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FIFA U-20 World Cup
Sign in to saveThe FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members' men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 when it was hosted by Tunisia under the tournament name of FIFA World Youth Championship until 2005. In 2007 the name was changed to its present form. FIFA bills the men's Under-20 World Cup as "the tournament of tomorrow's superstars." Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and Paul Pogba are previous winners of the official player of the tournament award, and Erling Haaland was the top scorer at the 2019 edition. The reigning champions are Morocco, which won their first title at the 2025 tournament in Chile.
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Vinony's link graph records 2,158 inbound references to FIFA U-20 World Cup, and connects out to extra period, Australia men's national under-20 soccer team and OFC U-20 Championship.
It sits within the topics FIFA competitions for men's national teams, FIFA competitions for national youth teams and FIFA U-20 World Cup.
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Key facts
- Organiser s
- FIFA
- Founded
- 1977 ; 49 years ago ( 1977 )
- Region
- International
- Teams
- 24 (finals)
- Related competitions
- FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup , FIFA U-17 World Cup
- Current champions
- Morocco (1st title)
- Most championships
- Argentina (6 titles)
- Website
- fifa.com/u20worldcup
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Sport
- association football
- Official website
- www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/u20worldcup
- Organizer
- FIFA
Show 8 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:FIFA U-20 World Cup
- Commons category
- FIFA U-20 World Cup
- inception
- 1977-00-00
- event interval
- 2
- season starts
- spring
- number of participants
- 24
- native label
- FIFA U-20 World Cup
- topic has template
- Template:FIFA U-20 World Cup
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Encyclopedic overview
The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members' men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 when it was hosted by Tunisia under the tournament name of FIFA World Youth Championship until 2005. In 2007 the name was changed to its present form. FIFA bills the men's Under-20 World Cup as "the tournament of tomorrow's superstars." Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and Paul Pogba are previous winners of the official player of the tournament award, and Erling Haaland was the top scorer at the 2019 edition. The reigning champions are Morocco, which won their first title at the 2025 tournament in Chile.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “FIFA U-20 World Cup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.