2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup Final

The **2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup Final** was a final that was played on at the Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon, South Korea on 11 June 2017. The final was contested by Venezuela and England. England won the match 1–0, winning the title for the first time. This was the first ever final for both England and Venezuela in the history of the tournament.

## Background

This was England's first appearance and victory in the final of a global football tournament since their senior World Cup victory in 1966. Their previous best at the U-20 World Cup was third place in 1993.

For Venezuela it was only the second appearance at the U-20 World Cup, previously in 2009 they only managed to go as far as the second round.

## Road to the final

|colspan="2" style="width:1*"|Venezuela|Round|colspan="2" style="width:1*"|England||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Opponent|Result|Group stage|Opponent|Result||
||2–0|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Match 1||3–0|
||7–0|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Match 2||1–1|
||1–0|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Match 3||1–0|
|colspan="2" style="text-align:center"|**Group B winners**|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Final standings|colspan="2" style="text-align:center"|**Group A winners**|
|Opponent|Result|Knockout stage|Opponent|Result||
||1–0 (aet)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Round of 16||2–1|
||2–1 (aet)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Quarter-finals||1–0|
||1–1 (aet) (4–3 pen.)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Semi-finals||3–1|

### Details

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|valign="top" width="40%"|{| style="font-size:90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"||||
|GK|**1**|Wuilker Faríñez|||
|RB|**20**|Ronald Hernández|||
|CB|**5**|Williams Velásquez|||
|CB|**4**|Nahuel Ferraresi|||
|LB|**2**|José Hernández|||
|RW|**19**|Sergio Córdova|||
|CM|**16**|Ronaldo Lucena|||
|CM|**8**|Yangel Herrera (c)|||
|LW|**7**|Adalberto Peñaranda|||
|CF|**11**|Ronaldo Chacón|||
|CF|**9**|Ronaldo Peña|||
|colspan="3"|**Substitutions:**||||
|FW|**10**|Yeferson Soteldo|||
|MF|**15**|Samuel Sosa|||
|DF|**13**|Jan Hurtado|||
|colspan="3"|**Coach:**||||
|colspan="3"|Rafael Dudamel|}|valign="top" width="50%"|{| style="font-size:90%;margin:auto" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"|
|GK|**1**|Freddie Woodman|||
|RB|**2**|Jonjoe Kenny|||
|CB|**5**|Fikayo Tomori|||
|CB|**6**|Jake Clarke-Salter|||
|LB|**14**|Kyle Walker-Peters|||
|DM|**4**|Lewis Cook (c)|||
|DM|**7**|Josh Onomah|||
|RM|**18**|Kieran Dowell|||
|AM|**10**|Dominic Solanke|||
|LM|**11**|Ademola Lookman|||
|CF|**16**|Dominic Calvert-Lewin|||
|colspan="3"|**Substitutions:**||||
|MF|**19**|Sheyi Ojo|||
|MF|**8**|Ainsley Maitland-Niles|||
|colspan="3"|**Coach:**||||
|colspan="3"|Paul Simpson|}|||

### Statistics

|width="130"|Overall|width="70"|Venezuela|width="70"|England|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|0|1|||||
|19|20|||||
|4|8|||||
|4|4|||||
|48%|52%|||||
|3|9|||||
|16|16|||||
|0|1|||||
|7|4|||||
|1|2|||||
|0|0|||||

## Related pages

- 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup

## Other websites

- FIFA U-20 World Cup , FIFA.com

## Infobox (football match)

- **title**: 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup Final
- **event**: 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup
- **team1**: Venezuela national under-20 football team, Venezuela
- **team1score**: 0
- **team2**: England national under-20 football team, England
- **team2score**: 1
- **date**: 11 June 2017
- **stadium**: Suwon World Cup Stadium
- **city**: Suwon
- **referee**: Björn Kuipers (Royal Dutch Football Association, Netherlands)
- **attendance**: 30,346
- **weather**: Sunny

26% humidity
- **previous**: 2015
- **next**: 2019