1999 FIFA World Youth Championship

June 2026 FIFA World Youth Championship 1999 FIFA U-20 World Cup Nigeria 1999 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.png Nigeria 3–24 April 24 6 52 8 8 20 ESP 1 20 JPN 1870 20 MLI 20 URU 158 624400 ESP Pablo CouñagoMLI Mahamadou Dissa(5 goals) MLI Seydou Keita 20 CRO 1997 2001 The 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Nigeria between 3 and 24 April 1999. This was the 12th edition of the tournament. Qualification The following 24 teams qualified for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship. ConfederationQualifying TournamentQualifier(s)AFC (Asia)1998 AFC Youth Championship20 JPN 1870 19 KAZ1 1 20 KOR 1997 20 KSACAF (Africa)Host nation20 NGA1999 African Youth Championship20 CMR 20 GHA 20 MLI 20 ZAM1 1CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)1998 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament20 CRC 20 HON 1949 20 MEX 20 USACONMEBOL (South America)1999 South American Youth Championship20 ARG 20 BRA 20 PAR 1990 20 URUOFC (Oceania)1998 OFC U-20 Championship20 AUSUEFA (Europe)1998 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship20 CRO1 1 20 ENG 20 GER 20 POR 20 IRL 20 ESP 1.1Teams that made their debut. Match officials ConfederationRefereeAFCAUS Simon Micallef (Australia)CHN Lu Jun (China)LBN Ahmad Nabil Ayad (Lebanon)CAFMorocco Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco)Nigeria Olufunmi Olaniyan (Nigeria)Tunisia Mourad Daami (Tunisia)CONCACAFCRC William Mattus (Costa Rica)MEX Felipe Ramos Rizo (Mexico)CONMEBOLARG Ángel Sánchez (Argentina)BRA Carlos Eugênio Simon (Brazil)URU Gustavo Méndez (Uruguay)UEFABelarus Sergei Shmolik (Belarus)CRO Željko Širić (Croatia)DEN Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark) Venues Ibadan Lagos Enugu Port Harcourt Liberty Stadium National Stadium Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium Liberation Stadium Capacity: 40,000 Capacity: 45,000 Capacity: 22,000 Capacity: 25,000 200px 200px 200px 200pxNigeria center 500 Nigeria 7.3964 3.9167 Ibadan top Nigeria 6.4531 3.3958 Lagos bottom Nigeria 6.4527 7.51033 Enugu right Nigeria 4.75 7 Port Harcourt left Nigeria 12.000 8.5167 Kano bottom Nigeria 4.9500 8.3250 Calabar bottom Nigeria 10.5167 7.4333 Kaduna bottom Nigeria 10.3158 9.8442 Bauchi bottom Kano Calabar Kaduna Bauchi Sani Abacha Stadium U.J. Esuene Stadium Ahmadu Bello Stadium Abubarkar Tafawa Balewa Stadium Capacity: 18,000 Capacity: 16,000 Capacity: 16,500 Capacity: 15,000 200px 200px 200px Squads 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship squads Group stage 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 main WDL Group stage result PAR 20 PAR 1990 NGA 20 NGA CRC 20 CRC GER 20 GER 2 0 1 5 6 1 1 1 4 3 H 1 1 1 4 5 1 0 2 5 4 green1 Advance to knockout stage A A A complete 3 April 1999 16:00 20 NGA 1–1 20 CRC Aghahowa 20 Meléndez 83 pen. National Stadium, Lagos 37,500 Siarhei Shmolik (Belarus) (Report) 4 April 1999 16:00 20 GER 4–0 20 PAR 1990 Kern 44 60 69 Falk 90 National Stadium, Lagos 2,500 Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco) (Report) 7 April 1999 16:00 20 NGA 2–0 20 GER Shittu 69 Garba 81 National Stadium, Lagos 20,000 Ángel Sánchez (Argentina) (Report) 7 April 1999 19:00 20 CRC 1–3 20 PAR 1990 Garita 30 Santa Cruz 26 Vera 50 Cuevas 66 National Stadium, Lagos 18,000 Jan Wegereef (Netherlands) (Report) 10 April 1999 16:00 20 NGA 1–2 20 PAR 1990 Shittu 38 Fernandez 9 Maldonado 22 National Stadium, Lagos 25,000 Jan Wegereef (Netherlands) (Report) 10 April 1999 19:00 20 CRC 2–1 20 GER Brenes 33 Santana 69 Timm 38 National Stadium, Lagos 22,000 Ángel Sánchez (Argentina) (Report) Group B main WDL Group stage result GHA 20 GHA CRO 20 CRO ARG 20 ARG KAZ 19 KAZ 2 1 0 5 1 1 2 0 6 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 9 green1 Advance to knockout stage A A A complete 4 April 1999 16:00 20 GHA 1–1 20 CRO Ofori-Quaye 68 Deranja 22 Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna 16,000 Lu Jun (China) (Report) 4 April 1999 19:00 20 ARG 1–0 19 KAZ Cambiasso 44 Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna 16,000 Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark) (Report) 7 April 1999 16:00 20 GHA 1–0 20 ARG Ofori-Quaye 76 Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna 5,000 Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark) (Report) 7 April 1999 19:00 20 CRO 5–1 19 KAZ Deranja 7 Miladin 11 Sabolčki 34 Banović 79 Bjelanović 88 Urazayev 67 Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna 5,000 Lu Jun (China) (Report) 10 April 1999 16:00 20 GHA 3–0 19 KAZ Gyan 51 69 Adu 53 Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna 2,000 Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark) (Report) 10 April 1999 19:00 20 CRO 0–0 20 ARG Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna 4,000 Lu Jun (China) (Report) Group C main WDL Group stage result MEX 20 MEX IRL 20 IRL AUS 20 AUS KSA 20 KSA 2 1 0 5 2 2 0 1 6 1 1 0 2 4 8 0 1 2 2 6 green1 Advance to knockout stage A A complete 4 April 1999 16:00 20 AUS 3–1 20 KSA Culina 29 Maisano 72 Al-Garni 77 o.g. Dabo 90 Liberty Stadium, Ibadan 2,000 Gustavo Méndez (Uruguay) (Report) 4 April 1999 19:00 20 MEX 1–0 20 IRL Márquez 10 Liberty Stadium, Ibadan 3,000 Carlos Eugênio Simon (Brazil) (Report) 7 April 1999 16:00 20 AUS 1–3 20 MEX Sterjovski 45 Márquez 2 J. Rodríguez 58 Osorno 83 Liberty Stadium, Ibadan 500 Carlos Eugênio Simon (Brazil) (Report) 7 April 1999 19:00 20 KSA 0–2 20 IRL McPhail 42 Duff 65 Liberty Stadium, Ibadan 1,000 Gustavo Méndez (Uruguay) (Report) 10 April 1999 16:00 20 AUS 0–4 20 IRL Sadlier 20 Duff 73 Healy 74 Crossley 90 Liberty Stadium, Ibadan 800 Gustavo Méndez (Uruguay) (Report) 10 April 1999 19:00 20 KSA 1–1 20 MEX Al-Saqri 37 L. González 30 Liberty Stadium, Ibadan 2,000 Siarhei Shmolik (Belarus) (Report) Group D main WDL Group stage result MLI 20 MLI POR 20 POR URU 20 URU KOR 20 KOR 1997 2 0 1 6 6 1 1 1 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 2 5 6 green1 Advance to knockout stage A A A complete 5 April 1999 16:00 20 URU 1–2 20 MLI Chevantón 65 Camara 51 Dissa 90 Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu 16,000 Željko Širić (Croatia) (Report) 5 April 1999 19:00 20 KOR 1997 1–3 20 POR Kim K.H. 37 R. Sousa 27 Simão 85 90 pen. Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu 10,000 Ahmad Nabil Ayad (Lebanon) (Report) 8 April 1999 16:00 20 URU 1–0 20 KOR 1997 Chevantón 3 Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu 6,000 Željko Širić (Croatia) (Report) 8 April 1999 19:00 20 MLI 2–1 20 POR Am. Coulibaly 15 pen. Ndiaye 45 P. Costa 55 Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu 6,000 Ahmad Nabil Ayad (Lebanon) (Report) 11 April 1999 16:00 20 URU 0–0 20 POR Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu 4,000 Olufunmi Olaniyan (Nigeria) (Report) 11 April 1999 19:00 20 MLI 2–4 20 KOR 1997 Dissa 57 Bagayoko 60 Seol K.H. 3 35 Na H.K. 22 pen. Lee D.G. 69 Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu 4,000 Željko Širić (Croatia) (Report) Group E main WDL Group stage result JPN 20 JPN 1870 USA 20 USA CMR 20 CMR ENG 20 ENG 2 0 1 6 3 2 0 1 5 4 2 0 1 4 4 0 0 3 0 4 green1 Advance to knockout stage A A A complete 5 April 1999 16:00 20 CMR 2–1 20 JPN 1870 Komol 72 89 Takahara 51 Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano 12,000 William Mattus (Costa Rica) (Report) 5 April 1999 19:00 20 ENG 0–1 20 USA Califf 12 Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano 19,000 Mourad Daami (Tunisia) (Report) 8 April 1999 16:00 20 CMR 1–0 20 ENG Cooper 63 o.g. Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano 12,000 William Mattus (Costa Rica) (Report) 8 April 1999 19:00 20 JPN 1870 3–1 20 USA Downing 10 o.g. Takahara 51 Ogasawara 85 Futagaki 74 Abubarkar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi 9,000 Arturo Dauden Ibáñez (Spain) (Report) 11 April 1999 16:00 20 CMR 1–3 20 USA Kioyo 63 Twellman 38 79 Bocanegra 57 Abubarkar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi 9,000 Arturo Dauden Ibáñez (Spain) (Report) 11 April 1999 19:00 20 JPN 1870 2–0 20 ENG Ishikawa 39 Ono 48 Abubarkar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi 9,000 Mourad Daami (Tunisia) (Report) Group F main WDL Group stage result ESP 20 ESP BRA 20 BRA ZAM 20 ZAM HON 20 HON 1949 2 1 0 5 1 2 0 1 8 3 1 1 1 5 8 0 0 3 4 10 green1 Advance to knockout stage A A complete 5 April 1999 20 ZAM 4–3 20 HON 1949 Makayi 19 Makufi 44 55Mbambara 72 Suazo 9 90De León 41 U.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar 12,000 Simon Micallef (Australia) (Report) 5 April 1999 20 ESP 2–0 20 BRA Gabri 15 33 U.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar 12,000 Felipe Ramos (Mexico) (Report) 8 April 1999 20 ZAM 0–0 20 ESP U.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar 8,000 Felipe Ramos (Mexico) (Report) 8 April 1999 20 HON 1949 0–3 20 BRA Edu 36 80 Matuzalém 41 Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt 16,000 Olufunmi Olaniyan (Nigeria) (Report) 11 April 1999 20 ZAM 1–5 20 BRA Sinkala 9 Ronaldinho 27 Aurélio 45Baiano 65Mancini 69Rodrigo Gral 80 Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt 16,000 Simon Micallef (Australia) (Report) 11 April 1999 20 HON 1949 1–3 20 ESP Oliva 76 Pablo 10 Varela 26 Rubén 31 Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt 16,000 Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco) (Report) Ranking of third-placed teams main WDL Result CMR 20 CMR URU 20 URU ARG 20 ARG CRC 20 CRC ZAM 20 ZAM AUS 20 AUS 2 0 1 4 4 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 5 1 1 1 5 8 1 0 2 4 8 y E D B A F C green1 Advance to knockout stage A A A A complete Knockout stage Bracket white-space:nowrap April 15 - Enugu 20 MLI 5 20 CMR 4 April 14 - Kano 20 IRL 1 (3) 20 NGA 1 (5) April 15 - Port Harcourt 20 ESP 3 20 USA 2 April 14 - Kaduna 20 GHA 2 20 CRC 0 April 14 - Lagos 20 PAR 1990 2 (9) 20 URU 2 (10) April 14 - Calabar 20 BRA 4 20 CRO 0 April 15 - Bauchi 20 JPN 1870 1 (5) 20 POR 1 (4) April 15 - Ibadan 20 MEX 4 20 ARG 1 April 18 - Enugu 20 MLI 3 20 NGA 1 April 18 - Kaduna 20 ESP 1 (8) 20 GHA 1 (7) April 18 - Lagos 20 URU 2 20 BRA 1 April 18 - Ibadan 20 JPN 1870 2 20 MEX 0 April 21 - Kaduna 20 MLI 1 20 ESP 3 April 21 - Lagos 20 URU 1 20 JPN 1870 2 April 24 - Lagos 20 ESP 4 20 JPN 1870 0 April 24 - Lagos 20 MLI 1 20 URU 0 Round of 16 14 April 1999 16:00 20 IRL 1–1 yes 3–5 20 NGA Sadlier 35 Ikedia 70 Crossley Donnelly Heary Quinn Ikedia Okunowo Aranka Dombraye Shittu Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano 20,000 Lu Jun (China) (Report) 14 April 1999 16:00 20 GHA 2–0 20 CRC Afriyie 18 Ofori-Quaye 82 Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna 1,000 Arturo Dauden Ibáñez (Spain) (Report) 14 April 1999 19:00 20 PAR 1990 2–2 yes 9–10 20 URU Santa Cruz 62 pen. 86 Chevantón 32 Forlán 49 Santa Cruz Maldonado Escobar Blanco Da Silva Florentín Domínguez Vera Cuevas Giménez Santa Cruz Canobbio Cardozo Pellegrín Carini Anchén Sorondo Correa Machado Carreño Carini Canobbio National Stadium, Lagos 1,500 Felipe Ramos (Mexico) (Report) 14 April 1999 19:00 20 BRA 4–0 20 CRO Ronaldinho 21 pen. 45 Fernando Baiano 48 pen. Edu 68 U.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar 12,000 Ahmad Nabil Ayad (Lebanon) (Report) 15 April 1999 16:00 20 JPN 1870 1–1 y 20 POR Endo 48 Marco Claúdio 80 Ono Nakata Motoyama Takahara Sakai 5–4 Simão Marco Cláudio Sousa Costa Leal Abubarkar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi 8,000 Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco) (Report) 15 April 1999 16:00 20 ESP 3–2 20 USA Pablo 15 32 Xavi 19 Twellman 49 90 Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt 15,600 Carlos Eugênio Simon (Brazil) (Report) 15 April 1999 19:00 20 MEX 4–1 20 ARG Osorno 52 E. Rodríguez 55 J. Rodríguez 67 L. González 88 Galletti 41 Liberty Stadium, Ibadan 16,000 Siarhei Shmolik (Belarus) (Report) 15 April 1999 19:00 20 MLI 5–4 y 20 CMR Ndiaye 9 Bagayoko 67 Camara 83 Dissa 90 104 Komol 10 74 Mbami 23 Kioyo 26 Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu 4,000 Ángel Sánchez (Argentina) (Report) Quarter-finals 18 April 1999 16:00 20 URU 2–1 20 BRA Anchen 44 Canobbio 86 pen. Fernando Baiano 27 National Stadium, Lagos 10,000 Mourad Daami (Tunisia) (Report) 18 April 1999 16:00 20 MLI 3–1 20 NGA Bagayoko 1 72 Diarra 44 Garba 17 Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu 22,000 Sergei Shmolik (Belarus) (Report) 18 April 1999 19:00 20 JPN 1870 2–0 20 MEX Motoyama 4 Ono 24 Liberty Stadium, Ibadan 17,000 Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark) (Report) 18 April 1999 19:00 20 ESP 1–1 yes 8–7 20 GHA Barkero 54 pen. Ofori-Quaye 90 Xavi Lombardero Yeste García Jusué Bermudo Marchena Orbaiz Varela Ansah Razak Appiah Amuzu Mohammed Gyan Abdul Ofori-Quaye Blay Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna 19,000 William Mattus (Costa Rica) (Report) Semi-finals 21 April 1999 16:00 20 MLI 1–3 20 ESP Dissa 52 Varela 2 26 Xavi 90 Ahmadou Bello Stadium, Kaduna 6,000 Lu Jun (China) (Report) 21 April 1999 19:00 20 URU 1–2 20 Japan Chevantón 24 Takahara 23 Nagai 35 National Stadium, Lagos 8,000 Simon Micallef (Australia) (Report) Third place play-off 24 April 1999 14:00 20 MLI 1–0 20 URU Keita 30 National Stadium, Lagos 35,000 Željko Širić (Croatia) (Report) Final 24 April 1999 17:00 20 ESP 4–0 20 JPN 1870 Barkero 5 Pablo 14 30 Gabri 51 National Stadium, Lagos 38,000 Ángel Sánchez (Argentina) (Report) _esp9800a _esp9800a _esp9800a _esp9800a _esp9800a FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF Spain _JFA_99h _JFA_99h _JFA_99h _JFA_99a _JFA_99h FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF 0000AA Japan Result fbu 20 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship winners Spain First Goalscorers 5 goals MLI Mahamadou Dissa ESP Pablo Couñago 4 goals CMR Gaspard Komol GHA Peter Ofori-Quaye MLI Mamadou Bagayoko USA Taylor Twellman URU Javier Chevantón 3 goals 18em BRA Fernando Baiano BRA Edu BRA Ronaldinho GER Enrico Kern JPN 1870 Naohiro Takahara PAR 1990 Roque Santa Cruz ESP Gabri ESP Fernando Varela 2 goals 18em CMR Francis Kioyo CRO Zvonimir Deranja GHA Baffour Gyan IRE Damien Duff IRE Richard Sadlier JPN 1870 Shinji Ono MLI Abdoulaye Camara MLI Tenema Ndiaye MEX Luis González MEX Rafael Márquez MEX Daniel Osorno MEX Juan Pablo Rodríguez NGA Hashimu Garba NGA Ganiyu Shittu POR Simão KOR 1997 Seol Ki-Hyeon ESP José Barkero ESP Xavi ZAM Bernard Makufi 1 goal 18em ARG Esteban Cambiasso ARG Luciano Galletti AUS Jason Culina AUS John Maisano AUS Mile Sterjovski BRA Fábio Aurélio BRA Rodrigo Gral BRA Mancini BRA Matuzalém CMR Modeste M'bami CRC Alberto Brenes CRC Mauricio Garita CRC Allan Meléndez CRC Esteban Santana CRO Ivica Banović CRO Saša Bjelanović CRO Darko Miladin CRO Silvester Sabolčki GER Patrick Falk GER Christian Timm GHA Tutu Adu GHA Owusu Afriyie HON 1949 Julio César de León HON 1949 Carlos Oliva HON 1949 Maynor Suazo IRE Garry Crossley IRE Colin Healy IRE Stephen McPhail JPN 1870 Yasuhito Endō JPN 1870 Tatsuya Ishikawa JPN 1870 Masashi Motoyama JPN 1870 Yuichiro Nagai JPN 1870 Mitsuo Ogasawara KAZ Yerlan Urazayev MLI Amadou Coulibaly MLI Mahamadou Diarra MLI Seydou Keita MEX Eduardo Rodríguez NGA Julius Aghahowa NGA Pius Ikedia PAR 1990 Nelson Cuevas PAR 1990 Sergio Fernández PAR 1990 Rubén Maldonado PAR 1990 Nelson Vera POR Marco Claúdio POR Paulo Costa POR Ricardo Sousa KSA Saleh Al-Saqri KSA Mohamad Dabo KOR 1997 Kim Kun-Hyung KOR 1997 Lee Dong-Gook KOR 1997 Na Hee-Keun ESP Rubén Suárez USA Carlos Bocanegra USA Danny Califf USA Ryan Futagaki URU Jorge Anchen URU Fabián Canobbio URU Diego Forlán ZAM Japhet Makayi ZAM Ronald Mbambara ZAM Andrew Sinkala Awards Golden ShoeGolden BallFIFA Fair Play AwardESP Pablo CouñagoMLI Seydou Keita20 CRO Final ranking main WDL ESP 20 Spain JPN 20 JPN 1870 MLI 20 Mali URU 20 Uruguay GHA 20 Ghana MEX 20 Mexico BRA 20 Brazil NGR 20 Nigeria IRE 20 Republic of Ireland PAR 20 Paraguay 1990 USA 20 United States CMR 20 Cameroon POR 20 Portugal CRO 20 Croatia CRC 20 Costa Rica ARG 20 Argentina ZAM 20 Zambia GER 20 Germany KOR 20 KOR 1997 AUS 20 Australia KSA 20 Saudi Arabia ENG 20 England HON 20 Honduras 1949 KAZ 19 Kazakhstan 5 2 0 16 5 4 1 2 11 9 5 0 2 16 14 2 2 3 7 8 3 2 0 8 2 3 1 1 9 5 3 0 2 13 5 1 2 2 6 7 H 2 1 1 7 2 2 1 1 7 8 2 0 2 7 7 2 0 2 8 9 1 2 1 5 4 1 2 1 6 6 1 1 2 4 7 1 1 2 2 5 1 1 1 5 8 1 0 2 5 4 1 0 2 5 6 1 0 2 4 8 0 1 2 2 6 0 0 3 0 4 0 0 3 4 10 0 0 3 1 9 1st 2nd 3rd 4th QF QF QF QF R16 R16 R16 R16 R16 R16 R16 R16 GS GS GS GS GS GS GS GS yes yes yes Final result #FFD700 Champions #C0C0C0 Runners-up #CD7F32 Third place Fourth place Eliminated inQuarter-finals Eliminated inRound of 16 Eliminated inGroup stage complete rsssf.com External links FIFA World Youth Championship Nigeria 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/20171109060752/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/archive/nigeria1999/index.html 2017-11-09 , FIFA.com RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1999 FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2) and (Part 3) 1999 World Youth Championship World Championship Category:1998–99 in Nigerian football 1999 1999 Category:April 1999 sports events in Africa