2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup (Copa Mundial Femenina Sub-20 de la FIFA Colombia 2024) will be the 11th edition of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament has been expanded by FIFA to feature 24 teams.

It will be hosted by Colombia from 31 August to 22 September 2024. It will be the third time that Colombia has hosted a FIFA tournament. It will also be the first time that Colombia has hosted a FIFA women's tournament.

Spain are the defending champions.

Host selection
Colombia were announced as the 2024 Women's U-20 World Cup hosts following the FIFA Council meeting on 25 June 2023 in Zürich, Switzerland.

Expansion
On 4 October 2023, FIFA decided the expansion of the tournament to 24 teams. The slot allocation mirrors the men's tournament and is as follows:
 * AFC (Asia): 4 slots
 * CAF (Africa): 4 slots
 * CONCACAF (North America, Central America and the Caribbean): 4 slots
 * CONMEBOL (South America): 5 slots (including hosts Colombia)
 * OFC (Oceania): 2 slots
 * UEFA (Europe): 5 slots

Qualified teams
A total of 24 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Colombia who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 23 teams qualify from six separate continental competitions.

Venues
Bogotá, Cali and Medellín were the three cities chosen to host the competition on 20 February 2024.

Draw
The official draw took place on 5 June 2024 at the Hall 74 in Bogotá. The teams were allocated based on their performances in the 5 previous U-20 Women's World Cups, with five bonus points added to the qualifying tournament winners (for this cycle). The host team, Colombia, was automatically seeded and assigned to position A1. During the draw process, teams from the same confederation could not be placed in the same group for the group stage.

Squads
Players born between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2008 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Match officials
For the very first time in a FIFA international tournament, the Football Video Support (FVS) will be implemented. This new alternative simplifies the video assistant referee (VAR).

FVS system does not use video match officials. The head coach of each team is allowed to make a video review requests. The number of requests that coaches can realize during the match are limited.

A total of 18 referees, 36 assistant and 4 support referees were appointed officially by FIFA for the tournament on 19 June 2024.

Group stage
The draw for the group stage took place on 5 June 2024.

All times are local, COT (UTC−5).

Ranking of third-placed teams
The four best third-placed teams from the six groups advance to the knockout stage along with the six group winners and six runners-up.

Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time shall be played (two periods of five minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner. However, for the third place match, if it is played directly before the final, no extra time shall be played and the winner shall be determined by a penalty shoot-out.

The specific match-ups involving the third-placed teams depend on which four third-placed teams qualified for the round of 16:
 * Combinations of matches in the Round of 16

Marketing
The official emblem was unveiled on 8 April 2024. The vibrant design is inspired by the stunning nature and colour of host nation Colombia as well as the tournament's fundamental role in forging the Future Stars of Football.

Using the South American country's unique and iconic Caño Cristales river, nicknamed 'Liquid Rainbow', as the central theme of the design, the tournament emblem also features the yellow, blue and red of the Colombian flag to make it the perfect blended reflection of the tournament hosts and the competition itself.

On 23 May 2024, the tournament's mascot named "Kinti" was revealed. Shaped after a hummingbird, it was unveiled at the Botanical Garden of Medellín.