2005 FIFA World Youth Championship

**2005 FIFA World Youth Championship** was held in Netherlands from 10 June to 2 July.

## Venues

|Doetinchem|Emmen|Enschede|
| --- | --- | --- |
|De Vijverberg|Univé Stadion|Arke Stadion|
|Capacity: **12,600**|Capacity: **8,600**|Capacity: **13,250**|
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|Parkstad Limburg Stadion|Willem II Stadion|Stadion Galgenwaard|
|Capacity: **19,979**|Capacity: **14,637**|Capacity: **24,500**|
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## 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||||
|CAF (Africa)|2005 African Youth Championship||||
|CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean)|2005 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament||||
|CONMEBOL (South America)|2005 South American Youth Championship||||
|OFC (Oceania)|2005 OFC U-20 Championship||||
|rowspan=2|UEFA (Europe)||Host nation||
|2004 UEFA Under-19 Championship|||||

- 1.Teams that made their debut.

#### Group A

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|align=left|3|3|0|0|6|1|+5|**9**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|2|1|3|4|-1|**2**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|2|1|2|3|-1|**2**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|2|1|2|5|-3|**2**||||||||||

#### Group B

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|align=left|3|3|0|0|9|4|+5|**9**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|1|1|7|6|+1|**4**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|1|1|4|4|0|**4**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|0|3|2|8|-6|**0**||||||||||

#### Group C

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|align=left|3|3|0|0|13|1|+12|**9**||||||||||
|align=left|3|2|0|1|7|3|+4|**6**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|0|2|7|8|-1|**3**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|0|3|0|15|-15|**0**||||||||||

#### Group D

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|3|2|1|0|2|0|+2|**7**||||||||||
|align=left|3|2|0|1|3|1|+2|**6**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|1|1|2|1|+1|**4**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|0|3|0|5|-5|**0**||||||||||

#### Group E

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|align=left|3|3|0|0|6|0|+|**9**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|1|1|3|4|-1|**4**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|0|2|5|5|0|**3**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|1|2|2|7|-5|**1**||||||||||

#### Group F

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
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|align=left|3|1|1|1|4|2|+2|**4**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|0|2|3|5|-2|**3**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|0|2|2|5|-3|**3**||||||||||

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: FIFA World Youth Championship
- **year**: 2005
- **other titles**: Wereldkampioenschap voetbal onder 20 - 2005
- **country**: Netherlands
- **dates**: 10 June – 2 July
- **num teams**: #Qualification, 24
- **confederations**: 6
- **venues**: #Venues, 6
- **cities**: 6
- **count**: 5
- **matches**: 52
- **goals**: 143
- **attendance**: 502698
- **top scorer**: Lionel Messi (6 goals)
- **player**: Lionel Messi
- **prevseason**: 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship, 2003
- **nextseason**: 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, 2007