# 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship

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 Spain | Arima/Malabar | Couva | Marabella | Scarborough |
| Hasely Crawford Stadium | Larry Gomes Stadium | Ato Boldon Stadium | Manny Ramjohn Stadium | Dwight Yorke Stadium |
| 10°39′41.48″N 61°31′58.92″W﻿ / ﻿10.6615222°N 61.5330333°W﻿ / 10.6615222; -61.5330333﻿ (Hasely Crawford Stadium) | 10°36′59.00″N 61°16′57.00″W﻿ / ﻿10.6163889°N 61.2825000°W﻿ / 10.6163889; -61.2825000﻿ (Larry Gomes Stadium Stadium) | 10°25′29.00″N 61°25′02.00″W﻿ / ﻿10.4247222°N 61.4172222°W﻿ / 10.4247222; -61.4172222﻿ (Ato Boldon Stadium) | 10°18′12.00″N 61°26′30.00″W﻿ / ﻿10.3033333°N 61.4416667°W﻿ / 10.3033333; -61.4416667﻿ (Manny Ramjohn Stadium) | 11°10′53.17″N 60°43′00.86″W﻿ / ﻿11.1814361°N 60.7169056°W﻿ / 11.1814361; -60.7169056﻿ (Ato Boldon Stadium) |
| Capacity: 27,000 | Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 7,500 |
| Port of SpainArima / MalabarCouva  Marabella Scarborough |||||

## 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

* 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship squads

## Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the tournament:
| Confederation | Qualifying Tournament | Qualifier(s) |
| AFC (Asia) | 2000 AFC U-17 Championship | Oman Iran Japan |
| CAF (Africa) | 2001 African U-17 Championship | Nigeria Burkina Faso Mali |
| CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean) | Host nation | Trinidad and Tobago |
| CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean) | 2001 CONCACAF U-17 Tournament | United States Costa Rica |
| CONMEBOL (South America) | 2001 South American U-17 Championship | Brazil Argentina Paraguay |
| OFC (Oceania) | 2001 OFC U-17 Championship | Australia |
| UEFA (Europe) | 2001 UEFA European Under-16 Championship | Spain France Croatia |

## Group stages
### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Brazil | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 9 |
| Australia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 6 |
| Croatia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | –5 | 3 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | –7 | 0 |

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Nigeria | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 9 |
| France | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 6 |
| Japan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 3 |
| United States | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -5 | 0 |

### Group C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Argentina | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 7 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 5 |
| Spain | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 3 |
| Oman | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 1 |

### Group D

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Costa Rica | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 |
| Mali | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 6 |
| Paraguay | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 6 |
| Iran | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 0 |

## Knockout stages

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 23 September - Port of Spain | 23 September - Port of Spain | | | |
| Brazil | 1 | | | |
| Brazil | 1 | 27 September - Port of Spain | 27 September - Port of Spain | | |
| France | 2 | 27 September - Port of Spain | 27 September - Port of Spain | |
| France | 2 | France | 2 | |
| 24 September - Marabella | 24 September - Marabella | | France | 2 | |
| 24 September - Marabella | 24 September - Marabella | Argentina | 1 | |
| Argentina (aet) | 2 | Argentina | 1 | |
| Argentina (aet) | 2 | | | | 30 September - Port of Spain | 30 September - Port of Spain |
| Mali | 1 | | | | 30 September - Port of Spain | 30 September - Port of Spain |
| Mali | 1 | | | | France | 3 |
| 23 September - Port of Spain | 23 September - Port of Spain | | | | | France | 3 |
| 23 September - Port of Spain | 23 September - Port of Spain | | | | Nigeria | 0 |
| Nigeria | 5 | | | | Nigeria | 0 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 27 September - Malabar | 27 September - Malabar | | | |
| Australia | 1 | 27 September - Malabar | 27 September - Malabar | | | |
| Australia | 1 | Nigeria | 1 | | | |
| 24 September - Marabella | 24 September - Marabella | | Nigeria | 1 | | | |
| 24 September - Marabella | 24 September - Marabella | Burkina Faso | 0 | | Third place | Third place |
| Costa Rica | 0 | Burkina Faso | 0 | | Third place | Third place |
| Costa Rica | 0 | | | | 30 September - Port of Spain | 30 September - Port of Spain |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | | | | 30 September - Port of Spain | 30 September - Port of Spain |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | | | | Argentina | 0 |
| | | | | | Burkina Faso | 2 |

### Final
## Winners

* 2001 FIFA U-17 World champions
* France First title

## Awards

| FIFA Golden Shoe | FIFA Golden Ball | FIFA Fair Play Award |
| Florent Sinama Pongolle | Florent Sinama Pongolle | Nigeria |

## Goalscorers

Florent Sinama Pongolle of France won the Golden Shoe award for scoring nine goals.
There were 102 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 3.19 goals per match.
9 goals
* Florent Sinama Pongolle
5 goals
* Femi Opabunmi
4 goals
* Caetano
3 goals
* Maxi López
* Anthony Danze
* Wilfried Sanou
* Armando Alonso
* Anthony Le Tallec
* Samuel Piètre
* Karimu Shaibu
2 goals
* Carlos Tevez
* Hugo Colace
* Henoc Conombo
* Paul Gorogo
* Randall Azofeifa
* Niko Kranjčar
* Mansour Ahmadzadeh
* Bakary Coulibaly
* Drissa Diarra
* Omonigho Temile
* Victor Brown
* Mohammed Al-Hinai
* Aldo Jara
* Andrés Pérez Matto
1 goal
* Gonzalo Rodríguez
* Lucas Correa
* Marcos Aguirre
* Mauro Fanari
* Pablo Zabaleta
* Fred Agius
* Matthew Engele
* Terry Smith
* Alberoni
* Anderson Costa
* Bruno
* Júnior
* Leandro Bonfim
* Malzoni
* Abdoul Aziz Nikiema
* Dejan Prijić
* Jérémy Berthod
* Mourad Meghni
* Stephen Drouin
* Kisho Yano
* Yutaro Abe
* Alain Claude Traoré
* Moses Ayuba
* Suleiman Mohammed
* Blas López
* Fernando Torres
* Guillem Bauzà
* Melli
* Senel
* Jerol Forbes
* Nkosi Blackman
* Eddie Johnson
* Mike Magee
1 own goal
* Julio Colombo (against United States)
* Julius James (against Brazil)

## Final ranking

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | France | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 15 |
| 2 | Nigeria | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 15 |
| 3 | Burkina Faso | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 11 |
| 4 | Argentina | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 10 |
| Eliminated in the quarter-finals ||||||||||
| 5 | Brazil | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 9 |
| 6 | Costa Rica | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6 |
| 6 | Mali | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6 |
| 8 | Australia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Eliminated at the group stage ||||||||||
| 9 | Paraguay | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | –1 | 6 |
| 10 | Spain | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | –2 | 3 |
| 11 | Croatia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | –5 | 3 |
| 12 | Japan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | –7 | 3 |
| 13 | Oman | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | –4 | 1 |
| 14 | Iran | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | –4 | 0 |
| 15 | United States | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | –5 | 0 |
| 16 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | –7 | 0 |