Mexico national under-17 football team

FIFA U-17 World Cup record

FIFA U-17 World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	Pts
1985	Group Stage	10th	3	1	1	1	3	3	4
1987	Group Stage	10th	3	1	1	1	3	9	4
1989	Did not participate
1991	Group Stage	11th	3	1	0	2	5	6	3
1993	Group Stage	10th	3	1	0	2	4	7	3
1995	Did Not Qualify
1997	Group Stage	10th	3	1	0	2	8	6	3
1999	Quarter-Finals	6th	4	2	0	2	7	7	6
2001	Did Not Qualify
2003	Quarter-Finals	6th	4	1	2	1	5	5	5
2005	Champions	1st	6	5	0	1	16	3	15
2007	Did Not Qualify
2009	Round of 16	10th	4	2	1	1	4	3	7
2011	Champions	1st	7	7	0	0	17	7	21
2013	Runners-up	2nd	7	4	1	2	11	11	13
2015	Fourth Place	4th	7	4	1	2	14	9	13
2017	Round of 16	16th	4	0	2	2	4	6	2
2019	To be determined
Total	2 Titles	13/17	58	30	9	19	101	82	99

CONCACAF U-17 Championship

CONCACAF U-17 Championship
Year	Round	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1983	Third place	4	3	1	0	13	0
1985	Champions	7	6	1	0	37	1
1987	Champions	6	6	0	0	16	2
1988	Did not participate
1991	Champions	6	3	3	0	8	2
1992	Runners-up	6	4	2	0	21	6
1994	Fourth Place	6	4	0	2	17	4
1996	Champions	6	6	0	0	23	2
2009	Cancelled due to the 2009 flu pandemic outbreak
2011	Did not participate/World Cup Host
2013	Champions	5	5	0	0	14	3
2015	Champions	6	4	2	0	16	3
2017	Champions	6	4	1	1	22	7
Total	7 Titles	58	45	10	3	187	30

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks

2005

Mexico was placed in Group C along with Australia, Turkey and Uruguay in which Mexico came in second behind Turkey. In the knockout stage, an extra-time victory over zone rivals Costa Rica led to a then convincing victory over the Netherlands. Mexico ended up defeating Brazil 3–0 in the final.

2011

Mexico U-17 players of the 2011 generation

The 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup was held in home soil. Mexico was placed in Group A together with North Korea, Congo and the Netherlands. Mexico eventually finished first of their group after winning their three matches and advanced to the Round of 16 and the Quarter-Finals, where they won their matches against Panama and France respectively. In the semifinals, Mexico had to face Germany, the only other team in the competition who had not lost any of their matches. Germany had advantage during the first minutes of the second time, but Mexico came back to equalize the score after Jonathan Espericueta scored a second goal from a corner kick, where Julio Gómez was injured and left the field. However, Gómez came back in the dying minutes to score an overhead kick, the decisive goal in the final minute, the final score was 3-2 which translated into the first significant victory over Germany in history. Mexico faced Uruguay in the final, defeating them 2-0 in a very closed match where the balance could have tilted any way. Briseño scored the first goal in the first half when Uruguay was the dominating side. During the second half Uruguay kept pressing on and started to dominate again looking for the equalizer however, during the last advances their defense became disorganized and in a counterattack Giovani Casillas scored the finishing goal. With this result Mexico became champions without losing a single game in the tournament and also became the first host nation to win the U-17 World Cup.

2013

As defending champions, Mexico was defeated 6-1 by Nigeria in their first match of the group stage. Despite being defeated by a large amount of goals, Mexico could still advance to the next round by defeating rivals Iraq and Sweden in the group stage. In their way to the final match, Mexico won their matches against favorites Italy, Brazil and Argentina. In the final round, Mexico faced Nigeria for a second time, but the team lost once again and was left in second place of the tournament.

2015

Mexico was lucky enough to make it to the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup which was held in Chile. They were placed in Group C along with Germany, Australia, Argentina and won two of their three matches of the group stage. Finishing number 1 on group stages they advanced to Round of 16. In order to make it to quarter finals, they had to defeat Chile and they dominated them by beating them 4-1. Mexico got the chance to go to semi-finals with a familiar rival from 2013, they went against Nigeria, unfortunately Nigeria defeated them in an intense game and they didn't make it to the Finals. Mexico had the chance on finishing strong with a Third Place title against Belgium in which they lost. The 17-year old, Diego Cortés from the Mexico national football team finished the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup being known as making the best goal of the FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up to the Mexico U-17 squad within last 12 months.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	2DF	Andrés Catalán	(2000-08-20)August 20, 2000 (aged 17)	0	0	Morelia
	3MF	Alan Torres	(2000-02-19)February 19, 2000 (aged 18)	0	0	Guadalajara
	3MF	Víctor Reyes	(2000-01-17)January 17, 2000 (aged 18)	0	0	Morelia
	4FW	José Alvarado	(2000-03-15) March 15, 2000	0	0	Monterrey

Top appearances

Top goalscorers

Individual awards

2011 Golden Ball Julio Gómez

2005 Silver Ball Giovani Dos Santos

2011 Silver Ball Jonathan Espericueta

2011 Bronze Ball Carlos Fierro

2013 Bronze Ball Ivan Ochoa

2005 Golden Shoe Carlos Vela