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 |
 | 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 | |
FIFA World Cup Under-20 Awards
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