MEN’S U-20 · 2027
AZERBAIJAN
+ UZBEKISTAN
WORLD DEVELOPMENT COMPETITIONS
MEN’S U-20MEN’S U-17
EXISTING HOSTS AND QUALIFICATION PATHWAYS CONTINUE
UNTIL THE COMPETENT SPORTING STRUCTURES DECIDE OTHERWISE
AWARDED HOST COMMITMENTS
2025–2029MEN’S U-20U-20
MEN’S U-20 · 2029
ARMENIA
+ GEORGIA
MEN’S U-17U-17
QATAR
FIVE CONSECUTIVE EDITIONS
ANNUAL TOURNAMENT · 48 TEAMS
20252026202720282029
ALL FIVE U-17 EDITIONS
WERE AWARDED TO QATAR TOGETHER
WERE AWARDED TO QATAR TOGETHER
THE TRANSITION PRINCIPLE
CONTINUITY OF
COMPETITION
COMPETITION
CONTINUITY OF
QUALIFICATION
QUALIFICATION
CONTINUITY OF
AWARDED HOSTS
AWARDED HOSTS
YOUTH FOOTBALL DOES NOT NEED TO COPY SENIOR FOOTBALL.
AGE-APPROPRIATE HIGH-LEVEL INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
A DEVELOPMENT PATHWAY · A BRIDGE TO SENIOR FOOTBALL
FORMATS MAY BE DETERMINED SPECIFICALLY FOR EACH EDITIONLegal foundations
Host status reproduced from the supplied sheet; these provisions establish the competition framework.
STA / ART-101Men’s U-20 and U-17 world championships and player developmentOpen in the WUFO corpus ↗ · PDF p. 79REG-20 / RULES 55–59U-20 purpose, sporting qualification and edition formatOpen in the WUFO corpus ↗ · PDF p. 370REG-20 / RULES 60–63U-17 development, protection of minors and edition formatOpen in the WUFO corpus ↗ · PDF p. 371REG-20 / RULE-227Permanent U-20 competitionOpen in the WUFO corpus ↗ · PDF p. 386REG-20 / RULE-228Permanent U-17 competitionOpen in the WUFO corpus ↗ · PDF p. 387
The linked provisions establish the competition architecture and decision authority. Specific hosts, bids, dates and edition formats shown above are the dated status recorded in the supplied sheet, not awards made by the corpus.