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Mexico National Under-20 Football Team
The Mexico national under-20 football team represents Mexico in association football at the under-20 age level, and is controlled by the Mexican Football Federation (FMF), the governing body of football in Mexico. The team has won the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship a record thirteen times across its various formats. Mexico's best finish came at the 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship, the first ever edition of a FIFA-sanctioned youth tournament. They also managed a third-place finish at the 2011 edition. Competitive record FIFA World Cup record Honours Major competitions *FIFA U-20 World Cup ** Runners-up (1): 1977 ** Third Place (1): 2011 * CONCACAF Under-20 Championship ** Winners (13): 1962, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1990, 1992, 2011, 2013, 2015 ** Runners-up (3): 1988, 1996, 2018 Other competitions * Pan American Games ** Third Place (1): 2007 * Revelations Cup ** Winners (2): 2021, 2022 * Central American and Caribbean Games ** Winners (1): 2014 ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexican Football Federation
The Mexican Football Federation (; abbreviated as Femexfut or FMF) is the governing body of association football in Mexico. It adm the Mexico national team, the Liga MX and all affiliated amateur sectors, and controls promoting, organizing, directing, expanding, and supervising competitive football in Mexico. The Federación has three operational centres: the Central Office, the High Performance Centre (, CAR) and the Training Centre (, CECAP). FEMEXFUT is a member of the CONCACAF and FIFA, and is subject to policies, statutes, objectives and ideals of those international play football governing bodies. The Federación was established on 23 August 1922 under the inaugural president Humberto Garza Ramos. In 1929, FIFA affiliation was established; CONCACAF affiliation was established in 1961. Structure The governing body of the Federación is the General Assembly that conforms with the participation of the Liga MX with 55% of the votes; Ascenso MX with 5%; Liga Premier, with 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament
The 1976 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship was held in Puerto Rico. It also served as qualification for the 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship. Teams The following teams entered the tournament: Round 1 Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Round 2 Group A Group B Semifinals Third place match Final Qualification to World Youth Championship The two best performing teams qualified for the 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship. * * External linksResults by RSSSF {{CONCACAF Under-20 Championship CONCACAF Under-20 Championship 1976 in Puerto Rican spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup
The 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the 18th FIFA U-20 World Cup. Colombia hosted the tournament between 29 July and 20 August 2011, with matches being played in eight cities. The tournament was won by Brazil who claimed their fifth title. At a FIFA Executive Committee meeting held in Sydney on 26 May 2008, Colombia beat the only other candidate country, Venezuela, for the right to organize the U-20 World Cup. It was suggested by the then-Vice President of Colombia Francisco Santos Calderón that it was needed to withdraw from the race with Brazil to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup so the nation could concentrate on hosting the "best possible games". In an inspection tour of development works in March 2010, Jack Warner, then the vice president of FIFA, said that the completion of this tournament could provide Colombia with a launch pad to become a possible host for the 2026 World Cup. The official song of the tournament was " Nuestra Fiesta" by Colombian singer Jorge Celedón. Venue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA
FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' (French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises 211 national associations. These national associations must each also be members of one of the six regional confederations into which the world is divided: CAF (Africa), AFC (Asia and Australia), UEFA (Europe), CONCACAF (North & Central America and the Caribbean), OFC (Oceania) and CONMEBOL (South America). FIFA outlines a number of objectives in the organizational Statutes, including growing association football internationally, providing efforts to ensure it is accessible to everyone, and advocating for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football In Mexico
Mexico's most popular sport is football (called fútbol in Mexico). , the top tier leagues in Mexico are Liga MX for the men and the Liga MX Femenil for women. In Mexico, football became a professional men's sport in 1943. Since then, Mexico's most successful men's club has been Club América, with thirteen Liga MX titles. The first women's professional football league in Mexico was established from the 2017–18 Liga MX Femenil season. It set new world records for attendances at women's professional football matches. Antonio Carbajal was the first player to appear in five World Cups, and Hugo Sánchez was named best CONCACAF player of the 20th century by IFFHS. Mexico's largest capacity stadiums are Estadio Azteca, Estadio Olímpico Universitario and Estadio Jalisco. , it was estimated that there were in the nation over 324,000 registered players and approximately 8,155,000 unregistered players. Professional clubs Men's football has been played professionally in Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico ''The World Factbook''. Central Intelligence Agency. making it the world's List of countries by area, 13th-largest country by area; with approximately 126,014,024 inhabitants, it is the List of countries by population, 10th-most-populous country and has the hispanophone#Hispanosphere, most Spanish-speakers. Mexico is organized as a federation, federal republic comprising 31 list of states of Mexico, states an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship
The 2015 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship was an association football tournament that took place from 9 to 24 January 2015 in Jamaica. It determined the four CONCACAF teams that would participate at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand. Qualification Note: no titles or runners-up between 1998 and 2007. Bold indicates that the corresponding team was hosting the event. Venues In March 2014, Enrique Sanz invited nations to bid for the hosting rights of the tournament. The deadline for submissions was 14 April 2014. On 23 July, it was announced that Jamaica would be the host nation. New format Previously there were four groups of three teams during the group stage of the competition, each team played a minimum of two games and the previous format had a total of 20 matches. For this tournament, there was two groups of six teams, each team played a minimum of five games and the competition had a total of 33 matches. CONCACAF stated that the new format would aid developm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 CONCACAF U-20 Championship
The 2013 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship was an association football tournament that took place between February 18 and March 3, 2013. The CONCACAF U-20 Championship determined the four CONCACAF teams that would participate at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Qualified teams Four teams qualified through the Central American qualifying tournament and five qualified through the Caribbean qualifying tournament. Note: no titles or runners-up between 1998 and 2007. Bold indicates that the corresponding team was hosting the event. Venues Squads Group stage The draw for the group stage was made on 21 November 2012. All times listed are local time, ( UTC−06:00) Group A ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- Group C ---- ---- Group D ---- ---- Knockout Phase Quarter-finals Winners qualified for 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup. ---- ---- ---- Semi-finals ---- Third place playoff Final Player awards ;Top Goalscorer * Ameth Ramírez (FW) ;Most Valuable P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 CONCACAF U-20 Championship
The 2011 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship was expanded to 12 teams beginning in 2011. The tournament determined the four CONCACAF teams that participated at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup to be held in Colombia. In addition, the top three finishers from Central America or the Caribbean, in addition to hosts Mexico, qualified to participate at the 2011 Pan American Games. The Executive Committee approved that for men's U-20 championships all three North American teams again qualified automatically for the finals. Central America received four berths, and the Caribbean received five. The new allocations give Central America one more berth than it had in 2009 and the Caribbean three more. On 1 September 2010 CONCACAF announced Guatemala as host of the championship, played from 3–17 April. The championship was scheduled to be held a week later but was moved ahead one week due to a scheduling conflict. Qualified teams Squads Venues The tournament was hosted in two stadia. Dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament
The 1992 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship was held in Canada. It also served as qualification for the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. Teams The following teams qualified for the tournament: Round 1 Group A Group B In this group, Honduras qualified for the final round as best group runners-up. Group C Final round Qualification to World Youth Championship The two best performing teams qualified for the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. * * See also * 1992 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament qualifying This article features the 1992 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament qualifying stage. The qualifying tournament was only for Caribbean teams. Bermuda automatically qualified, as well as the North American Canada, Mexico and the United States, and the Central Am ... External linksResults by RSSSF {{CONCACA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament
The 1990 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship was held in Guatemala. It also served as qualification for the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship. Qualification Other qualification matches may have been played. Teams The following teams entered the tournament: Round 1 Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Final round Qualification to World Youth Championship The two best performing teams qualified for the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship The 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship was the eighth staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, an international football competition organized by FIFA for men's youth national teams, and the eighth since it was established in 1977 as the FIFA .... * * External linksResults by CONCACAF {{CONCACAF Under-20 Championship [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
