Italy national under-20 football team

National under-20 association football team representing Italy

Italy national under-20 football team is the national under-20 football team of Italy and is controlled by the italian Football Federation. The team competes for the FIFA U-20 World Cup, which is held every two years.

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history [edit ]

The Under-20 team is the de facto Under-19 of the former year, and it acts chiefly as a feeder team for the U21s providing further international growth for youth players. The team competes for its only official tournament, the FIFA U-20 World Cup, depending on the U19s results at the UEFA european Under-19 Championship held in the even-numbered years, that qualifies european teams for the U-20 World Cup. so far, the best consequence of the team is just third place in 2017. Italy managed to qualify for two consecutive U-20 World Cup for the first time, after topping the group in 2018 UEFA european Under-19 Championship. Each season the team chiefly participates in friendly tournaments, in which overage players may besides be selected. The U20 team participated until 2017 in the annual Four Nations Tournament with Germany, Switzerland and Poland ( which replaced Austria ). Since the 2017–18 season, the Italy U20 team participates in the annual Under 20 Elite League, expanded to 8 participants. The team besides had an annual regular with the Serie D Best eleven after the end of the season. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] ( except 2009, which the U-20 ( B team ) was coined “ U-19 team ” and coached by U-19 passenger car Massimo Piscedda, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] which the A team went to Mediterranean Games ) .The 2006 edition was besides played by the de facto U20 team but coached by U19 bus Paolo Berrettini. [ 7 ] The 2011 version was played by Italy Universiade team. [ 8 ]

FIFA U-20 World Cup record [edit ]

Year	Result	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1977	Group stage	3	0	2	1	1	3
1979	Did not qualify
1981	Group stage	3	0	0	3	1	6
1983	Did not qualify
1985	Did not qualify
1987	Quarter-finals	4	2	1	1	5	3
1989	Did not qualify
1991
1993
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
2005	Quarter-finals	5	2	1	2	10	8
2007	Did not qualify
2009	Quarter-finals	5	2	1	2	9	9
2011	Did not qualify
2013
2015
2017	Third place	7	3	2	2	10	9
2019	Fourth place	7	4	1	2	8	5
2021	Cancelled[9]
Total	7/22	34	13	8	13	44	43

*Draws includes knockout matches decided on penalty shootouts.

current squad [edit ]

The come 25 players have been called up for the Under 20 Elite League matches against England on 7 October 2021 and Portugal on 12 October 2021. [ 10 ]

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]

Official website, Italian language
Official website, English language