Zambia At The FIFA U-20 World Cup 2017

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The 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup will be the 21st edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, the biennial international men's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA , since its inception in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Championship. The tournament will be hosted by South Korea between 20 May and 11 June 2017.

Qualified teams

A total of 24 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to South Korea who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 23 teams qualify from six separate continental competitions.

Draw

The draw will be held on 15 March 2017.

Group stage

The match schedule was announced by FIFA on 23 November 2015.

The top two teams of each group and the four best third-placed teams advance to the round of 16.

All times are local, KST ( UTC+9 ).