2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup


The 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the nineteenth edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, since its inception in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Championship. It ran from 21 June to 13 July 2013. At the FIFA Executive Meeting in Zürich on 3 March 2011, Turkey beat other bids to host the series games, from host competition by the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan. In its bid, Turkey suggested the use of thirteen stadiums in ten of its cities, before deciding in February 2012, that seven cities would play host to games.
This tournament marked the first time in its history that neither Argentina nor Brazil qualified. It was also only the second time that Brazil had not taken part. As defending champions, Brazil were the third consecutive incumbent title holder to fail to qualify for the subsequent tournament.
France won the tournament and their first U-20 World Cup, and thus became the first nation to win all five FIFA 11-a-side men's titles.

Bids

At the deadline date of 17 January 2011, three member associations confirmed they would be bidding for the event. Neither Turkey nor Uzbekistan had ever been hosts to a FIFA competition, while the United Arab Emirates were hosts of the U-20s in 2003.

Qualification

In addition to host nation Turkey, 23 nations qualified from six separate continental competitions.
ConfederationQualifying TournamentQualifier
AFC
(Asia)		AFC U-19 Championship


CAF
(Africa)		2013 African U-20 Championship


CONCACAF
(North, Central America & Caribbean)		2013 CONCACAF U-20 Championship


CONMEBOL
(South America)		2013 South American Youth Championship


OFC
(Oceania)		OFC U-20 Championship
UEFA
(Europe)		Host nation
UEFA
(Europe)		2012 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship





Organization and emblem

To mark the one year countdown date to the competition, FIFA, as well as members of the Turkish FA, announced that the emblem would be presented to the media on 25 June 2012 at Ciragan Palace Mabeyn Hall in Istanbul. Details of the ticketing access were made publicly available on 30 November 2012.
Host city logos for each participating stadium were shown to the general public on 20 March 2013, with each taking inspiration from their surroundings. The official logo included an Evil Eye protector, worn or hung inside Turkish homes to bring luck.

Mascot

The mascot for the tournament was called Kanki, a blue-eyed Kangal puppy.

Theme song

The official theme song for the tournament was Yıldızlar Buradan Yükseliyor, which is translated as Building Bridges for Rising Stars, performed by Turkish rock band Gece.

Draw

The final draw was held at the Grand Tarabya Hotel in Istanbul on 25 March 2013, at 19:00 local time.
On 12 February 2013, FIFA announced the procedure of the draw. The 24 teams were divided into four differing pots:
  • Pot 1: The continental champions of six confederations
  • Pot 2: Remaining teams from AFC and CAF
  • Pot 3: Remaining teams from CONCACAF and CONMEBOL
  • Pot 4: Host and remaining teams from UEFA
Turkey was assigned to position C1, and Spain was assigned to Group A. As a basic principle, teams from the same confederation could not be drawn against each other at the group stage, except in Group A where there were two teams from UEFA.
As the CAF U-20 Championship was not completed at the time of the draw, a separate draw took place at the tournament's conclusion on 30 March in Oran, Algeria to determine the groups where the second, third and fourth-placed CAF teams would play in. As the OFC U-20 Championship was realize after at time of the draw, New Zealand appeared in Pot 1 as OFC Champion.
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Match officials

The 23 referee trios were announced by FIFA on 13 May 2013.
ConfederationRefereeAssistants
AFCBen Williams Matthew Cream
Hakan Anaz
AFCNawaf Shukralla Yaser Tulefat
Ebrahim Saleh
AFCAlireza Faghani Hassan Kamranifar
Reza Sokhandan
CAFNéant Alioum Evarist Menkouande
Peter Edibe
CAFBakary Gassama Angesom Ogbamariam
Félicien Kabanda
CAFNoumandiez Doué Songuifolo Yeo
Jean-Claude Birumushahu
CONCACAFWalter López Gerson López
Leonel Leal
CONCACAFRoberto García José Luis Camargo
Alberto Morín
CONCACAFRoberto Moreno Daniel Williamson
Keyztel Corrales
CONMEBOLSandro Ricci Alessandro Rocha
Emerson de Carvalho
CONMEBOLWilmar Roldán Humberto Clavijo
Eduardo Díaz
CONMEBOLCarlos Vera Christian Lescano
Byron Romero
CONMEBOLAntonio Arias Rodney Aquino
Carlos Cáceres
CONMEBOLVíctor Hugo Carrillo Jonny Bossio
César Escano
OFCPeter O'Leary Jan-Hendrik Hintz
Ravinesh Kumar
UEFAStéphane Lannoy Frédéric Cano
Michaël Annonier
UEFAViktor Kassai Gábor Erős
István Albert
UEFANicola Rizzoli Renato Faverani
Andrea Stefani
UEFAMilorad Mažić Milovan Ristić
Dalibor Djurdjević
UEFADamir Skomina Matej Žunič
Bojan Ul
UEFAAlberto Undiano Mallenco Raúl Cabanero Martínez
Roberto Díaz Pérez
UEFAJonas Eriksson Mathias Klasenius
Daniel Wärnmark
UEFACüneyt Çakır Bahattin Duran
Tarık Ongun

Squads

Teams had to name a 21-man squad by the FIFA deadline. The squads were announced by FIFA on 14 June 2013.

Group stage

The winners and runners-up from each group, as well as the best four third-placed teams, qualified for the first round of the knockout stage (round of 16).
The ranking of each team in each group was determined as follows:
  1. points obtained in all group matches;
  2. goal difference in all group matches;
  3. number of goals scored in all group matches;
If two or more teams were equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings were determined as follows:
  1. points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  2. goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  3. number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  4. drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.
All times are local, UTC+03:00.

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 teams among those ranked third were determined as follows:
  1. points obtained in all group matches;
  2. goal difference in all group matches;
  3. number of goals scored in all group matches;
  4. drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

Knockout stage

In the knockout stages, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner, except for the play-off for third place, where no extra time would be played as the match was played directly before the final.

Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Awards

The following awards were given out after the conclusion of the tournament:

Goalscorers

With six goals, Ebenezer Assifuah is the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 152 goals were scored by 99 different players, with one of them credited as own goals.
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Miscellanea

Trophy

The winners were the first team to receive an updated version of the trophy, with Rebecca Cusack and Thomas R. Fattorini of Thomas Fattorini Ltd, Birmingham taking over from Sawaya & Moroni as suppliers of FIFA competitions.

Vanishing spray

A “vanishing spray” made its FIFA debut during this tournament, with referees using it to denote the ten-yard mark for an opposing defence at time of free kicks.

Media coverage

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Asia

Europe