2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The **2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup** was the 10th time they held this international football championship for young women's teams. It happens every two years and includes teams of players under the age of 20 from different countries who are part of FIFA. Costa Rica hosted the tournament this time. They were also supposed to host it in 2020, but it got canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the second time Costa Rica hosted a FIFA tournament, the first being the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Japan was the defending champion from the previous tournament. The first match of the tournament was between Costa Rica and Australia, played at Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica in San José. The final took place on 28th August 2022. Something special happened in this tournament: it was the first time in the history of FIFA youth tournaments (both for men and women) where the same two teams met again in the final, two times in a row.

## Qualified teams

In the final tournament, there are a total of 16 teams that participate. One team automatically qualifies because they are the host, and in this case, it's Costa Rica. The other 15 teams qualify through six continental competitions.
|Confederation|Qualifying tournament|Team|data-sort-type="number"|Appearance|Last appearance|Previous best performance||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|AFC|rowspan="3"|Teams were nominated by AFC based on results of 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship (qualification cancelled)||4th|2006|(2002, 2004)|
||7th|2018|(2018)|||||
||6th|2016|(2010)|||||
|rowspan="2"|CAF|rowspan="2"|2022 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament||6th|2018|(2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)|
||10th|2018|(2010, 2014)|||||
|rowspan="4"|CONCACAF|rowspan="1"|Host nation||3rd|2014|(2010, 2014)|
|rowspan="3"|2022 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship||8th|2016|(2002)|||
||9th|2018|(2010, 2012, 2016)|||||
||10th|2018|(2002, 2008, 2012)|||||
|rowspan="2"|CONMEBOL|rowspan="2"|2022 South American U-20 Women's Championship||10th|2018|(2006)|
||2nd|2010|(2010)|||||
|OFC|Team was nominated by OFC based on results of 2019 OFC U-19 Women's Championship (qualification cancelled)||8th|2018|(2014)|||
|rowspan="4"|UEFA|rowspan="4"|Teams were nominated by UEFA based on 2020/21 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualifying round coefficient ranking list (qualification cancelled)||8th|2018|(2016)|
||10th|2018|(2004, 2010, 2014)|||||
||2nd|2018|(2018)|||||
||4th|2018|(2018)|||||

- Notes

## Venues

The two host cities were announced on 10 August 2021.
|rowspan="4"||Alajuela|San José|
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|Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto|Estadio Nacional|||
|Capacity: **17,895**|Capacity: **35,175**|||

## Group stage

The draw for the group stage took place on 5 May 2022.

### Tiebreakers

The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals. The format for tiebreakers were determined as follows:If two or more teams were equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings were determined as follows:All times are local, CST (UTC–6).

### Group A

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### Group B

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### Group C

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### Group D

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## Knockout stage

In the knockout stages, if a match is tied at the end of the regular playing time, they play extra time, which is two periods of 15 minutes each. If after extra time, the score is still tied, they have a penalty shoot-out to decide the winner. However, for the third-place match, there is no extra time. If needed, they directly go to a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.

### Quarter-finals

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### Semi-finals

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## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
- **year**: 2022
- **other titles**: Copa Mundial Femenina Sub-20 de la FIFA Costa Rica 2022
- **caption**: The official emblem
_Vamos Juntas_
(_Let's go together_)
- **country**: Costa Rica
- **num teams**: 16
- **confederations**: 6
- **venues**: 2
- **cities**: 2
- **count**: 1
- **matches**: 32
- **goals**: 86
- **top scorer**: Inma Gabarro
(8 goals)
- **player**: Maika Hamano
- **goalkeeper**: Meritxell Font, Txell Font
- **prevseason**: 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, 2018
~~2020 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, 2020~~
- **nextseason**: _2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, 2024_