2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

The 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament was held in Jordan from 30 September to 21 October 2016.[1]

2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
كأس العالم للسيدات تحت 17 سنة 2016
Tournament details
Host countryJordan
Dates30 September – 21 October
Teams16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions North Korea (2nd title)
Runners-up Japan
Third place Spain
Fourth place Venezuela
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored104 (3.25 per match)
Attendance104,095 (3,253 per match)
Top scorer(s) Lorena Navarro
(8 goals)
Best player(s) Fuka Nagano
Best goalkeeper Noelia Ramos
Fair play award Japan

While the role of women in sport was regarded as controversial due to cultural and religious conservatism in some countries of the Middle East, this tournament was the first female FIFA tournament held in the region.[2]

Host selection

The following countries submitted a bid to host the tournament by the May 2013 deadline:[3]

On 5 December 2013, the FIFA Executive Committee announced that the tournament would be held in Jordan.[4]

Qualified teams

A total of 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Jordan who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 15 teams qualified from six separate continental competitions. The slot allocation was published in June 2014.[5]

Confederation Qualifying Tournament Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia) Host nation  Jordan1
2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship  Japan
 North Korea
CAF (Africa) 2016 African U-17 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament  Cameroon1
 Ghana
 Nigeria
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean) 2016 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship  Canada
 Mexico
 United States
CONMEBOL (South America) 2016 South American Under-17 Women's Championship  Brazil
 Paraguay
 Venezuela
OFC (Oceania) 2016 OFC U-17 Women's Championship  New Zealand
UEFA (Europe) 2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship  England
 Germany
 Spain
1.^ Teams that made their debut.

Venues

The three host cities were Amman, Irbid, and Zarqa. The infrastructure of the stadiums and surrounding areas in the host cities was developed. Greater Amman Municipality and the Higher Council for Youth were responsible for developing the infrastructure, with 30% under the responsibility of the municipality and 70% under the responsibility of the council.[6]

Amman
Amman
Amman International StadiumKing Abdullah II Stadium
Capacity: 20,000Capacity: 18,000
ZarqaIrbid
Prince Mohammed StadiumAl-Hassan Stadium
Capacity: 17,000Capacity: 15,000

Emblem

The official emblem was unveiled on 3 May 2015, which was designed to showcase Jordan's most iconic symbols. Visual aspects of the Jordanian culture can be seen on the emblem that has the traditional shape of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Trophy, which include; the distinctive pattern of the Jordanian Keffieh, the Jordanian national flower Black Iris, Pan Arab colors and a star from the Jordanian flag.[7]

Mascot

In a FIFA press conference on 28 May 2016, the tournament mascot Aseela was introduced. Aseela is an Arabian oryx, which is a rare animal that happens to be the national animal of Jordan. The Arabian Oryx was chosen for being a symbol of " strength, gentleness, and athleticism", resembling female football players. The mascot is expected to inspire young women across Jordan and the region to participate in watching the tournament.[8]

Squads
Main article: 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup squads

Each team named a squad of 21 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline. All players must be born on or after 1 January 1999, and on or before 31 December 2001.[9] The official squads were announced on 23 September 2016.[10]

Match officials

A total of 16 referees, 1 reserve referee, and 28 assistant referees were appointed by FIFA for the tournament.[11]

Confederation Referees Assistant referees
AFC

Kate Jacewicz
Park Ji-Yeong
Yoshimi Yamashita
Oh Hyeon-Jeong (reserve)

Renae Coghill
Uvena Fernandes
Maiko Hagio
Lee Seul-Gi
Liang Jianping
Truong Thi Le Trinh

CAF

Aissata Ameyo Amegee
Ledya Tafesse

Josiane Mbakop
Fanta Idrissa Kone

CONCACAF

Marie-Soleil Beaudoin
Ekaterina Koroleva
Miriam Patricia León Serpas

Thelma Beltran
Yudilia Briones
Princess Brown
Kathryn Nesbitt
Deleana Quan
Stephanie-Dale Yee Sing

CONMEBOL

Laura Fortunato
Regildenia de Holanda Moura
Viviana Muñoz
Yeimy Martinez

Liliana Bejarano
Nilda Gamarra
Luzmila Gonzalez
Daiana Milone
Tatiane Sacilotti
Leslie Vasquez

OFC

Finau Vulivuli

–

UEFA

Esther Azzopardi
Sandra Braz Bastos
Anastasia Pustovoitova
Olga Zadinová

Lucia Abruzzese
Oleksandra Ardasheva
Christina Biehl
Susanne Kueng
Ekaterina Kurochkina
Kylie McMullan
Slavomira Majkuthová
Katarzyna Wojs

Draw

The official draw was held on 30 May 2016, 18:00 EEST (UTC+3), at the Al Hussein Cultural Centre in Amman.[12][13] The teams were seeded based on their performances in previous U-17 Women's World Cups and confederation tournaments, with the hosts Jordan automatically seeded and assigned to position A1. Teams of the same confederation could not meet in the group stage.[8]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

Group stage

The match schedule was approved by the FIFA Executive Committee on 25 May 2015,[14] and officially announced on 10 August 2015.[15]

The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals. The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows:[9]

  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 are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are 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. fair play points
    • first yellow card: minus 1 point;
    • indirect red card (second yellow card): minus 3 points;
    • direct red card: minus 4 points;
    • yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points;
  5. drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

All times are local, EEST (UTC+3).[16]

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Mexico 3 2 1 0 10 2 +8 7 Knockout stage
2  Spain 3 2 1 0 9 1 +8 7
3  New Zealand 3 1 0 2 5 7 −2 3
4  Jordan (H) 3 0 0 3 1 15 −14 0
Source: FIFA
(H) Host.
Mexico 5–0 New Zealand
Espinosa  18'
Ovalle  36'
Lopez  68'
Avalos  81'
Torres  87'		 Report
Attendance: 7,635
Referee: Yeimy Martinez (Colombia)
Jordan 0–6 Spain
Report Lorena  6', 27', 42', 47' (pen.), 79'
Pina  89'
Attendance: 14,347
Spain 2–0 New Zealand
Aleixandri  80'
Pina  85'		 Report
Attendance: 698
Referee: Park Ji-Yeong (South Korea)
Jordan 1–4 Mexico
Abu-Sabbah  6' Report Enrigue  13'
Cázares  17'
Ovalle  54'
Juárez  85'
Attendance: 8,250
Referee: Finau Vulivuli (Fiji)
New Zealand 5–0 Jordan
Tawharu  5', 90'
Blake  28', 76', 90+2'		 Report
Attendance: 4,493
Referee: Aissata Amegee (Togo)
Spain 1–1 Mexico
E. Navarro  58' Report Espinosa  56'
King Abdullah Stadium, Amman
Attendance: 1,900
Referee: Ledya Tafesse (Ethiopia)

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Germany 3 2 1 0 5 2 +3 7 Knockout stage
2  Venezuela 3 2 0 1 5 3 +2 6
3  Canada 3 1 1 1 4 5 −1 4
4  Cameroon 3 0 0 3 3 7 −4 0
Source: FIFA
Venezuela 1–2 Germany
Cazorla  61' Report Gwinn  7'
Bühl  74'
Attendance: 3,731
Cameroon 2–3 Canada
Djoubi  17'
Dabda  42'		 Report Huitema  3'
Stratigakis  78' (pen.)
Taylor  83'
Attendance: 4,200
Referee: Sandra Braz (Portugal)
Venezuela 2–1 Cameroon
Castellanos  20', 90+4' Report Takounda  90+3'
Attendance: 1,275
Referee: Yoshimi Yamashita (Japan)
Germany 1–1 Canada
Gwinn  45+2' Report Rose  20'
Attendance: 3,384
Referee: Regildenia Moura (Brazil)
Canada 0–2 Venezuela
Report Castellanos  30'
Moreno  74'
King Abdullah Stadium, Amman
Attendance: 2,704
Referee: Olga Zadinová (Czech Republic)
Germany 2–0 Cameroon
Gwinn  15'
Oberdorf  72'		 Report
Attendance: 1,130
Referee: Park Ji-Yeong (South Korea)

Group C
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  North Korea 3 2 1 0 7 3 +4 7 Knockout stage
2  England 3 1 2 0 5 4 +1 5
3  Brazil 3 1 0 2 2 3 −1 3
4  Nigeria 3 0 1 2 0 4 −4 1
Source: FIFA
Nigeria 0–1 Brazil
Report Micaelly  42'
King Abdullah Stadium, Amman
Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Olga Zadinová (Czech Republic)
England 3–3 North Korea
Brazil  20'
Stanway  33'
Russo  90+4'		 Report Sung Hyang-sim  29'
Kim Pom-ui  67'
Ko Kyong-hui  84'
King Abdullah Stadium, Amman
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Ledya Tafesse (Ethiopia)
Nigeria 0–0 England
Report
Attendance: 664
Referee: Ekaterina Koroleva (United States)
Brazil 0–1 North Korea
Report Ri Hae-yon  71'
Attendance: 2,463
Referee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (Russia)
North Korea 3–0 Nigeria
Ri Hae-yon  30', 45', 83' Report
Attendance: 947
Brazil 1–2 England
Kerolin  36' Report Stanway  45+3' (pen.), 60' (pen.)
Attendance: 1,400

Group D
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Japan 3 3 0 0 13 2 +11 9 Knockout stage
2  Ghana 3 2 0 1 3 6 −3 6
3  United States 3 1 0 2 9 6 +3 3
4  Paraguay 3 0 0 3 1 12 −11 0
Source: FIFA
Ghana 0–5 Japan
Report Ueki  7'
Endo  18', 21'
Takarada  26'
Chiba  83'
Attendance: 1,083
Referee: Miriam Patricia Leon Serpas (El Salvador)
United States 6–1 Paraguay
Tagliaferri  11'
Kuhlmann  14', 49', 87'
Pickett  69'
Sanchez  82'		 Report Fretes  53'
Attendance: 2,078
Referee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (Russia)
United States 1–2 Ghana
Tagliaferri  5' Report Gi. Acheampong  63'
Owusu-Ansah  84' (pen.)
King Abdullah Stadium, Amman
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Laura Fortunato (Argentina)
Paraguay 0–5 Japan
Report Takahashi  4'
Nojima  29', 39' (pen.), 44'
Takarada  89'
King Abdullah Stadium, Amman
Attendance: 2,600
Referee: Esther Azzopardi (Malta)
Japan 3–2 United States
Ueki  53'
Kanno  75'
Miyazawa  77'		 Report Sanchez  33', 90+1' (pen.)
Attendance: 2,580
Referee: Yeimy Martinez (Colombia)
Paraguay 0–1 Ghana
Report Owusu-Ansah  68'
Attendance: 1,703
Referee: Finau Vulivuli (Fiji)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stages, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, a penalty shoot-out is used to determine the winner (no extra time is played).[9]

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
12 October — Amman (AIS)
 
 
 Mexico1
 
17 October — Amman (KAS)
 
 Venezuela2
 
 Venezuela0
 
13 October — Irbid
 
 North Korea3
 
 North Korea2
 
21 October — Amman (AIS)
 
 Ghana1
 
 North Korea (p)0 (5)
 
12 October — Amman (AIS)
 
 Japan0 (4)
 
 Germany1
 
17 October — Amman (KAS)
 
 Spain2
 
 Spain0
 
13 October — Irbid
 
 Japan3 Third place
 
 Japan3
 
21 October — Amman (AIS)
 
 England0
 
 Venezuela0
 
 
 Spain4
 

Quarter-finals
Mexico 1–2 Venezuela
Enrigue  34' Report Castellanos  35', 39'
Attendance: 856
Referee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (Russia)
Germany 1–2 Spain
Oberdorf  90+4' Report Natalia  9'
E. Navarro  36'
Attendance: 2,225
Referee: Sandra Braz (Portugal)
North Korea 2–1 Ghana
Kim Pom-ui  33' (pen.)
Ja Un-yong  90+4'		 Report Gi. Acheampong  81'
Attendance: 493
Referee: Laura Fortunato (Argentina)
Japan 3–0 England
Endo  3'
Ueki  45+1', 80'		 Report
Attendance: 1,806
Referee: Ekaterina Koroleva (United States)

Semi-finals
Venezuela 0–3 North Korea
Report Kim Pom-ui  15'
Ja Un-yong  71'
Ri Hae-yon  89'
Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Olga Zadinová (Czech Republic)
Spain 0–3 Japan
Report Takahashi  14', 76' (pen.)
Lucía  48' (o.g.)
Attendance: 3,250

Third place match
Venezuela 0–4 Spain
Report E. Navarro  17'
Lorena  53', 78', 87'
Attendance: 3,200
Referee: Ledya Tafesse (Ethiopia)

Final
North Korea 0–0 Japan
Report
Penalties
Ja Un-yong
Kim Pom-ui
Sung Hyang-sim
Ri Hae-yon
Ri Kum-hyang 		5–4 Ueki
Wakisaka
Takahashi
Kanekatsu
Nagano
Attendance: 12,800

Goalscorers
8 goals
  • Lorena Navarro
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goal
  • Lucía Rodríguez (against Japan)

Awards

The following awards were given for the tournament:[17]

Golden Ball Silver Ball Bronze Ball
Fuka Nagano Sung Hyang-sim Deyna Castellanos


Golden Shoe Silver Shoe Bronze Shoe
Lorena Navarro Ri Hae Yon Deyna Castellanos


FIFA Fair Play Award Golden Glove
 Japan Noelia Ramos
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  17. Awards 2016
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