2025 FIFA Youth Series

2025 FIFA Youth Series
Tournament details
Host countrySwitzerland
Dates18–22 May 2025
Teams6
Venue1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Paraguay (1st title)
Runners-up New Zealand
Third place  Switzerland
Fourth place Tunisia
Tournament statistics
Matches played9
Goals scored29 (3.22 per match)
Top scorer(s) Hector Salinas
Jean Doucoure (2 goals each)

The 2025 FIFA Youth Series was a football tournament organized by FIFA for U-16 men's teams as part of preparations for the 2025 and 2026 FIFA U-17 World Cup, both held in Qatar. All matches were streamed live and free on FIFA+.[1][2]

This tournament was held on 18–22 May 2025 and was attended by six countries, four of which qualified for the 2025 U-17 World Cup finals.[3][4]

Participating teams

Venue

The tournament was hosted in Zurich, Switzerland.[4]

Standings

All matches use the UTC+2 (CEST) time zone.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  New Zealand 2 2 0 0 5 3 +2 6 Advance to Final
2   Switzerland (H) 2 0 1 1 3 4 −1 1 Advance to Third place play-off
3  Guatemala 2 0 1 1 2 3 −1 1 Advance to Fifth place play-off
Source: FIFA
(H) Hosts
Switzerland 2–3 New Zealand
  • Ocran 15'
  • Krasniqi 73' (pen.)
 Report
  • Nunez 3'
  • Dyer 49'
  • Hamilton 54'
Referee: Kaio Santos de Lima (Brazil)
Guatemala 1–2 New Zealand
Alvarado 14' Report
  • Perez 68'
  • Trenberth 77'
Referee: Daniel Uhrmann (Switzerland)
Switzerland 1–1 Guatemala
Doucoure 5' Report Jimenez 45+2'
Referee: Miroslav Nikolić (Switzerland)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Paraguay 2 2 0 0 5 2 +3 6 Advance to Final
2  Tunisia 2 1 0 1 4 4 0 3 Advance to Third place play-off
3  Malaysia 2 0 0 2 0 3 −3 0 Advance to Fifth place play-off
Source: FIFA
Malaysia 0–1 Paraguay
Report Rolon 53'
Referee: Manuel Pfister (Switzerland)
Malaysia 0–2 Tunisia
Report
  • Trimech 65'
  • Mellouli 79'
Referee: Luca Talarico (Switzerland)
Tunisia 2–4 Paraguay
  • Thabti 36' (pen.)
  • Aloui 45'
 Report
  • Salinas 4, 23'
  • Amarilla 39'
  • Cabrera 90+6'
Referee: David Portmann (Switzerland)

Play-offs

Fifth place play-off

Guatemala 0–1 Malaysia
Report Iman 90+1'
Referee: Ersin Nesimi (Switzerland)

Third place play-off

Switzerland 5–1 Tunisia
  • Doucoure 5'
  • Moore 20'
  • Strassmann 42'
  • Tchammegni 73'
  • Saly 77'
 Report Ben Said 45+2'
Referee: Luka Stanković (Switzerland)

Final

New Zealand 0–3 Paraguay
Report
  • López 19'
  • Díaz 78'
  • Gómez 90+4'
Referee: Maximilian Zihlmann (Switzerland)

Goalscorers

There were 29 goals scored in 9 matches, for an average of 3.22 goals per match.

2 goals

  • Hector Salinas
  • Jean Doucoure

1 goal

  • Marcos Alvarado
  • Andoni Jimenez
  • Muhammad Iman Irfan Muhammad Hapis
  • Ethan Dyer
  • Cailean Hamilton
  • Matias Nunez
  • Benjamin Perez
  • Ben Trenberth
  • Kevin Amarilla
  • Mathias Cabrera
  • Elías Díaz
  • Axel Gómez
  • Víctor López
  • Jonathan Rolon
  • Leon Krasniqi
  • Jamie Moore
  • Bright Ocran
  • Laurin Saly
  • Sven Strassmann
  • Kenneth Tchammegni
  • Islem Aloui
  • Taieb Mellouli
  • Youssef Ben Said
  • Moncef Thabti
  • Anas Trimech

References

  1. ^ "New Zealand U-16 men's squad named for FIFA youth tournament in Zurich". FriendsOfFootballNZ.com. 5 May 2025. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  2. ^ "Men's U-16 Team to Take Part in FIFA Youth Series Tournament in Zurich this May". New Zealand Football. 2 May 2025. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  3. ^ "🇲🇾 The Malaysia Men's U-16 team has been confirmed to participate in the exciting new FIFA Youth Series tournament, set to take place at FIFA's Home of Football in Zurich, Switzerland this May!". ASEAN Football Federation. 2 May 2025. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  4. ^ a b "New Zealand U-16 men's team to take part in FIFA Youth Series in Switzerland". FriendsOfFootballNZ.com. 2 May 2025. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
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