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2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup final

Football match

2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Final

Event	2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
Spain Japan 1 3
Date	24 August 2018
Venue	Stade de la Rabine, Vannes
Referee	Stéphanie Frappart (France)
Attendance	5,409
Weather	Cloudy 19 °C (66 °F) 62% humidity
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The 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Final was the final match of the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World CupinFrance. The match was played at the Stade de la Rabine, located in Vannes, on 24 August 2018 and was contested by Spain and Japan. The same national teams faced each other the posterior edition of the tournament. In both cases, the match resulted on a 3–1 scoreline, being the 2018 scoreline of the clash in Japan's favour. ^[1] Beating Spain in the Final granted Japan's their first FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup title, turning them into only the second Asian national team to ever win the trophy, after North Korea won it on 2006 and 2016. With North Korea's triumph on 2016, Japan's win turned out to be the only time where back-to-back trophies were handed to national teams of the same confederation (AFC).

With this result, Japan become the first nation for a win all FIFA Women's World Cup titles: U-17, U-20 and Senior.

Road to the final[edit]

Spain		Round	Japan
Opponent	Result	Group stage	Opponent	Result
Paraguay	4–1	Match 1	United States	1–0
Japan	1–0	Match 2	Spain	0–1
United States	2–2	Match 3	Paraguay	6–0
Group C winners Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1  Spain 3 7 2  Japan 3 6 3  United States 3 4 4  Paraguay 3 0 Source: FIFA		Final standings	Group C runners-up Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1  Spain 3 7 2  Japan 3 6 3  United States 3 4 4  Paraguay 3 0 Source: FIFA
Opponent	Result	Knockout stage	Opponent	Result
Nigeria	2–1	Quarter-finals	Germany	3–1
France	1–0	Semi-finals	England	2–0

Match[edit]

Details[edit]

Spain	1–3	Japan
Andújar 71'	Report	Miyazawa 38' Takarada 57' Nagano 65'

Attendance: 5,409

Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)

GK 21 Cata Coll RB 12 Lucía Rodríguez  71'  71' CB 3 Berta Pujadas CB 4 Laia Aleixandri  78' LB 11 Carmen Menayo CM 8 Patri Guijarro (c) CM 6 Damaris Egurrola CM 18 Eva Navarro RW 10 Maite Oroz  80' ST 20 Claudia Pina LW 15 Candela Andújar Substitutions: MF 9 Paula Fernández  71' MF 19 Paula Sancho  80' Coach: Pedro López

GK 16 Hannah Stambaugh RB 13 Asato Miyagawa CB 6 Hana Takahashi CB 4 Moeka Minami (c) LB 17 Nanami Kitamura RM 9 Hinata Miyazawa CM 7 Honoka Hayashi CM 10 Fuka Nagano LM 20 Jun Endo  79' ST 19 Riko Ueki ST 11 Saori Takarada Substitutions: MF 14 Mami Muraoka  90' Coach: Futoshi Ikeda

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