CONCACAF Under-20 Championship

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CONCACAF Under-20 Championship
Founded 1962
Region North America (CONCACAF)
Number of teams 12
Current champions  Mexico (13th title)
Most successful team(s)  Mexico (13 titles)
Website CONCACAF
2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship

The CONCACAF Under-20 Championship is the second longest running international association football event in the North America, Central America and the Caribbean region, CONCACAF, and is the qualification tournament for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The format of the tournament has undergone changes over the years. The tournament proper is currently played with a first round of four round-robin groups from which the top two sides from each group advance to a single-elimination championship round.

Results

CONCACAF Youth Tournaments era
Year Host Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place
1962 Panama Panama  Mexico  Guatemala  Netherlands Antilles  Costa Rica
1964 Guatemala Guatemala  El Salvador  Honduras  Guatemala  Netherlands Antilles
1970 Cuba Cuba  Mexico  Cuba  Jamaica  El Salvador
1973 Mexico Mexico  Mexico  Guatemala  Cuba  Canada
1974 Canada Canada  Mexico  Cuba  Trinidad and Tobago
1976 Puerto Rico Puerto Rico  Mexico  Honduras  United States  Guatemala
1978 Honduras Honduras  Mexico  Canada  Honduras  Costa Rica
1980 United States United States  Mexico  United States
1982 Guatemala Guatemala  Honduras  United States  Costa Rica  Guatemala
1984 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago  Mexico  Canada  El Salvador  United States
1986 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago  Canada  United States  Trinidad and Tobago  Cuba
1988 Guatemala Guatemala  Costa Rica  Mexico  United States  Cuba
1990 Guatemala Guatemala  Mexico  Trinidad and Tobago  United States  Guatemala
1992 Canada Canada  Mexico  United States  Canada  Honduras
1994 Honduras Honduras  Honduras  Costa Rica  Canada  El Salvador
1996 Mexico Mexico  Canada  Mexico  United States  Costa Rica
FIFA U-20 World Cup qualifying tournament era
The format of the tournament was changed beginning with the 1998 tournament and ending with the 2007 tournament. In the five tournaments during that time the top eight teams in the region were divided into two groups of four, each group hosted by a separate nation, and the top two sides from each group were qualified to the FIFA U-20 World Cup. There was no championship round within the CONCACAF region. The tournament served solely to qualify the four allotments given to CONCACAF by FIFA for the U-20 World Cup.
Year Host Champions Runners-up
1998 Guatemala Guatemala (Group A)  United States  Costa Rica
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad (Group B)  Mexico  Honduras
2001 Canada Canada (Group A)  Costa Rica  United States
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad (Group B)  Canada  Jamaica
2003 Panama Panama (Group A)  Panama  Mexico
United States United States (Group B)  Canada  United States
2005 Honduras Honduras (Group A)  United States  Panama
United States United States (Group B)  Canada  Honduras
2007 Panama Panama (Group A)  United States  Panama
Mexico Mexico (Group B)  Mexico  Costa Rica
CONCACAF U-20 Championship era
Beginning with the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup tournament, the CONCACAF region returned to a championship-style tournament in which all four semifinalists qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. [1] The reintroduction of a championship round was done to reinvigorate to competition.
Year Host Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place
2009 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago  Costa Rica  United States  Honduras  Trinidad and Tobago
2011 Guatemala Guatemala  Mexico  Costa Rica  Guatemala  Panama
2013 Mexico Mexico  Mexico  United States  El Salvador  Cuba
The competition changed its format in 2015. The two group winners would secure a place in the final and the U-20 World Cup, the groups' second and third placed teams would compete in a repechage play-off to determine the qualifiers for the U-20 World Cup. The number of guaranteed games per team was increased from 2 to 5 and the semi-final stage was removed.
Year Host Champions Runners-up Play-off winners
2015 Jamaica Jamaica  Mexico  Panama  United States  Honduras
2017 Nicaragua Nicaragua

Winners by country

Team Titles Runners-up
 Mexico 13 (1962, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1990, 1992, 2011, 2013, 2015) 2 (1988, 1996)
 Canada 2 (1986, 1996) 2 (1978, 1984)
 Costa Rica 2 (1988, 2009) 2 (1994, 2011)
 Honduras 2 (1982, 1994) 2 (1964, 1976)
 El Salvador 1 (1964)
 United States 6 (1980, 1982, 1986, 1992, 2009, 2013)
 Guatemala 2 (1962, 1973)
 Cuba 2 (1970, 1974)
 Panama 1 (2015)
 Trinidad and Tobago 1 (1990)

Note: no titles or runners-up between 1998 and 2007.

Qualifications by country

Number of FIFA U-20 World Cup qualifications by country.

Nation No. Qualifying years
 United States 14 1981, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015
 Mexico 14 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015
 Canada 8 1979, 1985, 1987, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007
 Costa Rica 8 1989, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2011
 Honduras 6 1977, 1995, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2015
 Panama 5 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015
 Trinidad and Tobago 2 1991, 2009
 Jamaica 1 2001
 Guatemala 1 2011
 El Salvador 1 2013
 Cuba 1 2013

Overall statistics

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Mexico 116 86 19 11 297 68 229 219
2  United States 107 62 18 27 215 93 122 169
3  Honduras 82 51 13 18 153 77 76 129
4  Canada 92 46 17 29 174 98 66 129
5  Costa Rica 78 45 14 19 174 79 95 126
6  Guatemala 81 27 15 39 88 117 −29 76
7  El Salvador 68 25 14 29 100 96 4 72
8  Trinidad and Tobago 74 20 21 33 89 126 −37 65
9  Panama 31 17 6 8 47 35 12 54
10  Cuba 53 18 12 23 52 73 −21 53
11  Jamaica 64 11 15 38 57 119 -62 43
12  Netherlands Antilles 41 10 6 25 36 97 −61 26
13  Bermuda 35 8 4 23 46 81 −35 20
14  Haiti 24 4 5 15 26 53 -27 15
15  Suriname 14 5 0 9 20 27 −7 10
16  Nicaragua 26 2 6 18 14 83 -69 10
17  Guyana 9 2 0 7 6 20 −14 4
18  Antigua and Barbuda 8 1 2 5 7 23 −16 4
19  Dominican Republic 14 2 0 12 10 59 -49 4
20  Martinique 6 1 0 5 6 18 −12 3
21  Barbados 16 1 1 14 14 46 -32 3
22  Puerto Rico 16 1 0 15 5 79 −74 2
23  Saint Kitts and Nevis 3 0 1 2 3 6 −3 1
24  Aruba 5 0 1 4 1 19 -18 1
25  Grenada 8 0 1 7 5 32 −27 1
26  Curaçao 2 0 0 2 1 5 −4 0
27  Guadeloupe 4 0 0 4 3 12 −9 0
28  Belize 3 0 0 3 3 17 −14 0

Player awards

Year MVP Lead Goalscorer Best Goalkeeper Fair Play Award Source
2009 Canada Randy Edwini-Bonsu

Costa Rica Josué Martínez
Honduras Roger Rojas (3 goals)

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2011 Costa Rica Joel Campbell (6 goals) [3]
2013 Mexico Antonio Briseño Panama Amet Ramírez (4 goals) Mexico Richard Sánchez  El Salvador [4]
2015 Panama Luís Pereira Mexico Hirving Lozano
United States Romain Gall (5 goals)
Panama Jaime De Gracia  United States [5]

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Country Year(s) U-20 Goals
1 José Alvarado El Salvador El Salvador 1994 6
1 Joel Campbell Costa Rica Costa Rica 2011 6
3 Jewison Bennet Costa Rica Costa Rica 1994 5
3 Orvin Cabrera Honduras Honduras 1994 5
3 Steve Green Jamaica Jamaica 1994 5
3 David Xausa Canada Canada 1994 5
3 Hirving Lozano Mexico Mexico 2015 5
3 Romain Gall United States USA 2015 5
9 Ryan Gyaki Canada Canada 2005 4
9 Freddy Adu United States USA 2005-2007 4
9 Ulises Dávila Mexico Mexico 2011 4
9 Cecilio Waterman Panama Panama 2011 4
9 Amet Ramírez Panama Panama 2013 4
9 Jonel Désiré Haiti Haiti 2015 4
9 Alberth Elis Honduras Honduras 2015 4
9 Bryan Róchez Honduras Honduras 2015 4
9 Alejandro Díaz Mexico Mexico 2015 4
9 Ismael Díaz Panama Panama 2015 4

Title winning coach

Year Name
2009 Costa Rica Rónald González Brenes
2011 Mexico Juan Carlos Chávez
2013 Mexico Sergio Almaguer[6]
2015 Mexico Sergio Almaguer

See also

References

  1. CONCACAF.com – Trinidad & Tobago to stage CONCACAF U-20 Championship in March – 2008-11-11
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  6. http://www.concacaf.com/category/under-20s-men/game-detail/166226

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