# 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship

The 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship was the 15th edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship. It took place in the Netherlands between 10 June and 2 July 2005.

## Venues

| Doetinchem | Emmen | Enschede |
| De Vijverberg | Univé Stadion | Arke Stadion |
| Capacity: 12,600 | Capacity: 8,600 | Capacity: 13,250 |
| 51°57′20.8″N 06°18′35.3″E﻿ / ﻿51.955778°N 6.309806°E﻿ / 51.955778; 6.309806﻿ (De Vijverberg) | 52°46′28.9″N 06°56′44.8″E﻿ / ﻿52.774694°N 6.945778°E﻿ / 52.774694; 6.945778﻿ (Univé Stadion) | 52°14′11.6″N 06°50′16.2″E﻿ / ﻿52.236556°N 6.837833°E﻿ / 52.236556; 6.837833﻿ (Arke Stadion) |
| EnschedeUtrechtKerkradeDoetinchemEmmenTilburgclass=notpageimage| Location of venues of 2005 FIFA Youth Championship || |
| Kerkrade | Tilburg | Utrecht |
| Parkstad Limburg Stadion | Willem II Stadion | Stadion Galgenwaard |
| Capacity: 19,979 | Capacity: 14,637 | Capacity: 24,500 |
| 50°51′25.4″N 06°00′21.0″E﻿ / ﻿50.857056°N 6.005833°E﻿ / 50.857056; 6.005833﻿ (Parkstad Limburg Stadion) | 51°32′33.6″N 05°04′00.5″E﻿ / ﻿51.542667°N 5.066806°E﻿ / 51.542667; 5.066806﻿ (Willem II Stadion) | 52°04′42.1″N 05°08′45.0″E﻿ / ﻿52.078361°N 5.145833°E﻿ / 52.078361; 5.145833﻿ (Stadion Galgenwaard) |

## Qualification

The following 24 teams qualified for the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship. Host country the Netherlands did not have to qualify for the tournament.
| Confederation | Qualifying Tournament | Qualifier(s) |
| AFC (Asia) | 2004 AFC Youth Championship | China Japan South Korea Syria |
| CAF (Africa) | 2005 African Youth Championship | Benin Egypt Morocco Nigeria |
| CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean) | 2005 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament | Canada Honduras Panama United States |
| CONMEBOL (South America) | 2005 South American Youth Championship | Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia |
| OFC (Oceania) | 2005 OFC U-20 Championship | Australia |
| UEFA (Europe) | Host nation | Netherlands |
| UEFA (Europe) | 2004 UEFA Under-19 Championship | Germany Italy Spain Switzerland Turkey Ukraine |
    1.^ Teams that made their debut.

## Sponsorship

FIFA partners
* Adidas
* Coca-Cola
* Toshiba
* Fujifilm
* MasterCard
* McDonald's
* T-Mobile
* Yahoo
* Hyundai
* Philips
* Avaya
National supporters
* Hubo
* Unive
* FIFA.com
* FIFA Fair Play

## Match officials

| Confederation | Referee | Assistants |
| AFC | Khalil Al Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia) | Fatih Arabati (Jordan) Eisa Ghuloum (United Arab Emirates) |
| AFC | Kwon Jong-chul (South Korea) | Kim Dae-Young (South Korea) Liu Tiejun (China) |
| CAF | Coffi Codjia (Benin) | Aboudou Aderodjou (Benin) Célestin Ntagungira (Rwanda) |
| CAF | Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt) | Beshr Rashwan (Egypt) Luleseged Begashaw (Ethiopia) |
| CONCACAF | Rodolfo Sibrian (El Salvador) | Carlos Pastrana (Honduras) Reynaldo Salinas (Honduras) |
| CONCACAF | Benito Archundia (Mexico) | José Ramírez (Mexico) Pedro Rebollar (Mexico) |
| CONMEBOL | Horacio Elizondo (Argentina) | Darío García (Argentina) Rodolfo Otero (Argentina) |
| CONMEBOL | Óscar Ruiz (Colombia) | Eduardo Botero (Colombia) Fernando Tamayo (Ecuador) |
| CONMEBOL | Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay) | Walter Rial (Uruguay) Pablo Fandiño (Uruguay) |
| OFC | Mark Shield (Australia) | Nathan Gibson (Australia) Ben Wilson (Australia) |
| UEFA | Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark) | Bill Hansen (Denmark) Anders Norrestrand (Denmark) |
| UEFA | Terje Hauge (Norway) | Steinar Holvik (Norway) Ole Hermann Borgan (Norway) |
| UEFA | Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain) | Victoriano Giráldez Carrasco (Spain) Pedro Medina Hernández (Spain) |
| UEFA | Massimo Busacca (Switzerland) | Matthias Arnet (Switzerland) Franceso Buragina (Switzerland) |
| Reserve | Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands) | |

## Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship squads.

## Group stages

The 24 teams were split into six groups of four teams. Six group winners, six second-place finishers and the four best third-place finishers qualify for the knockout round.

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
| 1 | Netherlands (H) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Japan | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 2 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Benin | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 | |
| 4 | Australia | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 2 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
| 1 | China | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Ukraine | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Turkey | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 4 | Panama | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 0 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
| 1 | Spain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | +12 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Morocco | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Chile | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 4 | Honduras | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | −15 | 0 | |

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
| 1 | United States | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Argentina | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Germany | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 4 | Egypt | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 0 | |

### Group E

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
| 1 | Colombia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Syria | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Italy | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 4 | Canada | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 1 | |

### Group F

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
| 1 | Brazil | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Nigeria | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | South Korea | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 3 | |
| 4 | Switzerland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 3 | |

### Ranking of third-placed teams

| Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Result |
| 1 | D | Germany | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | B | Turkey | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | E | Italy | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 4 | C | Chile | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 5 | F | South Korea | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 3 | |
| 6 | A | Benin | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 | |

## Knockout stages
### Bracket

| Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 21 June | 21 June | | | | | | |
| China | 2 | | | | | | |
| China | 2 | 24 June | 24 June | | | | | |
| Germany | 3 | 24 June | 24 June | | | | |
| Germany | 3 | Germany | 1 | | | | |
| 21 June | 21 June | | Germany | 1 | | | | |
| 21 June | 21 June | Brazil (aet) | 2 | | | | |
| Brazil | 1 | Brazil (aet) | 2 | | | | |
| Brazil | 1 | | | | 28 June | 28 June | | |
| Syria | 0 | | | | 28 June | 28 June | |
| Syria | 0 | | | | Brazil | 1 | |
| 22 June | 22 June | | | | | Brazil | 1 | |
| 22 June | 22 June | | | | Argentina | 2 | |
| Colombia | 1 | | | | Argentina | 2 | |
| Colombia | 1 | 25 June | 25 June | | | | | |
| Argentina | 2 | 25 June | 25 June | | | | |
| Argentina | 2 | Argentina | 3 | | | | |
| 22 June | 22 June | | Argentina | 3 | | | | |
| 22 June | 22 June | Spain | 1 | | | | |
| Spain | 3 | Spain | 1 | | | | |
| Spain | 3 | | | | | | | 2 July | 2 July |
| Turkey | 0 | | | | | | | 2 July | 2 July |
| Turkey | 0 | | | | | | | Argentina | 2 |
| 21 June | 21 June | | | | | | | | Argentina | 2 |
| 21 June | 21 June | | | | | | | Nigeria | 1 |
| Morocco | 1 | | | | | | | Nigeria | 1 |
| Morocco | 1 | 24 June | 24 June | | | | | | |
| Japan | 0 | 24 June | 24 June | | | | | | |
| Japan | 0 | Morocco (pen.) | 2 (4) | | | | | | |
| 21 June | 21 June | | Morocco (pen.) | 2 (4) | | | | | | |
| 21 June | 21 June | Italy | 2 (2) | | | | | | |
| United States | 1 | Italy | 2 (2) | | | | | | |
| United States | 1 | | | | 28 June | 28 June | | | | |
| Italy | 3 | | | | 28 June | 28 June | | | |
| Italy | 3 | | | | Morocco | 0 | | | |
| 22 June | 22 June | | | | | Morocco | 0 | | | |
| 22 June | 22 June | | | | Nigeria | 3 | | Third place | Third place |
| Nigeria | 1 | | | | Nigeria | 3 | | Third place | Third place |
| Nigeria | 1 | 25 June | 25 June | | | | | 2 July | 2 July |
| Ukraine | 0 | 25 June | 25 June | | | | | 2 July | 2 July |
| Ukraine | 0 | Nigeria (pen.) | 1 (10) | | | | | Brazil | 2 |
| 22 June | 22 June | | Nigeria (pen.) | 1 (10) | | | | | Brazil | 2 |
| 22 June | 22 June | Netherlands | 1 (9) | | | | | Morocco | 1 |
| Netherlands | 3 | Netherlands | 1 (9) | | | | | Morocco | 1 |
| Chile | 0 | | | | | | | | |

### Final

Team details :
Argentina
Nigeria
GK1Óscar Ustari
DF3Lautaro Formica
DF4Julio Barroso
DF6Gabriel Paletta
DF8Pablo Zabaleta
DF13Ezequiel Garay
MF5Juan Manuel Torres
MF15Rodrigo Archubi
MF17Fernando Gago
FW18Lionel Messi
FW20Gustavo Oberman
Substitutes:
MF7Lucas Biglia
MF11Emiliano Armenteros
FW19Sergio Agüero
Manager:
Francisco Ferraro
GK1Ambruse Vanzekin
DF3Taye Taiwo
DF5Monday James
DF13Olubayo Adefemi
DF17Dele Adeleye
MF7Chinedu Obasi Ogbuke
MF9Mikel John Obi
MF19Sani Kaita
FW10Isaac Promise
FW14David Abwo
FW20John Owoeri
Substitutes:
FW11Solomon Okoronkwo
Manager:
Samson Siasia :

## Winners

* 2005 FIFA World Youth champions
* Argentina Fifth title

## Goalscorers
### 6 goals

* Lionel Messi

### 5 goals

* Fernando Llorente
* Oleksandr Aliev

### 4 goals

* Graziano Pellè
* David Silva

### 3 goals

* Pablo Zabaleta
* Chen Tao
* Mouhcine Iajour
* Chinedu Ogbuke

### 2 goals

* Rafinha
* Renato
* José Pedro Fuenzalida
* Ricardo Parada
* Radamel Falcao
* Fredy Guarín
* Nicky Adler
* Marvin Matip
* Daniele Galloppa
* Tarik Bendamou
* Ryan Babel
* Hedwiges Maduro
* Taye Taiwo
* Juanfran
* Miquel Robusté
* Gokhan Gulec
* Sezer Öztürk

### 1 goal

* Julio Barroso
* Neri Cardozo
* Gustavo Oberman
* Ryan Townsend
* Nick Ward
* Abou Maiga
* Razak Omotoyossi
* Diego Tardelli
* Edcarlos
* Gladstone
* Fábio Santos
* Rafael Sobis
* Marcel de Jong
* Jaime Peters
* Matías Fernández
* Gonzalo Jara
* Pedro Morales
* Cui Peng
* Hao Junmin
* Gao Lin
* Lu Lin
* Tan Wangsong
* Zhao Xuri
* Zhou Haibin
* Zhu Ting
* Harrison Otálvaro
* Wason Rentería
* Hugo Rodallega
* Christian Gentner
* Alexander Huber
* Michele Canini
* Andrea Coda
* Raffaele De Martino
* Sota Hirayama
* Shunsuke Maeda
* Koki Mizuno
* Abdessalam Benjelloun
* Adil Chihi
* Reda Doulyazal
* Nabil El Zhar
* Quincy Owusu-Abeyie
* Ibrahim Afellay
* Urby Emanuelson
* Collins John
* Rick Kruys
* Ron Vlaar
* David Abwo
* Olubayo Adefemi
* Isaac Promise
* Mikel John Obi
* John Owoeri
* Jose Venegas
* Baek Ji-hoon
* Park Chu-young
* Shin Young-rok
* Jonathan Soriano
* Francisco Molinero
* Víctor
* Alberto Zapater
* Goran Antić
* Johan Vonlanthen
* Majed Al Haj
* Mohamad Al Hamawi
* Abdelrazaq Al Hussain
* Maxym Feschuk
* Dmytro Vorobei
* Chad Barrett
* Hunter Freeman
* Jacob Peterson

## Awards

| Golden Shoe | Golden Ball | FIFA Fair Play Award |
| Lionel Messi | Lionel Messi | Colombia |

## Final ranking

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result |
| 1 | Argentina | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 18 | Champions |
| 2 | Nigeria | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 11 | Runners-up |
| 3 | Brazil | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 16 | Third place |
| 4 | Morocco | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | +1 | 10 | Fourth place |
| 5 | Netherlands (H) | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 13 | Eliminated in Quarter-finals |
| 6 | Spain | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 4 | +13 | 12 | Eliminated in Quarter-finals |
| 7 | Italy | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 7 | Eliminated in Quarter-finals |
| 8 | Germany | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 7 | Eliminated in Quarter-finals |
| 9 | Colombia | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 9 | Eliminated in Round of 16 |
| 10 | China | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 9 | Eliminated in Round of 16 |
| 11 | United States | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | Eliminated in Round of 16 |
| 12 | Ukraine | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 4 | Eliminated in Round of 16 |
| 13 | Syria | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 4 | Eliminated in Round of 16 |
| 14 | Turkey | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 4 | Eliminated in Round of 16 |
| 15 | Chile | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | −4 | 3 | Eliminated in Round of 16 |
| 16 | Japan | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 2 | Eliminated in Round of 16 |
| 17 | South Korea | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 3 | Eliminated in Group stage |
| 18 | Switzerland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 3 | Eliminated in Group stage |
| 19 | Benin | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 | Eliminated in Group stage |
| 20 | Australia | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 2 | Eliminated in Group stage |
| 21 | Canada | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 1 | Eliminated in Group stage |
| 22 | Egypt | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 0 | Eliminated in Group stage |
| 23 | Panama | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 0 | Eliminated in Group stage |
| 24 | Honduras | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | −15 | 0 | Eliminated in Group stage |