2005 Mexico was placed in Group C along with
Australia,
Turkey and
Uruguay in which Mexico came in second behind Turkey. In the knockout stage, an extra-time victory over zone rivals
Costa Rica led to a then convincing victory over the
Netherlands. Mexico ended up defeating
Brazil 3–0 in the final.
2011 The
2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup was held in home soil. Mexico was placed in Group A together with
North Korea,
Congo and the
Netherlands. Mexico eventually finished first of their group after winning their three matches and advanced to the Round of 16 and the Quarter-Finals, where they won their matches against
Panama and
France respectively. In the semifinals, Mexico had to face
Germany, the only other team in the competition who had not lost any of their matches. Germany had advantage during the first minutes of the second time, but Mexico came back to equalize the score after
Jonathan Espericueta scored a second goal from a corner kick, where
Julio Gómez was injured and left the field. However, Gómez came back in the dying minutes to score an overhead kick, the decisive goal in the final minute, the final score was 3-2 which translated into the first significant victory over Germany in history. Mexico faced
Uruguay in the final, defeating them 2–0 in a very closed match where the balance could have tilted any way. Briseño scored the first goal in the first half when Uruguay was the dominating side. During the second half Uruguay kept pressing on and started to dominate again looking for the equalizer however, during the last advances their defense became disorganized and in a counterattack Giovani Casillas scored the finishing goal. With this result Mexico became champions without losing a single game in the tournament and also became the first host nation to win the U-17 World Cup.
2013 As defending champions, Mexico was defeated 6-1 by
Nigeria in their first match of the group stage. Despite being defeated by a large number of goals, Mexico could still advance to the next round by defeating rivals
Iraq and
Sweden in the group stage. In their way to the final match, Mexico won their matches against favorites
Italy,
Brazil and
Argentina. In the final round, Mexico faced Nigeria for a second time, but the team lost once again and was left in second place of the tournament.
2015 Mexico was lucky enough to make it to the
2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup which was held in Chile. They were placed in Group C along with
Germany,
Australia,
Argentina and won two of their three matches of the group stage. Finishing number 1 on group stages they advanced to Round of 16. In order to make it to quarter finals, they had to defeat
Chile and they dominated them by beating them 4–1. Mexico got the chance to go to semi-finals with a familiar rival from 2013, they went against
Nigeria, unfortunately Nigeria defeated them in an intense game and they didn't make it to the Finals. Mexico had the chance on finishing strong with a Third Place title against
Belgium in which they lost. The 17-year-old,
Diego Cortés from the Mexico national football team finished the
2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup being known as making the best goal of the FIFA U-17 World Cup. == Results and fixtures ==