2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup

2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup
Copa Mundial Sub-20 de la FIFA 2025
Tournament details
Host country	Chile
Dates	TBC
Teams	24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
	← 2023 2027 →

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 in dates to be confirmed.^[1]

Uruguay are the defending champions.

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's 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.^[2]^[3]

This is the second time that Chile hosts the tournament after doing so in 1987. Chile will be the third country to host the tournament multiple times after Australia (1981, 1993) and Argentina (2001 and 2023).

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.^[4]^[5]

List of host cities
City	Stadium	Capacity
Valparaíso	Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander	20,575
Viña del Mar	Estadio Sausalito	21,754
Santiago	Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos	46,665
Rancagua	Estadio El Teniente	14,087
Talca	Estadio Fiscal	16,074

Teams

Qualification

A total of 24 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Chile, who qualified automatically as 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]

New Caledonia will make their debut in the tournament.^[6]^[7]

Confederation	Qualifying tournament	Team qualified	Appearances			Previous best performance
Confederation	Qualifying tournament	Team qualified	Total	First	Last	Previous best performance
AFC (Asia) (4 teams)	2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
CAF (Africa) (4 teams)	2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean) (4 teams)	2024 CONCACAF U-20 Championship	Cuba	2nd	2013	2013	Group stage (2013)
		Mexico	17th	1977	2019	Runners-up (1977)
		Panama	7th	2003	2019	Round of 16 (2019)
		United States	18th	1981	2023	Fourth Place (1989)
CONMEBOL (South America) (Hosts + 4 teams)	Host nation	Chile	7th	1987	2013	Third place (2007)
	2025 South American Under-20 Championship	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
OFC (Oceania) (2 teams)	2024 OFC U-19 Men's Championship	New Caledonia	1st	Debut		None
OFC (Oceania) (2 teams)	2024 OFC U-19 Men's Championship	New Zealand	8th	2007	2023	Round of 16 (2015, 2017, 2019, 2023)
UEFA (Europe) (5 teams)	2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship	France	9th	1977	2023	Champions (2013)
		Italy	9th	1977	2023	Runners-up (2023)
		Norway	4th	1989	2019	Group Stage (1989, 1993, 2019)
		Spain	16th	1977	2013	Champions (1999)
		Ukraine	5th	2001	2019	Champions (2019)

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 4 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), as follows:

2013 FIFA U-20 WC: 20% value of total points;
2015 FIFA U-20 WC: 40% value of total points;
2017 FIFA U-20 WC: 60% value of total points;
2019 FIFA U-20 WC: 80% value of total points;
2023 FIFA U-20 WC: 100% value of total points.

Furthermore, five bonus points will be added to each of the six continental champions from the qualifying tournaments.

Pot	Team	Confederation	2013		2015		2017		2019		2023	BP	Total points
Pot	Team	Confederation	Pts	20%	Pts	40%	Pts	60%	Pts	80%	Pts 100%	BP	Total points
1	Chile (H)	CONMEBOL	Host nation, automatically assigned to Pot 1
1	Italy	UEFA	DNQ		DNQ		11	6.6	13	10.4	15		32
TBD	United States	CONCACAF	1	0.2	10	4	8	4.8	9	7.2	12		28.2
	New Zealand	OFC	0	0	4	1.6	4	2.4	7	5.6	4	+5	18.6
	France	UEFA	14	2.8	DNQ		9	5.4	9	7.2	3		18.4
	Ukraine	UEFA	DNQ		8	3.2	DNQ		19	15.2	DNQ		18.4

TBD
	Mexico	CONCACAF	3	0.6	3	1.2	7	4.2	0	0	DNQ	+5	11
	Spain	UEFA	12	2.4	DNQ		DNQ		DNQ		DNQ	+5	7.4
	Panama	CONCACAF	DNQ		1	0.4	DNQ		4	3.2	DNQ		3.6
	Norway	UEFA	DNQ		DNQ		DNQ		3	2.4	DNQ		2.4
	Cuba	CONCACAF	0	0	DNQ		DNQ		DNQ		DNQ		0
	New Caledonia	OFC	DNQ		DNQ		DNQ		DNQ		DNQ		0

TBD
		AFC



		CAF
		CAF

TBD
		CAF
		CAF
		CONMEBOL

Draw

The official draw will take place in early 2025.

Group stage

All times are local, Chile Standard Time (UTC-03:00).

Group A

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Chile (H)	Knockout stage
2	A2	Knockout stage
3	A3	Possible knockout stage
4	A4

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