Every Player of the Match at Morocco 2025
Find out who was named Player of the Match for every game at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Morocco 2025™. Get tickets for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2025 Friday 17 October Group A: Morocco 0-3 Brazil – Giovanna Waksman (Brazil) Report: Brazil march past Morocco in opener Saturday 18 October Group A: Italy […]
The group stage in stats
130 Unsurprisingly, given the expansion of teams from 16 to 24, the 130 goals scored in the group stage is a new record. The average of 3.61 goals per game is the third highest seen in the opening round, following 4.3 at Azerbaijan 2012 and the 3.91 at Trinidad and Tobago 2010. 81 Nsira Ouedraogo […]
Stadler: We will be aggressive and brave
Ahead of the FIFA U-17 World Cup™ in Qatar, the Austrian camp is full of optimism. Hermann Stadler’s charges held their own against the likes of Spain and Germany in the second round of UEFA qualifying and are now unbeaten for over a year. FIFA spoke to Stadler before the final competition, with the experienced […]
Naeher: Winning the World Cup was magical
Alyssa Naeher grew up in Connecticut with hoop dreams. The talented multi-sport athlete “prayed every morning”, she once disclosed, to one day play for legendary UConn women’s college basketball coach Geno Auriemma, and then take her talents to the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). An elite high school basketball player, Naeher scored more than 2,000 […]
Huge tests for Morocco, Netherlands and Nigeria
Only sixteen teams are left in the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Morocco 2025™. Four more will tumble on Tuesday when the knockout phase gets underway. Hosts Morocco play defending champions Korea DPR in a mouth-watering clash, while Brazil, Italy and USA are also in action. Fixtures Tuesday 28 October Brazil v China PR USA […]
Kumar: We want to show the world our Fijian style
Speed. Fearlessness. Expression. Fiji may well be heading to their first-ever FIFA U-17 World Cup™ but they’re not about to depart from the up-tempo, attack-minded, brand of football that secured their historic qualification for Qatar 2025. As head coach Sunil Kumar explains to FIFA, the Junior Bula Boys are Doha-bound packing belief, expectation and a […]
FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup top scorers
5 goals Giulia Galli – Italy 4 goals Zhou Xinyi – China PR Nyanya Touray – USA Carlota Chacon – Spain 3 goals Lauren Malsom – USA Giovanna Waksman – Brazil Claudia Martinez – Paraguay Yu Jong-hyang – Korea DPR Julia Amireh – Canada Noa Fukushima – Japan Kim Won-sim – Korea DPR Queen Joseph – Nigeria Previous Golden Boot winners 2008: Dzsenifer Marozsan – […]
Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador open with victories
Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador made a flying start in their bid to qualify for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027™ with victories in their opening CONMEBOL Women’s Nations League encounters, while Venezuela and Chile remained scoreless. The two teams that finish in first and second place in the Women’s Nations League standings will qualify directly […]
Group K: Meet the teams
France How they qualified: UEFA Under-17 European Championship runners-up Previous participations: 8 Best U-17 World Cup result: Winners (2001) Coach: Lionel Rouxel Camara captained the France side which finished as U-17 EURO runners-up in June. “He’s an influential player in a team, both on and off the pitch,” said coach Lionel Rouxel. “For a 17-year-old, […]
Group L: Meet the teams
Mali How they qualified: CAF U-17 Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Previous participations: 6 Best U-17 World Cup result: Runners-up (2015) Coach: Adama Diefa Diallo A lightning-quick forward, Bomba operates as a classic No9 and struck three times for Mali during the U-17 AFCON. As well as being an accomplished finisher, coach Adama Diefa Diallo […]