1997 FIFA World Youth Championship

The following 24 teams qualified for the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship. Host Malaysia did not have to qualify for the tournament. :1.Teams that made their debut. == Squads ==

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1997 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 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group C ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group D ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group E ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group F ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Ranking of third-placed teams == Knockout stage ==

Round of 16 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Quarter-finals ---- ---- ---- ---- Semi-finals ---- Third place play-off Final == Result ==

Adaílton of Brazil won the Golden Boot award for scoring ten goals. In total, 165 goals were scored by 101 different players, with seven of them credited as own goals. ;10 goals • Adaílton ;5 goals • David Trezeguet ;4 goals • Bernardo Romeo • Juan Román Riquelme • Kostas Salapasidis • Alex • Atsushi Yanagisawa • Marcelo Zalayeta ;3 goals • Gunter Van Handenhoven • Zé Elias • Danny Murphy • Michael Owen • Thierry Henry • Eduardo Lillingston • José Luis Deus • Fabián Coelho ;2 goals • Lionel Scaloni • Álvaro • Fernandão • Rôni • Peter Luccin • Baba Sule • Peter Ofori-Quaye • Harutaka Ono • Shinji Jojo • Damien Duff • Micky Cummins • Trevor Molloy • Junaid Hartley • Park Jin-sub • Alberto Rivera • Javier Farinós • Nicolás Olivera ;1 goal • Diego Placente • Diego Quintana • Esteban Cambiasso • Martín Perezlindo • Pablo Aimar • Daniel Allsopp • Éder Gaúcho • Gauthier Remacle • Dwayne De Rosario • Jason Bent • Steve Kindel • Li Jinyu • Wang Peng • Alonso Solís • Froylán Ledezma • Steven Bryce • Jamie Carragher • Paul Shepherd • Awudu Issaka • Bashiru Gambo • Joseph Ansah • Mohamed Mouktar • Odartey Lawson • Richard Ackon • Stephen Appiah • Attila Szili • Serge Dié • Souleymane Cissé • Kenji Fukuda • Nozomi Hiroyama • Shunsuke Nakamura • Yuichiro Nagai • Nik Ahmad Fadly • Carlos Cariño • Gerardo Torres • Omar Santacruz • Aissam El Barodi • Hamid Termina • Khalid Khamma • Tarik Sektioui • César Cáceres • Gustavo Morinigo • Juan Samudio • Paulo da Silva • Raúl Román • Desmond Baker • Neale Fenn • Chung Seok-keun • Lee Jung-min • Lee Kwan-woo • David Albelda • Diego Ribera • Miguel Ángel Angulo • Mohamed Kazim • Yaser Salem Ali • Brian West • Jorge Flores • Álvaro Perea • Rodrigo López • Inti Podestá • Pablo García ;Own goal • Mikaël Silvestre (playing against Brazil) • Khairun Haled Masrom (playing against Uruguay) • Youssef Safri (playing against Malaysia) • Niall Inman (playing against Morocco) • Abdulla Ahmed Abdulla (playing against England) • Ramiro Corrales (playing against Republic of Ireland) • Alejandro Meloño (playing against Ghana) == Final ranking ==