1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship

The **FIFA U-17 World Championship 1997** was a tournament. It was the seventh version of the tournament. It was in the cities of Cairo, Ismailia, Alexandria, and Port Said in Egypt. The tournaments were between 4 September and 21 September 1997. Players born after 1 January 1980 could join 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**|

## Teams

|Confederation|Qualifying Tournament|Qualifier(s)||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|AFC (Asia)|1996 AFC U-17 Championship|||
|rowspan="2"|CAF (Africa)|Host nation||
|1997 African U-17 Championship||||
|CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)|1996 CONCACAF U-17 Championship|||
|CONMEBOL (South America)|1997 South American U-17 Championship|||
|OFC (Oceania)|1997 OFC U-17 Qualifying Tournament|||
|UEFA (Europe)|1997 UEFA European Under-16 Championship|||

### Group A

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### Group B

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### Group C

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### Group D

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### Quarterfinals

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### Semifinals

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## Goalscorers

David of Spain won the Golden Shoe award. They got it for scoring seven goals. 117 goals were made by 73 players. One player scored against themselves.

- 7 goals

- David

- 5 goals

- Hashim Saleh

- 4 goals

- Fabio 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
- Rashed Al Dosari
- Salah Rashed
- Andrey
- Anailson
- Diogo
- Alonso Zuniga
- Claudio Maldonado
- Cristian Alvarez
- Manuel Villalobos
- Milovan Mirošević
- Juan Bautista Esquivel Lobo
- 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
- Salah Al Amri
- Corona
- Ivan Lopez
- Ivan Royo
- Juanjo Camacho
- Montree Matong
- Tom Tongdee
- Charles Rupsis
- Steven Totten

- Own goal(scoring against themselves)

- Mahfoudh Al Mukhaini (playing against Ghana)

## Final ranking

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|1|style="text-align:left;"||6|6|0|0|21|2|+19|**18**||||||||||
|2|style="text-align:left;"||6|4|1|1|14|5|+9|**13**||||||||||
|3|style="text-align:left;"||6|5|0|1|22|6|+16|**15**||||||||||
|4|style="text-align:left;"||6|2|2|2|6|7|–1|**8**||||||||||
|colspan="11"|**Eliminated in the quarter-finals**|||||||||||||||||||
|5|style="text-align:left;"||4|2|1|1|7|2|+5|**7**||||||||||
|6|style="text-align:left;"||4|2|1|1|3|2|+1|**7**||||||||||
|7|style="text-align:left;"||4|2|0|2|9|8|+1|**6**||||||||||
|8|style="text-align:left;"||4|1|2|1|6|6|0|**5**||||||||||
|colspan="11"|**Eliminated at the group stage**|||||||||||||||||||
|9|style="text-align:left;"||3|1|1|1|7|4|+3|**4**||||||||||
|10|style="text-align:left;"||3|1|0|2|8|6|+2|**3**||||||||||
|11|style="text-align:left;"||3|1|0|2|4|7|–3|**3**||||||||||
|12|style="text-align:left;"||3|1|0|2|4|8|–4|**3**||||||||||
|13|style="text-align:left;"||3|0|0|3|1|6|–5|**0**||||||||||
|14|style="text-align:left;"||3|0|0|3|4|12|–8|**0**||||||||||
|15|style="text-align:left;"||3|0|0|3|1|14|–13|**0**||||||||||
|16|style="text-align:left;"||3|0|0|3|0|22|–22|**0**||||||||||

## Other websites

- FIFA U-17 World Championship Egypt 1997, FIFA.com
- FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2) and (Part 3)

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: FIFA U-17 World Cup
- **second**: GHA
- **nextseason**: 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship, 1999
- **prevseason**: 1995 FIFA U-17 World Championship, 1995
- **player**: Sergio Santamaría, Sergio
- **top scorer**: David Rodriguez-Fraile, David (7 goals)
- **attendance**: 633000
- **goals**: 117
- **matches**: 32
- **fourth**: GER
- **third**: ESP
- **count**: 1
- **year**: 1997
- **champion**: BRA
- **cities**: 4
- **venues**: 4
- **confederations**: 6
- **num teams**: 16
- **dates**: 4–21 September
- **country**: Egypt
- **other titles**: FIFA U-17 World Championship Egypt 1997
 1997 FIFA U-17 بطولة العالم