CONCACAF Under-20 Championship

CONCACAF Under-20 Championship
Founded 1962
Region North America (CONCACAF)
Number of teams 12
Current champions  United States (1st title)
Most successful team(s)  Mexico (13 titles)
Website CONCACAF
2017

The CONCACAF Under-20 Championship is the second longest running international association football event in the North America, Central America and the Caribbean region, CONCACAF, and is the qualification tournament for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The format of the tournament has undergone changes over the years. The tournament proper is currently played with a first round of four round-robin groups from which the top two sides from each group advance to a single-elimination championship round.

Results

CONCACAF Youth Tournaments era
Year Host Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place
1962 Panama Panama  Mexico  Guatemala  Netherlands Antilles  Costa Rica
1964 Guatemala Guatemala  El Salvador  Honduras  Guatemala  Netherlands Antilles
1970 Cuba Cuba  Mexico  Cuba  Jamaica  El Salvador
1973 Mexico Mexico  Mexico  Guatemala  Cuba  Canada
1974 Canada Canada  Mexico  Cuba  Trinidad and Tobago
1976 Puerto Rico Puerto Rico  Mexico  Honduras  United States  Guatemala
1978 Honduras Honduras  Mexico  Canada  Honduras  Costa Rica
1980 United States United States  Mexico  United States
1982 Guatemala Guatemala  Honduras  United States  Costa Rica  Guatemala
1984 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago  Mexico  Canada  El Salvador  United States
1986 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago  Canada  United States  Trinidad and Tobago  Cuba
1988 Guatemala Guatemala  Costa Rica  Mexico  United States  Cuba
1990 Guatemala Guatemala  Mexico  Trinidad and Tobago  United States  Guatemala
1992 Canada Canada  Mexico  United States  Canada  Honduras
1994 Honduras Honduras  Honduras  Costa Rica  Canada  El Salvador
1996 Mexico Mexico  Canada  Mexico  United States  Costa Rica
FIFA U-20 World Cup qualifying tournament era
The format of the tournament was changed beginning with the 1998 tournament and ending with the 2007 tournament. In the five tournaments during that time the top eight teams in the region were divided into two groups of four, each group hosted by a separate nation, and the top two sides from each group were qualified to the FIFA U-20 World Cup. There was no championship round within the CONCACAF region. The tournament served solely to qualify the four allotments given to CONCACAF by FIFA for the U-20 World Cup.
Year Host Champions Runners-up
1998 Guatemala Guatemala (Group A)  United States  Costa Rica
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad (Group B)  Mexico  Honduras
2001 Canada Canada (Group A)  Costa Rica  United States
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad (Group B)  Canada  Jamaica
2003 Panama Panama (Group A)  Panama  Mexico
United States United States (Group B)  Canada  United States
2005 Honduras Honduras (Group A)  United States  Panama
United States United States (Group B)  Canada  Honduras
2007 Panama Panama (Group A)  United States  Panama
Mexico Mexico (Group B)  Mexico  Costa Rica
CONCACAF U-20 Championship era
Beginning with the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup tournament, the CONCACAF region returned to a championship-style tournament in which all four semifinalists qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. [1] The reintroduction of a championship round was done to reinvigorate the competition.
Year Host Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place
2009 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago  Costa Rica  United States  Honduras  Trinidad and Tobago
2011 Guatemala Guatemala  Mexico  Costa Rica  Guatemala  Panama
2013 Mexico Mexico  Mexico  United States  El Salvador  Cuba
The competition changed its format in 2015. The two group winners would secure a place in the final and the U-20 World Cup, the groups' second and third placed teams would compete in a repechage play-off to determine the qualifiers for the U-20 World Cup. The number of guaranteed games per team was increased from 2 to 5 and the semi-final stage was removed.
Year Host Champions Runners-up Play-off winners
2015 Jamaica Jamaica  Mexico  Panama  United States  Honduras
The competition changed its format again in 2017. A second group stage was added, with the winners and runners-up of this tage qualifying for the U-20 World Cup and the winners securing a place in the final.
Year Host Champions Runners-up Group runners-up
2017 Costa Rica Costa Rica  United States  Honduras  Mexico  Costa Rica

Winners by country

Team Titles Runners-up
 Mexico 13 (1962, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1990, 1992, 2011, 2013, 2015) 2 (1988, 1996)
 Honduras 2 (1982, 1994) 3 (1964, 1976, 2017)
 Canada 2 (1986, 1996) 2 (1978, 1984)
 Costa Rica 2 (1988, 2009) 2 (1994, 2011)
 United States 1 (2017) 6 (1980, 1982, 1986, 1992, 2009, 2013)
 El Salvador 1 (1964)
 Guatemala 2 (1962, 1973)
 Cuba 2 (1970, 1974)
 Panama 1 (2015)
 Trinidad and Tobago 1 (1990)

Note: no titles or runners-up between 1998 and 2007.

Qualifications by country

Number of FIFA U-20 World Cup qualifications by country.

Nation No. Qualifying years
 United States 15 1981, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017
 Mexico 15 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017
 Costa Rica 9 1989, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2017
 Canada 8 1979, 1985, 1987, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007
 Honduras 7 1977, 1995, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2015, 2017
 Panama 5 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015
 Trinidad and Tobago 2 1991, 2009
 Jamaica 1 2001
 Guatemala 1 2011
 El Salvador 1 2013
 Cuba 1 2013

Overall statistics

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Mexico 11686191129768229219
2  United States 10762182721593122169
3  Honduras 825113181537776129
4  Canada 924617291749866129
5  Costa Rica 784514191747995126
6  Guatemala 8127153988117−2976
7  El Salvador 6825142910096472
8  Trinidad and Tobago 7420213389126−3765
9  Panama 31176847351254
10  Cuba 531812235273−2153
11  Jamaica 6411153857119-6243
12  Netherlands Antilles 41106253697−6126
13  Bermuda 3584234681−3520
14  Haiti 2445152653-2715
15  Suriname 145092027−710
16  Nicaragua 2626181483-6910
17  Guyana 9207620−144
18  Antigua and Barbuda 8125723−164
19  Dominican Republic 1420121059-494
20  Martinique 6105618−123
21  Barbados 1611141446-323
22  Puerto Rico 161015579−742
23  Saint Kitts and Nevis 301236−31
24  Aruba 5014119-181
25  Grenada 8017532−271
26  Curaçao 200215−40
27  Guadeloupe 4004312−90
28  Belize 3003317−140

Player awards

Year MVP Lead Goalscorer Best Goalkeeper Fair Play Award Source
2009 Canada Randy Edwini-Bonsu

Costa Rica Josué Martínez
Honduras Roger Rojas (3 goals)

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2011 Costa Rica Joel Campbell (6 goals) [3]
2013 Mexico Antonio Briseño Panama Amet Ramírez (4 goals) Mexico Richard Sánchez  El Salvador [4]
2015 Panama Luís Pereira Mexico Hirving Lozano
United States Romain Gall (5 goals)
Panama Jaime De Gracia  United States [5]
2017 United States Erik Palmer-Brown Mexico Ronaldo Cisneros (6 goals) United States Jonathan Klinsmann  Mexico [6]

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Country Year(s) U-20 Goals
1José AlvaradoEl Salvador El Salvador19946
1Joel CampbellCosta Rica Costa Rica20116
3Jewison BennetCosta Rica Costa Rica19945
3Orvin CabreraHonduras Honduras19945
3Steve GreenJamaica Jamaica19945
3David XausaCanada Canada19945
3Hirving LozanoMexico Mexico20155
3Romain GallUnited States USA20155
9Ryan GyakiCanada Canada20054
9Freddy AduUnited States USA2005-20074
9Ulises DávilaMexico Mexico20114
9Cecilio WatermanPanama Panama20114
9Amet RamírezPanama Panama20134
9Jonel DésiréHaiti Haiti20154
9Alberth ElisHonduras Honduras20154
9Bryan RóchezHonduras Honduras20154
9Alejandro DíazMexico Mexico20154
9Ismael DíazPanama Panama20154

Title winning coach

Year Name
2009Costa Rica Rónald González Brenes
2011Mexico Juan Carlos Chávez
2013Mexico Sergio Almaguer[7]
2015Mexico Sergio Almaguer
2017United States Tab Ramos

See also

References

  1. CONCACAF.com – Trinidad & Tobago to stage CONCACAF U-20 Championship in March – 2008-11-11
  2. "Technical Report - 2009 Tournament" (pdf). concacaf.com. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  3. "Technical Report - 2011 Tournament" (pdf). issuu.com. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  4. "Technical Report - 2013 Tournament" (pdf). concacaf.com. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  5. "TSG announces CU20 Best XI, Awards". concacaf.com. 25 January 2015.
  6. "TSG announces CU20 Best XI, Awards". CONCACAF. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  7. Under 20s – Men
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