Ghana national under-20 football team

The **Ghana national under-20 football team** represents Ghana in international football completions. They have won both the African Youth Championship and FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2009.

### FIFA World Youth Championship Record

|Year|Round|GP|W|D*|L|GS|GA|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1977|_did not participate_|||||||
|1979||||||||
|1981||||||||
|1983|_Withdrew_|||||||
|1985|_did not qualify_|||||||
|1987|_Disqualified_|||||||
|1989|_did not qualify_|||||||
|1991||||||||
|1993|Runners-up|6|3|2|1|11|6|
|1995|_did not qualify_|||||||
|1997|Semi finals|7|4|1|2|12|8|
|1999|Quarter finals|5|3|2*|0|8|2|
|2001|Runners-up|7|5|1|1|8|5|
|2003|_did not qualify_|||||||
|2005||||||||
|2007||||||||
|2009|**Champions**|7|5|2*|0|16|8|
|2011|_did not qualify_|||||||
|2013|Third Place|7|4|0|3|16|12|
|2015|Round of 16|4|2|1|1|5|6|
|2017|_did not qualify_|||||||
|2019||||||||
|2023||||||||
|2025|_to be determined_|||||||
- Silver background color indicates second-place finish at the World Cup.
- Gold background color indicates winners at the World Cup.

_*Denote draws including the 2009 **Final** match decided on penalty kicks v Brazil 4-3p when the match ended (0-0) After Extra Time, and the 1999 **Quarter-Final** match decided on penalty kicks v Spain (7-8p)._

**FIFA U20 World Cup Record by team**
|Ghana versus|GP|W|D*|L|GF|GA|GD|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||3|1|1*****|1|3|3|0|
||2|1|0|1|1|3|-2|
||2|1|0|1|3|3|0|
||3|0|2|1|5|6|-1|
||2|2|0|0|5|2|+3|
||1|1|0|0|3|0|+3|
||2|2|0|0|6|1|+5|
||1|0|1|0|1|1|0|
||2|2|0|0|5|1|+4|
||1|1|0|0|3|0|+3|
||1|0|1|0|2|2|0|
||1|1|0|0|2|1|+1|
||1|0|1|0|1|1|0|
||1|1|0|0|3|0|+3|
||1|1|0|0|2|0|+2|
||2|0|1*****|1|1|2|-1|
||1|1|0|1|2|1|+1|
||1|1|0|0|1|0|+1|
||3|0|1|2|2|5|-3|
||1|1|0|0|1|0|+1|
||1|1|0|0|2|0|+2|
||1|1|0|0|2|1|+1|
||1|1|0|0|3|2|+1|
||1|1|0|0|2|1|+1|
||1|1|0|0|3|2|+1|
||1|1|0|0|4|3|+1|
||1|1|0|0|3|0|+3|

_*Denote draws including the 2009 **Final** match decided on penalty kicks v Brazil 4-3p when the match ended (0-0) After Extra Time, and the 1999 **Quarter-Final** match decided on penalty kicks v Spain (7-8p)._

- FIFA U20 World Cup Record:
|FIFA U20 World Cup Record|GP|W|D|L|GF|GA|GD|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|World Cup Finals|39|24|8*|8|71|41|+30|
|Africa U20 Quals|71|42|15|14|106|51|+55|

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Ghana Under-20
- **fifa trigramme**: GHA
- **nickname**: The Black Satellites
- **association**: Ghana Football Association
- **sub-confederation**: West African Football Union, WAFU (West Africa)
- **confederation**: Confederation of African Football, CAF (Africa)
- **coach**: Desmond offei
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- **first game**: 1 – 0
(Banjul, Gambia; 9 September 1984)
- **largest win**: 6 – 0
(Accra, Ghana; 11 November 1990)
- **largest loss**: 3 – 0
(Algiers, Algeria; 27 August 1988)
 4 – 1
(Le Pontet, Vaucluse, Le Pontet, France; 29 May 2000)
 3 – 0
(Buenos Aires, Argentina; 8 July 2001)
- **regional name**: FIFA U-20 World Cup
- **regional cup apps**: 7
- **regional cup first**: 1993
- **regional cup best**: Champions (2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, 2009)
- **2ndregional name**: African Youth Championship
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 10
- **2ndregional cup first**:  1991 African Youth Championship, 1991
- **2ndregional cup best**:  Winners (1993 African Youth Championship, 1993, 1999 African Youth Championship, 1999, 2009 African Youth Championship, 2009, 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations, 2021)
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