2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship

2003 FIFA U-17 World Cup

FIFA U-17 World Championship Finland 2003
Tournament details
Host country	Finland
Dates	13 August - 30 August
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (3rd title)
Runners-up	Spain
Third place	Argentina
Fourth place	Colombia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	117 (3.66 per match)
Attendance	183,616 (5,738 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Carlos Hidalgo Manuel Curto Cesc Fàbregas
Best player	Vieirinha
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The FIFA U-17 World Championship 2003 was held in the cities of Helsinki, Tampere, Lahti, and Turku in Finland between 13 August and 30 August 2003. Players born after 1 January 1986 could participate in this tournament.

Teams

South Korea	1st, 2nd & 3rd Place winners of AFC U-17 Championship 2002
Yemen
China PR
Cameroon	1st, 2nd & 3rd Place winners of 2003 African U-17 Championship
Sierra Leone
Nigeria
United States	Group A & B winners and Playoff Series winner of 2003 CONCACAF U-17 Tournament Final Round
Costa Rica
Mexico
Argentina	1st, 2nd & 3rd Place winners of 2003 South American Under-17 Football Championship
Brazil
Colombia
Australia	winner of OFC U-17 Qualifying Tournament 2003
Portugal	1st & 2nd Place winners of UEFA U-17 Championship 2003
Spain
Finland	host nation

Squads

For a list of the squads see 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship squads

Matches

All times local (EEST/UTC+3)

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Colombia	3	2	1	0	11	2	+9	7
Mexico	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5
Finland	3	1	0	2	3	12	-9	3
China PR	3	0	1	2	5	7	-2	1

13 August 2003 17:30	Finland	2 – 1	China PR	Finnair Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 8,344 Referee: Heber Lopes (Brazil)
	Parikka  6' Petrescu  64'	Report	Jiang  4'

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13 August 2003 20:00	Mexico	0 – 0	Colombia	Finnair Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)
		Report

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16 August 2003 15:00	China PR	1 – 2	Colombia	Finnair Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 4,100 Referee: Richard Piper (Trinidad and Tobago)
	Wang  67'	Report	Guarín  73' (pen.) Hernández  80'

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16 August 2003 17:30	Finland	0 – 2	Mexico	Finnair Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 10,176 Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)
		Report	Ceja  39' Herrera  51'

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19 August 2003 17:30	China PR	3 – 3	Mexico	Finnair Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Jerome Damon (South Africa)
	Wang  35' Jiang  61', 81'	Report	Flores  51' Mariaca  73' Murguia  78'

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19 August 2003 20:00	Colombia	9 – 1	Finland	Finnair Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 10,200 Referee: Gabriel Brazenas (Argentina)
	Hidalgo  16', 32' (pen.), 50', 61' Ramos  36', 68', 71' Guarín  63' Núñez  74'	Report	Petrescu  41'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Argentina	3	3	0	0	5	0	+5	9
Costa Rica	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
Nigeria	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
Australia	3	0	0	3	1	6	-5	0

Note: 2nd place was determined by drawing lot

13 August 2003 17:30	Argentina	2 – 0	Australia	Veritas Stadion, Turku Attendance: 4,124 Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)
	Garay  6' Colzera  69'	Report

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13 August 2003 20:00	Costa Rica	1 – 1	Nigeria	Veritas Stadion, Turku Attendance: 4,292 Referee: Leone Rakaroi (Fiji)
	Arias  83'	Report	Bala  9'

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16 August 2003 15:00	Australia	1 – 2	Nigeria	Veritas Stadion, Turku Attendance: 5,502 Referee: Heber Lopes (Brazil)
	Giraldi  2'	Report	Mikel  73' Bala  84'

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16 August 2003 17:30	Argentina	2 – 0	Costa Rica	Veritas Stadion, Turku Referee: Jerome Damon (South Africa)
	Peirone  84', 90'	Report

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19 August 2003 17:30	Nigeria	0 – 1	Argentina	Veritas Stadion, Turku Attendance: 6,104 Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)
		Report	Faurlín  59'

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19 August 2003 20:00	Australia	0 – 2	Costa Rica	Veritas Stadion, Turku Attendance: 5,424 Referee: Khalil Al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia)
		Report	Rodríguez  62' (pen.) Salazar  75'

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	2	1	0	9	1	+8	7
Portugal	3	1	1	1	9	13	-4	4
Cameroon	3	0	3	0	7	7	0	3
Yemen	3	0	1	2	4	8	-4	1

14 August 2003 17:30	Yemen	3 – 4	Portugal	Ratina Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 6,400 Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)
	Al-Badani  31' Sharyan  45+2' Márcio Sousa  77' (o.g.)	Report	Márcio Sousa  56' Curto  68' M. Fernandes  80' Al-Safi  82' (o.g.)

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14 August 2003 20:00	Cameroon	1 – 1	Brazil	Ratina Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 8,250 Referee: Marco Rodriguez (Mexico)
	Joseph Mawaye  5'	Report	Abuda  38'

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17 August 2003 15:00	Portugal	0 – 5	Brazil	Ratina Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 10,190 Referee: Gabriel Brazenas (Argentina)
		Report	Leo  20' Abuda  52' Ederson  68' (pen.) Evandro  77' Thyago  86'

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17 August 2003 17:30	Yemen	1 – 1	Cameroon	Ratina Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 6,855 Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)
	Juaim  90+2'	Report	Mawaye  74'

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20 August 2003 17:30	Brazil	3 – 0	Yemen	Ratina Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 5,896 Referee: Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)
	Evandro  28', 32' Arouca  86'	Report

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20 August 2003 20:00	Portugal	5 – 5	Cameroon	Ratina Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 4,723 Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)
	Vieirinha  21' Curto  36', 43', 44' Gama  52'	Report	T. Costa  70' (o.g.) N'Gal  74', 76' Nguemo  88' Mbia  90+4'

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain	3	2	1	0	8	5	+3	7
United States	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6
South Korea	3	1	0	2	6	11	-5	3
Sierra Leone	3	0	1	2	6	8	-2	1

14 August 2003 17:30	South Korea	1 – 6	United States	Lahden Stadion, Lahti Attendance: 3,240 Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)
	Owens  11' (o.g.)	Report	Adu  16', 89', 90+2' (pen.) Owens  26' Watson  54' Curfman  75'

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14 August 2003 20:00	Spain	3 – 3	Sierra Leone	Lahden Stadion, Lahti Attendance: 3,150 Referee: Khalil Al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia)
	David  8' Sisi  15' Xisco  90+6'	Report	Barlay  34', 73' Ruz  36' (o.g.)

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17 August 2003 15:00	United States	2 – 1	Sierra Leone	Lahden Stadion, Lahti Attendance: 4,950 Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)
	González  45' (pen.) Adu  89'	Report	Sesay  32'

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17 August 2003 17:30	South Korea	2 – 3	Spain	Lahden Stadion, Lahti Attendance: 3,470 Referee: Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)
	D.H. Yang  45' Sánchez  59' (o.g.)	Report	Silva  65', 73', 76'

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20 August 2003 17:30	Sierra Leone	2 – 3	South Korea	Lahden Stadion, Lahti Attendance: 2,475 Referee: Leone Rakaroi (Fiji)
	Metzger  36', 51'	Report	D.W. Han  28' D.H. Yang  74' Y.R. Lee  78'

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20 August 2003 20:00	United States	0 – 2	Spain	Lahden Stadion, Lahti Attendance: 3,825 Referee: Heber Lopes (Brazil)
		Report	Jurado  11' Fàbregas  70'

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	August 23 - Helsinki
	Colombia	2
					August 27 - Tampere
	Costa Rica	0
					Colombia	0
	August 24 - Turku
					Brazil	2
	Brazil	3
									August 30 - Helsinki
	United States	0
									Brazil	1
	August 23 - Lahti
									Spain	0
	Argentina	2
					August 27 - Helsinki
	Mexico	0
					Argentina	2			Third place
	August 24 - Tampere
					Spain	3
	Spain	5							Colombia	1 (4)
	Portugal	2							Argentina	1 (5)
									August 30 - Helsinki

Quarterfinals

23 August 2003 14:00	Colombia	2 – 0	Costa Rica	Finnair Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 2,340 Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)
	Otalvaro  25', 43'	Report

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23 August 2003 18:00	Argentina	2 – 0	Mexico	Lahden Stadion, Lahti Attendance: 5,030 Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)
	Cardozo  34' Peirone  45'	Report

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24 August 2003 14:00	Brazil	3 – 0	United States	Veritas Stadion, Turku Attendance: 6,150 Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)
	Leonardo  18' Ederson  61' Evandro  64'	Report

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24 August 2003 18:00	Spain	5 – 2	Portugal	Ratina Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 5,387 Referee: Gabriel Brazenas (Argentina)
	Sánchez  28' Fàbregas  42', 78' Xisco  50' Jurado  90+4' (pen.)	Report	Curto  3' Vieirinha  87'

Semifinals

27 August 2003 17:00	Colombia	0 – 2	Brazil	Ratina Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 7,675 Referee: Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)
		Report	Abuda  16', 72'

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27 August 2003 20:00	Argentina	2 – 3 (a.e.t.)	Spain	Finnair Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 5,030 Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)
	Biglia  11' Garay  31'	Report	Fàbregas  48', 119' Jurado  53'

Playoff for 3rd place

30 August 2003 13:00	Colombia	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Argentina	Finnair Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 6,400 Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)
	Hidalgo  53' (pen.)	Report	Lagos  4'
		Penalties
	Núñez Movil Otalvaro Hidalgo Guarín Vargas	4 – 5	Garay Colzera Díaz Formica Hassell Faurlín

Final

30 August 2003 16:00	Brazil	1 – 0	Spain	Finnair Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 10,452 Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)
	Leonardo  7'	Report

Goalscorers

5 goals

• Carlos Hidalgo
• Manuel Curto
• Cesc Fàbregas

4 goals

• Abuda
• Evandro
• Freddy Adu

3 goals

• Hernan Peirone
• Jiang Chen
• Gustavo Adrian Ramos
• Jurado
• David Silva

2 goals

• Ezequiel Garay
• Ederson
• Leonardo
• Joseph Mawaye
• Serge N'Gal
• Wang Yongpo
• Freddy Guarín
• Harrison Otalvaro
• Tomi Petrescu
• Ezekiel Bala
• Vieirinha
• Samuel Barlay
• Obi Metzger
• Yang Dong-Hyun
• Xisco

1 goal

• Lucas Biglia
• Neri Cardozo
• Ariel Colzera
• Alejandro Faurlín
• Diego Lagos
• Dez Giraldi
• Arouca
• Leo
• Thyago
• Stéphane Mbia
• Joel Nguemo
• Sebastián Hernández
• Juan Gilberto Núñez
• Yosimar Arias
• Pablo Rodríguez
• Alonso Salazar
• Jarno Parikka
• Julio Ceja
• Gerardo Flores
• Oscar Herrera
• Manuel Mariaca
• Rafael Murguia
• John Obi Mikel
• Bruno Gama
• Manuel Fernandes
• Márcio Sousa
• Alimamy Sesay
• Han Dong-Won
• Lee Yong-Rae
• David

1 goal (cont.)

• Sergio Sánchez
• Sisi
• Steven Curfman
• Guillermo González
• Dwight Owens
• Jamie Watson
• Yaser Al-Badani
• Sami Juaim
• Abdulelah Sharyan

Own goals

• Márcio Sousa (for Yemen)
• Tiago Costa (for Cameroon)
• Ruz (for Sierra Leone)
• Sergio Sánchez (for South Korea)
• Dwight Owens (for South Korea)
• Abdullah Al-Safi (for Portugal)

External links

• FIFA.com: FIFA U-17 World Championship Finland 2003