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The FIFA U-20 World Cup is a biennial football championship for men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The inaugural tournament was held in Tunisia in 1977 under the name FIFA World Youth Championship; the competition was renamed to its current form in 2007.
Argentina has won the FIFA U-20 World Cup six times, in 1979, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, and 2007. Brazil is second with five titles.
Morocco are the reigning champions, having won their first title at the 2025 tournament held in Chile. Othmane Maamma won the Golden Ball and Benjamin Cremaschi won the Golden Boot at that edition.
Diego Maradona won the Golden Ball in 1979, Lionel Messi in 2005, Sergio Agüero in 2007, Paul Pogba in 2013, and Lee Kang-in in 2019. Erling Haaland was the top scorer at the 2019 edition with nine goals.
Twenty-four teams compete in the final tournament. The host nation qualifies automatically, and the remaining twenty-three places are filled through qualification tournaments run by each of FIFA's six continental confederations, including the AFC U-20 Asian Cup, the U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, and the UEFA European Under-19 Championship.
No current OFC member has ever reached the semi-finals. Australia reached the last four in 1991 and 1993, finishing fourth on both occasions, but that record transferred to the AFC when Australia changed confederation membership in 2006.