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2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship


FieldValue
tourney_nameFIFA U-17 World Championship
year2001
other_titlesFIFA U-17 World Championship Trinidad & Tobago 2001
image2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship.png
captionTrinidad & Tobago 2001 official logo
countryTrinidad and Tobago
dates13–30 September
num_teams16
confederations6
venues5
cities5
champion_other
count1
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches32
goals102
attendance331198
top_scorerFRA Florent Sinama Pongolle
(9 goals)
playerFRA Florent Sinama Pongolle
fair_play
prevseason1999
nextseason2003

(9 goals) The FIFA U-17 World Championship 2001, the ninth edition of the tournament, was held from 13 to 30 September 2001 in the cities of Trinidad and Tobago; in Port of Spain, Malabar in Arima, Marabella in San Fernando, Couva, and Bacolet in Scarborough. Players born after 1 January 1984 could participate in this tournament.

Venues

Port of SpainArima/MalabarCouvaMarabellaScarborough{{location map+Trinidad and Tobagofloat=centerwidth=375caption=places=
Hasely Crawford StadiumLarry Gomes StadiumAto Boldon StadiumManny Ramjohn StadiumDwight Yorke Stadium
Capacity: 27,000Capacity: 10,000Capacity: 10,000Capacity: 10,000Capacity: 7,500
[[File:Hasely Crawford Stadium, Trinidad.jpg150px]][[File:TnT Ato Boldon Stadium.jpg150px]]

Mascot

The official mascot of this FIFA U-17 World Championship, Trinidad & Tobago 2001, was BEATS, the humming bird. Its outfit is the same as the home national team, red shirt, black short and red socks. It has Trinidad & Tobago 2001 on the chest.

Squads

Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the tournament:

ConfederationQualifying TournamentQualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)2000 AFC U-17 Championship
CAF (Africa)2001 African U-17 Championship
CONCACAF
(North, Central America & Caribbean)Host nation
2001 CONCACAF U-17 Tournament
CONMEBOL (South America)2001 South American U-17 Championship
OFC (Oceania)2001 OFC U-17 Championship
UEFA (Europe)2001 UEFA European Under-16 Championship

Group stages

Group A

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
3300102+89
320151+46
310238–53
300329–70



Bonfim
Caetano

Caetano
James
Júnior

Danze

Group B

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
330081+79
3201116+56
310229-73
300338-50

Brown

Opabunmi
Brown
Temile

Colombo
Johnson Pietre
Meghni

Ayuba

Sinama Pongolle
Drouin

Group C

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
321094+57
312043+15
310246-23
301226-41

Melli

López Conombo


Tevez
Colace


Senel López
Zabaleta
Aguirre

Group D

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
320152+36
320142+26
320156-16
300326-40

Jara

Azofeifa

Azofeifa


Diarra

Jara

Knockout stages

|23 September - Port of Spain||1||2 |24 September - Marabella| (aet)|2||1 |23 September - Port of Spain||5||1 |24 September - Marabella||0||2 |27 September - Port of Spain||2||1 |27 September - Malabar||1||0 |30 September - Port of Spain||3||0 |30 September - Port of Spain||0||2

Quarter-finals

Le Tallec

Mohammed
Temile

Fanari

Sanou

Semi-finals

Berthod

Third place match

Conombo

Final

Le Tallec
Piètre

Winners

Awards

FIFA Golden ShoeFIFA Golden BallFIFA Fair Play Award
FRA Florent Sinama Pongolle

Goalscorers

Florent Sinama Pongolle of France won the Golden Shoe award for scoring nine goals.

  • FRA Florent Sinama Pongolle

  • NGA Femi Opabunmi

  • BRA Caetano

  • ARG Maxi López

  • AUS Anthony Danze

  • BFA Wilfried Sanou

  • CRC Armando Alonso

  • FRA Anthony Le Tallec

  • FRA Samuel Piètre

  • NGA Karimu Shaibu

  • ARG Carlos Tevez

  • ARG Hugo Colace

  • BFA Henoc Conombo

  • BFA Paul Gorogo

  • CRC Randall Azofeifa

  • CRO Niko Kranjčar

  • IRN Mansour Ahmadzadeh

  • MLI Bakary Coulibaly

  • MLI Drissa Diarra

  • NGA Omonigho Temile

  • NGA Victor Brown

  • OMA Mohammed Al-Hinai

  • PAR Aldo Jara

  • PAR Andrés Pérez Matto

  • ARG Gonzalo Rodríguez

  • ARG Lucas Correa

  • ARG Marcos Aguirre

  • ARG Mauro Fanari

  • ARG Pablo Zabaleta

  • AUS Fred Agius

  • AUS Matthew Engele

  • AUS Terry Smith

  • BRA Alberoni

  • BRA Anderson Costa

  • BRA Bruno

  • BRA Júnior

  • BRA Leandro Bonfim

  • BRA Malzoni

  • BFA Abdoul Aziz Nikiema

  • CRO Dejan Prijić

  • FRA Jérémy Berthod

  • FRA Mourad Meghni

  • FRA Stephen Drouin

  • JPN Kisho Yano

  • JPN Yutaro Abe

  • MLI Alain Claude Traoré

  • NGA Moses Ayuba

  • NGA Suleiman Mohammed

  • PAR Blas López

  • ESP Fernando Torres

  • ESP Guillem Bauzà

  • ESP Melli

  • ESP Senel

  • TRI Jerol Forbes

  • TRI Nkosi Blackman

  • USA Eddie Johnson

  • USA Mike Magee

  • FRA Julio Colombo (against United States)

  • TRI Julius James (against Brazil)

Final ranking

RankTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
16501188+1015
26501145+915
3632184+411
46312129+310
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
54301114+79
6420254+16
6420254+16
842026606
Eliminated at the group stage
9320156–16
10310246–23
11310238–53
12310229–73
13301226–41
14300326–40
15300338–50
16300329–70
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