# 1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship

The FIFA U-17 World Championship 1997, the seventh edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of Cairo, Ismailia, Alexandria, and Port Said in Egypt from 4 to 21 September 1997. Players born after 1 January 1980 could participate in this tournament.

## Venues

| Cairo | Port Said | Alexandria | Ismailia |
| Cairo International Stadium | Port Said Stadium | Alexandria Stadium | Ismailia Stadium |
| Capacity: 74,100 | Capacity: 22,000 | Capacity: 20,000 | Capacity: 16,500 |
| CairoPort SaidAlexandriaIsmailia ||||

## Teams

| Confederation | Qualifying Tournament | Qualifier(s) |
| AFC (Asia) | 1996 AFC U-17 Championship | Oman Thailand Bahrain |
| CAF (Africa) | Host nation | Egypt |
| CAF (Africa) | 1997 African U-17 Championship | Mali Ghana |
| CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean) | 1996 CONCACAF U-17 Championship | Mexico United States Costa Rica |
| CONMEBOL (South America) | 1997 South American U-17 Championship | Brazil Argentina Chile |
| OFC (Oceania) | 1997 OFC U-17 Qualifying Tournament | New Zealand |
| UEFA (Europe) | 1997 UEFA European Under-16 Championship | Spain Austria Germany |

## Matches
### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| Egypt | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Chile | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Thailand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -8 | 0 |

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Spain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 15 | 9 |
| Mali | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| Mexico | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| New Zealand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 22 | -22 | 0 |

### Group C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Brazil | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 9 |
| Oman | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| United States | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 3 |
| Austria | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | -13 | 0 |

### Group D

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Ghana | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| Argentina | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Bahrain | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 3 |
| Costa Rica | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -5 | 0 |

## Knockout stage

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 14 September - Alexandria | 14 September - Alexandria | | | |
| Brazil | 2 | | | |
| Brazil | 2 | 18 September - Ismailia | 18 September - Ismailia | | |
| Argentina | 0 | 18 September - Ismailia | 18 September - Ismailia | |
| Argentina | 0 | Germany | 0 | |
| 14 September - Cairo | 14 September - Cairo | | Germany | 0 | |
| 14 September - Cairo | 14 September - Cairo | Brazil | 4 | |
| Germany | 0 (4) | Brazil | 4 | |
| Germany | 0 (4) | | | | 21 September - Cairo | 21 September - Cairo |
| Mali | 0 (3) | | | | 21 September - Cairo | 21 September - Cairo |
| Mali | 0 (3) | | | | Brazil | 2 |
| 15 September - Port Said | 15 September - Port Said | | | | | Brazil | 2 |
| 15 September - Port Said | 15 September - Port Said | | | | Ghana | 1 |
| Ghana | 4 | | | | Ghana | 1 |
| Ghana | 4 | 18 September - Cairo | 18 September - Cairo | | | |
| Oman | 1 | 18 September - Cairo | 18 September - Cairo | | | |
| Oman | 1 | Ghana | 2 | | | |
| 15 September - Ismailia | 15 September - Ismailia | | Ghana | 2 | | | |
| 15 September - Ismailia | 15 September - Ismailia | Spain | 1 | | Third place | Third place |
| Spain | 2 | Spain | 1 | | Third place | Third place |
| Spain | 2 | | | | 21 September - Cairo | 21 September - Cairo |
| Egypt | 1 | | | | 21 September - Cairo | 21 September - Cairo |
| Egypt | 1 | | | | Spain | 2 |
| | | | | | Germany | 1 |

### Final
## Result

* 1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship winners
* Brazil First title

## Goalscorers

David of Spain won the Golden Shoe award for scoring seven goals. In total, 117 goals were scored by 73 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

### 7 goals

* David

### 5 goals

* Hashim Saleh

### 4 goals

* Fábio Pinto
* Owusu Afriyie
* Seydou Keita

### 3 goals

* Geovanni
* Matuzalem
* Ahmed Belal
* Awule Quaye
* Miguel Mateos Rego

### 2 goals

* Yaser Amer
* Adiel
* Ferrugem
* Jorginho
* Ronaldinho
* Juan Francisco Viveros
* Silvio Adzic
* Michael Coffie
* Edwin Santibanez
* Omar Gomez
* Ander
* David Sousa
* Ivan Sanchez
* Sergio Santamaría
* Sutee Suksomkit
* Taylor Twellman

### 1 goal

* Julio Marchant
* Luciano Galletti
* Mauro Marchano
* Alexander Ziervogel
* Rashid Al-Dosari
* Salah Rashed
* Andrey
* Anailson
* Diogo
* Alonso Zuniga
* Claudio Maldonado
* Cristian Alvarez
* Manuel Villalobos
* Milovan Mirošević
* Juan Bautista Esquivel
* Eid Ezz
* Mahmoud Arabi
* Saleh Abou
* Benjamin Auer
* Sebastian Deisler
* Sebastian Kehl
* Steffen Hofmann
* Aziz Ansah
* Godwin Attram
* Johnson Eku
* Wisdom Abbey
* Aboubacar Guindo
* Drissa Coulibaly
* Mahamadou Diarra
* Fernando Arce
* Luis Ernesto Pérez
* Ricardo Mauricio Martínez
* Saul Salcedo
* Juma Al-Mukhaini
* Mohsin Al-Harbi
* Rahdwan Nairooz
* Saleh Al-Amri
* Corona
* Ivan Lopez
* Ivan Royo
* Juanjo Camacho
* Montree Matong
* Tom Tongdee
* Charles Rupsis
* Steven Totten

### Own goal

* Mahfoudh Al-Mukhaini (playing against Ghana)

## Final ranking

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Brazil | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | +19 | 18 |
| 2 | Ghana | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 13 |
| 3 | Spain | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 6 | +16 | 15 |
| 4 | Germany | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | –1 | 8 |
| Eliminated in the quarter-finals ||||||||||
| 5 | Mali | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 7 |
| 6 | Argentina | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 7 |
| 7 | Oman | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 6 |
| 8 | Egypt | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 |
| Eliminated at the group stage ||||||||||
| 9 | Chile | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 4 |
| 10 | Mexico | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 3 |
| 11 | United States | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | –3 | 3 |
| 12 | Bahrain | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | –4 | 3 |
| 13 | Costa Rica | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | –5 | 0 |
| 14 | Thailand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 12 | –8 | 0 |
| 15 | Austria | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | –13 | 0 |
| 16 | New Zealand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 22 | –22 | 0 |