CONCACAF Under-20 Championship

CONCACAF Under-20 Championship

Founded	1962
Region	North America (CONCACAF)
Number of teams	12
Current champions	Mexico (12th title)
Most successful team(s)	Mexico (12 titles)
Website	CONCACAF
2013 CONCACAF U-20 Championship

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	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place
1962	Panama	Mexico	Guatemala	Netherlands Antilles	Costa Rica
1964	Guatemala	El Salvador	Honduras	Guatemala	Netherlands Antilles
1970	Cuba	Mexico	Cuba	Jamaica	El Salvador
1973	Mexico	Mexico	Guatemala	Cuba	Canada
1974	Canada	Mexico	Cuba	Trinidad and Tobago
1976	Puerto Rico	Mexico	Honduras	United States	Guatemala
1978	Honduras	Mexico	Canada	Honduras	Costa Rica
1980	United States	Mexico	United States
1982	Guatemala	Honduras	United States	Costa Rica	Guatemala
1984	Trinidad and Tobago	Mexico	Canada	El Salvador	United States
1986	Trinidad and Tobago	Canada	United States	Trinidad and Tobago	Cuba
1988	Guatemala	Costa Rica	Mexico	United States	Cuba
1990	Guatemala	Mexico	Trinidad and Tobago	United States	Guatemala
1992	Canada	Mexico	United States	Canada	Honduras
1994	Honduras	Honduras	Costa Rica	Canada	El Salvador
1996	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		Runner-up
1998	Guatemala (Group A)	United States		Costa Rica
	Trinidad (Group B)	Mexico		Honduras
2001	Canada (Group A)	Costa Rica		United States
	Trinidad (Group B)	Canada		Jamaica
2003	Panama (Group A)	Panama		Mexico
	United States (Group B)	Canada		United States
2005	Honduras (Group A)	United States		Panama
	United States (Group B)	Canada		Honduras
2007	Panama (Group A)	United States		Panama
	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. The reintroduction of a championship round was done to reinvigorate to competition.
Year	Host	Champions	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place
2009	Trinidad and Tobago	Costa Rica	United States	Honduras	Trinidad and Tobago
2011	Guatemala	Mexico	Costa Rica	Guatemala	Panama
2013	Mexico	Mexico	United States	El Salvador	Cuba

Winners by country

Team	Titles	Runners-up
Mexico	12 (1962, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1990, 1992, 2011, 2013)	2 (1988, 1996)
Honduras	2 (1982, 1994)	2 (1964, 1976)
Canada	2 (1986, 1996)	2 (1978, 1984)
Costa Rica	2 (1988, 2009)	2 (1994, 2011)
El Salvador	1 (1964)
United States		6 (1980, 1982, 1986, 1992, 2009, 2013)
Guatemala		2 (1962, 1973)
Cuba		2 (1970, 1974)
Trinidad and Tobago		1 (1990)

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

See also

• CONCACAF
• CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
• FIFA U-20 World Cup

External links

• Official Site
• Results by RSSSF