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2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup

2013 FIFA U-20 Dünya Kupası
Tournament details
Host country	Turkey
Dates	21 June - 13 July
Teams	24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	(in 7 host cities)
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The 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup will be the nineteenth edition of the U-20 World Cup since its inception in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Championship. At its Executive Meeting in Zurich on March 3, 2011, Turkey beat other bids from the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan.^[1] In its bid, Turkey suggested the use of 13 stadiums in 10 of its cities^[2], before deciding in February 2012, that 7 cities would play host to games^[3].

Bids

At the deadline date of 17 January 2011, three member associations confirmed they would be bidding for the event.^[4] Neither Turkey or Uzbekistan had ever been hosts to a FIFA competition, whilst the United Arab Emirates were hosts of the U-20s in 2003.

• Turkey
• United Arab Emirates
• Uzbekistan
• Zimbabwe (withdrew bid) ^[5]

Proposed venues

Antalya	Istanbul1			Bursa
New Antalya Stadium	Atatürk Olympic Stadium	Türk Telekom Arena	Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium	Timsah Arena
Capacity: 41,703	Capacity: 76,092	Capacity: 52.650	Capacity: 50,500	Capacity: 43,963
Antalya Bursa Kayseri Gaziantep Istanbul Rize Trabzon 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup (Turkey)
Gaziantep	Kayseri	Rize	Trabzon
Gaziantep Kamil Ocak Stadium	Kadir Has Stadium	Rize Şehir Stadium	New Trabzon Stadium
Capacity: 16,981 (expanding to 35,000)	Capacity: 32,864	Capacity: 15,485	Capacity: 42,000

¹It is expected that only one or two of these three venues will be used.

Qualification

In addition to host nation Turkey, 23 nations will qualify from six separate continental competitions.

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s) [6]
AFC (Asia)	2012 AFC U-19 Championship	TBD TBD TBD TBD
CAF (Africa)	2013 African Youth Championship	TBD TBD TBD TBD
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)	2013 CONCACAF U-20 Championship	TBD TBD TBD TBD
CONMEBOL (South America)	2013 South American Youth Championship	TBD TBD TBD TBD
OFC (Oceania)	2013 OFC U-20 Championship	TBD
UEFA (Europe)	2012 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship	TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD
Host nation		Turkey

References

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