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2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Chile 2008 Copa Mundial Femenina de Fútbol Sub-20 de 2008
Official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Chile
Dates	19 November – 7 December
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	United States (2nd title)
Runners-up	North Korea
Third place	Germany
Fourth place	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	113 (3.53 per match)
Attendance	252,358 (7,886 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sydney Leroux (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Sydney Leroux
Best goalkeeper	Alyssa Naeher
Fair play award	United States
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The 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 4th edition of the tournament. It was held in Chile between 19 November and 7 December 2008. Sixteen teams, comprising representatives from all six confederations, took part in the final competition, in which Chile had a guaranteed place as the host nation.

Background

On 15 September 2006, FIFA officially announced Chile as the host country. It was the third time Chile organized a football world cup, after the 1962 FIFA World Cup and the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship, but the first in the women's competition. The decision came as a surprise to Chile, as it had bid in August 2006 to host the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, which was finally granted to New Zealand (Ecuador was unsuccessful in both bids). Chile previously hosted the South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship and the first edition for Under 17s in January 2008.

Venues

Four different cities were selected as venues in an open bidding process. Changes to the stadiums to comply with FIFA standards were carried out between December 2007 and September 2008. The selected venues were:

• Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso World Cup Stadium, Coquimbo (opening)
• La Florida Bicentennial Municipal Stadium, La Florida (Greater Santiago area)
• Nelson Oyarzún Arenas Chillán Municipal Stadium, Chillán
• Germán Becker B. Municipal Stadium, Temuco

Coquimbo	CoquimboLa FloridaChillánTemuco	La Florida (Greater Santiago area)
Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso Stadium		La Florida Bicentennial Stadium
Capacity: 18,750		Capacity: 12,000
Chillán		Temuco
Nelson Oyarzún Stadium		Germán Becker Stadium
Capacity: 12,000		Capacity: 18,125

Qualified teams

The places were allocated as follows to confederations: AFC (3), CAF (2), CONCACAF (3), CONMEBOL (2), OFC (1), UEFA (4), plus the host country.

Continent	Confederation Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s)
Asia	2007 AFC U-19 Women's Championship	North Korea  Japan  China
Africa	2008 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament	Nigeria  DR Congo
Central, North America and Caribbean	2008 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship	Canada  United States  Mexico
South America	Host nation	Chile
	2008 South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship	Brazil  Argentina
Oceania	appointed by OFC, no qualifying tournament	New Zealand
Europe	2007 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship	Germany  England  France  Norway

1. Teams that made their debut.

Squads

Group stage

The opening phase of the tournament comprised four groups of four teams, with the top two sides in each section advancing to the quarter-finals. The final draw to determine the groups took place in Santiago, Chile on 13 September 2008 at 20:30 UTC.

All times local (UTC-3)

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nigeria	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	7
England	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
New Zealand	3	1	1	1	7	7	0	4
Chile	3	0	0	3	3	8	−5	0

New Zealand	2–3	Nigeria
Percival 42' 52'	(Report)	S. Michael 31' Chukwudi 35' Chikwelu 90+2'

Chile	0–2	England
	(Report)	Chaplen 54' Duggan 79'

Nigeria	1–1	England
Orji 71'	(Report)	Dowie 45+1'

Chile	3–4	New Zealand
Mardones 50' Pardo 83' Zamora 90+2'	(Report)	White 20' 36' (pen.) 74' Leota 66'

Nigeria	2–0	Chile
Guajardo 15' (o.g.) Orji 41'	(Report)

England	1–1	New Zealand
Duggan 90+4'	(Report)	McLaughlin 27'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4	6
France	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
China	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
Argentina	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

China	0–0	Argentina
	(Report)

France	0–3	United States
	(Report)	Morgan 53' Leroux 56' 71'

United States	3–0	Argentina
Edwards 11' Morgan 53' 90'	(Report)

China	0–2	France
	(Report)	Delie 70' Le Sommer 87'

United States	0–2	China
	(Report)	Zhang 52' Liu 58'

Argentina	1–3	France
Jaimes 42'	(Report)	Le Sommer 65' 80' Machart 90+3'

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Japan	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5	9
Germany	3	2	0	1	8	3	+5	6
Canada	3	1	0	2	5	4	+1	3
DR Congo	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	0

Canada	0–2	Japan
	(Report)	Goto 28' Tanaka 40'

DR Congo	0–5	Germany
	(Report)	Kulig 7', 90+1' Baunach 8' Kerschowski 43' (pen.) N. Banecki 82'

Germany	1–2	Japan
Kerschowski 61'	(Report)	Koyama 41' Nagasato 83'

Canada	4–0	DR Congo
Riverso 1' Lam-Feist 40' Filigno 77' Armstrong 90'	(Report)

Germany	2–1	Canada
McNulty 77' (o.g.) Schwab 90'	(Report)	Lam-Feist 81'

Japan	3–1	DR Congo
Mafuala 4' (o.g.) Ataeyama 10' Utsugi 78'	(Report)	Amani 6'

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	0	11	2	+9	9
North Korea	3	2	0	1	10	6	+4	6
Norway	3	1	0	2	4	7	−3	3
Mexico	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

Mexico	1–2	Norway
Garza 28'	(Report)	Lund 26' Enget 76'

Brazil	3–2	North Korea
Janaína 45+2' Érika 48' Francielle 66' (pen.)	(Report)	Ri Y.G. 30' Ri U.H. 90'

North Korea	3–2	Norway
Ri Y.G. 17' Ra 29' 64'	(Report)	Herlovsen 52' 59'

Mexico	0–5	Brazil
	(Report)	Pamela 4' Francielle 40' Daiane 68' Ketlen 90+4' Ortiz 90+5' (o.g.)

North Korea	5–1	Mexico
Ryom 9' Pak 17' Choe 39' Ri H.S. 53' Ri Y.G. 66'	(Report)	Corral 84'

Norway	0–3	Brazil
	(Report)	Érika 39' Daiane 80' Pamela 83'

Knockout stage

All times local (UTC-3)

Knockout map

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	30 November – Coquimbo
	Nigeria	2
					4 December – Temuco
	France	3
					France	1
	1 December – La Florida
					North Korea	2
	Japan	1
									7 December – La Florida
	North Korea	2
									North Korea	1
	30 November – Chillán
									United States	2
	United States	3
					4 December – Coquimbo
	England	0
					United States	1
	1 December – Temuco
					Germany	0			Third place
	Brazil	2
									7 December – La Florida
	Germany	3
									France	3
									Germany	5

Quarterfinals

Nigeria	2–3	France
Orji 13' Jegede 38'	(Report)	Machart 2' Le Sommer 49' Coton-Pélagie 88'

United States	3–0	England
Winters 53' Leroux 81' 90+4'	(Report)

Japan	1–2	North Korea
Nagasato 39'	(Report)	Cha 22' Ra 60'

Brazil	2–3	Germany
Schiewe 38' (o.g.) Adriane 88'	(Report)	S. Banecki 44' Bock 68' N. Banecki 82'

Semifinals

France	1–2	North Korea
Coton-Pélagie 51'	(Report)	Ri U.H. 68' Ri Y.G. 90+3'

United States	1–0	Germany
Schmidt 21' (o.g.)	(Report)

3rd-place playoff

France	3–5	Germany
Pervier 45+1' 75' Delie 90+2'	(Report)	Pollman 10' 29' 31' Simic 67' Schwab 80'

Final

North Korea	1–2	United States
Cha 90+2'	(Report)	Leroux 23' Morgan 42'

2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup winners
United States Second title

Awards

The following awards were given for the tournament:

Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
Sydney Leroux	Alex Morgan	Eugénie Le Sommer
Golden Shoe	Silver Shoe	Bronze Shoe
Sydney Leroux	Ri Ye-gyong	Alex Morgan
5 goals	4 goals	4 goals
Golden Glove
Alyssa Naeher
FIFA Fair Play Award
United States

All star team

The following players were named as the All Star Team for the tournament:

Goalscorers

5 goals

• Sydney Leroux

4 goals

• Eugenie Le Sommer
• Ri Ye-gyong
• Alex Morgan

3 goals

• Marie Pollman
• Ebere Orji
• Rosie White
• Ra Un-sim

2 goals

• Daiane
• Érika
• Francielle
• Pamela
• Monica Lam-Feist
• Toni Duggan
• Nora Coton-Pélagie
• Marie-Laure Delie
• Julie Machart
• Marine Pervier
• Nicole Banecki
• Isabel Kerschowski
• Kim Kulig
• Lisa Schwab
• Asano Nagasato
• Isabell Herlovsen
• Ria Percival
• Cha Hu-nam
• Ri Un-hyang

1 goal

• Florencia Jaimes
• Adriane
• Janaína
• Ketlen
• Julie Armstrong
• Jonelle Filigno
• Loredana Riverso
• María Mardones
• Daniela Pardo
• Daniela Zamora
• Liu Shukun
• Zhang Rui
• Oliva Amani
• Brooke Chaplen
• Natasha Dowie
• Sylvie Banecki
• Katharina Baunach
• Nathalie Bock
• Julia Simic
• Konomi Ataeyama
• Michi Goto
• Kie Koyama
• Asuna Tanaka
• Rumi Utsugi
• Charlyn Corral
• Dinora Garza
• Rita Chikwelu
• Ogonna Chukwudi
• Joy Jegede
• Sarah Michael
• Ida Elise Enget
• Marita Skammelsrud Lund
• Renee Leota
• Sarah McLaughlin
• Choe Un-ju
• Pak Kuk-hui
• Ra Un-sim
• Ri Hyon-suk
• Ryom Su-ok
• Becky Edwards
• Keelin Winters

Own goals

• Erin McNulty (1 for Germany)
• Javiera Guajardo (1 for Nigeria)
• Nanu Mafuala (1 for Japan)
• Carolin Schiewe (1 for Brazil)
• Bianca Schmidt (1 for USA)
• Wendoline Ortiz (1 for Brazil)

References

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External links

• FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Chile 2008, FIFA.com
• FIFA Technical Report

• 2008 in women's association football
• FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup tournaments
• International association football competitions hosted by Chile
• 2008 in Chilean football
• Women's football in Chile
• November 2008 sports events in South America
• December 2008 sports events in South America
• 2008 in youth association football