Canada men's national under-20 soccer team

Canada Under-20

Nickname(s)	The Canucks Les Rouges (The Reds)
Association	Canadian Soccer Association
Confederation	CONCACAF (North America)
Head coach	Rob Gale
Most caps	David Edgar (27)
Top scorer	Iain Hume (7)
FIFA code	CAN
First colours Second colours
First international
Nicaragua 1–1 Canada (Puebla, Mexico; February 20, 1973)
Biggest win
Canada 9–0 Dominican Republic (Tegucigalpa, Honduras; November 26, 1978)
Biggest defeat
United States 5–0 Canada (Sunrise, Florida, United States; December 18, 2010) Niger 6–1 Canada (Niamey, Niger; December 8, 2005) Cameroon 5–0 Canada (Niamey, Niger; December 6, 2005)

Canada U-20 men's national soccer team, also known as Canada Under-20s or Canada U-20s, is a youth club for national soccer in Canada. It plays a large role in the development of Canadian soccer, and is considered to be the feeder team for the Canada men's national soccer team. The team has qualified for eight out of nineteen FIFA U-20 World Cups. Their best result came in 2003 where they reached the quarterfinals.

The team also competes in the CONCACAF U-20 Championship, which they won in 1986 and 1996.

Canada's most significant accomplishments at youth level are winning the CONCACAF U-20 Championship and Francophone Games twice, reaching quarterfinals of the 2003 FIFA U-20 World Cup, and defeating Brazil U-20 2-1 in a friendly on May 19, 2006, at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta.

Team history

1976–1996

Canada's Under-20 soccer team was created in 1976 as Canada's response to the newly created World youth Championship. The team failed to qualify for the inaugural tournament in 1977 in Tunisia, but they qualified for the following tournament two years later in Japan. They finished last in their group with two points, but they did manage to defeat Portugal 3–1. The next time the team qualified for a World youth Championship was in 1985, in the USSR, again they came last in their group with only one point. In the 1987 WYC in Chile, Canada's Under-20 soccer team put up a good effort scoring four goals, and tying Italy, however they still did not manage to get out of the group stage.

1997–2004

In 1997, after failing to qualify for four World Youth Championships (as the event was known until 2005) in a row, Canada made it past the group stage. The team progressed to the second round after a 2–1 win against Hungary in which a young Dwayne De Rosario scored a goal. They lost the round of 16 game against Spain 2–0. After missing the tournament in 1999, Canada qualified for Argentina 2001 after winning the qualifying tournament based on home soil in Vancouver, British Columbia. At the finals, they finished last and were eliminated from a group including Brazil, Germany and Iraq.

Canada once again appeared in the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in United Arab Emirates. They qualified to the round of 16 where they blanked Burkina Faso 1–0, and in a rematch against 1997 conquerors Spain, Canada lost in the quarter finals. Iain Hume scored three goals for Canada including a direct free kick against Spain while Atiba Hutchinson was an impressive performer in midfield.

2005–present

At the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championships in the Netherlands, Canada were eliminated in the group stage after tying once and losing twice. One bright side of the tournament was Jaime Peters' and Marcel De Jong's goals.

In the build-up to the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, as the tournament came to be known, Canada's defeated Brazil in the first game of a three game series, winning 2- in front of 14 000+ at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton on May 19, 2006. David Edgar and Will Johnson scored and Stephen Lumley made goal-line clearance to preserve Canada's first win over a Brazilian men's team at any level. Canada lost the remaining two matches 3–1. Despite an impressive run in friendlies leading up to the competition, Canada went winless in first round play without scoring a goal on home soil.

Players

Current squad

The following is the 19-man squad for the friendly matches against Honduras on November 12 and 14, 2016.^[1]

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	GK	Dayne St. Clair	May 9, 1997	2	0	University of Maryland
	GK	Sebastian Breza	March 18, 1998	1	0	Palermo
	DF	Kadin Chung	June 28, 1998	5	1	Vancouver Whitecaps 2
	DF	Thomas Meilleur-Giguère	November 13, 1997	5	0	Montreal
	DF	Gabriel Boakye	February 26, 1998	3	0	Energie Cottbus
	DF	Kosovar Sadiki	August 27, 1998	3	0	Stoke City
	DF	Kamal Millar	May 16, 1997	1	0	Syracuse University
	MF	Ballou Jean-Yves Tabla	March 31, 1999	5	1	Montreal
	MF	Tristan Borges	August 26, 1998	4	0	Heerenveen
	MF	Shamit Shome	September 5, 1997	4	0	Edmonton
	MF	Josh Doughty	April 8, 1997	3	0	Manchester United
	MF	Liam Fraser	February 13, 1998	3	0	Toronto II
	MF	Kristopher Twardek	March 8, 1997	3	1	Millwall
	MF	Dayonn Harris	August 29, 1997	2	0	Pennsylvania State University
	MF	David Choinière	February 7, 1997	2	0	Montreal Impact
	MF	Dante Campbell	May 22, 1999	1	0	Toronto II
	FW	Dario Zanatta	May 24, 1997	5	1	Heart of Midlothian
	FW	Luca Uccello	June 17, 1997	4	0	Toronto II
	FW	Shaan Hundal	July 14, 1999	1	0	Toronto II

Recent call-ups

These players have been previously called up to U-20 camps and are still of age for the current cycle.

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	GK	James Pantemis	February 21, 1997	1	0	Montreal
	GK	Marvis Kreitling	February 21, 1997	1	0	Unattached
	GK	Phil Di Bennardo	April 20, 1997	0	0	Toronto II
	DF	Marcus Godinho	June 28, 1997	2	0	Heart of Midlothian
	DF	Matthew Constant	August 17, 1998	2	0	University of New Mexico
	DF	Zachary Brault-Guillard	December 30, 1998	2	0	Lyon
	DF	Fikayo Tomori	December 19, 1997	1	0	Chelsea
	DF	Mateo Restrepo	April 29, 1997	0	0	UC Santa Barbara
	MF	Duwayne Ewart	March 22, 1998	3	0	Pittsburgh Riverhounds
	MF	Emmanuel Zambazis	April 24, 1997	2	0	Iraklis
	MF	Alphonso Davies	November 2, 2000	1	0	Vancouver Whitecaps
	MF	Harrison Paton	May 23, 1998	0	0	Heart of Midlothian
	FW	Aymar Sigue	February 12, 1997	2	0	Pennsylvania State University
	FW	Liam Millar	September 27, 1999	2	0	Liverpool

Competitive record

FIFA U-20 World Cup

U-20 World Cup record
Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1977	Did not qualify
1979	Group stage	13th of 16	3	1	0	2	3	5
1981	Did not qualify
1983
1985	Group stage	14th of 16	3	0	1	2	0	7
1987	Group stage	12th of 16	3	0	2	1	4	5
1989	Did not qualify
1991
1993
1995
1997	Round of 16	13th of 24	4	1	1	2	3	5
1999	Did not qualify
2001	Group stage	24th of 24	3	0	0	3	0	9
2003	Quarter-finals	8th of 24	5	2	0	3	4	6
2005	Group stage	21st of 24	3	0	1	2	2	7
2007	Group Stage	24th of 24	3	0	0	3	0	6
2009	Did not qualify
2011
2013
2015
2017	To be determined
Total	Quarter-finals	8/20	27	4	5	18	16	50

CONCACAF U-20 Championship

CONCACAF U-20 Championship record
Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1962	Did not enter
1964
1970
1973	Fourth place	4th of 6	4	0	1	3	2	6
1974	Quarter-finals	4th of 12	4	3	1	0	13	4
1976	Second round	5th of 15	6	2	1	3	14	13
1978	Runner-up	2nd of 13	7	3	1	3	16	4
1980	Semi-finals	4th of 18	5	2	3	0	6	2
1982	Second round	5th of 12	5	2	1	2	10	8
1984	Runner-up	2nd of 16	8	4	3	1	13	4
1986	Champions	1st of 10	7	6	1	0	23	2
1988	Group stage	6th of 10	4	1	1	2	4	4
1990	Group stage	5th of 12	2	1	1	0	1	0
1992	Third place	3rd of 11	5	3	1	1	12	6
1994	Third place	3rd of 12	6	3	0	3	18	10
1996	Champions	1st of 12	5	4	1	0	10	2
1998	Group stage	6th of 8	3	1	0	2	4	7
2001	Group stage	3rd of 8	3	2	1	0	2	0
2003	Group stage	2nd of 8	3	2	1	0	5	2
2005	Group stage	2nd of 8	3	3	0	0	4	1
2007	Did not enter
2009	Group stage	5th of 8	3	1	0	2	3	3
2011	Quarter-finals	7th of 12	3	1	0	2	2	7
2013	Quarter-finals	6th of 12	3	1	0	2	8	7
2015	Group Stage	9th of 12	5	1	0	4	8	11
2017	To be determined
Total	2 Titles	21/25	94	46	18	30	178	103

Jeux de la Francophonie

Jeux de la Francophonie record
Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1989	Gold medal	1st of 10	4	3	1	0	9	3
1994	Group stage	5th of 9	2	1	0	1	6	5
1997	Gold medal	1st of 10	5	2	2	1	3	2
2001	Quarter-finals	6th of 12	4	1	1	2	4	7
2005	Group stage	12th of 12	3	0	0	3	1	13
2009	Fourth place	4th of 9	4	1	1	2	4	9
2013	Group stage	10th of 14	3	1	0	2	3	7
2017	To be determined
Total	2 Titles	7/7	25	9	5	11	30	46

Honours

CONCACAF U-20 Championship

• Winners (2): 1986, 1996

Football at the Jeux de la Francophonie

• Winners (2): 1989, 1997

References

1. "Canada Soccer announces Men's U-20 squad for Honduras". canadasoccer.com. Retrieved 4 November 2016.

External links

• Canucks Abroad
• Canadian Soccer Association