1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship explained

Tourney Name:	FIFA U-17 World Cup
Year:	1999
Other Titles:	FIFA U-17 World Championship New Zealand 1999 1999 FIFA I Raro I Te 17 Marama Ao
Country:	New Zealand
Dates:	10–27 November
Num Teams:	16
Confederations:	6
Venues:	4
Cities:	4
Count:	2
Matches:	32
Goals:	93
Attendance:	216853
Top Scorer:	Ishmael Addo (7 goals)
Player:	Landon Donovan
Prevseason:	1997
Nextseason:	2001

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 held in the Pacific Islands.

Venues

Auckland	Napier	Christchurch	Dunedin
North Harbour Stadium	McLean Park	Queen Elizabeth II Park	Carisbrook
Capacity: 25,000	Capacity: 21,000	Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 29,000

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

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)	1998 AFC U-17 Championship
CAF (Africa)	1999 African Under-17 Championship
CONCACAF (Central, North America and Caribbean)	1999 CONCACAF U-17 Tournament
CONMEBOL (South America)	1999 South American Under 17 Football Championship
OFC (Oceania)	Host nation
OFC (Oceania)	1999 OFC U-17 Qualifying Tournament
UEFA (Europe)	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

See main article: 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship squads.

Group stage

Group A

width=165	Team	width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20
	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7
	3	1	1	1	6	2	+4	4
	3	1	0	2	3	8	−5	3
	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2

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Group B

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	3	2	1	0	12	2	+10	7
	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
	3	1	1	1	7	2	+5	4
	3	0	0	3	1	17	−16	0

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Group C

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	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6
	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5
	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2
	3	0	2	1	0	1	−1	2

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Group D

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	3	2	1	0	9	2	+7	7
	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
	3	0	0	3	0	10	−10	0

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Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

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

Ishmael Addo

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

Mark Byrnes
Scott McDonald
Issaka Ouedraogo
Hector Vallejo
Dave Mulligan
Daniel Ferreira
Victor Cabrera
Lukasz Madej
Oguchi Onyewu
Sergio Leal

1 goal

Own goal

Stephen Tetteh (playing against Brazil)
Gonzalo Novegil (playing against Ghana)

Final ranking

width=20	Rank	width=200	Team
1		6	2	4	0	8	4	+4	10
2		6	3	2	1	7	5	+2	11
3		6	4	2	0	19	6	+13	14
4		6	3	2	1	9	8	+1	11
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
5		4	2	1	1	10	6	+4	7
6		4	2	0	2	6	4	+2	6
7		4	2	0	2	7	7	0	6
8		4	1	1	2	8	5	+3	4
Eliminated at the group stage
9		3	1	1	1	7	2	+5	4
10		3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
11		3	1	0	2	3	8	−5	3
12		3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
13		3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2
14		3	0	2	1	0	1	−1	2
15		3	0	0	3	0	10	−10	0
16		3	0	0	3	1	17	−16	0

External links

FIFA U-17 World Championship New Zealand 1999, FIFA.com
Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2) and (Part 3)