2001 FIFA World Youth Championship

The 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Argentina between 17 June and 8 July 2001. The 2001 championship was the 13th contested. The tournament took part in six cities, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mendoza, Rosario, Salta, and Mar del Plata. The Golden Boot was won by Javier Saviola of Argentina who scored 11 goals.

Qualification
The following 24 teams qualified for the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship. Argentina qualified automatically as host.


 * 1.Teams that made their debut.
 * 2.Czech Republic made their debut as independent nation. They were chosen as the descendant of the now-defunct Czechoslovakia, which qualified in 1983 and 1989 tournaments.

Mascot
The Official Mascot of the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship is a Rhea named Ñandy, he was created by an Argentina Illustrator Conrado Giusti https://tuchogiusti.wordpress.com/ilustracion/

FIFA partners

 * Adidas
 * Fujifilm
 * JVC
 * Avaya
 * Coca-Cola
 * Budweiser
 * McDonald's
 * Toshiba
 * Hyundai
 * MasterCard

National supporters

 * FIFA.com
 * FIFA Fair Play

Argentinian local partners

 * Movicom
 * Televisión Cable Color

Group stage
All times in Argentina Standard Time: (UTC−03:00)

Goalscorers

 * 11 goals
 * 🇦🇷 Javier Saviola


 * 6 goals


 * 🇧🇷 Adriano
 * 🇫🇷 Djibril Cissé


 * 5 goals


 * 🇧🇷 Robert
 * 🇩🇪 Benjamin Auer


 * 4 goals


 * 🇦🇷 Maxi Rodríguez
 * Winston Parks
 * 🇪🇬 Mohamed El Yamani


 * 3 goals


 * 🇦🇷 Esteban Herrera
 * 🇺🇦 Oleksiy Byelik


 * 2 goals


 * 🇦🇷 Fabricio Coloccini
 * 🇦🇷 Andrés D'Alessandro
 * 🇦🇷 Leandro Romagnoli
 * 🇦🇺 Greg Owens
 * 🇨🇳 Qu Bo
 * Erick Scott
 * 🇨🇿 Tomáš Jun
 * 🇨🇿 Petr Musil
 * 🇪🇬 Wael Riad
 * 🇪🇹 Solomon Andargachew
 * 🇫🇷 Hervé Bugnet
 * 🇫🇷 Philippe Mexès
 * 🇩🇪 Christoph Preuß
 * 🇬🇭 Derek Boateng
 * 🇬🇭 John Mensah
 * 🇮🇶 Emad Mohammed
 * 🇯🇵 Koji Yamase
 * Youssouf Hersi
 * Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
 * Julio González
 * 🇺🇸 DaMarcus Beasley


 * 1 goal


 * Mantorras
 * Mendonça
 * Rasca
 * 🇦🇷 Diego Colotto
 * 🇦🇷 Alejandro Domínguez
 * 🇧🇷 Eduardo Costa
 * 🇧🇷 Fernando
 * 🇧🇷 Kaká
 * 🇧🇷 Pinga
 * Mario Berrios
 * Rodrigo Millar
 * Sebastián Pardo
 * Jaime Valdés
 * Carlos Hernández
 * Christian Montero
 * 🇨🇿 Michal Macek
 * 🇪🇨 Jorge Guagua
 * 🇪🇨 Roberto Miña
 * 🇪🇨 Jorge Vargas
 * 🇪🇬 Hussein Amin
 * 🇪🇬 Gamal Hamza
 * 🇪🇹 Abay Yordanos
 * 🇪🇹 Bekele Zewdu
 * 🇫🇮 Daniel Sjölund
 * 🇫🇮 Mika Väyrynen
 * 🇫🇷 Bernard Mendy
 * 🇩🇪 Thorsten Burkhardt
 * 🇬🇭 Ibrahim Abdul Razak
 * 🇬🇭 Michael Essien
 * 🇬🇭 Abass Inusah
 * 🇮🇶 Ammar Hanoosh
 * 🇮🇶 Salah Al-Deen Siamand
 * 🇯🇲 Fabian Dawkins
 * 🇯🇵 Koji Morisaki
 * 🇯🇵 Yutaka Tahara
 * Jurgen Colin
 * Santi Kolk
 * Rahamat Mustapha
 * Rafael van der Vaart
 * Pedro Benítez
 * José Devaca
 * Walter Fretes
 * Felipe Giménez
 * Tomás Guzmán
 * Santiago Salcedo
 * 🇺🇦 Denis Stoyan
 * 🇺🇦 Ruslan Valeyev
 * 🇺🇸 Kenny Arena
 * 🇺🇸 Edson Buddle
 * 🇺🇸 Brad Davis