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1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship


FieldValue
tourney_nameFIFA U-17 World Cup
year1999
other_titlesFIFA U-17 World Championship New Zealand 1999
1999 FIFA I Raro I Te 17 Marama Ao
image1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship.png
countryNew Zealand
dates10–27 November
num_teams16
confederations6
venues4
cities4
champion_other
count2
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches32
goals93
attendance216853
top_scorerGHA Ishmael Addo
(7 goals)
playerUSA Landon Donovan
fair_play
prevseason[1997](1997-fifa-u-17-world-championship)
nextseason[2001](2001-fifa-u-17-world-championship)

1999 FIFA I Raro I Te 17 Marama Ao (7 goals) The 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship, the eighth edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of Auckland, Christchurch, Napier, and Dunedin in New Zealand from 10 to 27 November 1999. Players born after 1 January 1982 could participate in this tournament. This was the first FIFA tournament to be held in the Pacific Islands country.

Venues

AucklandNapierChristchurchDunedin
North Harbour StadiumMcLean ParkQueen Elizabeth II Park
Capacity: **25,000**Capacity: **21,000**Capacity: **20,000**Capacity: **29,000**
[[File:North Harbour Stadium East Side.jpg200px]][[File:McLean Park, Napier.jpg200px]][[File:CHCH City - Stadium1.jpg200px]][[File:Carisbrook.jpg200px]]

New Zealand's capital city Wellington was not allocated any matches as the city's only venue at the time– Athletic Park–was not deemed adequate by FIFA as a match venue.

Teams

ConfederationQualifying TournamentQualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)[1998 AFC U-16 Championship](1998-afc-u-16-championship)
CAF (Africa)[1999 African Under-17 Championship](1999-african-u-17-championship)
CONCACAF
(Central, North America and Caribbean)[1999 CONCACAF U-17 Tournament](1999-concacaf-u-17-tournament)
CONMEBOL (South America)[1999 South American Under 17 Football Championship](1999-south-american-under-17-football-championship)
OFC (Oceania)Host nation
1999 OFC U-17 Qualifying Tournament
UEFA (Europe)[1999 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship](1999-uefa-european-under-16-football-championship)

:1.Teams that made their debut. :2.Australia qualified for the tournament after two-leg playoff matches with 3rd Place winner of 1998 AFC U-17 Championship, Bahrain.

Squads

Main article: 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship squads

Group stage

Group A

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
321042+2**7**
311162+4**4**
310238−5**3**
302134−1**2**

Donovan


Peralta
Leal
Martinez
Meneses


Pearce

Group B

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
3210122+10**7**
320154+1**6**
311172+5**4**
3003117−16**0**

Galindo
Ramirez
Grijalva

Crusat
Ernesto
Aspas

Atiku

Addo
Obodai

Group C

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
320143+1**6**
312021+1**5**
302112−1**2**
302101−1**2**

Carlos Henrique


Byrnes



Group D

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
321092+7**7**
320163+3**6**
3111440**4**
3003010−10**0**

Guzman


Da Silva
Cabrera
Figueredo

Abdulrahman
Mubarak

Ferreira

Knockout stage

|20 November – Auckland||3||2 |21 November – Christchurch||1||0 |20 November – Napier|**** (a.e.t.)|3||2 |21 November – Dunedin||1||4 |24 November – Christchurch||2 (6)| (pen.)|2 (7) |24 November – Auckland||2 (2)|**** (pen.)|2 (4) |27 November – Auckland||0 (7)|**** (pen.)|0 (8) |27 November – Auckland||0|****|2

Quarter-finals

Yañez


Novegil Leal

Caca

Semi-finals

McDonald Onyewu Beasley Convey Akwari Thompson Gregorio Yi Cutler Di Iorio Cansdell-Sherriff Srhoj North MacAllister Goulding Kennedy

Tetteh Dong-Bortey Obodai Nkrumah Marquinhos Eduardo Costa Walker Ricardo

Playoff for 3rd place

Addo

Final

Di Iorio Srhoj Madaschi North MacAllister Goulding Kennedy Fyfe Marquinhos Eduardo Costa Walker Ricardo Léo Lima Bruno Leite Souza Wellington

Winners

Awards

**FIFA Golden Shoe****FIFA Golden Ball****FIFA Fair Play Award**
GHA Ishmael AddoUSA Landon Donovan

Goalscorers

Ishmael Addo of Ghana won the Golden Shoe award for scoring seven goals. In total, 93 goals were scored by 59 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.

;7 goals

  • GHA Ishmael Addo ;4 goals
  • BRA Leonardo Santiago
  • QAT Waleed Hamza ;3 goals
  • GHA Bernard Dong Bortey
  • GHA Ibrahim Atiku
  • GHA Nathaniel Lamptey
  • PAR Alejandro Da Silva
  • ESP Aitor Gómez
  • USA Landon Donovan ;2 goals
  • AUS Mark Byrnes
  • AUS Scott McDonald
  • BFA Issaka Ouedraogo
  • MEX Hector Vallejo
  • NZL Dave Mulligan
  • PAR Daniel Ferreira
  • PAR Victor Cabrera
  • POL Lukasz Madej
  • USA Oguchi Onyewu
  • URU Sergio Leal ;1 goal
  • AUS Dylan MacAllister
  • AUS Joe Di Iorio
  • AUS Shane Cansdell-Sherriff
  • BRA Caca
  • BRA Carlos Henrique
  • BRA Marcos Roberto
  • BFA Djibril Compaoré
  • BFA Ibrahim Kabore
  • GER Leonhard Haas
  • GHA Anthony Obodai
  • GHA Razak Pimpong
  • MEX Aarón Galindo
  • MEX Felix Grijalva
  • MEX Gustavo Ramirez
  • MEX Juan Estrada
  • MEX Yared Yanez
  • NZL Allan Pearce
  • PAR Diego Figueredo
  • PAR Tomas Guzman
  • PAR Walter Fretes
  • POL Łukasz Mierzejewski
  • ESP Albert Crusat
  • ESP Ernesto
  • ESP Jonathan Aspas
  • ESP Mario
  • THA Suriya Amatawech
  • USA Abe Thompson
  • USA DaMarcus Beasley
  • USA Jordan Cila
  • USA Kyle Beckerman
  • URU Alvaro Meneses
  • URU Horacio Peralta
  • URU Miguel Lapolla
  • URU Ruben Olivera
  • URU Sebastian Alvarez
  • URU Williams Martínez ;Own goal
  • GHA Stephen Tetteh (playing against Brazil)
  • URU Gonzalo Novegil (playing against Ghana)

Final ranking

RankTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1624084+4**10**
2632175+2**11**
36420196+13**14**
4632198+1**11**
**Eliminated in the quarter-finals**
54211106+4**7**
6420264+2**6**
74202770**6**
8411285+3**4**
**Eliminated at the group stage**
9311172+5**4**
103111440**4**
11310238−5**3**
12302134−1**2**
13302112−1**2**
14302101−1**2**
153003010−10**0**
163003117−16**0**
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