TV and media from around the world will arrive here in droves, and behind the scenes managers and agents will be looking for the next multi-million dollar superstars.
Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, New Plymouth and Whangarei are the match centres. It will be a wonderful opportunity for our Kiwi lads to perform, and also showcase our beautiful country.
Unfortunately, the Junior All Whites - coached this time by Darren Bazely with Willy Gerdsen his assistant - have never qualified for the knockout stages. The 2011 team coached by Chris Milicich came closest. Australia finished fourth in 1993, the second time they hosted the event. Melbourne Victory coach Kevin Muscat made his name at this Cup and went on to a wonderful professional career in England.
This will be the most prestigious football tournament ever hosted by New Zealand and it won't come around again in a hurry.
Its strength is such that there will be no teams from Britain. Spain have also missed out.
The 12 teams to qualify so far are New Zealand as hosts, Fiji as Oceania champions, plus Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Portugal, Ukraine and favourites Germany from Europe, Korea, Qatar, Burma and Uzbekistan from Asia (Australia missed out at the final hurdle).
The remaining teams are still to be found from the African, CONCACAF and South American regions. Argentina, six time winners, and Brazil, with five, have dominated the 19 tournaments held so far.
This is a chance to support soccer - there is a rebate scheme for all pre-sales through clubs - and see the future stars of world football in action.
So get the diary out.
The cricket World Cup will be long gone and All Blacks are on the back burner - as much as they are ever on the back burner - until September.
About the same time as the under-20 World Cup, our White Ferns will compete in the Fifa women's tournament in Canada.
To show how women's football is growing worldwide, this tournament will have 24 teams for the first time. The USA are favourites with Germany and current holders Japan next.
The White Ferns are ranked at 16 and have qualified for the third consecutive time. Should the Ferns meet the hosts, there could be extra fire because the Canadians are coached by John Herdman, who quit New Zealand to take charge there.
So 2015 is truly a year for Kiwi sports fans to support our other national World Cup teams, before the "funny-shaped ball" tournament kicks off later in the year.
4 Thoughts on the world game
1 Mixing with the big guns
Auckland City's FFA club world championship adventure in December has received a fillip. They have been put in the same Moroccan hotel as Real Madrid. Maybe Ivan Vicelich and Gareth Bale will talk about each other's hairstyles ... ie hairbands.
2 MLT upsets RVP
Southampton legend and Sky TV pundit Mat Le Tissier upset the Manchester United faithful saying he thinks Robin van Persie was past his best and had lost his pace.At the time, the Dutch striker had scored only three times in the EPL this season, compared to Sergio Aguero with 12 and Diego Costa with 10.
3 The goss
On the other side of Manchester, the drums are beating that if City manager Manuel Pellegrini fails to make the knockout stages of the Champions League, he will be replaced at the end of the EPL season by Bayern Munich's Pep Guardiola.
4 Bad luck, but ...
Sad to see young Louis Fenton suffer another shoulder injury, during the Wellington Phoenix's A-League win over Western Sydney. But Ernie Merrick's experiment of turning the attacking midfielder into a right-sided defender was failing. Fenton's lack of defensive nous was continually exposed. Worse still, it forced the excellent right-side defender Manny Muscat to be exposed as inadequate on the left.
