Mexico national under-17 football team

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Mexico U-17

Nickname(s)	El Tri (The Tri) El Tricolor (The Tricolor) Los Niños Héroes (The Hero Boys)
Association	Mexican Football Federation (Federación Mexicana de Fútbol)
Confederation	CONCACAF (North America)
Head coach	Vacant
FIFA code	MEX
First colours Second colours
First international
Hungary 0–0 Mexico  (Shanghai, China; 31 July 1985)
Biggest win
Mexico 8–0 Solomon Islands  (Cariacica, Brazil; 3 November 2019)
Biggest defeat
Soviet Union 7–0 Mexico  (St.John's, Canada; 14 July 1987)
CONCACAF Under-17 Championship
Appearances	17 (first in 1983)
Best result	Champions (1985, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
FIFA U-17 World Cup
Appearances	14 (first in 1985))
Best result	Champions (2005, 2011)

The Mexico under-17 national football team is one of the youth teams that represents Mexico in football at the under-17 level, and is controlled by the Mexican Football Federation (Spanish: Federación Mexicana de Fútbol). The team has reached the final of the FIFA U-17 World Cup four times, and is a two-time winner, being crowned champions in 2005 and 2011. Mexico has participated in 14 of the 18 FIFA U-16/U-17 World Cup events.

Competitive record[]

FIFA U-17 World Cup record[]

FIFA U-17 World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	Pts
1985	Group Stage	10th	3	1	1	1	3	3	4
1987	Group Stage	10th	3	1	1	1	3	9	4
1989	Did not participate
1991	Group Stage	11th	3	1	0	2	5	6	3
1993	Group Stage	10th	3	1	0	2	4	7	3
1995	Did Not Qualify
1997	Group Stage	10th	3	1	0	2	8	6	3
1999	Quarter-Finals	6th	4	2	0	2	7	7	6
2001	Did Not Qualify
2003	Quarter-Finals	6th	4	1	2	1	5	5	5
2005	Champions	1st	6	5	0	1	16	3	15
2007	Did Not Qualify
2009	Round of 16	10th	4	2	1	1	4	3	7
2011	Champions	1st	7	7	0	0	17	7	21
2013	Runners-up	2nd	7	4	1	2	11	11	13
2015	Fourth Place	4th	7	4	1	2	14	9	13
2017	Round of 16	16th	4	0	2	2	4	6	2
2019	Runners-up	2nd	7	3	2	2	14	5	11
2023	To be determined
Total	2 Titles	14/19	65	33	11	21	115	86	110

CONCACAF U-17 Championship[]

CONCACAF U-17 Championship
Year	Round	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1983	Third place	4	3	1	0	13	0
1985	Champions	7	6	1	0	37	1
	Champions	6	6	0	0	16	2
1988	Did not participate
1991	Champions	6	3	3	0	8	2
1992	Runners-up	6	4	2	0	21	6
1994	Fourth Place	6	4	0	2	17	4
1996	Champions	6	6	0	0	23	2
2009	Cancelled due to the 2009 flu pandemic outbreak
2011	Did not participate/World Cup Host
2013	Champions	5	5	0	0	14	3
2015	Champions	6	4	2	0	16	3
2017	Champions	6	4	1	1	22	7
2019	Champions	7	7	0	0	21	3
Total	8 Titles	65	52	10	3	208	33

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks

Honours[]

• FIFA U-17 World Cup
  • Winners (2): 2005, 2011
  • Runners-up (2): 2013, 2019
• CONCACAF Under-17 Championship
  • Winners (8): 1985, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019
  • Runners-up (1): 1992
  • Third Place (1): 1983

History[]

2005[]

Mexico was placed in Group C along with Australia, Turkey and Uruguay in which Mexico came in second behind Turkey. In the knockout stage, an extra-time victory over zone rivals Costa Rica led to a then convincing victory over the Netherlands. Mexico ended up defeating Brazil 3–0 in the final.

2011[]

Mexico U-17 players of the 2011 generation

The 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup was held in home soil. Mexico was placed in Group A together with North Korea, Congo and the Netherlands. Mexico eventually finished first of their group after winning their three matches and advanced to the Round of 16 and the Quarter-Finals, where they won their matches against Panama and France respectively. In the semifinals, Mexico had to face Germany, the only other team in the competition who had not lost any of their matches. Germany had advantage during the first minutes of the second time, but Mexico came back to equalize the score after Jonathan Espericueta scored a second goal from a corner kick, where Julio Gómez was injured and left the field. However, Gómez came back in the dying minutes to score an overhead kick, the decisive goal in the final minute, the final score was 3-2 which translated into the first significant victory over Germany in history. Mexico faced Uruguay in the final, defeating them 2–0 in a very closed match where the balance could have tilted any way. Briseño scored the first goal in the first half when Uruguay was the dominating side. During the second half Uruguay kept pressing on and started to dominate again looking for the equalizer however, during the last advances their defense became disorganized and in a counterattack Giovani Casillas scored the finishing goal. With this result Mexico became champions without losing a single game in the tournament and also became the first host nation to win the U-17 World Cup.

2013[]

As defending champions, Mexico was defeated 6-1 by Nigeria in their first match of the group stage. Despite being defeated by a large number of goals, Mexico could still advance to the next round by defeating rivals Iraq and Sweden in the group stage. In their way to the final match, Mexico won their matches against favorites Italy, Brazil and Argentina. In the final round, Mexico faced Nigeria for a second time, but the team lost once again and was left in second place of the tournament.

2015[]

Mexico was lucky enough to make it to the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup which was held in Chile. They were placed in Group C along with Germany, Australia, Argentina and won two of their three matches of the group stage. Finishing number 1 on group stages they advanced to Round of 16. In order to make it to quarter finals, they had to defeat Chile and they dominated them by beating them 4–1. Mexico got the chance to go to semi-finals with a familiar rival from 2013, they went against Nigeria, unfortunately Nigeria defeated them in an intense game and they didn't make it to the Finals. Mexico had the chance on finishing strong with a Third Place title against Belgium in which they lost. The 17-year-old, Diego Cortés from the Mexico national football team finished the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup being known as making the best goal of the FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Players[]

Current squad[]

The following 21 players were called up for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup.^[1][2]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK		(2002-07-11)11 July 2002 (aged 17)	Guadalajara
2	2DF	Emilio Lara	(2002-03-27)27 March 2002 (aged 17)	América
3	2DF	Víctor Guzmán	(2002-03-07)7 March 2002 (aged 17)	Tijuana
4	2DF	Alejandro Gómez	(2002-01-31)31 January 2002 (aged 17)	Atlas
5	2DF		(2002-10-12)12 October 2002 (aged 17)	Atlas
6	3MF	Eugenio Pizzuto	(2002-05-13)13 May 2002 (aged 17)	Braga
7	3MF		(2002-06-01)1 June 2002 (aged 17)	Atlas
8	3MF		(2002-03-28)28 March 2002 (aged 17)	Monterrey
9	4FW	Santiago Muñoz	(2002-08-14)14 August 2002 (aged 17)	Newcastle United
10	4FW		(2002-03-23)23 March 2002 (aged 17)	Pachuca
11	3MF	Bryan González	(2003-04-10)10 April 2003 (aged 16)	Pachuca
12	1GK		(2002-02-18)18 February 2002 (aged 17)	UANL
13	2DF		(2002-03-27)27 March 2002 (aged 17)	Guadalajara
14	2DF		(2002-07-24)24 July 2002 (aged 17)	Guadalajara
15	3MF		(2002-07-14)14 July 2002 (aged 17)	Tijuana
16	3MF		(2002-02-14)14 February 2002 (aged 17)	Querétaro
17	4FW	Luis Puente	(2003-03-23)23 March 2003 (aged 16)	Guadalajara
18	4FW	Efraín Álvarez	(2002-06-19)19 June 2002 (aged 17)	LA Galaxy
19	4FW		(2003-09-23)23 September 2003 (aged 16)	Monterrey
20	3MF	Bruce El-mesmari	(2002-04-23)23 April 2002 (aged 17)	Las Vegas Lights
21	1GK		(2002-04-30)30 April 2002 (aged 17)	Morelia

Recent fixtures and results[]

Date	Tournament	Location	Home team	Score	Away team	Scorers for Mexico
28 October 2019	2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Estádio Walmir Campelo Bezerra, Gama	Paraguay	0-0	Mexico
31 October 2019	2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Estádio Walmir Campelo Bezerra, Gama	Mexico	1–2	Italy	E. Álvarez 90'
3 November 2019	2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Estádio Kléber Andrade, Cariacica	Mexico	8–0	Solomon Islands	E.Álvarez 2', 63'; A.Gómez 33', 88'; Puente 44'; Luna 58', 90'; Ávila 72'
6 November 2019	2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup	uuuu	Japan	0–2	Mexico	Pizutto 57'; Muñoz 74'

See also[]

• Mexico national football team
• Mexico national under-23 football team
• Mexico national under-20 football team
• Mexico women's national football team
• Mexico national beach football team
• Mexico national futsal team

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