2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup

2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup

FIFA U-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009
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Tournament details
Host country	Nigeria
Dates	24 October – 15 November
Teams	24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	8 (in 8 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Template:Country data SUI (Template:Ordinal title)
Runners-up	Template:Country data NGA
Third place	Template:Country data ESP
Fourth place	Template:Country data COL
Tournament statistics
Matches played	52
Goals scored	151 (2.9 per match)
Attendance	778,787 (14,977 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Template:Country data ESPTemplate:Namespace detect showall Borja Bastón Template:Country data NGATemplate:Namespace detect showall Sani Emmanuel Template:Country data URUTemplate:Namespace detect showall Sebastián Gallegos Template:Country data SUITemplate:Namespace detect showall Haris Seferovic (5 goals each)
Best player(s)	Template:Country data NGATemplate:Namespace detect showall Sani Emmanuel
Best goalkeeper	Template:Country data SUITemplate:Namespace detect showall Benjamin Siegrist
Fair play award	Template:Country data NGA

The 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the thirteenth tournament of the FIFA U-17 World Cup held in Nigeria from 24 October to 15 November 2009.

The tournament was won by Switzerland, beating the host team and holders, Nigeria. The Golden Ball to the Best Player was given to Nigerian Sani Emmanuel; the Golden Shoe for top scorer was given to Spaniard Borja, with five goals (although he tied with Nigerian Sani Emmanuel, Uruguayan Sebastián Gallegos, and Swiss Haris Seferovic); the Golden Glove was given to Swiss Benjamin Siegrist; finally, the FIFA Fair Play Award was given to Nigeria.

Player eligibility

To be eligible to play, a player must have been born on or after 1 January 1992.

Venues

FIFA chose eight venues out of nine possible locations.

On 21 May 2009, FIFA gave Nigeria a "Yellow Card" as FIFA noted a significant delay in the preparations for the tournament. While Abuja and Lagos were ready, FIFA vice-president Jack Warner gave four other venues (Enugu, Calabar, Ijebu-Ode and Kano) a month to get 100 percent ready or the tournament would be moved. One potential venue (Warri) was removed after recent violence flared up in the Niger Delta.

Abuja	Lagos	Enugu	Ijebu-Ode
National Stadium	Teslim Balogun Stadium	Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium	Gateway Stadium
Capacity: 60,491	Capacity: 24,325	Capacity: 22,000	Capacity: 20,000
Kano	Calabar	Kaduna	Bauchi
Sani Abacha Stadium	U.J. Esuene Stadium	Ahmadu Bello Stadium	Abubarkar Tafawa Balewa Stadium
Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 16,000	Capacity: 16,500	Capacity: 11,000

Threats to the tournament

The 2009 edition was under increasing threats from the armed rebel group, The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and warned FIFA against hosting the tournament in Nigeria. However, the militants were offered amnesty in exchange for laying down their weapons, and the tournament went on smoothly without any incidents.

Teams

The final draw for group stage was held on 7 August 2009 at the International Conference Centre in Abuja.

Confederation	Qualifying tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)	2008 AFC U-16 Championship	Template:Country data IRN Template:Country data KOR Template:Country data JPN Template:Country data UAE
CAF (Africa)	Host nation	Template:Country data NGA
	2009 African Under-17 Championship	Template:Country data ALG1 Template:Country data GAM Template:Country data MWI1 Template:Country data BFA
CONCACAF (Central, North America and Caribbean)	2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship	Template:Country data MEX REDIRECT Template:Country data United States United States Template:Country data CRC Template:Country data HON
CONMEBOL (South America)	2009 South American Under-17 Football Championship	Template:Country data BRA Template:Country data ARG Template:Country data URU Template:Country data COL
OFC (Oceania)	2009 OFC U-17 Championship	Template:Country data NZL
UEFA (Europe)	2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship	Template:Country data GER Template:Country data NED Template:Country data SUI1 Template:Country data ITA Template:Country data ESP Template:Country data TUR

1.^ Teams that made their debut.

Match officials

Confederation	Referee	Assistants
AFC	Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)	Rafael Ilyasov (Uzbekistan) Bakhadyr Kochkarov (Kyrgyzstan)
CAF	Mohamed Benouza (Algeria)	Mamar Chabane (Algeria) Nasser Abdel Nabi (Egypt)
	Koman Coulibaly (Mali)	Inácio Cândido (Angola) Redouane Achik (Morocco)
	Jerome Damon (South Africa)	Enock Molefe (South Africa) Kenneth Chichenga (Zambia)
	Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)	Jason Damoo (Seychelles) Evarist Menkouande (Cameroon)
CONCACAF	Carlos Batres (Guatemala)	Carlos Pastrana (Honduras) Leonel Leal (Costa Rica)
	Jair Marrufo (United States)	Charles Morgante (United States) Ricardo Morgan (Jamaica)
CONMEBOL	Pablo Pozo (Chile)	Patricio Basualto (Chile) Francisco Mondria (Chile)
	Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay)	Emigdio Ruiz (Paraguay) Nicolas Yegros (Paraguay)
	Martín Vázquez (Uruguay)	Miguel Nievas (Uruguay) Carlos Pastorino (Uruguay)
OFC	Michael Hester (New Zealand)	Jan-Hendrik Hintz (New Zealand) Tevita Makasini (Tonga)
UEFA	Howard Webb (England)	Michael Mullarkey (England) Darren Cann (England)
	Stéphane Lannoy (France)	Eric Dansault (France) Laurent Ugo (France)
	Wolfgang Stark (Germany)	Jan-Hendrik Salver (Germany) Volker Wezel (Germany)
	Viktor Kassai (Hungary)	Gábor Erős (Hungary) Tibor Vámos (Hungary)
	Tom Henning Øvrebø (Norway)	Geir Åge Holen (Norway) Dag Roger Nebben (Norway)
	Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)	Manuel Navarro (Switzerland) Matthias Arnet (Switzerland)

Squads

Main article: 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup squads

Allocation of teams to groups

Teams were allocated to groups on the basis of geographical spread. Teams were placed in four pots, and one team was drawn from each pot for each group. Pot 1 contained the five African teams plus one from CONMEBOL; Pot 2 contained the remaining teams from the Americas excluding one CONCACAF team; Pot 3 consisted of teams from Asia and Oceania plus the remaining CONCACAF team; Pot 4 consisted of teams from the European confederation.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Template:Country data NGA Template:Country data ALG Template:Country data BFA Template:Country data GAM Template:Country data MWI Template:Country data BRA	Template:Country data ARG Template:Country data COL Template:Country data URU Template:Country data CRC Template:Country data MEX REDIRECT Template:Country data United States	Template:Country data IRN Template:Country data JPN Template:Country data KOR Template:Country data UAE Template:Country data HON Template:Country data NZL	Template:Country data GER Template:Country data ITA Template:Country data NED Template:Country data ESP Template:Country data SUI Template:Country data TUR

Group stage

All times are West Africa Time (UTC+1)

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Knockout stage

All times are West Africa Time (UTC+1)

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Awards

Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
Template:Country data NGATemplate:Namespace detect showall Sani Emmanuel	Template:Country data SUITemplate:Namespace detect showall Nassim Ben Khalifa	Template:Country data NGATemplate:Namespace detect showall Ramón Azeez
Golden Shoe	Silver Shoe	Bronze Shoe
Template:Country data ESPTemplate:Namespace detect showall Borja	Template:Country data NGATemplate:Namespace detect showall Sani Emmanuel	Template:Country data URUTemplate:Namespace detect showall Sebastián Gallegos
5 goals	5 goals	5 goals
Golden Glove
Template:Country data SUITemplate:Namespace detect showall Benjamin Siegrist
FIFA Fair Play Award
Template:Country data NGA

Goalscorers

5 goals

• Template:Country data NGATemplate:Namespace detect showall Sani Emmanuel
• Template:Country data ESPTemplate:Namespace detect showall Borja
• Template:Country data SUITemplate:Namespace detect showall Haris Seferovic
• Template:Country data URUTemplate:Namespace detect showall Sebastián Gallegos

4 goals

• Template:Country data SUITemplate:Namespace detect showall Nassim Ben Khalifa

3 goals

• Template:Country data ARGTemplate:Namespace detect showall Sergio Araujo
• Template:Country data GERTemplate:Namespace detect showall Mario Götze
• Template:Country data GERTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lennart Thy
• Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Son Heung-min
• Template:Country data NGATemplate:Namespace detect showall Edafe Egbedi
• Template:Country data NGATemplate:Namespace detect showall Stanley Okoro
• Template:Country data ESPTemplate:Namespace detect showall Adrià Carmona
• Template:Country data ESPTemplate:Namespace detect showall Isco
• Template:Country data ESPTemplate:Namespace detect showall Sergi Roberto
• Template:Country data SUITemplate:Namespace detect showall Ricardo Rodriguez
• Template:Country data TURTemplate:Namespace detect showall Muhammet Demir

2 goals

• Template:Country data BFATemplate:Namespace detect showall Abdoulaye Ibrango
• Template:Country data COLTemplate:Namespace detect showall Gustavo Cuéllar
• Template:Country data GAMTemplate:Namespace detect showall Ebrima Bojang
• Template:Country data ITATemplate:Namespace detect showall Federico Carraro
• Template:Country data ITATemplate:Namespace detect showall Pietro Iemmello
• Template:Country data JPNTemplate:Namespace detect showall Takumi Miyayoshi
• Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lee Jong-ho
• Template:Country data NGATemplate:Namespace detect showall Abdul Jeleel Ajagun
• Template:Country data ESPTemplate:Namespace detect showall Álvaro Morata
• Template:Country data TURTemplate:Namespace detect showall Engin Bekdemir
• Template:Country data UAETemplate:Namespace detect showall Mohammed Sebil

1. REDIRECT Template:Country data United States

Jack McInerney

• Template:Country data URUTemplate:Namespace detect showall Adrián Luna

1 goal

• Template:Country data ARGTemplate:Namespace detect showall Esteban Espíndola
• Template:Country data ARGTemplate:Namespace detect showall Leandro González Pírez
• Template:Country data ARGTemplate:Namespace detect showall Esteban Orfano
• Template:Country data BRATemplate:Namespace detect showall Guilherme
• Template:Country data BRATemplate:Namespace detect showall Neymar
• Template:Country data BRATemplate:Namespace detect showall Wellington Nem
• Template:Country data BFATemplate:Namespace detect showall Victor Nikiema
• Template:Country data BFATemplate:Namespace detect showall Louckmane Ouédraogo
• Template:Country data BFATemplate:Namespace detect showall Bertrand Traoré
• Template:Country data BFATemplate:Namespace detect showall Zidane Zoungrana
• Template:Country data COLTemplate:Namespace detect showall Jean Carlos Blanco
• Template:Country data COLTemplate:Namespace detect showall Fabián Castillo
• Template:Country data COLTemplate:Namespace detect showall Deiner Córdoba
• Template:Country data COLTemplate:Namespace detect showall Jeison Murillo
• Template:Country data COLTemplate:Namespace detect showall Héctor Quiñones
• Template:Country data COLTemplate:Namespace detect showall Jorge Luis Ramos
• Template:Country data CRCTemplate:Namespace detect showall Joel Campbell
• Template:Country data CRCTemplate:Namespace detect showall Juan Bustos Golobio
• Template:Country data CRCTemplate:Namespace detect showall Jonathan Moya
• Template:Country data GAMTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lamin Sarjo Samateh
• Template:Country data GERTemplate:Namespace detect showall Yunus Mallı
• Template:Country data GERTemplate:Namespace detect showall Shkodran Mustafi
• Template:Country data GERTemplate:Namespace detect showall Florian Trinks
• Template:Country data GERTemplate:Namespace detect showall Kevin Volland
• Template:Country data HONTemplate:Namespace detect showall Anthony Lozano
• Template:Country data IRNTemplate:Namespace detect showall Afshin Esmaeilzadeh
• Template:Country data IRNTemplate:Namespace detect showall Milad Gharibi
• Template:Country data IRNTemplate:Namespace detect showall Kaveh Rezaei
• Template:Country data IRNTemplate:Namespace detect showall Payam Sadeghian
• Template:Country data ITATemplate:Namespace detect showall Giacomo Beretta
• Template:Country data ITATemplate:Namespace detect showall Michele Camporese
• Template:Country data JPNTemplate:Namespace detect showall Shuto Kojima
• Template:Country data JPNTemplate:Namespace detect showall Kenyu Sugimoto
• Template:Country data JPNTemplate:Namespace detect showall Yoshiaki Takagi
• Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Kim Dong-jin
• Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Kim Jin-su
• Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Nam Seung-woo
• Template:Country data MWITemplate:Namespace detect showall Luke Milanzi
• Template:Country data MEXTemplate:Namespace detect showall Miguel Basulto
• Template:Country data MEXTemplate:Namespace detect showall Carlos Campos
• Template:Country data MEXTemplate:Namespace detect showall Guillermo Madrigal
• Template:Country data MEXTemplate:Namespace detect showall Carlos Parra
• Template:Country data NEDTemplate:Namespace detect showall Tom Boere
• Template:Country data NEDTemplate:Namespace detect showall Luc Castaignos
• Template:Country data NEDTemplate:Namespace detect showall Oğuzhan Özyakup
• Template:Country data NZLTemplate:Namespace detect showall Michael Built
• Template:Country data NZLTemplate:Namespace detect showall Jack Hobson-McVeigh
• Template:Country data NZLTemplate:Namespace detect showall Gordon Murie
• Template:Country data NGATemplate:Namespace detect showall Ramón Azeez
• Template:Country data NGATemplate:Namespace detect showall Terry Envoh
• Template:Country data NGATemplate:Namespace detect showall Omoh Ojabu
• Template:Country data NGATemplate:Namespace detect showall Kenneth Omeruo
• Template:Country data ESPTemplate:Namespace detect showall Javier Espinosa
• Template:Country data ESPTemplate:Namespace detect showall Pablo Sarabia
• Template:Country data SUITemplate:Namespace detect showall Oliver Buff
• Template:Country data SUITemplate:Namespace detect showall André Gonçalves
• Template:Country data SUITemplate:Namespace detect showall Pajtim Kasami
• Template:Country data SUITemplate:Namespace detect showall Bruno Martignoni
• Template:Country data SUITemplate:Namespace detect showall Granit Xhaka
• Template:Country data TURTemplate:Namespace detect showall Gökay Iravul
• Template:Country data TURTemplate:Namespace detect showall Ufuk Özbek
• Template:Country data TURTemplate:Namespace detect showall Ömer Ali Şahiner
• Template:Country data TURTemplate:Namespace detect showall Furkan Şeker
• Template:Country data UAETemplate:Namespace detect showall Marwan Al-Saffar

1. REDIRECT Template:Country data United States

Nick Palodichuk

1. REDIRECT Template:Country data United States

Alex Shinsky

• Template:Country data URUTemplate:Namespace detect showall Nicolás Mezquida

1 own goal

• Template:Country data MEXTemplate:Namespace detect showall José Rodríguez (against Switzerland)

Final ranking

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Template:Country data Switzerland	7	7	0	0	18	7	+11	21
2	Template:Country data Nigeria	7	5	1	1	17	7	+10	16
3	Template:Country data Spain	7	5	1	1	18	10	+8	16
4	Template:Country data Colombia	7	2	3	2	8	11	–3	9
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
5	Template:Country data Turkey	5	3	2	0	9	3	+6	11
6	Template:Country data Italy	5	3	1	1	6	4	+2	10
7	Template:Country data Uruguay	5	2	2	1	8	7	+1	8
8	Template:Country data South Korea	5	2	1	2	8	7	+1	7
Eliminated in the Round of 16
9	Template:Country data Iran	4	2	1	1	4	2	+2	7
10	Template:Country data Mexico	4	2	1	1	4	3	+1	7
11	Template:Country data Argentina	4	2	0	2	6	6	0	6
12	Template:Country data United States	4	2	0	2	4	4	0	6
13	Template:Country data Germany	4	1	1	2	10	10	0	4
14	Template:Country data Burkina Faso	4	1	1	2	6	7	–1	4
15	Template:Country data United Arab Emirates	4	1	0	3	3	6	–3	3
16	Template:Country data New Zealand	4	0	3	1	3	8	–5	3
Eliminated at the group stage
17	Template:Country data Brazil	3	1	0	2	3	4	–1	3
18	Template:Country data Netherlands	3	1	0	2	3	4	–1	3
19	Template:Country data Gambia	3	0	1	2	3	6	–3	1
20	Template:Country data Costa Rica	3	0	1	2	3	9	–6	1
21	Template:Country data Japan	3	0	0	3	5	9	–4	0
22	Template:Country data Honduras	3	0	0	3	1	5	–4	0
23	Template:Country data Algeria	3	0	0	3	0	5	–5	0
24	Template:Country data Malawi	3	0	0	3	1	7	–6	0

See also

• FIFA U-17 World Cup
• 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup

External links

• FIFA U-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009, FIFA.com
• FIFA Technical Report