2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship

The **FIFA U-17 World Cup 2003** was a tournament. It was the tenth version of the tournament. It was in the cities of Helsinki, Tampere, Lahti, and Turku in Finland. The tournaments were between 13 August and 30 August 2003. Players born after 1 January 1986 could join this tournament.

## Teams

|Confederation|Qualifying Tournament|Qualifier(s)|||
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|AFC (Asia)|2002 AFC U-17 Championship||||
|CAF (Africa)|2003 African U-17 Championship||||
|CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)|2003 CONCACAF U-17 Tournament||||
|CONMEBOL (South America)|2003 South American U-17 Championship||||
|OFC (Oceania)|2003 OFC U-17 Championship||||
|rowspan=2|UEFA (Europe)||Host nation||
|2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship|||||

## Venues

The tournament was played in four cities in Finland: Helsinki, Turku, Tampere and Lahti.

|Helsinki|Turku|Tampere|Lahti|
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|Finnair Stadium|Veritas Stadion|Tampere Stadium|Lahti Stadium|
|Töölö Stadium|Turku Stadium|Ratina Stadium (Tampere Stadium)|Lahti Stadium|

## Squads

For a list of the squads see _2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship squads_

## Group stage

_All times are local (EEST/UTC+3)_

### Group A

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|align="left"||3|1|2|0|5|3|+2|**5**|||||||||
|align="left"||3|1|0|2|3|12|–9|**3**|||||||||
|align="left"||3|0|1|2|5|7|–2|**1**|||||||||

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### Group B

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|align="left"||3|0|0|3|1|6|–5|**0**|||||||||
Note: Second place was determined by drawing of lots

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### Group C

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|align="left"||3|1|1|1|9|13|–4|**4**|||||||||
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### Group D

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|align="left"||3|2|1|0|8|5|+3|**7**|||||||||
|align="left"||3|2|0|1|8|4|+4|**6**|||||||||
|align="left"||3|1|0|2|6|11|–5|**3**|||||||||
|align="left"||3|0|1|2|6|8|–2|**1**|||||||||

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### Quarter-finals

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### Semi-finals

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## Final ranking

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

## Other websites

- FIFA U-17 World Championship Finland 2003, FIFA.com
- FIFA Technical Report (Part 1) and (Part 2)

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: FIFA U-17 World Cup
- **year**: 2003
- **other titles**: Jalkapallon alle 17-vuotiaiden maailmanmestaruuskilpailut 2003
U17-världsmästerskapet i fotboll 2003
- **size**: 85px
- **country**: Finland
- **dates**: 13–30 August
- **num teams**: 16
- **confederations**: 6
- **venues**: 4
- **cities**: 4
- **count**: 3
- **matches**: 32
- **goals**: 117
- **attendance**: 183616
- **top scorer**: Carlos Daniel Hidalgo, Carlos Hidalgo
 Manuel Curto
 Cesc Fàbregas
(5 goals each)
- **player**: Cesc Fàbregas
- **prevseason**: 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship, 2001
- **nextseason**: 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship, 2005