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2006 FIFA U 20 Women's World Championship

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Host country
  
Russia

Runners-up
  
China PR

Venue(s)
  
5 (in 2 host cities)

2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship

Dates
  
17 August – 3 September

Teams
  
16 (from 6 confederations)

Champions
  
North Korea (1st title)

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 Stadium and Torpedo Stadium) and one in Saint Petersburg (Petrovskiy Stadion).

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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 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:

1.^ Teams that made their debut.

Group A

All times local (UTC+4)

Awards

The following awards were given for the tournament:

Scorers

5 goals
  • Ma Xiaoxu
  • Kim Song-hui
    • 4 goals
  • Anna Blässe
  • Cynthia Uwak
    • 3 goals
    2 goals
    1 goal
    Own goals
  • Yuan Fan (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.

    • References

    2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship Wikipedia
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