FIFA U-20 World Cup

Summaries

FIFA World Youth Championship

#	Year	Hosts		Final				Third place match				Number of teams
				Champions	Score	Runners-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place
1	1977 Details	Tunisia		Soviet Union	2–2 (a.e.t.) 9–8 (p)	Mexico		Brazil	4–0	Uruguay		16
2	1979 Details	Japan		Argentina	3–1	Soviet Union		Uruguay	1–1 (a.e.t.) 5–3 (p)	Poland		16
3	1981 Details	Australia		West Germany	4–0	Qatar		Romania	1–0	England		16
4	1983 Details	Mexico		Brazil	1–0	Argentina		Poland	2–1 (a.e.t.)	South Korea		16
5	1985 Details	Soviet Union		Brazil	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Spain		Nigeria	0–0 (a.e.t.) 3–1 (p)	Soviet Union		16
6	1987 Details	Chile		Yugoslavia	1–1 (a.e.t.) 5–4 (p)	West Germany		East Germany	2–2 (a.e.t.) 3–1 (p)	Chile		16
7	1989 Details	Saudi Arabia		Portugal	2–0	Nigeria		Brazil	2–0	United States		16
8	1991 Details	Portugal		Portugal	0–0 (a.e.t.) 4–2 (p)	Brazil		Soviet Union	1–1 (a.e.t.) 5–4 (p)	Australia		16
9	1993 Details	Australia		Brazil	2–1	Ghana		England	2–1	Australia		16
10	1995 Details	Qatar		Argentina	2–0	Brazil		Portugal	3–2	Spain		16
11	1997 Details	Malaysia		Argentina	2–1	Uruguay		Republic of Ireland	2–1	Ghana		24
12	1999 Details	Nigeria		Spain	4–0	Japan		Mali	1–0	Uruguay		24
13	2001 Details	Argentina		Argentina	3–0	Ghana		Egypt	1–0	Paraguay		24
14	2003 Details	UAE		Brazil	1–0	Spain		Colombia	2–1	Argentina		24
15	2005 Details	Netherlands		Argentina	2–1	Nigeria		Brazil	2–1	Morocco		24

FIFA U-20 World Cup

#	Year	Hosts		Final				Third place match				Number of teams
				Champions	Score	Runners-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place
16	2007 Details	Canada		Argentina	2–1	Czech Republic		Chile	1–0	Austria		24
17	2009 Details	Egypt		Ghana	0–0 (a.e.t.) 4–3 (p)	Brazil		Hungary	1–1 (a.e.t.) 2–0 (p)	Costa Rica		24
18	2011 Details	Colombia		Brazil	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Portugal		Mexico	3–1	France		24
19	2013 Details	Turkey		France	0–0 (a.e.t.) 4–1 (p)	Uruguay		Ghana	3–0	Iraq		24
20	2015 Details	New Zealand		Serbia	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Brazil		Mali	3–1	Senegal		24
21	2017 Details	South Korea		England	1–0	Venezuela		Italy	0–0 (a.e.t.) 4–1 (p)	Uruguay		24
22	2019 Details	Poland										24

• Key:
  • a.e.t. – after extra time
  • pen. – match won on penalty shootout

Performances by countries

Below are the 36 nations that have reached at least the semifinal in the U-20 World Cup finals.

Rank	Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third Place	Fourth Place
1	Argentina	6 (1979, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2007)	1 (1983)		1 (2003)
2	Brazil	5 (1983, 1985, 1993, 2003, 2011)	4 (1991, 1995, 2009, 2015)	3 (1977, 1989, 2005)
3	Portugal	2 (1989, 1991)	1 (2011)	1 (1995)
4	Serbia	2 (19871, 2015)
5	Ghana	1 (2009)	2 (1993, 2001)	1 (2013)	1 (1997)
6	Spain	1 (1999)	2 (1985, 2003)		1 (1995)
7	Soviet Union	1 (1977)	1 (1979)	1 (1991)	1 (1985)
8	West Germany	1 (1981)	1 (1987)
9	England	1 (2017)		1 (1993)	1 (1981)
10	France	1 (2013)			1 (2011)
11	Uruguay		2 (1997, 2013)	1 (1979)	3 (1977, 1999, 2017)
12	Nigeria		2 (1989, 2005)	1 (1985)
13	Mexico		1 (1977)	1 (2011)
14	Venezuela		1 (2017)
	Japan		1 (1999)
	Czech Republic		1 (2007)
	Qatar		1 (1981)
18	Mali			2 (1999, 2015)
19	Poland			1 (1983)	1 (1979)
	Chile			1 (2007)	1 (1987)
21	Romania			1 (1981)
	East Germany			1 (1987)
	Republic of Ireland			1 (1997)
	Egypt			1 (2001)
	Colombia			1 (2003)
	Hungary			1 (2009)
	Italy			1 (2017)
28	Australia				2 (1991, 1993)
29	South Korea				1 (1983)
	United States				1 (1989)
	Paraguay				1 (2001)
	Morocco				1 (2005)
	Austria				1 (2007)
	Costa Rica				1 (2009)
	Iraq				1 (2013)
	Senegal				1 (2015)

¹ As Yugoslavia.

Performances by continental zones

All continental confederations except for the OFC (Oceania) have made an appearance in the final match of the tournament. To date, CONMEBOL (South America) leads with eleven titles, followed by UEFA (Europe) with nine titles and CAF (Africa) with one title. Teams from the AFC (Asia) and CONCACAF (North America, Central America, Caribbean) have made the tournament final three times, but were defeated by strong UEFA sides. No current OFC member has ever made the semifinals. Australia reached the semifinals as an OFC member in 1991 and 1993, finishing fourth on both occasions, but the country joined the AFC in 2006.

1 = as Yugoslavia (1987).

2 = as part of OFC (currently in AFC since 2006).

Golden Ball

The Adidas Golden Ball award is awarded to the player who plays the most outstanding football during the tournament. It is selected by the media poll. Since the 2007 tournament, those who finish as runners-up in the vote receive the Silver Ball and Bronze Ball awards as the second and third most outstanding players in the tournament respectively.

World Cup	Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball	Ref(s)
1977 Tunisia	Volodymyr Bessonov	Júnior Brasília	Cléber	[2]
1979 Japan	Diego Maradona	Julio César Romero	Ramón Díaz	[3]
1981 Australia	Romulus Gabor	Michael Zorc	Roland Wohlfarth	[4]
1983 Mexico	Geovani	Roberto Zárate	Luis Islas	[5]
1985 Soviet Union	Paulo Silas	Gérson	Juan Carlos Unzué	[6]
1987 Chile	Robert Prosinečki	Zvonimir Boban	Marcel Witeczek	[7]
1989 Saudi Arabia	Bismarck	Kasey Keller	Christopher Nwosu	[8]
1991 Portugal	Emílio Peixe	Giovane Élber	Paulo Torres	[9]
1993 Australia	Adriano	Not awarded	Not awarded	[10]
1995 Qatar	Caio	Dani	Joaquín Irigoytía	[11]
1997 Malaysia	Nicolás Olivera	Marcelo Zalayeta	Pablo Aimar	[12]
1999 Nigeria	Seydou Keita	Pius Ikedia	Pablo Couñago	[13]
2001 Argentina	Javier Saviola	Andrés D'Alessandro	Djibril Cissé	[14]
2003 United Arab Emirates	Ismail Matar	Dudu	Dani Alves	[15]
2005 Netherlands	Lionel Messi	John Obi Mikel	Taye Taiwo	[16]
2007 Canada	Sergio Agüero	Maxi Moralez	Giovani dos Santos	[17]
2009 Egypt	Dominic Adiyiah	Alex Teixeira	Giuliano	[18]
2011 Colombia	Henrique Almeida	Nélson Oliveira	Jorge Enríquez	[19]
2013 Turkey	Paul Pogba	Nicolás López	Clifford Aboagye	[20]
2015 New Zealand	Adama Traoré	Danilo	Sergej Milinković-Savić	[21]
2017 South Korea	Dominic Solanke	Federico Valverde	Yangel Herrera	[22]
2019 Poland	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Golden Boot

The Golden Boot (known commercially as the Adidas golden shoe) is awarded to the topscorer of the tournament. If more than one players are equal by same goals, the players will be selected based by the most assists during the tournament.

World Cup	Golden Boot	Goals	Silver Boot	Goals	Bronze Boot	Goals	Ref(s)
1977 Tunisia	Guina	4	Hussein Saeed	3	Luis Placencia	3	[2]
1979 Japan	Ramón Díaz	8	Diego Maradona	6	Andrzej Palasz	5	[3]
1981 Australia	Mark Koussas	4	Taher Amer	4	Ralf Loose	4	[4]
1983 Mexico	Geovani	6	Joachim Klemenz	5	Jorge Luis Gabrich	4	[5]
1985 Soviet Union	Sebastián Losada	3	Fernando	3	Odiaka Monday	3	[6]
1987 Chile	Marcel Witeczek	7	Davor Šuker	6	Camilo Pino	5	[7]
1989 Saudi Arabia	Oleg Salenko	5	Marcelo Henrique	3	Christopher Ohen	3	[8]
1991 Portugal	Sergei Sherbakov	5	Ismael Urzaiz	4	Pedro Pineda	4	[9]
1993 Australia	Henry Zambrano	3	Chris Faklaris	3	Vicente Nieto	3	[10]
1995 Qatar	Joseba Etxeberria	7	Caio	5	Dani	4	[11]
1997 Malaysia	Adaílton	10	David Trezeguet	5	Kostas Salapasidis	4	[12]
1999 Nigeria	Pablo Couñago	5	Mahamadou Dissa	5	Taylor Twellman	4	[13]
2001 Argentina	Javier Saviola	11	Adriano	6	Djibril Cissé	6	[14]
2003 United Arab Emirates	Eddie Johnson	4	Daisuke Sakata	4	Fernando Cavenaghi	4	[15]
2005 Netherlands	Lionel Messi	6	Fernando Llorente	5	Oleksandr Aliyev	5	[16]
2007 Canada	Sergio Agüero	6	Adrián	5	Maxi Moralez	4	[17]
2009 Egypt	Dominic Adiyiah	8	Vladimir Koman	5	Aarón	4	[18]
2011 Colombia	Henrique Almeida	5	Álvaro Vázquez	5	Alexandre Lacazette	5	[19]
2013 Turkey	Ebenezer Assifuah	6	Bruma	5	Jesé	5	[20]
2015 New Zealand	Viktor Kovalenko	5	Bence Mervo	5	Marc Stendera	4	[21]
2017 South Korea	Riccardo Orsolini	5	Josh Sargent	4	Jean-Kévin Augustin	4	[22]
2019 Poland	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	[23]

Golden Gloves

The Golden Gloves Award is awarded to the best goalkeeper of the tournament.

World Cup	Golden Gloves	Ref(s)
2009 Egypt	Esteban Alvarado	[18]
2011 Colombia	Mika	[19]
2013 Turkey	Guillermo de Amores	[20]
2015 New Zealand	Predrag Rajković	[21]
2017 South Korea	Freddie Woodman	[22]
2019 Poland	TBA	[23]

FIFA Fair Play Award

FIFA Fair Play Award is given to the team who has the best fair play record during the tournament with the criteria set by FIFA Fair Play Committee.

Tournament	FIFA Fair Play Award	Ref(s)
1977 Tunisia	Brazil	[2]
1979 Japan	Poland	[3]
1981 Australia	Australia	[4]
1983 Mexico	South Korea	[5]
1985 USSR	Colombia	[6]
1987 Chile	West Germany	[7]
1989 Saudi Arabia	United States	[8]
1991 Portugal	Soviet Union	[9]
1993 Australia	England	[10]
1995 Qatar	Japan	[11]
1997 Malaysia	Argentina	[12]
1999 Nigeria	Croatia	[13]
2001 Argentina	Argentina	[14]
2003 United Arab Emirates	Colombia	[15]
2005 Netherlands	Colombia	[16]
2007 Canada	Japan	[17]
2009 Egypt	Brazil	[18]
2011 Colombia	Nigeria	[19]
2013 Turkey	Spain	[20]
2015 New Zealand	Ukraine	[21]
2017 South Korea	Mexico	[22]
2019 Poland	TBA	TBA