2024 World Rugby U20 Championship

The 2024 World Rugby U20 Championship was the 14th edition of the premier age-grade (World Rugby Under-20 Championship) rugby union competition. The tournament was hosted in South Africa for the third time, previously being held in 2012 and 2023. Played over twenty-one days in the Western Cape locations of Stellenbosch and Cape Town, the U20 Championship features the twelve best U20 nations in the world competing for the world title.

The defending champions were France whom had won the previous three tournaments back-to-back.

England won the competition defeating France in the final, 21–13. Going into the tournament, the two finallists had met each other earlier in the year (March 2024) at the 2024 U20 Six Nations Championship. England had also won that fixture, 31–45.

Teams
The teams participating in the tournament are listed in the table below, with a summary of their previous best results at the World Rugby Under 20 Championship included.

Match officials
The following officials were named for the tournament, with an official panel of 9 referees designated to oversee the game.


 * Referees
 * Saba Abulashvili (Georgia)
 * 🇯🇵 Takehito Namekawa (Japan)
 * 🇮🇹 Federico Vedovelli (Italy)
 * 🇦🇺 Reuben Keane (Australia)
 * 🇫🇷 Jérémy Rozier (France)
 * Morné Ferreira (South Africa)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Adam Jones (Wales)
 * Sam Grove-White (Scotland)
 * Aimee Barrett-Theron (South Africa)
 * 🇦🇷 Neheun Jauri Rivero (Argentina)


 * Television match officials / Split Screen Operator
 * 🇮🇹 Matteo Liperini (Italy)
 * Mark Patton (Ireland)
 * Mike Adamson (Scotland)
 * 🇦🇺 Damon Murphy (Australia)
 * 🇫🇷 Tual Trainini (France)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ian Tempest (England)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Ben Whitehouse (Wales)
 * Andrew McMenemy (Scotland)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andrew Jackson (England)
 * Quinton Immelman (South Africa)

Stadium and location
The host locations were announced in February 2024. Similar to the previous tournament (2023), also hosted by South Africa, the Danie Craven Stadium and Athlone Stadium are hosting tournament matches with the final to be played at Cape Town Stadium.

Eleventh-place Final

 * Fiji were relegated to the World Rugby U20 Trophy.