1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship

The **FIFA U-17 World Championship 1999** was the eighth edition of the tournament. It was in the cities of Auckland, Christchurch, Napier, and Dunedin in New Zealand. The tournaments were between 10 November and 27 November 1999. Players born after 1 January 1982 could join this tournament. This was the first FIFA tournament held in the Pacific Islands.

## Venues

|Auckland|Napier|Christchurch|Dunedin|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|North Harbour Stadium|McLean Park|Queen Elizabeth II Park|Carisbrook|
|Capacity: **25,000**|Capacity: **21,000**|Capacity: **20,000**|Capacity: **29,000**|

New Zealand's capital city Wellington was not allocated any matches as the city's only venue at the time -  Athletic Park - was not deemed adequate by FIFA as a match venue.

## Teams

|Confederation|Qualifying Tournament|Qualifier(s)|||
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|AFC (Asia)|1998 AFC U-17 Championship||||
|CAF (Africa)|1999 African Under-17 Championship||||
|CONCACAF (Central, North America and Caribbean)|1999 CONCACAF U-17 Tournament||||
|CONMEBOL (South America)|1999 South American Under 17 Football Championship||||
|rowspan=2|OFC (Oceania)||Host nation||
|1999 OFC U-17 Qualifying Tournament|||||
|UEFA (Europe)|1999 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship||||

- 1.Teams that made their debut.
- 2.Australia qualified for the tournament after two-leg playoff matches with 3rd Place winner of 1998 AFC U-17 Championship, Bahrain.

### Group A

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|style="text-align:left;"||3|1|0|2|3|8|-5|**3**|||||||||
|style="text-align:left;"||3|0|2|1|3|4|-1|**2**|||||||||

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### Group B

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|style="text-align:left;"||3|2|0|1|5|4|+1|**6**|||||||||
|style="text-align:left;"||3|1|1|1|7|2|+5|**4**|||||||||
|style="text-align:left;"||3|0|0|3|1|17|-16|**0**|||||||||

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### Group C

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|style="text-align:left;"||3|0|2|1|1|2|-1|**2**|||||||||
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### Group D

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|style="text-align:left;"||3|2|1|0|9|2|+7|**7**|||||||||
|style="text-align:left;"||3|2|0|1|6|3|+3|**6**|||||||||
|style="text-align:left;"||3|1|1|1|4|4|0|**4**|||||||||
|style="text-align:left;"||3|0|0|3|0|10|-10|**0**|||||||||

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### Quarterfinals

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### Semifinals

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## Awards

|**FIFA Golden Shoe**|**FIFA Golden Ball**|**FIFA Fair Play Award**||||
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|align=center|Ishmael Addo|align=center|Landon Donovan|align=center||

## Goalscorers

Ishmael Addo of Ghana won the Golden Shoe award for scoring seven goals. In total, 93 goals were scored by 59 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.

- 7 goals
- Ishmael Addo
- 4 goals
- Leonardo Santiago
- Waleed Hamza
- 3 goals
- Bernard Dong Bortey
- Ibrahim Atiku
- Nathaniel Lamptey
- Alejandro Da Silva
- Aitor Gómez
- Landon Donovan
- 2 goals

- Mark Byrnes
- Scott McDonald
- Issaka Ouedraogo
- Hector Vallejo
- Dave Mulligan
- Daniel Ferreira
- Victor Cabrera
- Lukasz Madej
- Oguchi Onyewu
- Sergio Leal

- 1 goal

- Dylan MacAllister
- Joe Di Iorio
- Shane Cansdell-Sherriff
- Caca
- Carlos Henrique
- Marcos Roberto
- Djibril Compaore
- Ibrahim Kabore
- Leonhard Haas
- Anthony Obodai
- Razak Pimpong
- Aaron Galindo
- Felix Grijalva
- Gustavo Ramirez
- Juan Estrada
- Yared Yanez
- Allan Pearce
- Diego Figueredo
- Tomas Guzman
- Walter Fretes
- Lukasz Mierzejewski
- Albert Crusat
- Ernesto
- Jonathan Aspas
- Mario
- Suriya Amatawech
- Abe Thompson
- DaMarcus Beasley
- Jordan Cila
- Kyle Beckerman
- Alvaro Meneses
- Horacio Peralta
- Miguel Lapolla
- Ruben Olivera
- Sebastian Alvarez
- Williams Martinez

- Own goal
- Stephen Tetteh (playing against Brazil)
- Gonzalo Novegil (playing against Ghana)

## Final ranking

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|1|style="text-align:left;"||6|2|4|0|8|4|+4|**10**||||||||||
|2|style="text-align:left;"||6|3|2|1|7|5|+2|**11**||||||||||
|3|style="text-align:left;"||6|4|2|0|19|6|+13|**14**||||||||||
|4|style="text-align:left;"||6|3|2|1|9|8|+1|**11**||||||||||
|colspan="11"|**Eliminated in the quarter-finals**|||||||||||||||||||
|5|style="text-align:left;"||4|2|1|1|10|6|+4|**7**||||||||||
|6|style="text-align:left;"||4|2|0|2|6|4|+2|**6**||||||||||
|7|style="text-align:left;"||4|2|0|2|7|7|0|**6**||||||||||
|8|style="text-align:left;"||4|1|1|2|8|5|+3|**4**||||||||||
|colspan="11"|**Eliminated at the group stage**|||||||||||||||||||
|9|style="text-align:left;"||3|1|1|1|7|2|+5|**4**||||||||||
|10|style="text-align:left;"||3|1|1|1|4|4|0|**4**||||||||||
|11|style="text-align:left;"||3|1|0|2|3|8|–5|**3**||||||||||
|12|style="text-align:left;"||3|0|2|1|3|4|–1|**2**||||||||||
|13|style="text-align:left;"||3|0|2|1|1|2|–1|**2**||||||||||
|14|style="text-align:left;"||3|0|2|1|0|1|–1|**2**||||||||||
|15|style="text-align:left;"||3|0|0|3|0|10|–10|**0**||||||||||
|16|style="text-align:left;"||3|0|0|3|1|17|–16|**0**||||||||||

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: FIFA U-17 World Cup
- **year**: 1999
- **other titles**: FIFA U-17 World Championship New Zealand 1999
1999 FIFA I Raro I Te 17 Marama Ao
- **country**: New Zealand
- **dates**: 10–27 November
- **num teams**: 16
- **confederations**: 6
- **venues**: 4
- **cities**: 4
- **count**: 2
- **matches**: 32
- **goals**: 93
- **attendance**: 216853
- **top scorer**: Ishmael Addo
(7 goals)
- **player**: Landon Donovan
- **prevseason**: 1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship, 1997
- **nextseason**: 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship, 2001