the The sixteenth final of the U-17 World Cup Qatar 2025, Example added in FIFA’s new 48-team format Which will be held over two days, Friday 14 and Saturday 15 November. With the selection of 32 people who qualified from the group stage and Among them is the Argentine national team.
The national team will introduce itself on the first day against Mexico 11:45 (Argentine time) On Stadium No. 2 in Aspire Zone Complex. The match will be broadcast live on DSports and public television, Channels that can be tuned online are Flow, DGO and Telecentro Play. On Campollena.com, you can follow minute by minute with instantly updated information and statistics.
The group he leads Diego Placente It was the best in the first stage with three wins and a goal difference of +9. In Group Four, it topped the group with 9 points thanks to victories over Belgium 3-2, Tunisia 1-0, and Fiji 7-0.
In this context, it was paired with the worst team in the first stage, Tricolor with three units and a score of -2 in Zone F, losing to South Korea 2 to 1, Switzerland 3 to 1 and beating Ivory Coast only 1 to 0. In fact, it qualified for the playoffs by fair play over Saudi Arabia.
But the North American national team has a rich history in the U-17 World Cup because it returned to the Olympic Games in the editions of Peru 2005 and Mexico 2011. In the table of winners, the team shares third place with Ghana and is behind Nigeria (5 stars) and Brazil (4).
The Argentines and Mexicans have faced each other in two of the last three FIFA Men’s World Cups, taking into account all divisions, so the upcoming encounter will be the third in three years. The last time was in the U-20 World Cup, which was held a few months ago in Chile, and Albiceleste won in the quarter-finals with a score of 2-0. Before that, in Qatar 2022, the team competed under the leadership of… Lionel Scaloni Smile 2 to 0 against El Tri in the group stage. The only ecumenical event they did not coincide with is Sub 20 Argentina 2023.
Whoever wins the Round of 16 of the U-17 World Cup will qualify for the Round of 16 It will collapse before whoever wins over Portugal and Belgium. Who will play on the same day, but at 9:30 on Court No. 3 at the Aspire Zone Complex.
Friday 14 November
Saturday 15 November
16 countries did not advance beyond the group stage and were eliminated. Among them, the case of Chile stands out, which added four points in Zone K and finished last in a four-way tie with France, Canada and Uganda. Although La Roja had a better season than many of the other top teams, they were eliminated, as did New Zealand, Panama, Tajikistan, Honduras, El Salvador, Ivory Coast, Haiti, Fiji, the United Arab Emirates, New Caledonia, Bolivia, Qatar, Costa Rica, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.
Albicelesti qualified for the World Cup finals by finishing sixth in the South American competition for the category, which was held at the beginning of the year. This was the team’s third-worst participation in the qualifiers, only improving what happened in Chile 2017 (eighth place) and Venezuela 2005 (seventh place). But the same group participated months later in the traditional Alcudia tournament in preparation for the World Cup and won the cup after defeating Valencia in the final.
Unlike the U-20 World Cup in which he won first place, He has never won the under-17 championship and is on hold with the Argentine Football Association (AFA). Her best performance was third place in Italy 1991, Ecuador 1995 and Finland 2003. In addition, she achieved fourth place in Trinidad and Tobago 2001, UAE 2013 and Indonesia 2023, the last edition.
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