FIFA Youth U-20 World Cup Finals 1977-2025

FIFA Youth (U-20) World Cup Finals 1977-2025

Details of all the bi-annual FIFA Youth (U-20) World Cup Finals and third place play-off matches from 1977 to 2025 together with the Order of Merit. The 2025 Finals is taking place in Argentina Chile.


	Host Nation	Year	#	Final Winner	Final Score	Final Runner-Up	3rd Place	Play-Off Third	Play-Off Score	3rd Place	Play-Off Fourth
	Tunisia	1977	1	Soviet Union	2–2 a.e.t (9-8 pens)	Mexico		Brazil	4–0		Uruguay
	Japan	1979	2	Argentina	3–1	Soviet Union		Uruguay	1–1 a.e.t (5-3 pens)		Poland
	Australia	1981	3	West Germany	4–0	Qatar		Romania	1–0		England
	Mexico	1983	4	Brazil	1–0	Argentina		Poland	2–1 a.e.t.		South Korea
	Soviet Union	1985	5	Brazil	1–0 a.e.t.	Spain		Nigeria	0–0 a.e.t (3-1 pens)		Soviet Union
	Chile	1987	6	Yugoslavia	1–1 a.e.t (5-4 pens)	West Germany		East Germany	2–2 a.e.t (3-1 pens)		Chile
	Saudi Arabia	1989	7	Portugal	2–0	Nigeria		Brazil	2–0		United States
	Portugal	1991	8	Portugal	0–0 a.e.t (4-2 pens)	Brazil		Soviet Union	1–1 a.e.t (5-4 pens)		Australia
	Australia	1993	9	Brazil	2–1	Ghana		England	2–1		Australia
	Qatar	1995	10	Argentina	2–0	Brazil		Portugal	3–2		Spain
	Malaysia	1997	11	Argentina	2–1	Uruguay		Republic of Ireland	2–1		Ghana
	Nigeria	1999	12	Spain	4–0	Japan		Mali	1–0		Uruguay
	Argentina	2001	13	Argentina	3–0	Ghana		Egypt	1–0		Paraguay
	UAE	2003	14	Brazil	1–0	Spain		Colombia	2–1		Argentina
	Netherlands	2005	15	Argentina	2–1	Nigeria		Brazil	2–1		Morocco
	Canada	2007	16	Argentina	2–1	Czech Republic		Chile	1–0		Austria
	Egypt	2009	17	Ghana	0–0 a.e.t (4-3 pens)	Brazil		Hungary	1–1 a.e.t (2-0 pens)		Costa Rica
	Colombia	2011	18	Brazil	3–2 a.e.t.	Portugal		Mexico	3–1		France
	Turkey	2013	19	France	0–0 a.e.t (4-1 pens)	Uruguay		Ghana	3–0		Iraq
	New Zealand	2015	20	Serbia	2–1 a.e.t	Brazil		Mali	3–1		Senegal
	South Korea	2017	21	England	1–0	Venzuela		Italy	0-0 a.e.t (4-1 pens)		Ururguay
	Poland	2019	22	Ukraine	3–1	South Korea		Ecuador	1–0 a.e.t		Italy
	Argentina	2023	23	Uruguay	1–0	Italy		Israel	3–1		South Korea
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-56127" src="/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Chile-Flag.png" width="50" height="32" />	Chile	2025	24

FIFA World Cup U-20 Order of Merit

FIFA Youth (U-20) World Cup Order of Merit

Country	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Argentina	6	1		1
Brazil	5	4	3
Portugal	2	1	1
Uruguay	1	2	2	2
Spain	1	2		1
Ghana	1	2	1	1
Soviet Union	1	1	1	1
Germany (West)	1	1
England	1	0	1	1
France	1			1
Yugoslavia	1
Serbia	1
Venezuela	1
Ukraine	1
Nigeria		2	1
Mexico		1	1
Italy		1		2
South Korea		1		2
Czech Republic		1
Japan		1
Qatar		1
Mali			2
Chile			1	1
England		1	1	1
Colombia			1
East Germany			1
Ecuador			1
Egypt			1
Israel			1
Poland			1
Republic of Ireland			1
Romania			1
Hungary			1
Australia				2
Austria				1
Costa Rica				1
Iraq				1
Morocco				1
Paraguay				1
Poland				1
United States				1
Senegal				1
Totals	23	23	23	23