2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship

The 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship was held in Russia from 17 August to 3 September 2006. It was the officially recognized world championship for women's under-20 national football teams. Matches were held in four Moscow stadiums (Dynamo, Lokomotiv, Podmoskovie Sports Palace and Torpedo Stadion) and one in Saint Petersburg (Petrovskiy Stadion).

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 in 2002 and Thailand 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.

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:

*AFC (3 slots): China, Korea DPR and Australia
*CAF (2 slots): Nigeria and DR Congo.
*CONCACAF (3 slots): United States, Canada and Mexico
*CONMEBOL (2 slots:) Brazil and Argentina
*OFC (1 slot): New Zealand
*UEFA (host + 4 slots): Russia, France, Germany, Finland and Switzerland

Group stage

Group A

footballbox |date = 18 August, 2006
16:00
team1 = fbw-rt|SUI |score = 2–4|report= [http://www.fifa.com/en/comp/U20/U20MatchReport/0,4903,U20W-2006-C-01,00.html (Report)] |team2 = fbw|MEX |goals1 =Buerkri 12', 65' |goals2 =Corral 15', 45'+ Gordillo 30' Ocampo 90'+|stadium = Dynamo Stadium, Moscow
attendance = 3500
referee = Tammy Ogston flagicon|AUS ----footballbox |date = 18 August, 2006
19:00
team1 = fbw-rt|PRK |score = 2–0|report= [http://www.fifa.com/en/comp/U20/U20MatchReport/0,4903,U20W-2006-C-02,00.html (Report)] |team2 = fbw|GER |goals1 =Hui Jong 35' Mi Jo 70'|goals2 = |stadium = Dynamo Stadium
attendance = 700
referee = Fatou Gaye flagicon|SEN ----footballbox |date = 21 August, 2006
16:00
team1 = fbw-rt|MEX |score =1–9|report= [http://www.fifa.com/en/comp/U20/U20MatchReport/0,4903,U20W-2006-C-03,00.html (Report)] |team2 = fbw|GER |goals1 =Cisneros 76' |goals2 =Okoyino Da Mbabi 24' Bajramaj 29' Kessler 31' Blaesse 37',44',84' Laudehr 58' Maier 58' Oster 77' |stadium = Dynamo Stadium
attendance = 500
referee = Gyoengyi Gaal flagicon|HUN ----footballbox |date = 21 August, 2006
19:00
team1 = fbw-rt|SUI |score =0–4|report= [http://www.fifa.com/en/comp/U20/U20MatchReport/0,4903,U20W-2006-C-04,00.html (Report)] |team2 = fbw|PRK |goals1 = |goals2 =Hui Jong 46'+ Ok Sim Kim 50' Song Hui Kim 78', 80' |stadium = Dynamo Stadium
attendance = 600
referee = Shane De Silva flagicon|TRI ----footballbox |date = 24 August, 2006
16:00
team1 = fbw-rt|GER |score = 6–0|report= [http://www.fifa.com/en/comp/U20/U20MatchReport/0,4903,U20W-2006-C-05,00.html (Report)] |team2 = fbw|SUI |goals1 =Bajramaj 4',62' Laudehr 21' Okoyino Da Mbabi 45' Kessler 85'
Blaesse 89' |goals2 = |stadium = Petrovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg
attendance = 300
referee = Dianne Ferreira-James flagicon|GUY ----footballbox |date = 24 August, 2006
16:00
team1 = fbw-rt|MEX |score =0–4|report= [http://www.fifa.com/en/comp/U20/U20MatchReport/0,4903,U20W-2006-C-06,00.html (Report)] |team2 = fbw|PRK |goals1 = |goals2 =Mi 33' Hwa Kim 35' Hui Kil 42' Hui O 59' |stadium = Dynamo Stadium
attendance = 500
referee = Natalia Avdonchenko flagicon|RUS

Group D

corers

;5 goals
*flagicon|CHN Xiaoxu Ma
*flagicon|PRK Song Hui Kim

;4 goals
*flagicon|GER Anna Blaesse
*flagicon|NGA Cynthia Uwak

;3 goals
*flagicon|ARG Ludmila Manicler
*flagicon|GER Fatmire Bajramaj
*flagicon|NGA Maureen Eke
*flagicon|USA Danesha Adams

;2 goals

;1 goal

;Own goals
*flagicon|CHN Fan Yuan (for Finland)

Further information

*This was the first time an Australian football team has played in a worldwide competition as an Asian Football Confederation 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 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.

External links

* [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=108/edition=10292/index.html 2006 U-20 Championship official site]