El Salvador national under-20 football team

The El Salvador Under 20s football team, is commonly known as La Azulita. La Azulita is controlled by Federación Salvadoreña de Fútbol(FESFUT) and represents El Salvador in all international Under 20 competitions.

Their first U-20 World Cup was at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup, where they saw their first victory at a major FIFA tournament (outside of beach soccer) to Australia by 2–1, scored respectively by Diego Coca and José Peña.

2024 CONCACAF Championship
On April 11, 2024, CONCACAF had their official draw. El Salvador was placed in Group B alongside, Honduras, Dominican Republic, and Canada. All games will be played in Estadio Sergio León Chávez in Irapuato, Mexico starting July 20, 2024.

First game for La Azulita will be against the Dominican Republic. They have previously met on June 26, 2022. Second game will be against Honduras and third will be against Canada. Top two teams proceed to the knock out stage with a third place team based on ranking. Games will be televised via TUDN and Fox Sports in North America and CONCACAF Youtube.

2024 Qualifiers
La Azulita qualified for the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship which is slated for the Summer of 2024. El Salvador U20 started the CONCACAF Qualifying on Friday, February 23, 2024, till Saturday, March 2, 2024, at ABFA Technical Center in Antigua and Barbuda. The Azulita finished first with 10 points. Suriname came in second with 9, Antigua and Barbuda with 6, Guyana with 4 and Turks and Caicos 0.

El Salvador belongs to Group B. Group B consist of the following Nations:
 * Turks and Caicos Islands
 * Guyana
 * Suriname
 * Antigua and Barbuda

After round-robin play between February 23 and March 2, 2024, the first-place team from each group will advance to the 2024 CONCACAF Men's U-20 Championship, joining the six pre-seeded top-ranked nations. Which include in order, United States, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.

UNCAF 2024
La Azulita, along with seven other selections, gathered in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to participate in an international competition through the tournament UNCAF FIFA FORWARD. La Azulita was grouped in Group A with Honduras, Panamá, and Nicaragua.

2024 current squad
On February 19, 2024, the Head Coach Juan Cortes named the following players to the CONCACAF Under-20 Qualifiers. The Qualifiers run from February 23, 2024, to March 2, 2024, in Antigua and Barbuda.

UNCAF preliminary round
1 The games were forbidden by Concacaf due to El Salvador using an ineligible player

Previous fixtures and results
Key
 * F  = Friendly
 * UF = Unofficial Friendly
 * U-20 CCQ = 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying
 * U-20 CC = U-20 Championship
 * U-20 WC = U-20 World Cup
 * GS = Group stage
 * QF = Quarter-finals
 * SF = Semi-finals
 * Fi = Final
 * PSO = Penalty shootout
 * a.e.t. = After extra time
 * El Salvador's scores listed first

2022 squad

 * The following players were called up for the 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.
 * Match dates: June 18 – July 3, 2022
 * Caps and goals correct as of: June 19, 2022
 * Names in italics denote players who have been capped for the senior team.

2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup squad
Head coach: Mauricio Alfaro 🇸🇻

Current staff
As of January 2024 

Manager history

 * 🇸🇻 Conrado Miranda (1964, 1979)
 * 🇸🇻 Raul Magana (1985,1994)
 * 🇸🇻 Carlos Recinos (2000–2001)
 * 🇸🇻 Ricardo Herrera (2002–2003)
 * 🇸🇻 Cesar Acevedo (2004–2005)
 * 🇸🇻 José Luis Rugamas (2006–2007)
 * 🇸🇻 Norberto Huezo (2008–2009)
 * 🇸🇻 Mauricio Alfaro (2009–2015)
 * 🇨🇴 Eduardo Lara (2016–2017)
 * 🇸🇻 Alexsander Rodriguez (2017–2018)
 * 🇸🇻 Ernesto Gochez (2018–2020)
 * 🇸🇻 Gerson Perez (2021–2022)
 * 🇪🇸 Manuel Torres Núñez (2023)
 * 🇪🇸 Juan Cortez (2024–present)

Honours

 * CONCACAF U-20 Championship
 * Winners (1): 1964
 * Third place (2): 1984, 2013