2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup

2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup
The 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup will be the 19th edition of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, the biennial international men's youth football tournament contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It will be held in Indonesia from 10 November to 2 December 2023. This will be the first time that Indonesia will host a FIFA tournament and the first time that the FIFA U-17 World Cup will be held in Southeast Asia. It will also be the third time a FIFA tournament will be held in the region since the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship in Malaysia and 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Thailand. It will be the sixth time the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Asia.
This edition marks the return of the tournament after a four-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic forcing FIFA to cancel the 2021 edition.
Brazil are the defending champions, having won their fourth title in 2019.
Host selection
Peru were announced as the 2021 U-17 World Cup hosts following a FIFA Council meeting on 24 October 2019 in Shanghai, China.
After the 2021 edition was cancelled, Peru was awarded the hosting rights of the next edition in 2023.
However, after extensive discussions between the Peruvian Football Federation and FIFA on the hosting suitability of Peru caused by its infrastructural defects, Peru withdrew as hosts on 3 April 2023, with FIFA announcing an immediate opening of a replacement hosting rights tender.
On 23 June 2023, FIFA officially appointed Indonesia as the new host, believed to have been in compensation for the loss of the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup hosting rights which were given to Argentina after Indonesia took issue with the Israeli team in that tournament.
Venues
Chairman of the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI), Erick Thohir, announced that they would propose eight stadiums to FIFA for hosting the tournament. Six of these stadiums, Gelora Bung Karno Stadium (Jakarta), Gelora Bung Tomo Stadium (Surabaya), Jalak Harupat Stadium (Bandung), Manahan Stadium (Surakarta/Solo), Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium (Bali), and Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium (Palembang) were chosen for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup when Indonesia were eligible to be the host. Another two additional stadiums were Jakarta International Stadium and Pakansari Stadium.
Erick Thohir subsequently confirmed that both semifinal and final matches would be played at the Manahan Stadium.
Teams
Qualification
A total of 24 teams qualified for the final tournament. Indonesia, the host team along with 23 other teams qualified from six separate continental competitions.
Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2006 and on or before 31 December 2008 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
Draw
The draw took place at 16:00 CEST (21:00 WIB host time) on 15 September 2023 at FIFA headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland.
The 24 teams were drawn into six groups of four teams, with the hosts Indonesia automatically seeded to Pot 1 and placed into the first position of Group A, while the remaining teams were seeded into their respective pots based on their results in the last five FIFA U-17 World Cups (more recent tournaments weighted more heavily), as follows:
2011 FIFA U-17 WC: 20% value of total points;
2013 FIFA U-17 WC: 40% value of total points;
2015 FIFA U-17 WC: 60% value of total points;
2017 FIFA U-17 WC: 80% value of total points;
2019 FIFA U-17 WC: 100% value of total points.
Furthermore, five bonus points were added to each of the 6 continental champions from the qualifying
tournaments.
The draw started with the hosts Indonesia being "drawn" to A1, the teams from Pot 1 will be drawn first, the teams from Pots 2, 3 and 4 need to skip groups to avoid geographical clash and there will be no 2 teams to play from the same confederation, then the draw will conclude with teams from Pot 4.
The draw started with teams from pot one being drawn first and placed in the first position of their groups (hosts Indonesia automatically assigned to A1). Then were drawn the teams from pot 2, followed by pot 3 and pot 4, with each team also drawn to one of the positions within their group, no group could contain more than one team from each confederation. The ceremony was presented by Mollie Kmita and conducted by FIFA Director of Tournaments Jaime Yarza, with the former footballers Júlio César, from Brazil, and Stephen Appiah, from Ghana, acting as draw assistants.
The draw resulted in the following groups:
Match officials
A total of 18 refereeing trios (a referee and two assistant referees), 3 support referees, and 18 video assistant referees were appointed for the tournament. No match officials from OFC.
Group stage
The top two teams of each group and the four best third-placed teams advanced to the round of 16.
All times are in local, WIB (UTC+7).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Ranking of third-placed teams
The four best third-placed teams from the six groups advance to the knockout stage along with the six group winners and six runners-up.
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of 90 minutes of normal playing time, the match would be directly decided by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner; no extra time would be played.
In the round of 16, the four third-placed teams would be matched with the winners of groups A, B, C, and D. The specific match-ups involving the third-placed teams depend on which four third-placed teams qualified for the round of 16:
Bracket
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Marketing
Broadcasting rights
Sponsorship
FIFA Partners
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Visa
Notes
References
External links
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