The 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship, known as the 1997 FIFA/Coca-Cola World Youth Championship for sponsorship purposes, was the 11th staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship. It was held from 16 June to 5 July 1997 in Malaysia. It was the first FIFA tournament hosted by a Southeast Asian country.
Venues Shah Alam Kuching Alor Setar Shah Alam Stadium Sarawak Stadium Darul Aman Stadium Capacity: 80,000 Capacity: 40,000 Capacity: 32,387 Kuantan Kangar Johor Bahru Darul Makmur Stadium Tuanku Syed Putra Stadium Tan Sri Hassan Yunus Stadium Capacity: 40,000 Capacity: 20,000 Capacity: 30,000
Qualification The following 24 teams qualified for the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship. Host Malaysia did not have to qualify for the tournament.
ConfederationQualifying tournamentQualifier(s)AFC (Asia)Host nation1996 AFC Youth Championship CAF (Africa)1997 African Youth Championship CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)1996 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament CONMEBOL (South America)1997 South American Youth Championship OFC (Oceania)1997 OFC U-20 ChampionshipUEFA (Europe)1996 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship
1.Teams that made their debut.
Squads For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship squads
Group stage The 24 teams were split into six groups of four teams. Six group winners, six-second-place finishers and the four best third-place finishers qualify for the knockout round.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Ranking of third-placed teams
Knockout stage
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
GK 1 Gustavo Munúa DF 2 Álvaro Perea DF 3 Martín Rivas DF 4 Carlos Díaz DF 6 César Pellegrín DF 13 Alejandro Meloño MF 5 Pablo García MF 7 Christian Callejas MF 8 Fabián Coelho FW 9 Marcelo Zalayeta FW 10 Nicolás OliveraSubstitutes: MF 15 Mario Regueiro MF 18 Sebastián Cartagena FW 17 Rodrigo López Manager: Víctor Púa
GK 1 Leo Franco RB 18 Lionel Scaloni CB 3 Walter Samuel CB 13 Fabián Cubero LB 2 Leandro Cufré DM 5 Esteban Cambiasso RM 4 Juan Serrizuela LM 14 Diego Placente AM 8 Juan Román Riquelme (c) SS 7 Diego Quintana CF 9 Bernardo Romeo Substitutes: MF 10 Pablo Aimar MF 11 Pablo Rodríguez FW 15 Martín Perezlindo Manager: José Pekerman
Result
Awards Golden ShoeGolden BallFair Play Award Adaílton Nicolás Olivera
Goalscorers
Adaílton of Brazil won the Golden Boot award for scoring ten goals. In total, 165 goals were scored by 101 different players, with seven of them credited as own goals.
10 goals Adaílton 5 goals David Trezeguet 4 goals
Bernardo Romeo Juan Román Riquelme Kostas Salapasidis Alex Atsushi Yanagisawa Marcelo Zalayeta
3 goals
Gunter Van Handenhoven Zé Elias Danny Murphy Michael Owen Thierry Henry Eduardo Lillingston José Luis Deus Fabián Coelho
2 goals
Lionel Scaloni Álvaro Fernandão Rôni Peter Luccin Baba Sule Peter Ofori-Quaye Harutaka Ono Shinji Jojo Damien Duff Micky Cummins Trevor Molloy Junaid Hartley Park Jin-sub Alberto Rivera Javier Farinós Nicolás Olivera
1 goal
Diego Placente Diego Quintana Esteban Cambiasso Martín Perezlindo Pablo Aimar Daniel Allsopp Éder Gaúcho Gauthier Remacle Dwayne De Rosario Jason Bent Steve Kindel Li Jinyu Wang Peng Alonso Solís Froylán Ledezma Steven Bryce Jamie Carragher Paul Shepherd Awudu Issaka Bashiru Gambo Joseph Ansah Mohamed Mouktar Odartey Lawson Richard Ackon Stephen Appiah Attila Szili Serge Dié Souleymane Cissé Kenji Fukuda Nozomi Hiroyama Shunsuke Nakamura Yuichiro Nagai Nik Ahmad Fadly Carlos Cariño Gerardo Torres Omar Santacruz Aissam El Barodi Hamid Termina Khalid Khamma Tarik Sektioui César Cáceres Gustavo Morinigo Juan Samudio Paulo da Silva Raúl Román Desmond Baker Neale Fenn Chung Seok-keun Lee Jung-min Lee Kwan-woo David Albelda Diego Ribera Miguel Ángel Angulo Mohamed Kazim Yaser Salem Ali Brian West Jorge Flores Álvaro Perea Rodrigo López Inti Podestá Pablo García
Own goal
Mikaël Silvestre (playing against Brazil) Khairun Haled Masrom (playing against Uruguay) Youssef Safri (playing against Malaysia) Niall Inman (playing against Morocco) Abdulla Ahmed Abdulla (playing against England) Ramiro Corrales (playing against Republic of Ireland) Alejandro Meloño (playing against Ghana)
Final ranking
Notes
External links
FIFA World Youth Championship Malaysia 1997 , FIFA.com RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1997 FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)