Continental champions, 200+ call-ups: current women's youth cycle | OneFootball

The Women’s Youth National Teams will face three major challenges in the second half of this year. While the Under-20 and Under-17 teams, South American champions, will compete in their age-group World Cups in Poland and Morocco, the Under-15 team will travel to Paraguay for the CONMEBOL Evolution League.

Since Camilla Orlando, Rilany Silva and Beatriz Vaz took over as head coaches, the Women’s Youth National Teams have called up 206 players and achieved a 68% success rate — 47 matches and 32 wins.

Announced in June last year, Camilla Orlando made her debut in charge of the Under-20 team in October 2025 with Brazil’s 3-0 win over Mexico. Four months later, the first title came with the South American Championship in the category, held in Paraguay.

Rilany Silva joined the Under-17 National Team in March last year, and her first match was the South American Championship itself, in April. The runner-up finish that year foreshadowed a historic fourth place at the World Cup, held from October 17 to November 8, 2025, in Morocco.

As assistant coach of the Under-17 team, Beatriz Vaz took part in that successful cycle alongside Rilany and, this year, officially took over the Under-15 team, which is heading to Paraguay aiming to retain the CONMEBOL Evolution League title in the category.

Camilla Orlando, Rilany Silva and Beatriz Vaz are coaches of the women’s youth national teamsCredits: Luciana Vermell and Staff Images/CBF

Check out the main numbers and achievements of the current Women’s Youth cycle:

Overall women’s youth numbers

Under the leadership of Camilla Orlando (U-20), Rilany Silva (U-17) and Beatriz Vaz (U-15), the Women’s National Teams recorded:

206 players called up

47 matches

32 wins

68% overall success rate

U-20

61 players called up

19 matches

63% success rate

🏆 CONMEBOL U-20 South American champions 2026

Head coach: Camilla Orlando

Before gaining national and international recognition in charge of women’s clubs and national teams, Brasília-born Camilla Orlando played professionally from 2005 to 2012. From 2005 to 2007, she played for Lincoln Memorial University (USA); and, back in Brazil, she played from 2008 to 2012 for Cresspom-DF and Capital CF.

As a coach, her first title was the Brazilian U-18 Championship with SC Internacional in 2019. In charge of RB Bragantino Women, she won Brasileirão A2 in 2021; with Real Brasília, she won the Women’s Candangão in 2023; and with Palmeiras, she won the Paulista Championship in 2024. She spent one season, in 2022, with the United Arab Emirates Women’s National Team; and at the end of 2025, she took over the Brazil Women’s U-20 National Team, with which she won the 11th South American title.

U-17

102 players called up

23 matches

70% success rate

🥈 Runner-up at the 2025 CONMEBOL South American Championship

🌍 4th place at the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup (Brazil’s first time in the semifinals)

🏆 CONMEBOL U-17 South American champions 2026

Head coach: Rilany Silva

Born in Jacareí, São Paulo, Rilany played as a center back for Brazilian clubs Santos, Foz Cataratas and Ferroviária; for Sweden’s Tyresö, with whom she was runner-up in the 2014 UEFA Women’s Champions League; as well as for teams in Spain, Iceland and Portugal, most notably Benfica, with whom she won the Portuguese Cup. For Brazil’s senior national team, she was part of a successful cycle, winning the 2014 and 2018 Women’s Copa América titles.

After transitioning into coaching, she spent six years in the youth academies of Benfica, from 2019 to 2024, and Corinthians, in 2024; and was part of the coaching staff of Cruzeiro’s senior women’s team. In her first year in charge of the Brazil Women’s U-17 National Team, she reached a historic milestone by leading Brazil to fourth place in the World Cup for the first time in the category.

U-15

43 players called up

5 official matches

80% success rate

🏆 2025 CONMEBOL Evolution League champions

*category numbers since June 2025, before Beatriz Vaz

Head coach: Beatriz Vaz

As a midfielder, the São Paulo native played for Juventus, Itanhaém, Mackenzie (where she earned her degree in physical education), Foz Cataratas, Ferroviária, São José, Flamengo and Osasco Audax. With those clubs, she won the 2014 and 2016 Brazilian Women’s Championship, the 2011 and 2014 Women’s Copa do Brasil, and the 2013 Women’s Paulista Championship.

She had two experiences abroad — one to study and the other to play one season for the Boston Breakers. Called up to the Brazil National Team between 2013 and 2016, she won the 2014 Women’s Copa América. After transitioning into coaching, she was Corinthians U-20 head coach for two seasons, 2024 and 2025. She joined the CBF at the beginning of this year to be Rilany’s assistant coach with the U-17 team.

Next stops

U-20: U-20 World Cup in Poland

🗓️ 09/5 to 09/27

U-15: CONMEBOL Evolution League in Paraguay

🗓️ 09/8 to 09/20

U-17: U-17 World Cup in Morocco

🗓️ 10/17 to 11/7

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