1997 FIFA World Youth Championship

The 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship, known as the 1997 FIFA/Coca-Cola World Youth Championship for sponsorship purposes, was the 11th staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship. It was held from 16 June to 5 July 1997 in Malaysia. It was the first FIFA tournament hosted by a Southeast Asian country.

Qualification
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 stages
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.

Goalscorers
Adaílton of Brazil won the Golden Shoe 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 Cisse
 * 🇯🇵 Kenji Fukuda
 * 🇯🇵 Nozomi Hiroyama
 * 🇯🇵 Shunsuke Nakamura
 * 🇯🇵 Yuichiro Nagai
 * Nik Ahmad Fadly Nik Leh
 * 🇲🇽 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)