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1999 FIFA World Youth Championship

FieldValue
tourney_nameFIFA World Youth Championship
year1999
other_titlesFIFA U-20 World Cup Nigeria 1999
image1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.png
countryNigeria
dates3–24 April
num_teams24
confederations6
matches52
venues8
cities8
champion_other
count1
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
goals158
attendance624400
top_scorerESP Pablo Couñago
MLI Mahamadou Dissa
(5 goals)
playerMLI Seydou Keita
fair_play
prevseason[1997](1997-fifa-world-youth-championship)
nextseason[2001](2001-fifa-world-youth-championship)

MLI Mahamadou Dissa (5 goals)

The 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Nigeria between 3 and 24 April 1999. This was the 12th edition of the tournament.

Qualification

The following 24 teams qualified for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.

ConfederationQualifying TournamentQualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)[1998 AFC Youth Championship](1998-afc-youth-championship)
CAF (Africa)Host nation
[1999 African Youth Championship](1999-african-youth-championship)
CONCACAF
(North, Central America & Caribbean)[1998 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament](1998-concacaf-u-20-tournament)
CONMEBOL (South America)[1999 South American Youth Championship](1999-south-american-youth-championship)
OFC (Oceania)[1998 OFC U-20 Championship](1998-ofc-u-20-championship)
UEFA (Europe)[1998 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship](1998-uefa-european-under-18-football-championship)

:1.Teams that made their debut.

Match officials

ConfederationReferee
AFCAUS Simon Micallef (Australia)
CHN Lu Jun (China)
LBN Ahmad Nabil Ayad (Lebanon)
CAFMorocco Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco)
Nigeria Olufunmi Olaniyan (Nigeria)
Tunisia Mourad Daami (Tunisia)
CONCACAF
CRC William Mattus (Costa Rica)
MEX Felipe Ramos Rizo (Mexico)
CONMEBOLARG Ángel Sánchez (Argentina)
BRA Carlos Eugênio Simon (Brazil)
URU Gustavo Méndez (Uruguay)
UEFABelarus Sergei Shmolik (Belarus)
CRO Željko Širić (Croatia)
DEN Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)

Venues

IbadanLagosEnuguPort HarcourtKanoCalabarKadunaBauchi
Liberty StadiumNational StadiumNnamdi Azikiwe StadiumLiberation Stadium
Capacity: **40,000**Capacity: **45,000**Capacity: **22,000**Capacity: **25,000**
[[File:Overlooking the city of Ibadan, Nigeria.jpg200px]][[File:Lagos (Nigeria).jpg200px]][[File:Enugu.jpg200px]][[File:1st Artillery.jpg200px]]
Sani Abacha StadiumU.J. Esuene StadiumAhmadu Bello StadiumAbubarkar Tafawa Balewa Stadium
Capacity: **18,000**Capacity: **16,000**Capacity: **16,500**Capacity: **15,000**

Squads

Main article: 1999 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

Makufi Mbambara De León

Matuzalém |stadium = Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt | attendance = 16,000 | referee = Olufunmi Olaniyan (Nigeria)|report=(Report)}}

Aurélio Baiano Mancini Rodrigo Gral |stadium = Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt | attendance = 16,000 | referee = Simon Micallef (Australia)|report=(Report)}}

Varela Rubén |stadium = Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt | attendance = 16,000 | referee = Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco)|report=(Report)}}

Ranking of third-placed teams

Knockout stage

Bracket

|April 15 - Enugu|**** |5||4 |April 14 - Kano||1 (3)|**** |1 (5) |April 15 - Port Harcourt||3||2 |April 14 - Kaduna||2||0 |April 14 - Lagos||2 (9)|**** |2 (10) |April 14 - Calabar||4||0 |April 15 - Bauchi| |1 (5)||1 (4) |April 15 - Ibadan||4||1 |April 18 - Enugu||3||1 |April 18 - Kaduna|**** |1 (8)||1 (7) |April 18 - Lagos||2||1 |April 18 - Ibadan||2||0 |April 21 - Kaduna||1||3 |April 21 - Lagos||1||2 |April 24 - Lagos||4||0 |April 24 - Lagos||1||0

Round of 16

16:00 |team1= |score=1–1 |team2= |goals1=Endo |goals2=Marco Claúdio Nakata Motoyama Takahara Sakai Marco Cláudio Sousa Costa Leal |stadium=Abubarkar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi | attendance = 8,000 | referee = Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco) |report=(Report)}}

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Third place play-off

Final

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Result

Goalscorers

;5 goals

  • MLI Mahamadou Dissa
  • ESP Pablo Couñago

;4 goals

  • CMR Gaspard Komol
  • GHA Peter Ofori-Quaye
  • MLI Mamadou Bagayoko
  • USA Taylor Twellman
  • URU Javier Chevantón

;3 goals

  • BRA Fernando Baiano
  • BRA Edu
  • BRA Ronaldinho
  • GER Enrico Kern
  • JPN Naohiro Takahara
  • PAR Roque Santa Cruz
  • ESP Gabri
  • ESP Fernando Varela

;2 goals

  • CMR Francis Kioyo
  • CRO Zvonimir Deranja
  • GHA Baffour Gyan
  • IRE Damien Duff
  • IRE Richard Sadlier
  • JPN Shinji Ono
  • MLI Abdoulaye Camara
  • MLI Tenema Ndiaye
  • MEX Luis González
  • MEX Rafael Márquez
  • MEX Daniel Osorno
  • MEX Juan Pablo Rodríguez
  • NGA Hashimu Garba
  • NGA Ganiyu Shittu
  • POR Simão
  • KOR Seol Ki-Hyeon
  • ESP José Barkero
  • ESP Xavi
  • ZAM Bernard Makufi

;1 goal

  • ARG Esteban Cambiasso
  • ARG Luciano Galletti
  • AUS Jason Culina
  • AUS John Maisano
  • AUS Mile Sterjovski
  • BRA Fábio Aurélio
  • BRA Rodrigo Gral
  • BRA Mancini
  • BRA Matuzalém
  • CMR Modeste M'bami
  • CRC Alberto Brenes
  • CRC Mauricio Garita
  • CRC Allan Meléndez
  • CRC Esteban Santana
  • CRO Ivica Banović
  • CRO Saša Bjelanović
  • CRO Darko Miladin
  • CRO Silvester Sabolčki
  • GER Patrick Falk
  • GER Christian Timm
  • GHA Tutu Adu
  • GHA Owusu Afriyie
  • HON Julio César de León
  • HON Carlos Oliva
  • HON Maynor Suazo
  • IRE Garry Crossley
  • IRE Colin Healy
  • IRE Stephen McPhail
  • JPN Yasuhito Endō
  • JPN Tatsuya Ishikawa
  • JPN Masashi Motoyama
  • JPN Yuichiro Nagai
  • JPN Mitsuo Ogasawara
  • KAZ Yerlan Urazayev
  • MLI Amadou Coulibaly
  • MLI Mahamadou Diarra
  • MLI Seydou Keita
  • MEX Eduardo Rodríguez
  • NGA Julius Aghahowa
  • NGA Pius Ikedia
  • PAR Nelson Cuevas
  • PAR Sergio Fernández
  • PAR Rubén Maldonado
  • PAR Nelson Vera
  • POR Marco Claúdio
  • POR Paulo Costa
  • POR Ricardo Sousa
  • KSA Saleh Al-Saqri
  • KSA Mohamad Dabo
  • KOR Kim Kun-Hyung
  • KOR Lee Dong-Gook
  • KOR Na Hee-Keun
  • ESP Rubén Suárez
  • USA Carlos Bocanegra
  • USA Danny Califf
  • USA Ryan Futagaki
  • URU Jorge Anchen
  • URU Fabián Canobbio
  • URU Diego Forlán
  • ZAM Japhet Makayi
  • ZAM Ronald Mbambara
  • ZAM Andrew Sinkala

Awards

Golden ShoeGolden BallFIFA Fair Play Award
ESP Pablo CouñagoMLI Seydou Keita

Final ranking

Quarter-finals Round of 16 Group stage

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