CONCACAF Under-20 Championship

CONCACAF Under-20 Championship
Founded	1962
Region	North America (CONCACAF)
Number of teams	35!
Current champions	United States (1st title)
Most successful team(s)	Mexico (13 titles)
Website	CONCACAF
	2018

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	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 qualified for 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 (Group A)	United States		Costa Rica
1998	Trinidad (Group B)	Mexico		Honduras
2001	Canada (Group A)	Costa Rica		United States
2001	Trinidad (Group B)	Canada		Jamaica
2003	Panama (Group A)	Panama		Mexico
2003	United States (Group B)	Canada		United States
2005	Honduras (Group A)	United States		Panama
2005	United States (Group B)	Canada		Honduras
2007	Panama (Group A)	United States		Panama
2007	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	Costa Rica	United States	Honduras	Trinidad and Tobago
2011	Guatemala	Mexico	Costa Rica	Guatemala	Panama
2013	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	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 stage 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	United States	Honduras	Mexico	Costa Rica
2018	United States

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.

Overall statistics

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Mexico	116	86	19	11	297	68	229	219
2	United States	107	62	18	27	215	93	122	169
3	Honduras	82	51	13	18	153	77	76	129
4	Canada	92	46	17	29	174	98	66	129
5	Costa Rica	78	45	14	19	174	79	95	126
6	Guatemala	81	27	15	39	88	117	−29	76
7	El Salvador	68	25	14	29	100	96	4	72
8	Trinidad and Tobago	74	20	21	33	89	126	−37	65
9	Panama	31	17	6	8	47	35	12	54
10	Cuba	53	18	12	23	52	73	−21	53
11	Jamaica	64	11	15	38	57	119	-62	43
12	Netherlands Antilles	41	10	6	25	36	97	−61	26
13	Bermuda	35	8	4	23	46	81	−35	20
14	Haiti	24	4	5	15	26	53	-27	15
15	Suriname	14	5	0	9	20	27	−7	10
16	Nicaragua	26	2	6	18	14	83	-69	10
17	Guyana	9	2	0	7	6	20	−14	4
18	Antigua and Barbuda	8	1	2	5	7	23	−16	4
19	Dominican Republic	14	2	0	12	10	59	-49	4
20	Martinique	6	1	0	5	6	18	−12	3
21	Barbados	16	1	1	14	14	46	-32	3
22	Puerto Rico	16	1	0	15	5	79	−74	2
23	Saint Kitts and Nevis	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1
24	Aruba	5	0	1	4	1	19	-18	1
25	Grenada	8	0	1	7	5	32	−27	1
26	Curaçao	2	0	0	2	1	5	−4	0
27	Guadeloupe	4	0	0	4	3	12	−9	0
28	Belize	3	0	0	3	3	17	−14	0

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

FIFA U-20 World Cup performances

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
QF – Quarterfinals
R2 – Round 2
R1 – Round 1
– Hosts
q – Qualified for upcoming tournament

Team	1977	1979	1981	1983	1985	1987	1989	1991	1993	1995	1997	1999	2001	2003	2005	2007	2009	2011	2013	2015	2017	2019	Total
Canada		R1			R1	R1					R2		R1	QF	R1	R1							8
Costa Rica							R1			R1	R1	R2	R2			R1	4th	R2			R2		9
Cuba																			R1				1
El Salvador																			R1				1
Guatemala																		R2					1
Honduras	R1									R1		R1			R1		R1			R1	R1		7
Jamaica													R1									'	1'
Mexico	2nd	R1	R1	R1	QF			QF	QF		R2	QF		R1		QF		3rd	R2	R1	QF		15
Panama														R1	R1	R1		R1		R1			5
Trinidad and Tobago								R1									R1						2
United States			R1	R1		R1	4th		QF		R2	R2	R2	QF	R2	QF	R1		R1	QF	QF		15

Player awards

Year	MVP	Lead Goalscorer	Best Goalkeeper	Fair Play Award	Source
2009		Randy Edwini-Bonsu Josué Martínez Roger Rojas (3 goals)			^[2]
2011		Joel Campbell (6 goals)			^[3]
2013	Antonio Briseño	Amet Ramírez (4 goals)	Richard Sánchez	El Salvador	^[4]
2015	Luís Pereira	Hirving Lozano Romain Gall (5 goals)	Jaime De Gracia	United States	^[5]
2017	Erik Palmer-Brown	Ronaldo Cisneros (6 goals)	Jonathan Klinsmann	Mexico	^[6]

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Country	Year(s)	U-20 Goals
1	José Alvarado	El Salvador	1994	6
1	Joel Campbell	Costa Rica	2011	6
1	Ronaldo Cisneros	Mexico	2017	6
4	Jewison Bennet	Costa Rica	1994	5
4	Orvin Cabrera	Honduras	1994	5
4	Steve Green	Jamaica	1994	5
4	David Xausa	Canada	1994	5
4	Hirving Lozano	Mexico	2015	5
4	Romain Gall	USA	2015	5
10	Ryan Gyaki	Canada	2005	4
10	Freddy Adu	USA	2005-2007	4
10	Ulises Dávila	Mexico	2011	4
10	Cecilio Waterman	Panama	2011	4
10	Amet Ramírez	Panama	2013	4
10	Jonel Désiré	Haiti	2015	4
10	Alberth Elis	Honduras	2015	4
10	Bryan Róchez	Honduras	2015	4
10	Alejandro Díaz	Mexico	2015	4
10	Ismael Díaz	Panama	2015	4

Title winning coaches

Year	Name
2009	Rónald González Brenes
2011	Juan Carlos Chávez
2013	Sergio Almaguer^[7]
2015	Sergio Almaguer
2017	Tab Ramos

References

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

External links

[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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