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U-20 WWC 2024: Quarterfinals Highlights – The USA, Korea DPR, Japan, and Netherlands Advance

Full knockout bracket for the 2024 FIFA U-20 WWC

On Sunday, September 15th, the quarterfinals stage of the 2024 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup began with a rather pedestrian 1-nil victory for Korea DPR over Brazil and ended with the USA stunning Germany by scoring two goals in less than 90 seconds(!) during the last minutes of second-half added time and then besting Germany 3:1 in the penalty shootout.

The middle two matches of the day both went to extra time. In the earlier match, the Netherlands came back twice against host Colombia and then won the penalty shootout 3-nil. And, in the later match, Japan needed a stoppage time goal from Hiromi Yoneda to eliminate the defending champions, Spain.

Thus, on Wednesday, the USA will face Korea DPR in the first semifinal (5:30 p.m. EDT) while Japan will take on the Netherlands in the later semifinal (9:00 p.m. EDT). Both matches will be shown live on FOX Sports 2 and will stream live by Telemundo Deportes (including on NBC.com).

U-20 WWC 2024: Quarterfinals Schedule — USA-Germany Kick-Off Time Changed to 9:00 p.m. EDT

On Sunday, September 15th, the 2024 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup resumes with all four quarterfinal matches, but with a twist!

Due to a change in schedule that was only announced on Thursday, the USA’s quarterfinal match against Germany will now kick off at 9:00 p.m. EDT, which is two hours later than originally planned. The USA-Germany match will be shown live on FOX Sports 2 and can also be streamed via NBC.com (direct link) and the NBC Sports app.

One other match will also be bumped to a later start time: Netherlands-Colombia will now start at 5:30 p.m. EDT.

U-20 WWC 2024: Round of Sixteen, Day One – Highlights

The first-ever Round of Sixteen at a FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup has not lacked for drama. Two matches went into extra time, including the USA’s drama-filled 3:2 victory over their southern neighbors, Mexico. Brazil also needed a full 120 minutes to defeat Cameroon, though the game-winning goal came less than 20 seconds into the first period of added time. Also, Spain needed a comeback victory over Canada, while host Colombia defeated Cameroon on just a single Linda Caicedo goal. And that was just the first day of Round of Sixteen matches.

Here are the video highlights for Wednesday’s matches, with a brief recap of the USA-Mexico match, plus the schedule for Thursday.

U-20 WWC 2024: Round of Sixteen Schedule with TV and Streaming Details

Full bracket for the knockout phase of the 2024 U-20 WWC

On Wednesday, September 11th, for the first time, a Round of Sixteen will get underway at a FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup.

Among the teams still in contention are Concacaf foes USA and Mexico who will face off at 9:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. That match will be shown on FOX Sports 2 (with English-language commentary) and will be streamed by Telemundo Deportes (with Spanish-language commentary).

Also on Wednesday, Canada will take on defending champions Spain. That match kicks off at 5:30 p.m. EDT.

The Round of Sixteen concludes on Thursday with four more matches, including the only other same confederation clash: France versus Netherlands.

U-20 WWC 2024: Full Schedule with USA TV and Streaming Details for the 2024 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup

On Saturday, August 31st, the 2024 edition of the FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup kicks off in Colombia. Viewers in the United States will be able to watch all of the USA’s group matches live on FOX Sports 2. Also, all of the tournament’s matches will be streamed live with Spanish-language commentary through the NBC Sports app and NBC.com.

U-20 WWC 2024: Official Squad Lists Released + Summary Stats and Notables

Earlier this week, FIFA released the official squad lists for this year’s Under-20 Women’s World Cup, which is hosted by Colombia and kicks off on August 31st.

Here is a Google Sheets version of the squad lists, which is converted from the original PDF file (FIFA.com). (Update, 30-Aug-2024: Brazil, Colombia, and Japan have each replaced a player. See the “Notes” page of the spreadsheet for more details.)

Of the 24 teams in this year’s tournament, the United States Under-20 Women’s Youth National Team is the 4th oldest, based on median age, and the 2nd tallest team, based on median height. Only the Netherlands has a higher median height.

Out of 504 total players, 71 are based in the United States, with 47 currently playing for NCAA Division I teams. In all, 14 teams have at least one USA-based player.

Eleven of the US-based players are full professionals who compete in the NWSL: In addition to the 8 USA players, the other NWSL pros are forward Amanda Allen of the Orlando Pride, forward Milly Clegg of Racing Louisville, and midfielder Manaka Matsukubo of the North Carolina Courage, who play for Canada, New Zealand, and Japan, respectively.

For the complete tables of comparative age and height statistics, keep reading…

U-20 WYNT: Midfielder Sam Courtwright Is Out Due to Knee Injury, Will Be Replaced By Addison Halpern

On Thursday, August 15th, U.S. Soccer announced, through their @USYNT x.com account that midfielder Sam Courtwright, who had 8 youth international caps with the United States Under-20 Women’s Youth National Team will not be representing the USA at the upcoming FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia due to an ACL injury.

Halpern’s replacement will be midfielder Addison Halpern from New Jersey. Halpern, who plays for PDA, was one of the alternates named in last week’s roster announcement.

That announcement came a couple hours after Courtwright’s collegiate team, Texas Tech, posted on social media that Courtwright had suffered a season-ending knee injury (post on team’s X.com account). Courtwright’s injury came during a Texas Tech training session.

U-20 WYNT: Roster Announced for the 2024 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup

On Thursday, August 8th, U.S. Soccer announced its roster for the upcoming FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup, which will be hosted by Colombia.

Update (15-Aug-2024): Midfielder Sam Courtwright suffered an ACL injury while training with Texas Tech. She will be replaced by alternate midfielder Addison Halpern.

For the first time, a significant number of the players, who range in age from 18 to 20 years old, will be professionals, as eight out of the twenty-one players will represent NWSL teams at the tournament.

Up through the 2012 cycle, the USA’s final roster for the U-20 WWC consisted exclusively of collegiate and pre-collegiate players. Until this year, only two professionals have played for the USA at the U-20 WWC: Lindsey Horan (Wikipedia) in 2014 and Olivia Moultrie (Wikipedia) in 2022.

This year’s roster is also unusual in another respect, as multiple age-eligible professional players have not been included: Jaedyn Shaw, who is currently with the USWNT at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Olivia Moultrie, and Alyssa Thompson. All three have full senior caps with the USWNT and have essentially ‘graduated’ from the U-20 WYNT after competing for the USA at the last U-20 WWC in 2022.

CU20W: USA Viewing Options for the 2020 CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship

Update (22-Feb-2020): Major re-write, added section for YouTube

While all of this year’s CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship matches that involve the USA should be available unblocked via CONCACAF’s official YouTube channel, some live broadcasts of other matches have been geo-blocked in the USA.

For those trying to watch these other matches live, there are two additional options: Concacaf Go (go.concacaf.com) and TUDNxtra. And, if you missed a match, each match should be available for replay on YouTube (official playlist) shortly after the end of the live broadcast.

The Options:

Free/English: YouTube (official playlist of full matches) – Some matches may be geo-blocked
Free/English: Concacaf Go / go.concacaf.com
Non-Free/Spanish: TUDNxtra / www.tudn.com/tudnxtra

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2020 CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship – Final Rosters

Earlier this week, CONCACAF released the final rosters for this year’s Women’s Under-20 Championship. Unfortunately, the rosters were only made publicly available via Issuu.com which does not allow downloads of the original PDF for documents uploaded by free accounts (and generally sucks from a usability perspective.)

Anyway, here is the full list of players as a Google Sheets file.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oOmw582dDE6XBMtWswTQZBHCFdv7jYNYmAtLPPkhBbU/edit

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