2024-05-10 17:59:12
The Under 20 Women’s World Cup will be played in Colombia, whose opening match It is August 31 and the final is September 22. This will be the eleventh edition of said tournamentand for the second time it will be played in a South American tournament, after the World Cup held in Chile in 2008, where the United States was champion.
Those who participate? In this edition, the selection quotas participate, now there are 24, in the previous World Cup held in Costa Rica there were 16 selections participants.
Asia: for the Asian continent it has 4 representatives, starting with Australia, which has its fifth participation; North Korea is the Asian team with the most World Cup wins, it was champion in 2006 and 2016; South Korea having its seventh participation where its greatest achievement was being third in the 2010 World Cup and last for the Japanese team, which could have been world champion in 2018, whose headquarters were in France.
Africa: has 4 qualifiers, Cameroon and Morocco are going to have their debut in the World Cup, Ghana will participate for the seventh time, they have only been in the group stage; and the last powerful team in that category and in said competition, Nigeria, which has qualified for all editions, has played in two finals, but never managed to win the title, losing both finals to Germany, 2-0 in 2010 and 1- 0 in 2014.
Concacaffor the North American, Central American and Caribbean Football Confederation, will play 4 selections, Canada qualifies for the ninth time where its greatest achievement was being vice champion in the first edition of the World Cup in 2002; Costa Rica will play the World Cup for the fourth time, so far its greatest achievement was the group stage; Mexico will want to go further for the tenth time, only in 2004 did it not qualify for the top tournament; and the last classified is the United States, without a doubt the favorite team of the World Cup, it already has 3 titles in its showcase, it won in the first edition in 2002, in Chile 2008 and in Japan 2012.
Oceania will have 2 teams, starting with the debutant Fiji, which qualified as vice-champion losing 7-0 against New Zealand, the low level of Oceania and the reason for fewer places of all the confederations is evident; The other classified is the aforementioned New Zealand, without a doubt the queen team of Oceania, but the furthest they have gone was in Canada 2014, being in the quarterfinals.
South America has 4 places plus an additional one because Colombia is the headquarters of the World Cup, Paraguay will play for the third time and Venezuela for the second time, whose greatest achievements were being in the first phase; Argentina returns after 14 years of absence, its last participation was in Japan 2012, in this World Cup it has only reached the group stage; the host Colombia will play for the third time, reaching fourth place in Germany 2010; and the favorite team that will seek to be champion for the first time, Brazil, has qualified for all the World Cups, however it came third in Russia 2006 and in Costa Rica 2022.
Europa is the confederation that owns more participants (5), starting with the debutant Austria, qualified because UEFA increased the places and the team that wins between Iceland-Austria would participate; France will seek the title for the first time, they were vice-champions in Papua New Guinea in 2016, the Netherlands will play for the third consecutive time; Spain, the current World Cup champion, will seek to be vice-champion and repeat that feat, winning the previous edition in Costa Rica 2022 against Japan, winning 3-1; And finally we go with another of the favorites, Germany, which has participated in all editions, becoming champion three times in Thailand 2004, Germany 2010 and 10 years ago in Canada 2010.
And Ecuador? Where is? Pitifully The Ecuadorian team was eliminated from the South American Sub 20 in the first phase, so far it has not been able to compete in a World Cup in that category. The next objective will be to qualify for the World Cup in Poland in 2026.
THE DATA
Germany and Brazil have played in every edition since the tournament was created in Canada 2002.
Germany and the United States are the top winners of the tournament, both with 3 titles.