Brazil national under-20 football team

The **Brazil national under-20 football team**, also known as **Brazil Sub-20** or **Seleção Sub-20**, are the under-20s of Brazil. It is currently controlled by the Brazilian Football Confederation.

### FIFA U-20 World Cup record

|colspan="8"|FIFA U-20 World Cup record|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1977|Third place|5|3|2|0|13|3|
|1979|_Did not qualify_|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|1981|Quarter-finals|4|2|1|1|7|4|
|1983|**Champions**|6|5|1|0|13|4|
|1985|**Champions**|6|6|0|0|14|1|
|1987|Quarter-finals|4|2|0|2|6|3|
|1989|Third place|6|5|0|1|13|2|
|1991|Runners-up|6|4|2|0|14|4|
|1993|**Champions**|6|5|1|0|11|2|
|1995|Runners-up|6|4|1|1|11|3|
|1997|Quarter-finals|5|4|0|1|25|5|
|1999|Quarter-finals|5|3|0|2|13|5|
|2001|Quarter-finals|5|4|0|1|15|3|
|2003|**Champions**|7|5|1|1|14|6|
|2005|Third place|7|5|1|1|9|4|
|2007|Round of 16|4|1|0|3|6|9|
|2009|Runners-up|7|5|2|0|14|3|
|2011|**Champions**|7|5|2|0|18|5|
|2013|_Did not qualify_|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|2015|Runners-up|7|4|2|1|15|5|
|2017|_Did not qualify_|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|2019|_Did not qualify_|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|2021|_To be determined_|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|**Total**|18/23|103|72|16|15|231|71|

### South American Youth Championship record

|colspan="9"|South American Youth Championship record|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1954|Runners-up|6|3|3|0|14|5|
|1958|Third place|5|2|2|1|10|6|
|1964|_Did not enter_|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|1967|Semi-finals|5|3|0|2|7|5|
|1971|First round|4|2|0|2|7|3|
|1974|**Champions**|6|5|1|0|18|3|
|1975|First round|5|1|0|4|6|7|
|1977|Runners-up|6|5|1|0|13|2|
|1979|Fourth place|7|2|1|4|5|7|
|1981|Runners-up|6|3|2|1|13|5|
|1983|**Champions**|7|6|1|0|16|3|
|1985|**Champions**|7|6|1|0|11|3|
|1987|Runners-up|6|3|2|1|11|4|
|1988|**Champions**|7|5|1|1|14|2|
|1991|**Champions**|7|4|3|0|15|5|
|1992|**Champions**|6|5|1|0|7|0|
|1995|**Champions**|6|5|0|1|17|4|
|1997|Runners-up|9|6|2|1|26|10|
|1999|Third place|9|4|3|2|22|10|
|2001|**Champions**|9|6|2|1|21|6|
|2003|Runners-up|9|7|1|1|23|5|
|2005|Runners-up|9|5|2|2|18|9|
|2007|**Champions**|9|6|3|0|20|9|
|2009|**Champions**|9|6|1|2|17|9|
|2011|**Champions**|9|7|1|1|24|7|
|2013|First round|4|1|1|2|4|6|
|2015|Fourth place|9|5|1|3|13|9|
|2017|Fifth place|9|3|4|2|10|9|
|2019|Fifth place|9|3|3|3|6|7|
|2021|colspan="8"|_TBD_||||||
|**Total**|27/28|190|113|40|37|354|151|
<small><sup>1</sup>Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.</small>

## Titles

- **FIFA U-20 World Cup:**
    - **Winners (5):** 1983, 1985, 1993, 2003, 2011
    - **Runners-up (4):** 1991, 1995, 2009, 2015
- **South American Youth Championship:**
    - **Winners (11):** 1974, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2011
    - **Runners-up (7):** 1954, 1977, 1981, 1987, 1997, 2003, 2005

### Friendly tournaments

- **Toulon Tournament:**
    - **Winners (9):** 1980, 1981, 1983, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2013, 2014, 2019
- **COTIF:**
    - **Winners (3):** 1990, 2002, 2014

### Individual awards

- **FIFA U-20 World Cup**

## Top goalscorers

|width="20%"|Rank|width="40%"|Player|width="20%"|Year(s)|width="20%"|U-20 goals|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align="left"|Adaílton|1997|24||||
|2|align="left"|Romário|1985|11||||
|rowspan="2"|3|align="left"|Neymar|2011|9|||
|align="left"|Henrique|2011|9|||||
|rowspan="3"|5|align="left"|Rodrigo Gral|1999|8|||
|align="left"|Edu|1999|8|||||
|align="left"|Alexandre Pato|2007|8|||||
|8|align="left"|Dudu Cearense|2003|7||||
|rowspan="6"|9|align="left"|Geovani|1983|6|||
|align="left"|Ronaldinho|1999|6|||||
|align="left"|Adriano|2001|6|||||
|align="left"|Daniel Carvalho|2003|6|||||
|align="left"|Alan Kardec|2009|6|||||
|align="left"|Marcos Guilherme|2015|6|||||

## Related pages

- Brazil national football team

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Brazil U-20
- **badge**: Brazilian Football Confederation logo.svg
- **badge size**: 140px
- **fifa trigramme**: BRA
- **nickname**: (The Selection)
 (Little Saffron finch, Canary)
 (Little Yellow)
 (Green-Yellow)
- **association**: Brazilian Football Confederation, Confederação Brasileira de Futebol
(Brazilian Football Confederation)
- **confederation**: CONMEBOL (South America)
- **coach**: Ramon Menezes
- **captain**: Andrey Santos
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- **first game**: 7–1
(Caracas, Venezuela; 23 March 1954)
- **largest win**: 10–0
(Kuching, Malaysia; 25 June 1997)
- **largest loss**: 0–6
(Valencia, Venezuela; 24 January 2025)
- **regional name**: FIFA U-20 World Cup
- **regional cup apps**: 19
- **regional cup first**: 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship, 1977
- **regional cup best**: **Winners** (1983 FIFA World Youth Championship, 1983, 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship, 1985, 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship, 1993, 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship, 2003, 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup, 2011)
- **2ndregional name**: South American Youth Football Championship, South American Youth Championship
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 29
- **2ndregional cup first**: 1954 South American Youth Championship, 1954
- **2ndregional cup best**: **Winners** (1974 South American U-20 Championship, 1974, 1983 South American U-20 Championship, 1983, 1985 South American U-20 Championship, 1985, 1988 South American U-20 Championship, 1988, 1991 South American U-20 Championship, 1991, 1992 South American U-20 Championship, 1992, 1995 South American U-20 Championship, 1995, 2001 South American U-20 Championship, 2001, 2007 South American U-20 Championship, 2007, 2009 South American U-20 Championship, 2009, 2011 South American U-20 Championship, 2011, 2023 South American U-20 Championship, 2023)