World Rugby Under 20 Championship


The World Rugby Under 20 Championship is an international rugby union competition. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, World Rugby, and is contested by 12 men's junior national teams with an under-20 age requirement. This event replaced the IRB's former age-grade world championships, the Under 19 and Under 21 World Championships.
The inaugural tournament was held in June 2008, hosted by Wales and with 16 teams participating. Wales was announced as host for the inaugural tournament in November 2007.
The number of participating nations was reduced to 12 before the 2010 tournament due to financial reasons.
The U20 Championship is the upper level of the World Rugby tournament structure for under-20 national sides. At the same time that the U20 Championship was launched, World Rugby also launched a second-level competition, the U20 Trophy, featuring eight teams.
Promotion and relegation between the Trophy and the Championship is in place. The winner of the Trophy will play in next year's Championship, while the last placed team at the Championship will be relegated to the Trophy for the next year.

Tournament results

Team records

TeamTitlesRunners-upThirdFourth
6 1 1 2
3 6 1
2 3
1 1 8 1
2 1 1
1 1 1
-1 -1
1 2

Participating nations

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Years
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5th4th2nd3rd8th7th5th5th6th6th5th2ndq13
12th14thWTWTWTWTWTWT-WTWTWT-2
2nd2nd4th2nd7th1st1st2nd1st2nd2nd5thq13
14th12th8th6th11th11th12thWTWTWTWT11thq8
6th5th5th4th6th5th6th4th9th4th1st1stq13
WT--WTWT-WTWT10th10th9th10thq5
9th8th9th8th5th8th4th7th2nd9th11th8thq13
11th13thWT11th12thWT11th11th11th8th8th9thq11
15th15thWTWTWTWTWT10th12thWT12thWTq6
1st1st1st1st2nd4th3rd1st5th1st4th7thq13
7th7th12thWT10th9th8th12thWT12thWT--8
10th9th10th10th9th10th10th8th8th5th10th12thWT12
3rd3rd3rd5th1st3rd2nd3rd4th3rd3rd3rdq13
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16thWT-WTWT12thWT-WT----2
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4th6th7th7th3rd2nd7th6th7th7th7th6thq13
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;Legend
YearNameNation
2008Luke Braid
2009Aaron Cruden
2010Julian Savea
2011George Ford
2012Jan Serfontein
2013Sam Davies
2014Handré Pollard
2015James Chisholm
2016Max Deegan
2017Juarno Augustus
2018Jordan Joseph
2019Juan Pablo Castro
2020cancelledcancelled