1997 FIFA World Youth Championship
The 11th FIFA World Cup ( officially: 9th World Youth Championship for the FIFA / Coca -Cola Cup) was held in Malaysia from 16 June to 5 July 1997. The number of participating teams was increased to this tournament from 16 to 24, with two more preliminary groups and with the second round another knockout round were introduced.
Defending champion Argentina was able to repeat his success with a 2-1 final victory over Uruguay and moved to coincide with the third title with the former world champion Brazil. To the best player of the tournament the Uruguayan Nicolás Olivera was chosen scorer of the Brazilian Adaílton with ten goals.
- 4.1 Overview
- 4.2 knockout round
- 4.3 quarterfinals
- 4.4 Semi-finals
- 4.5 3rd place match
- 4.6 final
Venues
The World Cup games were held in six cities:
- Alor Setar - Darulaman Stadium ( 32 387 places)
- Johor Bahru - Tan Sri Hassan Yunus Stadium ( 27,130 seats)
- Kangar - Utama Stadium ( 16,368 seats)
- Kuala Lumpur - Shah Alam Stadium ( 71 836 places)
- Kuantan - Darulmakmur Stadium ( 35,129 seats)
- Kuching - Sarawak Stadium ( 40,000 seats )
Participant
Preliminary round
The preliminary round was played in 6 groups of 4 teams. Each team played against each other once Mennschaft the group. The first two to finish all the groups and the four best third qualified for the knockout stages. All games at local time: UTC 8 GMT 6.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Third-placed
The four best third-placed teams reached next to the each of the two group winners the knockout stages.
Final round
All games at local time: UTC 8 GMT 6.