FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship
The FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup is an international association football tournament, organized by FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), for national teams of women under the age of 20. The tournament is held in even-number ...
was held in
Russia
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from 17 August to 3 September 2006. It was the officially recognized world championship for women's under-20 national
association football
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teams. Matches were held in four
Moscow
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stadiums (
Dynamo
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Saint Petersburg
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(
Petrovsky Stadium
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).
This was the third women's world youth championship organized by FIFA, but the first with an age limit of 20. The first two events, held in
Canada
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in 2002 and
Thailand
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in 2004, had an age limit of 19. FIFA changed the age limit to prepare for the creation of an under-17 championship in 2008.
North Korea
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won the tournament. They became the first Asian team to win a FIFA women's tournament and the first Asian football team to win any FIFA tournaments since
Saudi Arabia
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's triumph in the
1989 FIFA U-16 World Championship
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.
Venues
Squads
Tournament
The draw for the tournament was held in Moscow's City Hall on 22 March 2006. 14 of the 16 competing teams (the two CAF teams were then still undecided) learned their first-round groupings.
The 16 participating U-20 women's teams from the six FIFA confederations are:
:1.Teams that made their debut.
Group stage
Group A
All times local (
UTC+4
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As standard time (year-round)
''Principal cities: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Baku, ...
)
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Knockout stage
Quarterfinals
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Semifinals
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3rd Place Playoff
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Final
Awards
The following awards were given for the tournament:
All star team
Scorers
;5 goals
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Ma Xiaoxu
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Club care ...
Cynthia Uwak
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Early life
Cynthia Uwak's first experience of playing football was against boys in th ...
Fatmire Bajramaj
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Club career
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Danesha Adams
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;2 goals
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Collette McCallum
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Playing career
Born ...
Jodi-Ann Robinson
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* Zi Jingjing
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Marie-Laure Delie
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Simone Laudehr
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Career Club
Laudehr began her career at the age of three at FC Tegernheim. In 1996, she joined SC Regensburg, before playing ...
*
Célia Okoyino Da Mbabi
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Career
Célia began her musical career on the TV show ''Um Instante, Maestro!'' in 1970, debuting her self-titled album, which was p ...
*
Charlyn Corral
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Kim Kyong-hwa
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History
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Vanessa Bürki
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Club career
On 18 April 2016, she extended her contract with FC Bayern Munich until 2018. However ...
*
Amy Rodriguez
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* Jessica Rostedt
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Kelley O'Hara
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Sally Shipard
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*
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Francielle
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* Amanda Chiccini
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Kaylyn Kyle
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Laure Boulleau
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Jessica Houara
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C ...
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Louisa Necib
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* Juliane Maier
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Lydia Neumann
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* Monique Cisneros
* Maria de Lourdes Gordillo
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Mónica Ocampo
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Club career
From 2006 to 2009, Ocampo played with W-League club FC Indiana.
In 201 ...
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Abby Erceg
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Tawa Ishola
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See also
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Casey Nogueira
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*This was the first time an Australian football team has played in a worldwide competition as an
Asian Football Confederation
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team. However, the country's senior men's team was the first to play as an AFC team, competing in its first
2007 Asian Cup
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qualifier in February 2006, two months before the AFC qualifiers for this competition. Before 1 January 2006, Australia was a member of the Oceania Football Confederation.
*This was the first U-20 Women's tournament in which a Canadian has not won the Golden Shoe award, given to the top goal scorer of the tournament. Canadians Christine Sinclair and Brittany Timko won the award in 2002 and 2004 respectively.