2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship

The 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship, the eleventh edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of Lima, Trujillo, Chiclayo, Piura, and Iquitos in Peru from 16 September to 2 October 2005. Players born after 1 January 1988 could participate in this tournament. Mexico beat favorites and defending champions Brazil 3–0 in the final, winning its first U-17 Championship title.

2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship

FIFA U-17 World Championship Peru 2005 Copa Mundial de Fútbol Sub-17 de 2005
Tournament details
Host country	Peru
Dates	16 September – 2 October
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Mexico (1st title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Netherlands
Fourth place	Turkey
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	111 (3.47 per match)
Attendance	551,817 (17,244 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Carlos Vela (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Anderson
Fair play award	North Korea
← 2003 2007 →

Venues

Lima	Chiclayo
Estadio Nacional Capacity: 47,000	Estadio Elías Aguirre Capacity: 25,000
Iquitos	Iquitos Chiclayo Lima Piura Trujillo
Estadio Max Augustín
Piura		Trujillo
Estadio Miguel Grau Capacity: 26,550		Estadio Mansiche Capacity: 25,000

Teams

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)	2004 AFC U-17 Championship	China  North Korea  Qatar
CAF (Africa)	2005 African U-17 Championship	Gambia  Ghana  Ivory Coast
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)	2005 CONCACAF U17 Tournament	United States  Mexico  Costa Rica
CONMEBOL (South America)	Host nation	Peru
	2005 South American U-17 Championship	Brazil  Uruguay
OFC (Oceania)	2005 OFC Under 17 Tournament	Australia
UEFA (Europe)	2005 UEFA European Under-17 Championship	Turkey  Netherlands  Italy

• USA is the only team to have qualified for all 11 tournaments so far, followed by Brazil and Australia who have each qualified 10 times. While Netherlands, Turkey, Peru, Gambia and Korea DPR are new to the competition.

Squads

For a list of the squads see 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship squads

Group stage

All times are local, PET (UTC−5).

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Costa Rica	5	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2
China	5	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1
Ghana	3	3	0	3	0	3	3	0
Peru (H)	1	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3

16 September 2005

17:00

China	1–1	Costa Rica
Tang Naixin 17'	Report	Carrillo 10'

Estadio Mansiche, Trujillo

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan)

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16 September 2005
20:00

Peru	1–1	Ghana
Chávez 10' (pen.)	Report	Cárdenas 62' (o.g.)

Estadio Mansiche, Trujillo

Attendance: 21,100

Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

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19 September 2005

15:30

Ghana	1–1	Costa Rica
Quartey 58'	Report	Borges 47'

Estadio Mansiche, Trujillo

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)

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19 September 2005

18:15

Peru	0–1	China
	Report	Deng Zhuoxiang 13'

Estadio Mansiche, Trujillo

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Óscar Ruiz (Colombia)

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22 September 2005

18:15

Costa Rica	2–0	Peru
Solórzano 45+1' Elizondo 76'	Report

Estadio Max Augustín, Iquitos

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Mark Shield (Australia)

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22 September 2005

18:15

Ghana	1–1	China
Bukari 56'	Report	Wang Xuanhong 60'

Estadio Miguel Grau, Piura

Attendance: 15,320

Referee: Alain Hamer (Luxembourg)

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Turkey	9	3	3	0	0	6	3	+3
Mexico	6	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4
Australia	3	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3
Uruguay	0	3	0	0	3	3	7	−4

16 September 2005

14:15

Uruguay	0–2	Mexico
	Report	Vela 47' Villaluz 54'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Alain Hamer (Luxembourg)

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16 September 2005

17:00

Turkey	1–0	Australia
Şahin 84'	Report

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Attendance: 14,200

Referee: Kevin Stott (United States)

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19 September 2005

15:30

Mexico	3–0	Australia
Esparza 20' Vela 43', 79'	Report

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)

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19 September 2005

18:15

Uruguay	2–3	Turkey
Duruer 28' (o.g.) Figueroa 78'	Report	Yılmaz 12' Özcan 80' Köse 84'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Mourad Daami (Tunisia)

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22 September 2005

15:30

Australia	2–1	Uruguay
Burns 20' Kruse 83'	Report	Figueroa 38'

Estadio Elías Aguirre, Chiclayo

Attendance: 11,100

Referee: Jerome Damon (South Africa)

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22 September 2005

15:30

Mexico	1–2	Turkey
Guzmán 11'	Report	Yılmaz 28' Erkin 90+1'

Estadio Miguel Grau, Piura

Attendance: 14,560

Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan)

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
United States	7	3	2	1	0	7	4	+3
North Korea	4	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2
Italy	4	3	1	1	1	6	7	−1
Ivory Coast	1	3	0	1	2	4	8	−4

17 September 2005

10:00

Ivory Coast	3–4	Italy
Diomande 27' Fofana 53' Kouassi 87'	Report[dead link]	Tiboni 21', 32' Mandorlini 86' Foti 89'

Estadio Elías Aguirre, Chiclayo

Attendance: 14,800

Referee: Subkhiddin Salleh (Malaysia)

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17 September 2005

12:45

United States	3–2	North Korea
Soroka 13' Nakazawa 43' Zimmerman 72'	Report	Choe Myong-ho 24' Kim Kuk-jin 86'

Estadio Elías Aguirre, Chiclayo

Attendance: 15,200

Referee: Jerome Damon (South Africa)

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20 September 2005

15:30

Italy	1–3	United States
Russotto 74'	Report	Sarkodie 47' Nakazawa 67' Soroka 90'

Estadio Elías Aguirre, Chiclayo

Attendance: 15,240

Referee: Mark Shield (Australia)

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20 September 2005

18:15

Ivory Coast	0–3	North Korea
	Report	Choe Myong-ho 9' (pen.), 38' Kim Kyong-il 44'

Estadio Elías Aguirre, Chiclayo

Attendance: 14,500

Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

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23 September 2005

15:30

United States	1–1	Ivory Coast
Hall 4'	Report	Bamba 87'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Óscar Ruiz (Colombia)

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23 September 2005

15:30

Italy	1–1	North Korea
Palermo 90'	Report[dead link]	Kim Kuk-jin 22'

Estadio Mansiche, Trujillo

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Mourad Daami (Tunisia)

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Brazil	6	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5
Netherlands	6	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3
Gambia	6	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2
Qatar	0	3	0	0	3	4	14	−10

17 September 2005

15:15

Netherlands	5–3	Qatar
Emnes 6', 85' Buijs 30' (pen.) Van der Kooy 58' Goossens 65'	Report	Afif 11' (pen.) Ahmed 31' Ibrahim 83'

Estadio Miguel Grau, Piura

Attendance: 20,800

Referee: Mark Shield (Australia)

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17 September 2005

18:00

Brazil	1–3	Gambia
Igor 23'	Report	Mansally 27' Ceesay 45' Jallow 74' (pen.)

Estadio Miguel Grau, Piura

Attendance: 22,300

Referee: Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)

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20 September 2005

15:30

Qatar	1–3	Gambia
Ahmed 31'	Report	Ceesay 24' Jallow 74' (pen.) Jagne 90+2'

Estadio Miguel Grau, Piura

Attendance: 18,424

Referee: Subkhiddin Salleh (Malaysia)

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20 September 2005

18:15

Netherlands	1–2	Brazil
Sindei 28' (o.g.)	Report[dead link]	Igor 8' Ramón 60'

Estadio Miguel Grau, Piura

Attendance: 20,749

Referee: Kevin Stott (United States)

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23 September 2005

18:15

Gambia	0–2	Netherlands
	Report	Goossens 33' Marcellis 72'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)

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23 September 2005

18:15

Qatar	0–6	Brazil
	Report	Ramón 13', 45+2' Denílson 39' Roberto 57' Augusto 58' Anderson 74'

Estadio Mansiche, Trujillo

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	25 September - Piura
	Costa Rica	1
					29 September - Chiclayo
	Mexico (a.e.t.)	3
					Mexico	4
	26 September - Trujillo
					Netherlands	0
	United States	0
									2 October - Lima
	Netherlands	2
									Mexico	3
	25 September - Iquitos
									Brazil	0
	Turkey	5
					29 September - Trujillo
	China	1
					Turkey	3
	26 September - Iquitos
					Brazil	4			Third place
	Brazil (a.e.t.)	3
									October 2 - Lima
	North Korea	1
									Netherlands	2
									Turkey	1

Quarter-finals

25 September 2005

16:00

Costa Rica	1–3 (a.e.t.)	Mexico
Juárez 67' (o.g.)	Report	Juárez 88' Guzmán 96' Vela 109'

Estadio Miguel Grau, Piura

Attendance: 14,724

Referee: Subkhiddin Salleh (Malaysia)

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25 September 2005

19:00

Turkey	5–1	China
Köse 10', 88' Erkin 33', 90+1' Şahin 54'	Report	Yang Xu 57'

Estadio Max Augustín, Iquitos

Attendance: 24,000

Referee: Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)

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26 September 2005

16:00

United States	0–2	Netherlands
	Report	Sarpong 45+1', 84'

Estadio Mansiche, Trujillo

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)

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26 September 2005

19:00

Brazil	3–1 (a.e.t.)	North Korea
Ramón 48' Celsinho 100' Igor 120+3'	Report[dead link]	Kim Kyong-il 82'

Estadio Max Augustín, Iquitos

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Alain Hamer (Luxembourg)

Semi-finals

29 September 2005

16:00

Mexico	4–0	Netherlands
Villaluz 33', 61' Moreno 50' Guzmán 90'	Report

Estadio Elías Aguirre, Chiclayo

Attendance: 16,800

Referee: Mark Shield (Australia)

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29 September 2005

19:00

Turkey	3–4	Brazil
Erkin 47' Köse 70' Şahin 76'	Report[dead link]	Celsinho 1' Anderson 26' Marcelo 32' Igor 90'

Estadio Mansiche, Trujillo

Attendance: 19,000

Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

Third place playoff

2 October 2005

15:00

Netherlands	2–1	Turkey
Goossens 13', 88'	Report	Şahin 90'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)

Final

2 October 2005

18:00

Mexico	3–0	Brazil
Vela 31' Esparza 33' Guzmán 86'	Report

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

Awards

Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
Anderson	Giovani dos Santos	Nuri Şahin
Golden Shoe	Silver Shoe	Bronze Shoe
Carlos Vela	Nuri Şahin	Tevfik Köse
5 goals	4 goals	4 goals
FIFA Fair Play Award
North Korea

Goalscorers

Carlos Vela of Mexico won the Golden Shoe award for scoring five goals.^[1]

There were 111 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 3.47 goals per match.

5 goals

• Carlos Vela

4 goals

• Igor
• Ramón
• Éver Guzmán
• John Goossens
• Caner Erkin
• Nuri Şahin
• Tevfik Köse

3 goals

• César Villaluz
• Choe Myong-ho

2 goals

• Anderson
• Celsinho
• Momodou Ceesay
• Ousman Jallow
• Christian Tiboni
• Omar Esparza
• Jeffrey Sarpong
• Marvin Emnes
• Kim Kuk-jin
• Kim Kyong-il
• Deniz Yılmaz
• Yusef Ahmed
• Kyle Nakazawa
• Ryan Soroka
• Elías Ricardo Figueroa

1 goal

• Nathan Burns
• Robbie Kruse
• Denílson
• Marcelo
• Renato Augusto
• Roberto
• Deng Zhuoxiang
• Tang Naixin
• Wang Xuanhong
• Yang Xu
• Celso Borges
• Cesar Elizondo
• Jean Carlos Solórzano
• Roberto Carrillo
• Kenny Mansally
• Pa Modou Jagne
• Jonathan Quartey
• Sadat Bukari
• Andrea Russotto
• Matteo Mandorlini
• Salvatore Foti
• Simone Palermo
• Alassane Diomande
• Ismael Fofana
• Koffi Kouassi
• Siaka Bamba
• Efraín Juárez
• Héctor Moreno
• Dirk Marcellis
• Jordy Buijs
• Mike van der Kooy
• Daniel Chávez
• Ali Afif
• Khalfan Ibrahim
• Özgürcan Özcan
• Jeremy Hall
• Ofori Sarkodie
• Preston Zimmerman

1 own goal

• Sidnei (against Netherlands)
• Efraín Juárez (against Costa Rica)
• Miguel Cárdenas (against Ghana)
• Murat Duruer (against Uruguay)

Final ranking

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Mexico	6	5	0	1	16	3	+13	15
2	Brazil	6	4	0	2	16	11	+5	12
3	Netherlands	6	4	0	2	12	10	+2	12
4	Turkey	6	4	0	2	15	10	+5	12
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
5	United States	4	2	1	1	7	6	+1	7
6	Costa Rica	4	1	2	1	5	5	0	5
7	China	4	1	2	1	4	7	–3	5
8	North Korea	4	1	1	2	7	7	0	4
Eliminated at the group stage
9	Gambia	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	6
10	Italy	3	1	1	1	6	7	–1	4
11	Ghana	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
12	Australia	3	1	0	2	2	5	–3	3
13	Peru	3	0	1	2	1	4	–3	1
14	Ivory Coast	3	0	1	2	4	8	–4	1
15	Uruguay	3	0	0	3	3	7	–4	0
16	Qatar	3	0	0	3	4	14	–10	0