Ghana and Mexico have won the tournament twice.Ī corresponding tournament for female players, the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, began in 2008, with North Korea winning the inaugural tournament.Įach tournament consists of a group phase, in which four teams play against one another and standings in the group table decide which teams advance, followed by a knockout phase of successive matches where the winning team advances through the competition and the losing team is eliminated. Brazil is the second-most successful with four titles and two runners-up. Nigeria is the most successful nation in the tournament's history, with five titles and three runners up. The most recent tournament was hosted by India, for the first time, in 2017, which became the most attended in the history of the tournament, with the total attendance of the FIFA U-17 World Cup reaching 1,347,133. It began as a competition for players under the age of 16 with the age limit raised to 17 from the 1991 edition onwards. The first edition was staged in 1985 in China, and tournaments have been played every two years since then.

Following FIFA's then secretary-general Sepp Blatter's recommendation after he was in Singapore for the 1982 Lion City Cup, FIFA created the FIFA U-16 World Championship. The Lion City Cup was the first under-16 football tournament in the world. The FIFA U-17 World Cup is a competition that was inspired by the Lion City Cup that was created by the Football Association of Singapore in 1977.

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