Fixtures (both games today, Thursday, 27 November) Play-off for third place Brazil v Italy, 15:30, Pitch 7 (Mansour Muftah) Final Portugal v Austria, 19:00, Khalifa International Stadium Arsène Wenger wants “whole world to have chance to play” as Technical Study Group report on FIFA U-17 World Cup Qatar 2025™
What a year for Portugal winning trophies from football to futsal beach soccer to under 20s rugby champions
U17 EURO and WC winners in the same year! Italy beat Brazil to complete a clean sweep of the medals by UEFA teams. Now that must be a first!
🏆 History makers! 🇵🇹 Congratulations to Portugal for winning their first-ever #U17WC, after an incredible team effort throughout the tournament. 👏 Well done to the runners-up Austria for their impressive campaign, reaching their first World Cup final.… https://t.co/GuTKa9opOb— UEFA (@UEFA) November 27, 2025
Got back from the stadium... pretty good game. Goal looked marginally offside to me, but couldn't tell as they don't really show good replays in the stadium. Anyway, some footage from the game: Congrats Portugal, hard luck Austria
FIFA U-17 World Cup awards: Mide scoops Golden Ball 28 Nov 2025 The Portugal star was recognised as the tournament's standout player, while Austria forward Johannes Moser secured the adidas Golden Boot. Read on for a full list of the Qatar 2025 award-winners. Award winners adidas Golden Ball: Mateus Mide (POR) adidas Silver Ball: Johannes Moser (AUT) adidas Bronze Ball: Mauro Furtado (POR) adidas Golden Boot: Johannes Moser (AUT) adidas Silver Boot: Anisio Cabral (POR) adidas Bronze Boot: Dell (BRA) adidas Golden Glove: Romario Cunha (POR) FIFA Fair Play Trophy: Czechia
Qatar has once again delivered another successful football competition, Congrats to all those who have made it, and to those that didn't they can always try next year.
The dire atmosphere from the video above doesn't exactly have me yearning for a football vacation in Qatar. But to each their own.
That's fine I was mostly focused on the level of football in this edition, but to be fair the atmosphere created in this tournament was impressive for a U17 tournament, especially those matches in Aspire academy's compact stadiums.
Not sure how great atmosphere is meant to be for an under 17s world Cup. I went to the 2013 final in Abu Dhabi in which Nigeria beat Mexico but that was a much smaller stadium and was a very pro-Nigeria crowd as they have a huge expat community here. Maybe Brazil v Italy would have been the final the organizers maybe wanted but I think it was always going to be more of a family affair unless one of the Arab teams made the final. Qatar has a huge expat community so it was interesting to see who showed up most to the games. Obviously the Middle Eastern teams had the biggest fanbases but teams like Uganda, Uzbekistan, and Indonesia were very well attended. The stadium they chose for the final was maybe the worst atmosphere wise as out of all the stadiums they built for the World Cup, that's the one that is not football-specific so it has a huge racetrack and is not as intimate. I have to admit I really enjoyed going to the games especially the earlier rounds where you could roam around. Tickets are only about $5 so was very affordable and had a kind of "rugby sevens" feel to it. Looking forward to future tournaments here...
Can we turn this thread into the U17WC without the 2025 please? The AFC concluded its qualifiers yesterday for its 16-team 2026 U17 Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia in May. Most notable qualifiers for me were India - who eliminated Iran in the final match - and Myanmar who eliminated Oman and Syria. The draw for the finals is on 12 February. Meanwhile, the draw for Qualifying R2 of 2026 U17 EURO in March from which the 11 UEFA teams will qualify for the 2026 U17WC is on 10 December. The 8-team finals are in Estonia in May.
With qualifying well under way for the 2026 U17WC - Concacaf qualifying is currently underway while U17 EURO Round 1 was completed in the autumn and Round 2, from which the 11 UEFA teams will qualify, will be held in March - please can this thread be renamed FIFA U-17 World Cup and we resume discussion about the 2026 and future editions here.
I agree: different threads for different WC editions... rosters are age-limited thus the 2025 edition should be different from 2026.
Normally totally different squads. Qualification phase 1 for UEFA last Autumn overlapped with the finals in Qatar. I would definitely go back if we can overcome Croatia, Slovakia and Poland in March.