1997 FIFA World Youth Championship

**1997 FIFA World Youth Championship** was held in Malaysia from 16 June to 5 July.

## Qualification

The following 24 teams qualified for the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship. Host Malaysia did not have to qualify for the tournament.

|Confederation|Qualifying tournament|Qualifier(s)|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=2|AFC (Asia)||Host nation||
|1996 AFC Youth Championship|||||
|CAF (Africa)|1997 African Youth Championship||||
|CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)|1996 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament||||
|CONMEBOL (South America)|1997 South American Youth Championship||||
|OFC (Oceania)|1997 OFC U-20 Championship||||
|UEFA (Europe)|1996 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship||||

- 1.Teams that made their debut.

#### Group A

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|3|2|1|0|6|1|+5|**7**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|2|0|4|2|+2|**5**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|1|1|4|4|0|**4**||||||||||
|align=left|3|3|0|0|15|9|-7|**9**||||||||||

#### Group B

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|3|3|0|0|15|3|+12|**9**||||||||||
|align=left|3|2|0|1|8|7|+1|**6**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|1|2|2|6|-4|**1**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|1|2|5|14|-9|**1**||||||||||

#### Group C

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

#### Group D

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|3|3|0|0|8|2|+6|**9**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|1|1|10|7|+3|**4**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|2|1|5|6|-1|**2**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|1|2|3|11|-8|**1**||||||||||

#### Group E

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

#### Group F

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|3|3|0|0|8|1|+7|**9**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|1|1|6|2|+4|**4**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|0|2|2|10|-8|**3**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|1|2|2|5|-3|**1**||||||||||

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: FIFA World Youth Championship
- **year**: 1997
- **other titles**: Piala Dunia B-20 FIFA 1997
 Piala Dunia Belia FIFA 1997
- **size**: 100px
- **country**: Malaysia
- **dates**: 16 June – 5 July
- **num teams**: 24
- **confederations**: 6
- **venues**: 6
- **cities**: 6
- **count**: 3
- **matches**: 52
- **goals**: 165
- **attendance**: 655827
- **top scorer**: Adaílton (footballer, born 1977), Adaílton (10 goals)
- **player**: Nicolás Olivera
- **prevseason**: 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship, 1995
- **nextseason**: 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship, 1999