2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup
FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007 Coupe du Monde de Football des Moins de 20 ans 2007 | |
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Tournament details | |
Host country | Canada |
Dates | 30 June – 22 July |
Teams | 24 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 6 (in 6 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Argentina (6th title) |
Runners-up | Czech Republic |
Third place | Chile |
Fourth place | Austria |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 52 |
Goals scored | 135 (2.6 per match) |
Attendance | 1,195,299 (22,987 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Sergio Agüero (6 goals) |
Best player(s) | Sergio Agüero |
Fair play award | Japan |
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The 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the 16th edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup (formerly called the FIFA World Youth Championship), hosted by Canada from 30 June to 22 July 2007. Argentina defeated the Czech Republic in the title game by the score of 2–1, thus managing a back-to-back world title, its fifth in the past seven editions, and sixth overall. Argentine player Sergio Agüero was given the FIFA U-20 Golden Shoe (top scorer, with six goals) and the FIFA U-20 Golden Ball (best player of the tournament), while Japan earned the FIFA Fair Play Award.
The tournament featured 24 teams coming from six continental confederations; Canada qualified automatically as hosts, while the remaining teams qualified based on their rankings at the respective continental U-20 (U-19 in Europe's case) tournaments. UEFA (Europe) qualified six teams; AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean) and CONMEBOL (South America) four teams each; and OFC (Oceania) one team.
The tournament took place in a variety of venues across the country – Toronto, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Victoria and Burnaby (Vancouver) – with the showcase stadium being Toronto's new National Soccer Stadium[1] where the final match was held. 19 years later Canada will co-host the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
On 28 June 2007, two days before the inaugural match, it was reported that 950,000 tickets had been sold,[2] making it the largest single-sport event ever taking place in the country,[3] and on 3 July, the tournament organizers sold the millionth ticket.[4] On 19 July, the semi-final match between Chile and Argentina marked this edition as the most attended in the tournament's history, with an accumulated attendance of 1,156,187 spectators, surpassing Mexico 1983's 1,155,160 spectators.[5] Attendance totalled 1,195,299 after the final match.
Bids
[edit]Three countries launched bids to host the competition: Canada, Japan and South Korea.[6] On August 6, 2004 the FIFA Emergency Committee unanimously awarded the rights to host the event to Canada over South Korea (Japan did not submit an official bid).[7]
Venues
[edit]Qualification
[edit]Twenty-three teams qualified for the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup. As the host team, Canada received an automatic bid, bringing the total number of teams to twenty-four for the tournament. The final draw for the group stages took place on 3 March 2007 in Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex, Toronto.
- 1.^ Teams that made their debut.
Match officials
[edit]Squads
[edit]For a list of the squads see 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup squads
Group stage
[edit]The 24 participating teams were distributed between six groups of four teams each, according to a draw held on 3 March 2007. The groups are contested on a league system, where each team plays one time against the other teams in the same group, for a total of six matches per group. Each group winner and runner-up teams, as well as the best four third-placed teams, qualify for the first round of the knockout stage (round of 16).
Group A
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
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1 | Chile | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Austria | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 5 | |
3 | Congo | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 | |
4 | Canada (H) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 |
Group B
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
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1 | Spain | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Zambia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 4 | |
3 | Uruguay | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 | |
4 | Jordan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 |
Group C
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
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1 | Mexico | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Gambia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 6 | |
3 | Portugal | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | |
4 | New Zealand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 |
Portugal | 2–0 | New Zealand |
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Gama 45', 61' (pen.) | Report |
Gambia | 0–3 | Mexico |
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Report | Dos Santos 57' Moreno 67' J. Hernández 89' |
New Zealand | 0–1 | Gambia |
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Report | Jallow 22' |
Group D
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
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1 | United States | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Poland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 4 | |
3 | Brazil | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 | |
4 | South Korea | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 2 |
Poland | 1–0 | Brazil |
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Krychowiak 23' | Report |
South Korea | 1–1 | United States |
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Shin Young-rok 38' | Report | Szetela 17' |
Brazil | 3–2 | South Korea |
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Amaral 35' Pato 48', 59' | Report | Shim Young-sung 83' Shin Young-rok 89' |
Brazil | 1–2 | United States |
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Lima 64' | Report | Altidore 25', 81' |
Poland | 1–1 | South Korea |
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Janczyk 45' | Report | Lee Sang-ho 71' |
Group E
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
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1 | Argentina | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Czech Republic | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 5 | |
3 | North Korea | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 | |
4 | Panama | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 1 |
North Korea | 0–0 | Panama |
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Report |
Czech Republic | 2–2 | North Korea |
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Kalouda 56' Fenin 66' | Report | Kim Kum-il 12' Jon Kwang-ik 89' (pen.) |
Argentina | 1–0 | North Korea |
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Agüero 35' | Report |
Group F
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
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1 | Japan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Nigeria | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 7 | |
3 | Costa Rica | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 | |
4 | Scotland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 0 |
Nigeria | 1–0 | Costa Rica |
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Ideye 75' | Report |
Costa Rica | 0–1 | Japan |
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Report | Tanaka 68' |
Ranking of third-placed teams
[edit]Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Result |
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1 | A | Congo | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | B | Uruguay | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 | |
3 | C | Portugal | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | |
4 | D | Brazil | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 | |
5 | F | Costa Rica | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 | |
6 | E | North Korea | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 |
Knockout stage
[edit]Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
11 July – Edmonton | ||||||||||||||
Austria | 2 | |||||||||||||
14 July – Toronto | ||||||||||||||
Gambia | 1 | |||||||||||||
Austria (aet) | 2 | |||||||||||||
11 July – Toronto | ||||||||||||||
United States | 1 | |||||||||||||
United States (aet) | 2 | |||||||||||||
18 July – Edmonton | ||||||||||||||
Uruguay | 1 | |||||||||||||
Austria | 0 | |||||||||||||
11 July – Burnaby | ||||||||||||||
Czech Republic | 2 | |||||||||||||
Spain (aet) | 4 | |||||||||||||
14 July – Edmonton | ||||||||||||||
Brazil | 2 | |||||||||||||
Spain | 1 (3) | |||||||||||||
11 July – Victoria | ||||||||||||||
Czech Republic (p) | 1 (4) | |||||||||||||
Japan | 2 (3) | |||||||||||||
22 July – Toronto | ||||||||||||||
Czech Republic (p) | 2 (4) | |||||||||||||
Czech Republic | 1 | |||||||||||||
12 July – Edmonton | ||||||||||||||
Argentina | 2 | |||||||||||||
Chile | 1 | |||||||||||||
15 July – Montreal | ||||||||||||||
Portugal | 0 | |||||||||||||
Chile (aet) | 4 | |||||||||||||
12 July – Ottawa | ||||||||||||||
Nigeria | 0 | |||||||||||||
Zambia | 1 | |||||||||||||
19 July – Toronto | ||||||||||||||
Nigeria | 2 | |||||||||||||
Chile | 0 | |||||||||||||
12 July – Toronto | ||||||||||||||
Argentina | 3 | Third place | ||||||||||||
Argentina | 3 | |||||||||||||
15 July – Ottawa | 22 July – Toronto | |||||||||||||
Poland | 1 | |||||||||||||
Argentina | 1 | Austria | 0 | |||||||||||
12 July – Montreal | ||||||||||||||
Mexico | 0 | Chile | 1 | |||||||||||
Mexico | 3 | |||||||||||||
Congo | 0 | |||||||||||||
Round of 16
[edit]Japan | 2–2 (a.e.t.) | Czech Republic |
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Makino 22' Morishima 47' (pen.) | Report | Kúdela 74' (pen.) Mareš 77' (pen.) |
Penalties | ||
Yasuda Aoki Makino Morishima Kashiwagi | 3–4 | Fenin Kúdela Suchý Pekhart Okleštěk |
Quarter-finals
[edit]Spain | 1–1 (a.e.t.) | Czech Republic |
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Mata 110' | Report | Kalouda 103' |
Penalties | ||
Mata Adrián G. Valiente J. García Piqué | 3–4 | Fenin Suchý Kúdela Pekhart |
Semi-finals
[edit]Austria | 0–2 | Czech Republic |
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Report | Mičola 4' Fenin 15' |
Match for third place
[edit]Final
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Goalscorers
[edit]With six goals, Sergio Agüero was the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 135 goals were scored by 84 different players, with one of them credited as own goals.
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Claudio Yacob
- Sebastian Prödl
- Amaral
- Carlos Carmona
- Hans Martínez
- Alexis Sánchez
- Mathías Vidangossy
- Franchel Ibara
- Gracia Ikouma
- Ermejea Ngakosso
- Pablo Herrera
- Jonathan McDonald
- Ondřej Kúdela
- Jakub Mareš
- Tomáš Mičola
- Marek Střeštík
- Pierre Gomez
- Abdoulie Mansally
- Jun Aoyama
- Tomoaki Makino
- Atomu Tanaka
- Tsukasa Umesaki
- Lo'ay Omran
- Christian Bermúdez
- Omar Esparza
- Javier Hernández
- Héctor Moreno
- Osmar Mares
- Jack Pelter
- Chukwuma Akabueze
- Elderson Echiéjilé
- Brown Ideye
- Kim Kum-il
- Jon Kwang-ik
- Nelson Barahona
- Grzegorz Krychowiak
- Vitorino Antunes
- Feliciano Condesso
- Ross Campbell
- Mark Reynolds
- Lee Sang-ho
- Shim Young-sung
- Marquitos
- Alberto Bueno
- Diego Capel
- Javi García
- Gerard Piqué
- Mario Suárez
- Michael Bradley
- Clifford Mulenga
- William Njobvu
- Fwayo Tembo
- 1 own goal
- Mathías Cardaccio (against the United States)
Awards
[edit]Source:[8]
Golden Ball | Silver Ball | Bronze Ball |
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Sergio Agüero | Maximiliano Moralez | Giovani dos Santos |
Golden Shoe | Silver Shoe | Bronze Shoe |
Sergio Agüero | Adrián López | Maximiliano Moralez |
FIFA Fair Play Award | ||
Japan |
Final ranking
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result |
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1 | Argentina | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 2 | +14 | 19 | Champions |
2 | Czech Republic | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 10 | Runners-up |
3 | Chile | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 16 | Third place |
4 | Austria | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 11 | Fourth place |
5 | Mexico | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 12 | Eliminated in Quarter-finals |
6 | Spain | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 8 | +5 | 11 | |
7 | United States | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 10 | |
8 | Nigeria | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | |
9 | Japan | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 8 | Eliminated in Round of 16 |
10 | Gambia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 6 | |
11 | Zambia | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | |
12 | Uruguay | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 4 | |
13 | Congo | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 4 | |
14 | Poland | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 4 | |
15 | Portugal | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 | |
16 | Brazil | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 3 | |
17 | Costa Rica | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 | Eliminated in Group stage |
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