Falconets To Leave Nigeria For U-20 World Cup On August 18Ahead of this year’s FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup finals in Colombia, two-time runners-up, Falconets will depart the country for the U-20 World Cup on August 18.
The 2024 finals in Colombia will be the first to welcome 24 teams, with Africa supplying four which includes Nigeria, Morocco, Cameroon and Ghana.
Matches will take place in four venues in three different cities (Bogotá, Medellín and Cali). There will be two venues in Bogotá – Estadio El Campín and Estadio El Techo.
The Estadio Atanasio Girardot in Medellín and the Estadio Pascual Guerrero in Cali are the other venues.
The Falconets had resumed camping in Abuja since on July 7 and are in Group D alongside with Germany, Venezuela and Korea Republic.
They will play international friendly matches in Colombia after arriving at the venue of the competition.
The final competition, which will welcome 24 teams for the first time, will hold August 31 – September 22.
GROUP A: Colombia, Australia, Cameroon, Mexico.
GROUP B: France, Canada, Brazil, Fiji.
GROUP C: Spain, USA, Paraguay, Morocco.
GROUP D: Germany, Venezuela, Nigeria, Korea Republic.
GROUP E: Japan, New Zealand, Ghana, Austria.
GROUP F: Korea DPR, Argentina, Costa Rica, and Netherland.
