2005_FIFA_World_Youth_Championship
2005 FIFA World Youth Championship
International football competition
The 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship was the 15th edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship. It took place in the Netherlands between 10 June and 2 July 2005.
Quick Facts Wereldkampioenschap voetbal onder 20 - 2005, Tournament details ...
| Wereldkampioenschap voetbal onder 20 - 2005 | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Netherlands |
| Dates | 10 June – 2 July |
| Teams | 24 (from 6 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 6 (in 6 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Argentina (5th title) |
| Runners-up |  Nigeria |
| Third place |  Brazil |
| Fourth place |  Morocco |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 52 |
| Goals scored | 143 (2.75 per match) |
| Attendance | 502,698 (9,667 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Lionel Messi (6 goals) |
| Best player(s) | Lionel Messi |
| Fair play award |  Colombia |
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More information Doetinchem, Emmen ...
| Doetinchem | Emmen | Enschede |
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| De Vijverberg | Univé Stadion | Arke Stadion |
| Capacity: 12,600 | Capacity: 8,600 | Capacity: 13,250 |
| 51°57′20.8″N 06°18′35.3″E | 52°46′28.9″N 06°56′44.8″E | 52°14′11.6″N 06°50′16.2″E |
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| Kerkrade | Tilburg | Utrecht |
| Parkstad Limburg Stadion | Willem II Stadion | Stadion Galgenwaard |
| Capacity: 19,979 | Capacity: 14,637 | Capacity: 24,500 |
| 50°51′25.4″N 06°00′21.0″E | 51°32′33.6″N 05°04′00.5″E | 52°04′42.1″N 05°08′45.0″E |
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The following 24 teams qualified for the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship. Host country the Netherlands did not have to qualify for the tournament.
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- 1.^ Teams that made their debut.
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More information Confederation, Referee ...
| Confederation | Referee | Assistants |
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| AFC | Khalil Al Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia) | Fatih Arabati (Jordan) Eisa Ghuloum (United Arab Emirates) |
| Kwon Jong-chul (South Korea) | Kim Dae-Young (South Korea) Liu Tiejun (China) | |
| CAF | Coffi Codjia (Benin) | Aboudou Aderodjou (Benin) Célestin Ntagungira (Rwanda) |
| Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt) | Beshr Rashwan (Egypt) Luleseged Begashaw (Ethiopia) | |
| CONCACAF | Rodolfo Sibrian (El Salvador) | Carlos Pastrana (Honduras) Reynaldo Salinas (Honduras) |
| Benito Archundia (Mexico) | José Ramírez (Mexico) Pedro Rebollar (Mexico) | |
| CONMEBOL | Horacio Elizondo (Argentina) | Darío García (Argentina) Rodolfo Otero (Argentina) |
| Óscar Ruiz (Colombia) | Eduardo Botero (Colombia) Fernando Tamayo (Ecuador) | |
| Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay) | Walter Rial (Uruguay) Pablo Fandiño (Uruguay) | |
| OFC | Mark Shield (Australia) | Nathan Gibson (Australia) Ben Wilson (Australia) |
| UEFA | Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark) | Bill Hansen (Denmark) Anders Norrestrand (Denmark) |
| Terje Hauge (Norway) | Steinar Holvik (Norway) Ole Hermann Borgan (Norway) | |
| Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain) | Victoriano Giráldez Carrasco (Spain) Pedro Medina Hernández (Spain) | |
| Massimo Busacca (Switzerland) | Matthias Arnet (Switzerland) Franceso Buragina (Switzerland) | |
| Reserve | Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands) |
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For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship squads.
The 24 teams were split into six groups of four teams. Six group winners, six second-place finishers and the four best third-place finishers qualify for the knockout round.
Group A
More information Pos, Team ...
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
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| 1 |  Netherlands (H) |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 |  Japan |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 2 | |
| 3 |  Benin |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 | |
| 4 |  Australia |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 2 |
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| Australia | 0–3 | Netherlands |
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| (Report) | Maduro  20'Emanuelson 46'Kruys 74' |
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Group B
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
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| 1 |  China |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 |  Ukraine |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 4 | |
| 3 |  Turkey |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| 4 |  Panama |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 0 |
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| China | 4–1 | Panama |
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| Zhou Haibin 6' Gao Lin 40'Hao Junmin 51'Lu Lin 78' |
(Report) | Venegas 37' |
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Group C
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
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| 1 |  Spain |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | +12 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Morocco |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 6 | |
| 3 |  Chile |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 3 | |
| 4 |  Honduras |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | −15 | 0 |
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Group D
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
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| 1 |  United States |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Argentina |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 6 | |
| 3 |  Germany |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 4 | |
| 4 |  Egypt |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 0 |
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Group E
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
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| 1 | Colombia |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 |  Syria |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 | |
| 3 |  Italy |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | |
| 4 |  Canada |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 1 |
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Group F
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
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| 1 | Brazil |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Nigeria |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 | |
| 3 |  South Korea |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 3 | |
| 4 |  Switzerland |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 3 |
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More information South Korea, 1–2 ...
| South Korea | 1–2 | Switzerland |
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| Shin Young-rok 25' |
(Report) | Antić 28' Vonlanthen 33' |
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| Nigeria | 1–2 | South Korea |
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| Abwo 18' |
(Report) | Park Chu-young 89' Baek Ji-hoon 90+2' |
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Ranking of third-placed teams
Bracket
| Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
| 21 June | ||||||||||||||
| China | 2 | |||||||||||||
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| Germany | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Germany | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 21 June | ||||||||||||||
| Brazil (aet) | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Brazil | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 28 June | ||||||||||||||
| Syria | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Brazil | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 22 June | ||||||||||||||
| Argentina | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Colombia | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 25 June | ||||||||||||||
| Argentina | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Argentina | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 22 June | ||||||||||||||
| Spain | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Spain | 3 | |||||||||||||
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| Turkey | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Argentina | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 21 June | ||||||||||||||
| Nigeria | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Morocco | 1 | |||||||||||||
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| Japan | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Morocco (pen.) | 2 (4) | |||||||||||||
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| Italy | 2 (2) | |||||||||||||
| United States | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 28 June | ||||||||||||||
| Italy | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Morocco | 0 | |||||||||||||
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| Nigeria | 3 | Third place | ||||||||||||
| Nigeria | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 25 June | 2 July | |||||||||||||
| Ukraine | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Nigeria (pen.) | 1 (10) | Brazil | 2 | |||||||||||
| 22 June | ||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 1 (9) | Morocco | 1 | |||||||||||
| Netherlands | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Chile | 0 | |||||||||||||
Round of 16
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| Netherlands | 3–0 | Chile |
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| Babel 3' Owusu-Abeyie 73'John 80' |
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Quarter-finals
More information Morocco, 2–2 (a.e.t.) ...
| Morocco | 2–2 (a.e.t.) | Italy |
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| El-Zhar 26' Battagia 93' (o.g.) |
(Report) | Canini 74' Pellè 112' |
| Penalties | ||
Rabeh  Doulyazal  Iajour El-Amrani El-Zhar |
4–2 | Galloppa Agnelli Pellè Carotti |
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Semi-finals
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Third place play-off
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Final
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| 2005 FIFA World Youth champions |
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 Argentina Fifth title |
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Julio Barroso- Neri Cardozo
- Gustavo Oberman
Ryan Townsend- Nick Ward
Abou Maiga- Razak Omotoyossi
Diego Tardelli- Edcarlos
- Gladstone
- Fábio Santos
- Rafael Sobis
Marcel de Jong- Jaime Peters
Matías Fernández- Gonzalo Jara
- Pedro Morales
Cui Peng- Hao Junmin
- Gao Lin
- Lu Lin
- Tan Wangsong
- Zhao Xuri
- Zhou Haibin
- Zhu Ting
Harrison Otálvaro- Wason Rentería
- Hugo Rodallega
Christian Gentner- Alexander Huber
Michele Canini- Andrea Coda
- Raffaele De Martino
Sota Hirayama- Shunsuke Maeda
- Koki Mizuno
Abdessalam Benjelloun- Adil Chihi
- Reda Doulyazal
- Nabil El Zhar
Quincy Owusu-Abeyie- Ibrahim Afellay
- Urby Emanuelson
- Collins John
- Rick Kruys
- Ron Vlaar
David Abwo- Olubayo Adefemi
- Isaac Promise
- Mikel John Obi
- John Owoeri
Jose Venegas
Baek Ji-hoon- Park Chu-young
- Shin Young-rok
Jonathan Soriano- Francisco Molinero
- Víctor
- Alberto Zapater
Goran Antić- Johan Vonlanthen
Majed Al Haj- Mohamad Al Hamawi
- Abdelrazaq Al Hussain
Maxym Feschuk- Dmytro Vorobei
Chad Barrett- Hunter Freeman
- Jacob Peterson
More information Golden Shoe, Golden Ball ...
| Golden Shoe | Golden Ball | FIFA Fair Play Award |
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| Lionel Messi |
Lionel Messi |
Colombia |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result |
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| 1 | Argentina |
7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 18 | Champions |
| 2 | Nigeria |
7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 11 | Runners-up |
| 3 | Brazil |
7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 16 | Third place |
| 4 | Morocco |
7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | +1 | 10 | Fourth place |
| 5 | Netherlands (H) |
5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 13 | Eliminated in Quarter-finals |
| 6 | Spain |
5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 4 | +13 | 12 | |
| 7 |  Italy |
5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 7 | |
| 8 | Germany |
5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 7 | |
| 9 | Colombia |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 9 | Eliminated in Round of 16 |
| 10 | China |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 9 | |
| 11 | United States |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | |
| 12 | Ukraine |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 4 | |
| 13 | Syria |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 4 | |
| 14 | Turkey |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 4 | |
| 15 | Chile |
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | −4 | 3 | |
| 16 | Japan |
4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 2 | |
| 17 |  South Korea |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 3 | Eliminated in Group stage |
| 18 | Switzerland |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 3 | |
| 19 | Benin |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 | |
| 20 | Australia |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 2 | |
| 21 | Canada |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 1 | |
| 22 | Egypt |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 0 | |
| 23 | Panama |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 0 | |
| 24 | Honduras |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | −15 | 0 |
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