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2001 FIFA World Youth Championship

Field	Value
tourney_name	FIFA World Youth Championship
year	2001
image	2001 FIFA World Youth Championship.png
other_titles	Copa Mundial Juvenil de la FIFA
Argentina 2001
country	Argentina
dates	17 June – 8 July
num_teams	24
confederations	6
venues	6
cities	6
champion_other
count	4
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches	52
goals	149
attendance	506320
top_scorer	ARG Javier Saviola (11 goals)
player	ARG Javier Saviola
fair_play
prevseason	[1999](1999-fifa-world-youth-championship)
nextseason	[2003](2003-fifa-world-youth-championship)

Argentina 2001

The 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Argentina between 17 June and 8 July 2001. The 2001 championship was the 13th contested. The tournament took part in six cities, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mendoza, Rosario, Salta, and Mar del Plata. The Golden Boot was won by Javier Saviola of Argentina who scored 11 goals.

Qualification

The following 24 teams qualified for the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship. Argentina qualified automatically as host.

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)	[2000 AFC Youth Championship](2000-afc-youth-championship)

CAF (Africa)	[2001 African Youth Championship](2001-african-youth-championship)

CONCACAF
(North, Central America & Caribbean)	[2001 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament](2001-concacaf-u-20-tournament)

CONMEBOL (South America)		Host nation
[2001 South American Youth Championship](2001-south-american-youth-championship)

OFC (Oceania)	[2001 OFC U-20 Championship](2001-ofc-u-20-championship)
UEFA (Europe)	[2000 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship](2000-uefa-european-under-18-football-championship)

:1.Teams that made their debut. :2.Czech Republic made their debut as independent nation. They were chosen as the descendant of the now-defunct Czechoslovakia, which qualified in 1983 and 1989 tournaments.

Venues

Buenos Aires	Córdoba	Mendoza	Rosario
position=bottom}}
José Amalfitani Stadium	Estadio Olímpico Chateau Carreras
Capacity: 49,540	Capacity: 57,000
[[File:Velez1.JPG	150px]]	[[File:Estadio Córdoba (Arg vs Ghana) 2.jpg	150px]]
Estadio Malvinas Argentinas	Estadio Newell's Old Boys
Capacity: 40,268	Capacity: 42,000
[[File:Estadio Malvinas Argentinas.JPG	150px]]	[[File:El Coloso del Parque 3.jpg	150px]]
Estadio Padre Ernesto Martearena	Estadio José María Minella
Capacity: 20,408	Capacity: 35,354
[[File:Estadio Padre Ernestro Martearena de Salta.jpg	150px]]	[[File:PT ESTADIO2.jpg	150px]]

Match officials

Confederation	Referee
AFC	AUS Mark Shield (Australia)
CHN Sun Baojie (China)
JPN Toru Kamikawa (Japan)
KSA Naser Al Hamdan (Saudi Arabia)
Singapore Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)
CAF	Benin Coffi Codjia (Benin)
Ethiopia Hailemelak Tessema (Ethiopia)
Libya Abdullhakim Shelmani (Libya)
Tunisia Hichem Guirat (Tunisia)
CONCACAF
HON José Pineda (Honduras)
Trinidad and Tobago Jagdeesh Bhimull (Trinidad and Tobago)
USA Kevin Stott (United States)
CONMEBOL	ARG Claudio Martín (Argentina)
BRA Wilson de Souza (Brazil)
CHI Guido Aros (Chile)
PAR Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay)
UEFA	Luxembourg Alain Hamer (Luxembourg)
Norway Terje Hauge (Norway)
Romania Sorin Corpodean (Romania)
Scotland Mike McCurry (Scotland)
ESP Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)
Turkey Orhan Erdemir (Turkey)

Mascot

The Official Mascot of the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship is a Rhea named Ñandy, he was created by an Argentine Illustrator Conrado Giusti https://tuchogiusti.wordpress.com/ilustracion/

Sponsorship

National supporters

FIFA.com
FIFA Fair Play

Argentinian local partners

Movicom
Televisión Cable Color

Squads

Main article: 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship squads

Group stage

All times in Argentina Standard Time: (UTC−03:00)

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Ranking of third-placed teams

Knockout stage

Bracket

|27 June – Buenos Aires||2||1 |27 June – Córdoba||3||2 |28 June – Salta||1||2 |28 June – Mendoza||1||2 |28 June – Rosario||0||2 |27 June – Buenos Aires||0||2 |28 June – Mar del Plata||1||0 |27 June – Córdoba||4||0 |1 July – Buenos Aires||3||1 |1 July – Mendoza||0||1 |1 July – Rosario||1||2 |1 July – Córdoba| |2||1 |4 July – Buenos Aires||5||0 |4 July – Córdoba||0||2 |8 July – Buenos Aires||3||0 |8 July – Buenos Aires||0||1

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Third place play-off

Final

Saviola
Rodríguez

José Pekerman

Emmanuel Afranie

Result

Goalscorers

;11 goals

ARG Javier Saviola

;6 goals

BRA Adriano
FRA Djibril Cissé ;5 goals
BRA Robert
GER Benjamin Auer ;4 goals
ARG Maxi Rodríguez
CRC Winston Parks
EGY Mohamed El Yamani ;3 goals
ARG Esteban Herrera
UKR Oleksiy Byelik ;2 goals
ARG Fabricio Coloccini
ARG Andrés D'Alessandro
ARG Leandro Romagnoli
AUS Greg Owens
CHN Qu Bo
CRC Erick Scott
CZE Tomáš Jun
CZE Petr Musil
EGY Wael Riad
ETH Solomon Andargachew
FRA Hervé Bugnet
FRA Philippe Mexès
GER Christoph Preuß
GHA Derek Boateng
GHA John Mensah
IRQ Emad Mohammed
JPN Koji Yamase
NED Youssouf Hersi
NED Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
PAR Julio González
USA DaMarcus Beasley ;1 goal
ANG Mantorras
ANG Mendonça
ANG Rasca
ARG Diego Colotto
ARG Alejandro Domínguez
BRA Eduardo Costa
BRA Fernando
BRA Kaká
BRA Pinga
CHI Mario Berrios
CHI Rodrigo Millar
CHI Sebastián Pardo
CHI Jaime Valdés
CRC Carlos Hernández
CRC Christian Montero
CZE Michal Macek
ECU Jorge Guagua
ECU Roberto Miña
ECU Jorge Vargas
EGY Hussein Amin
EGY Gamal Hamza
ETH Abay Yordanos
ETH Bekele Zewdu
FIN Daniel Sjölund
FIN Mika Väyrynen
FRA Bernard Mendy
GER Thorsten Burkhardt
GHA Ibrahim Abdul Razak
GHA Michael Essien
GHA Abbas Inusah
IRQ Ammar Hanoosh
IRQ Salah Al-Deen Siamand
JAM Fabian Dawkins
JPN Koji Morisaki
JPN Yutaka Tahara
NED Jurgen Colin
NED Santi Kolk
NED Rahamat Mustapha
NED Rafael van der Vaart
PAR Pedro Benítez
PAR José Devaca
PAR Walter Fretes
PAR Felipe Giménez
PAR Tomás Guzmán
PAR Santiago Salcedo
UKR Denis Stoyan
UKR Ruslan Valeyev
USA Kenny Arena
USA Edson Buddle
USA Brad Davis

Awards

Golden Shoe	Golden Ball	FIFA Fair Play Award
ARG Javier Saviola	ARG Javier Saviola

Final ranking

Quarter-finals Round of 16 Group stage

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