2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup

The 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup will be the 24th edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, the biennial international men's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since its inception in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Championship. The tournament will be held in Chile, who had previously hosted in 1987. Chile will be the third country to host the tournament multiple times after Australia (1981, 1993) and Argentina (2001 and 2023).

Uruguay are the defending champions.

New Caledonia will make their debut in the tournament.

Host selection
Chile were announced as the 2025 U-20 World Cup hosts following the FIFA Council meeting on 17 December 2023 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It's believed the decision was made as a compensation for Chile losing hosting rights for the 2030 FIFA World Cup to Morocco, Portugal and Spain, as Chile was the only nation in the four-nation bid of Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay not included in the eventual outcome for the opening matches.

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

Venues
On 18 December 2023, Pablo Milad, president of the Football Federation of Chile, revealed a preliminary list with 12 stadia in 10 cities. Milad also announced that between 4 and 6 stadia will be chosen by FIFA for the final tournament.

Draw
The official draw will take place in early 2025. The teams were allocated based on their performances in the 5 previous U-20 World Cups, five bonus points are added to each of the confederation's current champions that won the respective qualifying tournament (for this cycle). The hosts Chile are automatically seeded and assigned to position A1. Teams of the same confederation will not meet in the group stage.

Squads
Players born between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2009 (inclusive) are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Group stage
All times are local, Chile Standard Time (UTC-03:00).

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.