2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup explained

Tourney Name:FIFA U-17 World Cup
Year:2007
Other Titles:Korean: 2007 FIFA U-17 월드컵 대한민국
Country:South Korea
Dates:18 August – 9 September
Num Teams:24
Confederations:6
Venues:8
Cities:8
Count:3
Matches:52
Goals:165
Attendance:422907
Top Scorer: Macauley Chrisantus (7 goals)
Player: Toni Kroos
Prevseason:2005
Nextseason:2009

The FIFA U-17 World Cup 2007, the twelfth edition of the tournament, was held in South Korea between 18 August and 9 September 2007. For this event, the number of teams had been expanded from 16 to 24, with the top two of each group and the four best third-place teams advancing to the Round of 16. Also, from this edition onwards, the confederation which produced the last champion, in this case CONCACAF, had an extra spot in the qualifying rounds.[1]

Players born after 1 January 1990 could participate in this tournament.

Venues

SeoulSuwonGoyangCheonan
Seoul World Cup StadiumSuwon Civic StadiumGoyang StadiumCheonan Stadium
Capacity: 66,806Capacity: 24,670Capacity: 41,311Capacity: 30,000
UlsanChangwonGwangyangJeju
Ulsan StadiumChangwon Civic StadiumGwangyang Football StadiumJeju World Cup Stadium
Capacity: 19,050Capacity: 27,085Capacity: 13,496Capacity: 42,256

Teams

ConfederationQualifying TournamentQualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)Host nation
AFC U-17 Championship 2006


CAF (Africa)2007 African Under-17 Championship


CONCACAF
(Central, North America and Caribbean)
2007 CONCACAF U17 Tournament


United States
CONMEBOL (South America)Sudamericano Sub-17 2007


OFC (Oceania)2007 OFC Under 17 Tournament
UEFA (Europe)2007 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship



1.Teams that made their debut.

Match officials

ConfederationRefereeAssistants
AFCMatthew Breeze (Australia)Matthew Cream (Australia)
Jim Ouliaris (Australia)
Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)Toru Sagara (Japan)
Jeong Hae-Sang (South Korea)
Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)Abdukhamidullo Rasulov (Uzbekistan)
Bahadyr Kochkarov (Kyrgyzstan)
CAFKoman Coulibaly (Mali)Inácio Cândido (Angola)
Redouane Achik (Morocco)
Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)Bechir Hassani (Tunisia)
Evarist Menkouande (Cameroon)
CONCACAFJoel Aguilar (El Salvador)Roberto Giron (Honduras)
Daniel Williamson (Panama)
CONMEBOLSálvio Fagundes (Brazil)Roberto Braatz (Brazil)
Altemir Hausmann (Brazil)
Hernando Buitrago (Colombia)Abraham González (Colombia)
Rafael Rivas (Colombia)
OFCRakesh Varman (Fiji)Andrew Achari (Fiji)
Matthew Taro (Solomon Islands)
UEFAIvan Bebek (Croatia)Tomislav Petrović (Croatia)
Tomislav Šetka (Croatia)
Bertrand Layec (France)Eric Dansault (France)
Stephane Duhamel (France)
Grzegorz Gilewski (Poland)Rafał Rostkowski (Poland)
Maciej Wierzbowski (Poland)
Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)Bertino Miranda (Portugal)
José Cardinal (Portugal)
Craig Thomson (Scotland)Martin Cryans (Scotland)
Tom Murphy (Scotland)

Squads

For a list of the squads see 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup squads.

Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Group E

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Group F

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Ranking of third-placed teams

Knockout stages

Round of 16

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Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Final

Awards

Golden BallSilver BallBronze Ball
Toni Kroos Macauley Chrisantus Bojan
Golden ShoeSilver ShoeBronze Shoe
Macauley Chrisantus Ransford Osei Toni Kroos

Final ranking

width=20Rankwidth=200Team
17610164+1219
27430126+615
375112011+916
47403139+412
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
55311127+510
6522174+38
7522186+28
852213308
Eliminated in the Round of 16
9430196+39
104202144+106
114112107+34
12411256–14
13411245–14
14411234–14
154112310–74
16410379–23
Eliminated at the group stage
17310246–23
18310224–23
19310236–33
20302123–12
21301238–51
223003310–70
233003114–130
243003013–130

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20060411174242/http://www.fifa.com/en/media/index/0,1369,115830,00.html Executive Committee approves report from Task Force for the Good of the Game