The 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup ( ar, كأس العالم للسيدات تحت 17 سنة المغرب 2025) (french: Coupe du Monde Féminine U-17 de la FIFA Maroc 2025) will be the 9th edition of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, the international women's youth

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championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of

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. It will be hosted by Morocco. It will be the first FIFA tournament ever hosted by Morocco. It will also be the first time the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup to be held in Africa and the second Arab country to host it after Jordan in

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. It will also be the first edition to feature 24 teams and played annually.

Host selection

Morocco was announced as the 2025–2029 Women's U-17 World Cup hosts following the FIFA Council meeting on 14 March 2024 in Zürich,

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Calendar change

Talks of a possible change in frequency of the tournament were first unveiled at a FIFA meeting in Doha in December 2022. After the 2023 FIFA Congress in

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, FIFA's plans to change the frequency of the U-17 Women's World Cup from biannually to annually was officially confirmed.

Expansion

On 14 March 2024, FIFA decided to expand the tournament to 24 teams. On 15 May 2024, the slot allocation was officially confirmed.https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/news/articles/key-tournament-decisions-made-by-fifa-council * AFC (Asia): 4 slots * CAF (Africa): 5 slots (including hosts Morocco) * CONCACAF (North America, Central America and the Caribbean): 4 slots *

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(South America): 4 slots * OFC (Oceania): 2 slots * UEFA (Europe): 5 slots

Venues

TBD.

Qualified teams

A total of 24 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Morocco who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 23 teams qualify from six separate continental competitions.

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2009 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Group stage

All times are local,

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( UTC+1).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

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.

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time shall be played (two periods of five minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner. However, for the third place match, if it is played directly before the final, no extra time shall be played and the winner shall be determined by a penalty shoot-out.

Bracket

;Combinations of matches in the Round of 16 The specific match-ups involving the third-placed teams depend on which four third-placed teams qualified for the round of 16:

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fifa U-17 Women's World Cup 2025

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