2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
Mistrzostwa Świata FIFA U-20 Kobiet Polska 2026
Tournament details
Host country	Poland
Dates	TBD
Teams	24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	TBD
	← 2024 2028 →

The 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup (Polish: Mistrzostwa Świata FIFA U-20 Kobiet Polska 2026) will be the 12th edition of the FIFA Women's U-20 World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It will be hosted by Poland. It will be the second time that Poland has hosted a FIFA tournament having hosted the Men's FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2019. It will also be the first time that Poland has hosted a FIFA women's tournament.^[1]

Host selection

Poland were announced as the 2026 Women's U-20 World Cup hosts following the FIFA Council meeting on 17 December 2023 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.^[2]

Qualified teams

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

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Team	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
AFC (Asia) (4 teams)	2026 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
CAF (Africa) (4 teams)	2026 African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean) (4 teams)	2025 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
CONMEBOL (South America) (4 teams)	2026 South American Under-20 Women's Championship	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
OFC (Oceania) (2 teams)	2025 OFC U-19 Women's Championship	TBD
OFC (Oceania) (2 teams)	2025 OFC U-19 Women's Championship	TBD
UEFA (Europe) (Hosts + 5 teams)	Host nation	Poland	1st	None	Debut
	2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship	TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD
		TBD

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Venues

TBD

Draw

The official draw will take place in Summer 2026. The teams were allocated based on their performances in the 5 previous U-20 Women's World Cups, five bonus points are added to each of the confederation's current champions that won the respective qualifying tournament (for this cycle). The hosts Poland are automatically seeded and assigned to position A1. Teams of the same confederation will not meet in the group stage.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Poland (hosts) TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD	TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD	TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD	TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2010 are eligible to compete in the tournament.