedule was announced by FIFA on 23 November 2015.^[12]
• Former South Korean internationals Ahn Jung-hwan and Park Ji-sung were appointed as the ambassadors of the tournament.^[13]
• The official emblem, slogan ("Trigger the Fever") and look of the tournament were unveiled on 16 June 2016.^[14]
• The official mascot, Chaormi, was unveiled on 25 August 2016.^[15]
• Details of the volunteer programme, which was launched on 1 November 2016, was released on 18 October 2016.^[16]
• The official posters were released on 27 October 2016.^[17]
• Venue package tickets went on sale on 1 November 2016,^[18] while general ticket sales began on 2 January 2017.^[19] All-out ticket sales kicked off on 16 March 2017.^[20]
• NCT Dream were appointed as Local Organising Committee ambassadors, and were also chosen to sing the official song of the tournament: "Trigger the Fever".^[21]

Draw

The draw was held on 15 March 2017, 15:00 KST (UTC+9), at the Suwon Artrium in Suwon, South Korea.^[22][23] Two Argentine players who have won the FIFA U-20 World Cup, Diego Maradona and Pablo Aimar, participated in the draw.^[24] Minho Choi from the South Korean idol group SHINee also participated in the draw.^[23]

The 24 teams were drawn into six groups of four teams, with hosts South Korea being allocated to position A1. The teams were seeded into their respective pots based on their results in the last five FIFA U-20 World Cups (more recent tournaments weighted more heavily), with bonus points awarded to confederation champions. Teams from the same confederation could not be drawn against each other for the group stage.^[25]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
South Korea (Hosts – assigned to A1)  Portugal  Uruguay  France  United States  Germany	Mexico  Argentina  New Zealand  Senegal  Japan  Costa Rica	Zambia  Honduras  England  Saudi Arabia  Italy  Venezuela	Ecuador  South Africa  Iran  Vietnam  Guinea  Vanuatu

Match officials

A total of 22 refereeing trios (a referee and two assistant referees), 5 support referees, and 21 video assistant referees were appointed for the tournament.^[26][27] This was the first FIFA underage tournament which uses the video assistant referee.^[28]

Confederation	Referee	Assistant referees	Support referee	Video assistant referee
AFC	Abdulrahman Al-Jassim	Taleb Al-Marri Saud Al-Maqaleh	Ahmed Al-Kaf	Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Ryuji Sato Nawaf Shukralla
	Abdulla Hassan Mohamed	Mohamed Al-Hammadi Hasan Al-Mahri
	Kim Jong-hyeok	Yoon Kwang-yeol Kim Young-ha
CAF	Sidi Alioum	Evarist Menkouande Elvis Guy Noupue Nguegoue	Bamlak Tessema Weyesa	Mehdi Abid Charef Malang Diedhiou Eric Otogo-Castane
	Ghead Grisha	Redouane Achik Waleed Ahmed
	Janny Sikazwe	Jerson dos Santos Zakhele Siwela
CONCACAF	Joel Aguilar	Juan Zumba William Torres	Yadel Martínez	Roberto García Ricardo Montero John Pitti
	Walter López	Gerson López Hermenerito Leal
	César Ramos	Marvin Torrentera Miguel Hernández
CONMEBOL	Julio Bascuñán	Carlos Astroza Christian Schiemann	Mario Díaz de Vivar	José Argote Wilton Sampaio Gery Vargas Mauro Vigliano
	Andrés Cunha	Nicolás Taran Mauricio Espinosa
	Diego Haro	Jonny Bossio Raúl López
	Roddy Zambrano	Christian Lescano Byron Romero
OFC	Matt Conger	Simon Lount Tevita Makasini	—	Nick Waldron
	Norbert Hauata	Phillippe Revel Bertrand Brial
UEFA	Cüneyt Çakır	Bahattin Duran Tarık Ongun	Ivan Kružliak	William Collum Pavel Královec Danny Makkelie Svein Oddvar Moen Daniele Orsato Anastasios Sidiropoulos Felix Zwayer
	Jonas Eriksson	Mathias Klasenius Daniel Wärnmark
	Sergei Karasev	Anton Averyanov Tikhon Kalugin
	Viktor Kassai	György Ring Vencel Tóth
	Björn Kuipers	Sander van Roekel Erwin Zeinstra
	Szymon Marciniak	Paweł Sokolnicki Tomasz Listkiewicz
	Antonio Mateu Lahoz	Pau Cebrián Devis Roberto Díaz Pérez

Squads

Each team had to name a preliminary squad of 35 players. From the preliminary squad, the team had to name a final squad of 21 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline. Players in the final squad could be replaced due to serious injury up to 24 hours prior to kickoff of the team's first match.^[29] The squads were announced by FIFA on 11 May 2017.^[30][31]

Group stage

The top two teams of each group and the four best third-placed teams advanced to the round of 16. The rankings of teams in each group wee determined as follows (regulations Article 17.7):^[29]

If two or more teams were equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings were determined as followed:

All times are local, KST (UTC+9).^[32]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7	Knockout stage
2	South Korea (H)	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6
3	Argentina	3	1	0	2	6	5	+1	3
4	Guinea	3	0	1	2	1	9	−8	1

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Venezuela	3	3	0	0	10	0	+10	9	Knockout stage
2	Mexico	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
3	Germany	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
4	Vanuatu	3	0	0	3	4	13	−9	0

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Zambia	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	6	Knockout stage
2	Portugal	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
3	Costa Rica	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
4	Iran	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3

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Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uruguay	3	2	1	0	3	0	+3	7	Knockout stage
2	Italy	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4
3	Japan	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	4
4	South Africa	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1

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Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	9	Knockout stage
2	New Zealand	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
3	Honduras	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3
4	Vietnam	3	0	1	2	0	6	−6	1

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Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	5	Knockout stage
2	Senegal	3	1	1	1	2	1	+1	4
3	Saudi Arabia	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
4	Ecuador	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2

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Ranking of third-placed teams

The four best teams among those ranked third are determined as follows (regulations Article 17.8):^[29]

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C	Costa Rica	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	D	Japan	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	4
3	B	Germany	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
4	F	Saudi Arabia	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
5	A	Argentina	3	1	0	2	6	5	+1	3
6	E	Honduras	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3

Combinations of matches in the Round of 16

The specific match-ups involving the third-placed teams depend on which four third-placed teams qualified for the round of 16:^[29]

Third-placed teams qualify from groups							1A vs	1B vs	1C vs	1D vs
A	B	C	D				3C	3D	3A	3B
A	B	C		E			3C	3A	3B	3E
A	B	C			F		3C	3A	3B	3F
A	B		D	E			3D	3A	3B	3E
A	B		D		F		3D	3A	3B	3F
A	B			E	F		3E	3A	3B	3F
A		C	D	E			3C	3D	3A	3E
A		C	D		F		3C	3D	3A	3F
A		C		E	F		3C	3A	3F	3E
A			D	E	F		3D	3A	3F	3E
	B	C	D	E			3C	3D	3B	3E
	B	C	D		F		3C	3D	3B	3F
	B	C		E	F		3E	3C	3B	3F
	B		D	E	F		3E	3D	3B	3F
		C	D	E	F		3C	3D	3F	3E

Knockout stage

In the knockout stages, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner. However, for the third place match, no extra time was played and the winner was determined by kicks from the penalty mark.^[29]

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

30 May — Cheonan

South Korea

1

4 June — Daejeon

Portugal

3

Portugal

2 (4)

31 May — Suwon

Uruguay (pen.)

2 (5)

Uruguay

1

8 June — Daejeon

Saudi Arabia

0

Uruguay

1 (3)

30 May — Daejeon

Venezuela (pen.)

1 (4)

Venezuela (a.e.t.)

1

4 June — Jeonju

Japan

0

Venezuela (a.e.t.)

2

1 June — Incheon

United States

1

United States

6

11 June — Suwon

New Zealand

0

Venezuela

0

1 June — Cheonan

England

1

France

1

5 June — Suwon

Italy

2

Italy (a.e.t.)

3

31 May — Seogwipo

Zambia

2

Zambia (a.e.t.)

4

8 June — Jeonju

Germany

3

Italy

1

1 June — Incheon

England

3

Third Place

Mexico

1

5 June — Cheonan

11 June — Suwon

Senegal

0

Mexico

0

Uruguay

0 (1)

31 May — Jeonju

England

1

Italy (pen.)

0 (4)

England

2

Costa Rica

1

Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Third place match

Final

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.^[1] They were all sponsored by adidas.

Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
Dominic Solanke	Federico Valverde	Yangel Herrera
Golden Boot	Silver Boot	Bronze Boot
Riccardo Orsolini	Josh Sargent	Jean-Kévin Augustin
5 goals, 0 assists	4 goals, 1 assists	4 goals, 0 assists
Golden Glove
Freddie Woodman
FIFA Fair Play Award
Mexico
Goal of the Tournament
Sergio Córdova

Goalscorers

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Source: FIFA

Final ranking

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.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	England	7	6	1	0	12	3	+9	19	Champions
2	Venezuela	7	5	1	1	14	3	+11	16	Runners-up
3	Italy	7	3	2	2	10	9	+1	11	Third place
4	Uruguay	7	3	4	0	7	3	+4	13	Fourth place
5	Zambia	5	3	0	2	12	10	+2	9	Eliminated in Quarter-finals
6	United States	5	2	2	1	12	6	+6	8
7	Portugal	5	2	2	1	9	7	+2	8
8	Mexico	5	2	1	2	4	4	0	7
9	France	4	3	0	1	10	2	+8	9	Eliminated in Round of 16
10	South Korea (H)	4	2	0	2	6	5	+1	6
11	Senegal	4	1	1	2	2	2	0	4
12	Costa Rica	4	1	1	2	3	4	−1	4
13	Germany	4	1	1	2	6	8	−2	4
14	Japan	4	1	1	2	4	6	−2	4
15	Saudi Arabia	4	1	1	2	3	5	−2	4
16	New Zealand	4	1	1	2	3	9	−6	4
17	Argentina	3	1	0	2	6	5	+1	3	Eliminated in Group stage
18	Iran	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3
19	Honduras	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3
20	Ecuador	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
21	South Africa	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1
22	Vietnam	3	0	1	2	0	6	−6	1
23	Guinea	3	0	1	2	1	9	−8	1
24	Vanuatu	3	0	0	3	4	13	−9	0

Sponsorship

Adidas[33] Coca-Cola[34] Gazprom[35] Hyundai–Kia[36]

Qatar Airways[37] VISA[38] Wanda Group[39]

Broadcasters rights

•  South Korea: KBS, MBC, SBS
•  Argentina: TyC Sports
•  Brazil: Sportv, Rede Bandeirantes
•  Canada: TSN, RDS
•  India: Sony SIX (Only match between South Korea and Guinea)
•  Indonesia: RTV (4 matches in semifinals, third place match, and final)^[40]
•  Japan: BS Fuji, Fuji TV One Two Next
•  Malaysia: Astro
•  Mexico: Televisa / TDN, TV Azteca
•  New Zealand: Sky Sport
•  Paraguay: Tigo Sports
•  Peru: Latina Televisión
•  Philippines: ABS-CBN
•  Poland: Eurosport
• South America: DIRECTV
•  Taiwan: ELTA TV (4 matches in semifinals, third place match, and final) ^[41]
•  United Kingdom: Eurosport, BBC (final only)
•  United States: Fox Sports, Telemundo
•  Venezuela: DirecTV, Meridiano Televisión, Venevision
•  Vietnam: VTV, FPT Group

References

External links

• FIFA U-20 World Cup, FIFA.com