2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup

The 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup will be the 23rd 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. It will be hosted by Indonesia, which will be the first FIFA tournament hosted by the country. It will also be only the second U-20 World Cup to be held in Southeast Asia, first since 1997, and the first FIFA tournament in the region since the 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Indonesia was originally due to host the tournament in 2021, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced FIFA to cancel the tournament, who awarded the 2023 hosting rights to the country on 24 December 2020.

Ukraine, the 2019 champions, were not able to defend their title as they failed to reach the final round of the UEFA qualifying tournament. In doing so, they became the seventh consecutive title holders to fail to qualify for the subsequent tournament.

Host selection

Five bids to host the original 2021 tournament were submitted in 2019, and Indonesia was announced as the winning bidder on 24 October 2019.

After the 2021 tournament was cancelled, it was decided on 24 December 2020 to award the 2023 hosting rights to Indonesia.

Qualified teams

A total of 24 teams will qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Indonesia which automatically qualified as hosts – their first qualification to a FIFA tournament since the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship and only its second ever qualification for a FIFA tournament, 23 other teams will qualify from six separate continental competitions.

The Dominican Republic and Israel will make their debut in the competition. This is the Dominican Republic's first ever qualification for a FIFA tournament. Having qualified for the 1970 FIFA World Cup via the Asian qualification, this would be the first FIFA tournament in which Israel is qualified as a European representative.

Venues

In June 2020, the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) announced six venues intended for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup, which at the time was put on hold by FIFA.

Draw

The draw will be held on March 2023 in Jakarta.

The 24 teams will be drawn into six groups of four teams, with the hosts Indonesia automatically seeded to Pot 1 and placed into the first position of Group A.

The draw will start with the host Indonesia to A1, the teams from Pot 1 will be drawn first, the teams from Pots 2, 3 and 4 need to skip groups to avoid geographical clash and there will be no 2 teams to play from the same confederation, then the draw will conclude with teams from Pot 4.

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2003 and on or before 31 December 2007 will be eligible to compete in the tournament.

Each team must name a preliminary squad of between 22 and 50 players. From the preliminary squad, the team will name a final squad of 21 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline. Players in the final squad can be replaced by a player from the preliminary squad due to serious injury or illness up to 24 hours prior to kickoff of the team's first match.

Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Group E

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Group F

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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.

In the next stage the four third-placed teams will be matched with the winners of groups A, B, C, and D according to the tournament regulations.

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of 90 minutes of normal playing time, extra time will be played (two periods of 15 minutes each), where each team is allowed to make a fourth substitution. If still tied after extra time, the match will be decided by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.

In the round of 16, the four third-placed teams will be matched with the winners of groups A, B, C, and D. The specific match-ups involving the third-placed teams depend on which four third-placed teams qualified for the round of 16:

Bracket

Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Third place play-off

Final

Marketing

Development and preparation

After being awarded hosts of the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup, the government of Indonesia formed the tournament's organizing committee (Indonesia FIFA U-20 World Cup Organizing Committee, or "INAFOC"). Indonesian president Joko Widodo appointed Minister of Youth and Sports Zainudin Amali as the committee's chair.

On 17 August 2022, coincided with the country's 77th anniversary of independence, FIFA unveiled the tournament's emblem on its streaming service FIFA+.

Broadcasting rights

The following companies held the broadcasting rights:
* : Emtek, Klikdaily (licensee)
* : KBS, MBC, SBS
* : RTSH
* : Fox Sports, Telemundo
* : RAI
* : TV Globo, Sportv
* : TSN, RDS
* : Caracol Televisión, RCN Televisión
* : BBC
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