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2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

Copa Mundial Femenina Sub-17 de la FIFA República Dominicana 2024
Tournament details
Host country	Dominican Republic
Dates	16 October – 3 November
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	North Korea (3rd title)
Runners-up	Spain
Third place	United States
Fourth place	England
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	94 (2.94 per match)
Attendance	94,636 (2,957 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Pau Comendador (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Jon Il-chong
Best goalkeeper	Evan O'Steen
Fair play award	Nigeria
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The 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup (Spanish: Copa Mundial Femenina Sub-17 de la FIFA República Dominicana 2024) was the 8th edition of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It was hosted by the Dominican Republic, the first FIFA tournament hosted by the country. This was the final edition to feature 16 teams before expanding to 24 teams in 2025. It was also the final edition to be held biannually.

Spain were the two-time defending champions. They were beaten in the final by North Korea on penalties.

Host selection

Dominican Republic was announced as the 2024 Women's U-17 World Cup hosts following the FIFA Council meeting on 23 June 2023 in Zürich, Switzerland.

Qualified teams

A total of 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Dominican Republic who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 15 teams qualified from six separate continental competitions.

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Team	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
AFC (Asia) (3 teams)	2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup	Japan	8th	2022	Champions (2014)
		North Korea	7th	2018	Champions (2008, 2016)
		South Korea	4th	2018	Champions (2010)
CAF (Africa) (3 teams)	2024 African U-17 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament	Kenya	1st	None	Debut
		Nigeria	7th	2022	Third place (2022)
		Zambia	2nd	2014	Group stage (2014)
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean) (Hosts + 2 teams)	Host nation	Dominican Republic	1st	None	Debut
	2024 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship	Mexico	7th	2022	Runners-up (2018)
		United States	6th	2022	Runners-up (2008)
CONMEBOL (South America) (3 teams)	2024 South American U-17 Women's Championship	Brazil	7th	2022	Quarter-finalists (2010, 2012, 2022)
		Colombia	6th	2022	Runners-up (2022)
		Ecuador	1st	None	Debut
OFC (Oceania) (1 team)	2023 OFC U-16 Women's Championship	New Zealand	8th	2022	Third place (2018)
UEFA (Europe) (3 teams)	2024 UEFA Women's U-17 Championship	England	3rd	2016	Fourth place (2008)
		Poland	1st	None	Debut
		Spain	6th	2022	Champions (2018, 2022)

Venues

The cities of Santiago de los Caballeros and Santo Domingo were confirmed by Dominican Football Federation on 29 April 2024 to host the competition.

2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup venues

Santiago de los Caballeros	Santo Domingo
Estadio Cibao FC	Estadio Félix Sánchez
Capacity: 8,000	Capacity: 27,000

Draw

The official draw took place on 22 June 2024 at the Monument to Fray Anton de Montesinos in Santo Domingo. The teams were allocated based on their performances in the five previous U-17 Women's World Cups, five bonus points added to the qualifying tournament winners (for this cycle). The hosts team, Dominican Republic, was automatically seeded and assigned to position A1. Teams of the same confederation were drawn so as to not meet in the group stage.

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2009 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

Match officials

A total of 12 referees, 24 assistant referees and 2 support referees were appointed officially by FIFA for the tournament on 16 August 2024. The Football Video Support (FVS) system was utilized for the first time in a FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Originally, Milagros Arruela (Peru) was selected for the tournament, but she was later replaced by Bolivia's Alejandra Quisbert. Olatz Rivera [es] (Spain) was originally only assigned as support referee. However, she was assigned as principal referee during the tournament.

Group stage

The draw for the group stage took place on 22 June 2024.

All times are local, AST (UTC−4).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Nigeria	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	9	Knockout stage
2	Ecuador	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	6
3	Dominican Republic (H)	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1
4	New Zealand	3	0	1	2	2	9	−7	1

New Zealand	1–4	Nigeria
Saxon 60'	Report	Moshood 2' Adegoke 13' Abdulwahab 28' Afolabi 55'

Dominican Republic	0–2	Ecuador
	Report	Valverde 14', 29'

Nigeria	4–0	Ecuador
Moshood 28' (pen.), 90+6' Chidi 54' Effiong 66'	Report

Dominican Republic	1–1	New Zealand
Brito 68'	Report	Mercedes 61' (o.g.)

Nigeria	1–0	Dominican Republic
Moshood 89'	Report

Ecuador	4–0	New Zealand
Arboleda 41' Chiuchiolo 43', 49' Morán 79'	Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	3	3	0	0	10	2	+8	9	Knockout stage
2	United States	3	2	0	1	8	3	+5	6
3	Colombia	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1
4	South Korea	3	0	1	2	1	11	−10	1

Spain	3–1	United States
Travers 3' (o.g.) Ortega 70' Cerrato 83'	Report	Barcenas 22'

South Korea	1–1	Colombia
Phair 36' (pen.)	Report	Martínez 28'

Spain	5–0	South Korea
Comendador 7' Segura 32' Santiago 45+4' Moreno 47' (pen.) A. Gómez 90+3'	Report

Colombia	0–2	United States
	Report	Johnson 43' Fuller 58' (pen.)

United States	5–0	South Korea
Barcenas 1', 47' Fuller 10' Long 68' Padelski 87'	Report

Colombia	1–2	Spain
Díaz 5'	Report	García 58' (pen.) Santiago 90'

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	North Korea	3	3	0	0	11	1	+10	9	Knockout stage
2	England	3	2	0	1	6	6	0	6
3	Kenya	3	1	0	2	2	6	−4	3
4	Mexico	3	0	0	3	4	10	−6	0

North Korea	4–1	Mexico
Choe Rim-jong 14', 34', 85' Choe Il-son 26'	Report	Reyes 45'

Kenya	0–2	England
	Report	Brown 29' (pen.) Thompson 87'

North Korea	3–0	Kenya
So Ryu-gyong 8', 11' Ri Kuk-hyang 86'	Report

England	4–2	Mexico
Shaw 11' Las 61' Maltby 88' Johnson 90+11'	Report	Salas 17' Soto 50' (pen.)

England	0–4	North Korea
	Report	Kang Ryu-mi 10' Choe Il-son 18' Ri Kuk-hyang 69' (pen.) Ho Kyong 73'

Mexico	1–2	Kenya
Soto 90+2' (pen.)	Report	Nekesa 15' Faith 36'

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7	Knockout stage
2	Poland	3	1	2	0	2	0	+2	5
3	Brazil	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
4	Zambia	3	0	0	3	1	7	−6	0

Japan	0–0	Poland
	Report

Brazil	1–0	Zambia
Juju 19'	Report

Japan	2–1	Brazil
Sato 49' Furuta 53'	Report	Juju 8'

Zambia	0–2	Poland
	Report	Wyrwas 7' Araśniewicz 46'

Zambia	1–4	Japan
Suzuki 87' (o.g.)	Report	Shinjo 6', 69' Sato 63' (pen.) Ota 86'

Poland	0–0	Brazil
	Report

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, no extra time was played and a penalty shoot-out was held to determine the winner.

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	26 October – Santiago de los Caballeros
	Nigeria	0
					30 October – Santiago de los Caballeros
	United States	2
					United States	0
	26 October – Santiago de los Caballeros
					North Korea	1
	North Korea	1
									3 November – Santo Domingo
	Poland	0
									North Korea (p)	1 (4)
	27 October – Santo Domingo
									Spain	1 (3)
	Spain	5
					31 October – Santo Domingo
	Ecuador	0
					Spain	3
	27 October – Santo Domingo
					England	0			Third place match
	Japan	2 (1)
									3 November – Santo Domingo
	England (p)	2 (4)
									United States	3
									England	0

Quarter-finals

Nigeria	0–2	United States
	Report	Fuller 43' (pen.) Ascanio 74'

North Korea	1–0	Poland
Choe Rim-jong 14'	Report

Spain	5–0	Ecuador
Comendador 35', 39', 46' Segura 90+4', 90+8'	Report

Japan	2–2	England
Aoki 23' Hirakawa 29'	Report	Parkinson 27' Shaw 72'
Penalties
Aso Nezu Honda	1–4	Brown Maltby Harbert Shaw

Semi-finals

United States	0–1	North Korea
	Report	Ro Un-hyang 69'

Spain	3–0	England
Cerrato 45+2' Comendador 58' Shaw 90+9' (o.g.)	Report

Third place match

United States	3–0	England
Fuller 24' McCammon 72' Padelski 90+2'	Report

Final

North Korea	1–1	Spain
Jon Il-chong 66'	Report	Segura 61'
Penalties
Ri Kuk-hyang Jong Pok-yong Ro Un-hyang Jon Il-chong Kang Ryu-mi	4–3	Segura Santiago Comendador Ortega Moreno

2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup winners
North Korea Third title

Awards

The following awards were given for the tournament:

Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
Jon Il-chong	Pau Comendador	Celia Segura
Golden Boot	Silver Boot	Bronze Boot
Pau Comendador	Kennedy Fuller	Celia Segura
5 goals	4 goals, 3 assists	4 goals, 2 assists, 406 minutes played
Golden Glove
Evan O'Steen
FIFA Fair Play Award
Nigeria

Goalscorers

There were 94 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 2.94 goals per match.

5 goals

• Pau Comendador

4 goals

• Shakirat Moshood
• Choe Rim-jong
• Celia Segura
• Kennedy Fuller

3 goals

• Mel Barcenas

2 goals

• Juju
• Caprice Chiuchiolo
• Jaslym Valverde
• Zara Shaw
• Momo Saruang Ueki Sato
• Miharu Shinjo
• Alexa Soto
• Choe Il-son
• Ri Kuk-hyang
• So Ryu-gyong
• Alba Cerrato
• Iris Ashley Santiago
• Maddie Padelski

1 goal

• Isabella Díaz
• Ella Martínez
• Yuleinis Brito
• Doménica Arboleda
• Dariana Morán
• Lola Brown
• Olivia Johnson
• Nelly Las
• Rachel Maltby
• Erica Parkinson
• Lauryn Thompson
• Yuna Aoki
• Asako Furuta
• Hina Hirakawa
• Mitsuki Ota
• Lornah Faith
• Valerie Nekesa
• Citlalli Reyes
• Ana Salas
• Hannah Saxon
• Faridat Abdulwahab
• Khadijat Adegoke
• Taiwo Afolabi
• Harmony Chidi
• Peace Effiong
• Ho Kyong
• Jon Il-chong
• Kang Ryu-mi
• Ro Un-hyang
• Weronika Araśniewicz
• Kinga Wyrwas
• Casey Phair
• Amaya García
• Ainoa Gómez
• Emma Moreno
• Noa Ortega
• Kimmi Ascanio
• Micayla Johnson
• Mary Long
• Ainsley McCammon

1 own goal

• Renata Mercedes (against New Zealand)
• Zara Shaw (against Spain)
• Haruko Suzuki (against Zambia)
• Jocelyn Travers (against Spain)

See also

• 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

References

1. ^ "FIFA Council appoints United States as host of new and expanded FIFA Club World Cup". FIFA. 23 June 2023. Archived from the original on 16 September 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
2. "Everything you need to know about the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup 2024". FIFA. 16 June 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
3. "Santo Domingo y Santiago serán sedes de la Copa Mundial Sub-17 Femenina de la FIFA 2024" (in Spanish). Dominican Football Federation. 29 April 2024.
4. "Draw: FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Dominican Republic 2024™". FIFA. 17 June 2024.
5. "Draw Procedures - FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Dominican Republic 2024™" (PDF). FIFA. 21 June 2024. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
6. "FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Dominican Republic 2024™ - List of appointed FIFA Match Officials" (PDF). FIFA.com. FIFA. 16 August 2024. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
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8. "Match Schedule – FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Dominican Republic 2024" (PDF). FIFA.com. FIFA. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
9. ^ "Regulations FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Dominican Republic 2024™" (PDF). FIFA. 17 December 2023. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
10. "Jon Il-chong headlines U-17 Women's World Cup award winners". FIFA. 3 November 2024. Retrieved 4 November 2024.

External links

• Official website

• 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
• FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup tournaments
• 2024 in women's association football
• 2024 in youth association football
• International association football competitions hosted by the Dominican Republic
• October 2024 sports events in North America
• November 2024 sports events in North America
• 2024 in youth sport