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{{Infobox International Football Competition
| tourney_name = FIFA U-17 World Championship
| year = 2001
| other_titles = FIFA U-17 World Championship Trinidad & Tobago 2001
| image = 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship.png
| size = 
| caption = Trinidad & Tobago 2001 official logo
| country = Trinidad and Tobago
| dates = 13–30 September
| num_teams = 16
| confederations = 6
| venues = 5
| cities = 5
| champion_other = {{fbu|17|FRA|1974}}
| count = 1
| second_other = {{fbu|17|NGA}}
| third_other = {{fbu|17|BFA}}
| fourth_other = {{fbu|17|ARG}}
| matches = 32
| goals = 102
| attendance = 331198
| top_scorer = {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Florent Sinama Pongolle]]<br />(9 goals)
| player = {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Florent Sinama Pongolle]]
| fair_play = {{fbu|17|NGA}}
| prevseason = [[1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship|1999]]
| nextseason = [[2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship|2003]]
| update =
}}
The '''[[FIFA U-17 World Championship]] 2001''', the ninth edition of the tournament, was held from 13 to 30 September 2001 in the cities of [[Trinidad and Tobago]]; in [[Port of Spain]], [[Malabar Settlement|Malabar]] in [[Arima]], [[Marabella]] in [[San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago|San Fernando]], [[Couva]], and [[Bacolet]] in [[Scarborough, Tobago|Scarborough]]. Players born after 1 January 1984 could participate in this tournament.

== Venues ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
|-
!width=20%| [[Port of Spain]]
!width=20%| [[Arima]]/[[Malabar, Trinidad and Tobago|Malabar]]
!width=20%| [[Couva]]
!width=20%| [[Marabella]]
!width=20%| [[Scarborough, Tobago|Scarborough]]
|-
| [[Hasely Crawford Stadium]]
| [[Larry Gomes Stadium]]
| [[Ato Boldon Stadium]]
| [[Manny Ramjohn Stadium]]
| [[Dwight Yorke Stadium]]
|-
| <small>{{Coord|10|39|41.48|N|61|31|58.92|W|type:landmark|display=inline|name=Hasely Crawford Stadium}}</small>
| <small>{{Coord|10|36|59.00|N|61|16|57.00|W|type:landmark_source:dewiki|display=inline|name=Larry Gomes Stadium Stadium}}</small>
| <small>{{Coord|10|25|29.00|N|61|25|02.00|W|type:landmark_source:dewiki|display=inline|name=Ato Boldon Stadium}}</small>
| <small>{{Coord|10|18|12.00|N|61|26|30.00|W|type:landmark_source:dewiki|display=inline|name=Manny Ramjohn Stadium}}</small>
| <small>{{Coord|11|10|53.17|N|60|43|00.86|W|type:landmark_source:dewiki|display=inline|name=Ato Boldon Stadium}}</small>
|-
| Capacity: '''27,000'''
| Capacity: '''10,000'''
| Capacity: '''10,000'''
| Capacity: '''10,000'''
| Capacity: '''7,500'''
|-
| [[File:Hasely Crawford Stadium, Trinidad.jpg|150px]]
|<!-- Deleted image removed:  [[File:LarryGomesStadium.jpg|150px|thumb|{{deletable image-caption|Friday, 26 August 2011}}]] -->
| [[File:TnT Ato Boldon Stadium.jpg|150px]]
|<!-- Deleted image removed:  [[File:MannyRamjohnStadium.jpg|150px|thumb|{{deletable image-caption|Friday, 26 August 2011}}]] -->
|<!-- Deleted image removed:  [[File:DwightYorkeStadium.jpg|150px|thumb|{{deletable image-caption|Friday, 26 August 2011}}]] -->
|-
!rowspan=1 colspan=5|{{location map+|Trinidad and Tobago|float=center|width=375|caption=|places= 
{{location map~|Trinidad and Tobago|lat=10.661389|long=-61.533056|label=[[Port of Spain]]|position=bottom}}
{{location map~|Trinidad and Tobago|lat=10.616389|long=-61.282500|label= [[Arima]] / [[Malabar, Trinidad and Tobago|Malabar]]|position=right}}
{{location map~|Trinidad and Tobago|lat=10.424722|long=-61.417222|label=[[Couva]]|position=right}}
{{location map~|Trinidad and Tobago|lat=10.303333|long=-61.441667|label=&nbsp; &nbsp; [[Marabella]]|position=left}}
{{location map~|Trinidad and Tobago|lat=11.181436|long=-60.716905|label=<br/>[[Scarborough, Tobago|Scarborough]]|position=right}}}}
|}

== Mascot ==
The official mascot of this FIFA U-17 World Championship, '''Trinidad & Tobago 2001''', was '''BEATS''', the humming bird. Its outfit is the same as the home national team, red shirt, black short and red socks. It has '''Trinidad & Tobago 2001''' on the chest.

== Squads ==
* [[2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship squads]]

== Qualification ==
The following 16 teams qualified for the tournament:
{| class=wikitable
! Confederation
! Qualifying Tournament
! Qualifier(s)
|-
|[[Asian Football Confederation|AFC (Asia)]]
|[[2000 AFC U-17 Championship]]
|{{fbu|17|OMA}}<br />{{fbu|17|IRN}}<br />{{fbu|17|JPN}}
|-
|[[Confederation of African Football|CAF (Africa)]]
|[[2001 African U-17 Championship]]
|{{fbu|17|NGA}}<br />{{fbu|17|BFA}}<br />{{fbu|17|MLI}}
|-
|rowspan=2|[[CONCACAF|CONCACAF<br />(North, Central America & Caribbean)]]
||Host nation
|{{fbu|17|TRI}}
|-
|[[2001 CONCACAF U-17 Tournament]]
|{{fbu|17|USA}}<br />{{fbu|17|CRC}}
|- 
|[[CONMEBOL|CONMEBOL (South America)]]
|[[2001 South American U-17 Championship]]
|{{fbu|17|BRA}}<br />{{fbu|17|ARG}}<br />{{fbu|17|PAR|1990}}
|-
|[[Oceania Football Confederation|OFC (Oceania)]]
|[[2001 OFC U-17 Championship]]
|{{fbu|17|AUS}}
|-
|[[UEFA|UEFA (Europe)]]
|[[2001 UEFA European Under-16 Championship]]
|{{fbu|17|ESP}}<br />{{fbu|17|FRA|1974}}<br />{{fbu|17|CRO}}
|}

== Group stages ==

=== Group A ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
!width=185|Team
!width=20|Pld
!width=20|W
!width=20|D
!width=20|L
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|GD
!width=20|Pts
|- bgcolor="#D0F0C0"
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|BRA}}
|3||3||0||0||10||2||+8||'''9'''
|- bgcolor="#D0F0C0"
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|AUS}}
|3||2||0||1||5||1||+4||'''6''' 
|- 
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|CRO}}
|3||1||0||2||3||8||–5||'''3'''
|- 
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|TRI}}
|3||0||0||3||2||9||–7||'''0''' 
|}
<br>
{{football box
|date = 13 September 2001
|time = 13:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|TRI}}
|score = 1 – 2
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20180508144847/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23848/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|CRO}}
|goals1 = [[Nkosi Blackman|Blackman]] {{goal|57}}
|goals2 = [[Niko Kranjčar|Kranjčar]] {{goal|43|pen.|67|pen.}}
|stadium = [[Hasely Crawford Stadium]], [[Port of Spain]]
|attendance = 10,500
|referee = [[Giménez Daniel]] (Argentina) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 14 September 2001
|time = 18:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|AUS}}
|score = 0 – 1
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171103224304/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23849/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|BRA}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 = [[Anderson Costa (footballer, born 1984)|Anderson]] {{goal|76}}
|stadium = [[Hasely Crawford Stadium]], [[Port of Spain]]
|attendance = 10,800
|referee = [[Benes Michal]] (Czech Republic) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 16 September 2001
|time = 13:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|TRI}}
|score = 0 – 1
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20180508150849/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23850/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|AUS}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 = [[Fred Agius|Agius]] {{goal|55}}
|stadium = [[Hasely Crawford Stadium]], [[Port of Spain]]
|attendance = 25,100
|referee = [[Alexandru Tudor]] (Romania) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 16 September 2001
|time = 15:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|CRO}}
|score = 1 – 3
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171104003522/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23851/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|BRA}}
|goals1 = [[Dejan Prijić|Prijić]] {{goal|6}}
|goals2 = [[Bruno Moraes (footballer, born 1984)|Bruno]] {{goal|7}} <br />[[Leandro Bonfim|Bonfim]] {{goal|57}} <br /> [[Caetano Calil|Caetano]] {{goal|77}}
|stadium = [[Hasely Crawford Stadium]], [[Port of Spain]]
|attendance = 25,100
|referee = [[Sibrian Rodolfo]] (Slovenia) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 19 September 2001
|time = 17:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|BRA}}
|score = 6 – 1
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171103214540/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23852/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|TRI}}
|goals1 = [[Ricardo Malzoni|Malzoni]] {{goal|7}} <br />[[Caetano Calil|Caetano]] {{goal|16||41||59}} <br />[[Julius James|James]] {{goal|36|o.g.}} <br />[[Júnior]] {{goal|88}} 
|goals2 = [[Jerol Forbes|Forbes]] {{goal|61}}
|stadium = [[Hasely Crawford Stadium]], [[Port of Spain]]
|attendance = 26,000
|referee = [[Issa Hussein]] (Iraq) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 19 September 2001
|time = 19:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|CRO}}
|score = 0 – 4
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171104003527/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23853/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|AUS}}
|goals1 = 
|goals2 = [[Terry Smith (footballer born 1984)|Smith]] {{goal|37}} <br />[[Anthony Danze|Danze]] {{goal|40||46||66}} 
|stadium = [[Hasely Crawford Stadium]], [[Port of Spain]]
|attendance = 20,228
|referee = [[Chukwujekwu Chukwudi]] (Nigeria) }}

=== Group B ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
!width=185|Team
!width=20|Pld
!width=20|W
!width=20|D
!width=20|L
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|GD
!width=20|Pts
|- bgcolor="#D0F0C0"
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|NGA}}
|3||3||0||0||8||1||+7||'''9'''
|- bgcolor="#D0F0C0"
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|FRA|1974}}
|3||2||0||1||11||6||+5||'''6''' 
|- 
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|JPN}}
|3||1||0||2||2||9||-7||'''3'''
|- 
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|USA}}
|3||0||0||3||3||8||-5||'''0''' 
|}
<br>
{{football box
|date = 14 September 2001
|time = 17:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|USA}}
|score = 0 – 1
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20180508144852/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23854/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|JPN}}
|goals1 = 
|goals2 = [[Yutaro Abe|Abe]] {{goal|43}}
|stadium = [[Dwight Yorke Stadium]], [[Bacolet]]
|attendance = 7,500
|referee = [[De Oliveira Paulo]] (Brazil) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 14 September 2001
|time = 19:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|FRA|1974}}
|score = 1 – 2
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20180508151428/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23855/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|NGA}}
|goals1 = [[Florent Sinama Pongolle|Sinama Pongolle]] {{goal|87}}
|goals2 = [[Karimu Shaibu|Shaibu]] {{goal|24}} <br />[[Victor Brown (footballer)|Brown]] {{goal|75}}
|stadium = [[Dwight Yorke Stadium]], [[Bacolet]]
|attendance = 7,000
|referee = [[Ramdhan Ramesh]] (Trinidad & Tobago) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 16 September 2001
|time = 16:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|JPN}}
|score = 0 – 4
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20181203152308/https://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup//matches/round=5448/match=23856/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|NGA}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 = [[Karimu Shaibu|Shaibu]] {{goal|35}} <br />[[Femi Opabunmi|Opabunmi]] {{goal|39}} <br />[[Victor Brown (footballer)|Brown]] {{goal|83}} <br />[[Omonigho Temile|Temile]] {{goal|90+1|pen.}}
|stadium = [[Dwight Yorke Stadium]], [[Bacolet]]
|attendance = 7,500
|referee = [[Cardoso Batista Lucilio]] (Portugal) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 16 September 2001
|time = 18:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|USA}}
|score = 3 – 5
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20181203152324/https://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup//matches/round=5448/match=23857/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|FRA|1974}}
|goals1 = [[Mike Magee (soccer)|Magee]] {{goal|19}} <br />[[Julio Colombo|Colombo]] {{goal|28|o.g.}} <br />[[Eddie Johnson (soccer)|Johnson]] {{goal|75}}
|goals2 = [[Florent Sinama Pongolle|Sinama Pongolle]] {{goal|4||60||65}} <br />[[Samuel Piètre|Pietre]] {{goal|31}} <br />[[Mourad Meghni|Meghni]] {{goal|48}}
|stadium = [[Dwight Yorke Stadium]], [[Bacolet]]
|attendance = 7,000
|referee = [[Im Eun Ju]] (Korea Republic) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 19 September 2001
|time = 17:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|NGA}}
|score = 2 – 0
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20181203152259/https://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup//matches/round=5448/match=23858/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|USA}}
|goals1 = [[Karimu Shaibu|Shaibu]] {{goal|32}} <br />[[Moses Ayuba|Ayuba]] {{goal|58}}
|goals2 = 
|stadium = [[Dwight Yorke Stadium]], [[Bacolet]]
|attendance = 7,500
|referee = [[Attison Harry]] (Vanuatu) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 19 September 2001
|time = 19:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|JPN}}
|score = 1 – 5
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20181203152233/https://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup//matches/round=5448/match=23859/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|FRA|1974}}
|goals1 = [[Kisho Yano|Yano]] {{goal|67}}
|goals2 = [[Samuel Piètre|Piètre]] {{goal|11}} <br />[[Florent Sinama Pongolle|Sinama Pongolle]]  {{goal|13||54||57}} <br />[[Stéphen Drouin|Drouin]] {{goal|15}} 
|stadium = [[Dwight Yorke Stadium]], [[Bacolet]]
|attendance = 7,315
|referee = [[Gimenez Daniel]] (Argentina) }}

=== Group C ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
!width=185|Team
!width=20|Pld
!width=20|W
!width=20|D
!width=20|L
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|GD
!width=20|Pts
|- bgcolor="#D0F0C0"
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|ARG}}
|3||2||1||0||9||4||+5||'''7'''
|- bgcolor="#D0F0C0"
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|BFA}}
|3||1||2||0||4||3||+1||'''5''' 
|- 
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|ESP}}
|3||1||0||2||4||6||-2||'''3'''
|- 
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|OMA}}
|3||0||1||2||2||6||-4||'''1''' 
|}
<br>
{{football box
|date = 15 September 2001
|time = 16:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|OMA}}
|score = 1 – 2
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20180508150858/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23860/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|ESP}}
|goals1 = [[Mohammed Al-Hinai|Al-Hinai]] {{goal|22}}
|goals2 = [[Fernando Torres|F. Torres]] {{goal|50}} <br />[[Melli (Spanish footballer)|Melli]] {{goal|90+2}}
|stadium = [[Ato Boldon Stadium]], [[Couva]]
|attendance = 7,500
|referee = [[Richard Contreras Samuel]] (Dominican Republic) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 15 September 2001
|time = 18:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|ARG}}
|score = 2 – 2
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20180508150903/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23861/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|BFA}}
|goals1 = [[Lucas Correa|Correa]] {{goal|2}} <br />[[Maxi López|López]] {{goal|90+2|pen.}}
|goals2 = [[Wilfried Sanou|Sanou]] {{goal|22}} <br />[[Henoc Conombo|Conombo]] {{goal|79}}
|stadium = [[Ato Boldon Stadium]], [[Couva]]
|attendance = 7,500
|referee = [[Attison Harry]] (Vanuatu) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 17 September 2001
|time = 17:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|ESP}}
|score = 0 – 1
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20180508150908/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23862/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|BFA}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 = [[Wilfried Sanou|Sanou]] {{goal|41|pen.}}
|stadium = [[Manny Ramjohn Stadium]], [[Marabella]]
|attendance = 7,500
|referee = [[Jakobsson Kristinn]] (Iceland) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 17 September 2001
|time = 19:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|OMA}}
|score = 0 – 3
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171103225442/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23863/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|ARG}}
|goals1 = 
|goals2 = [[Maxi López|López]] {{goal|10}} <br />[[Carlos Tevez|Tevez]] {{goal|37}} <br />[[Hugo Colace (footballer)|Colace]] {{goal|52|pen.}} 
|stadium = [[Manny Ramjohn Stadium]], [[Marabella]]
|attendance = 7,500
|referee = [[Evehe Divine]] (Cameroon) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 20 September 2001
|time = 17:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|BFA}}
|score = 1 – 1
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20180508144904/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23864/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|OMA}}
|goals1 = [[Abdoul Aziz Nikiema|Nikiema]] {{goal|22}}
|goals2 = [[Mohammed Al-Hinai|Al-Hinai]] {{goal|33}}
|stadium = [[Ato Boldon Stadium]], [[Couva]]
|attendance = 7,000
|referee = [[Alexandru Tudor]] (Romania) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 20 September 2001
|time = 19:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|ESP}}
|score = 2 – 4
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20180507013914/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23865/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|ARG}}
|goals1 = [[Guillem Bauzà|Bauzà]] {{goal|23}} <br />[[Senel]] {{goal|30}}
|goals2 = [[Hugo Colace (footballer)|Colace]] {{goal|3|pen.}} <br />[[Maxi López|López]] {{goal|57}} <br />[[Pablo Zabaleta|Zabaleta]] {{goal|72}} <br />[[Marcos Aguirre|Aguirre]] {{goal|83}}  
|stadium = [[Ato Boldon Stadium]], [[Couva]]
|attendance = 9,300
|referee = [[Sibrian Rodolfo]] (Slovenia) }}

=== Group D ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
!width=185|Team
!width=20|Pld
!width=20|W
!width=20|D
!width=20|L
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|GD
!width=20|Pts
|- bgcolor="#D0F0C0"
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|CRC}}
|3||2||0||1||5||2||+3||'''6'''
|- bgcolor="#D0F0C0"
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|MLI}}
|3||2||0||1||4||2||+2||'''6''' 
|- 
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|PAR|1990}}
|3||2||0||1||5||6||-1||'''6'''
|- 
|align="left"|{{fbu|17|IRN}}
|3||0||0||3||2||6||-4||'''0''' 
|}
<br>
{{football box
|date = 15 September 2001
|time = 16:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|MLI}}
|score = 1 – 2
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171103224308/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23866/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|PAR|1990}}
|goals1 = [[Alain Claude Traoré|Traoré]] {{goal|76}}
|goals2 = [[Blas López|López]] {{goal|52}} <br />[[Aldo Jara|Jara]] {{goal|86|pen.}}
|stadium = [[Larry Gomes Stadium]], [[Malabar, Trinidad and Tobago|Malabar]]
|attendance = 4,500
|referee = [[Issa Hussein]] (Iraq) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 15 September 2001
|time = 18:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|IRN}}
|score = 0 – 2
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20180508144913/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23867/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|CRC}}
|goals1 = 
|goals2 = [[Armando Alonso|Alonso]] {{goal|51}} <br />[[Randall Azofeifa|Azofeifa]] {{goal|76}}
|stadium = [[Larry Gomes Stadium]], [[Malabar, Trinidad and Tobago|Malabar]]
|attendance = 6,500
|referee = [[Chukwujekwu Chukwudi]] (Nigeria) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 17 September 2001
|time = 17:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|PAR|1990}}
|score = 0 – 3
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171103214545/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23868/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|CRC}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 = [[Armando Alonso|Alonso]] {{goal|75||84}} <br />[[Randall Azofeifa|Azofeifa]] {{goal|82}}
|stadium = [[Larry Gomes Stadium]], [[Malabar, Trinidad and Tobago|Malabar]]
|attendance = 3,500
|referee = [[Benes Michal]] (Czech Republic) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 17 September 2001
|time = 19:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|MLI}}
|score = 1 – 0
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171103225447/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23869/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|IRN}}
|goals1 = [[Bakary Coulibaly|Coulibaly]] {{goal|38}}
|goals2 = 
|stadium = [[Larry Gomes Stadium]], [[Malabar, Trinidad and Tobago|Malabar]]
|attendance = 3,270
|referee = [[Ramdhan Ramesh]] (Trinidad & Tobago) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 20 September 2001
|time = 17:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|CRC}}
|score = 0 – 2
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171103212001/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23870/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|MLI}}
|goals1 = 
|goals2 = [[Bakary Coulibaly|Coulibaly]] {{goal|20}} <br />[[Drissa Diarra (footballer, born 1985)|Diarra]] {{goal|33}}
|stadium = [[Larry Gomes Stadium]], [[Malabar, Trinidad and Tobago|Malabar]]
|attendance = 4,000
|referee = [[De Oliveira Paulo]] (Brazil) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 20 September 2001
|time = 19:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|PAR|1990}}
|score = 3 – 2
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20180508150914/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5448/match=23871/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|IRN}}
|goals1 = [[Andrés Pérez Matto|Pérez Matto]] {{goal|19||42}} <br />[[Aldo Jara|Jara]] {{goal|66}}
|goals2 = [[Mansour Ahmadzadeh|Ahmadzadeh]] {{goal|81||90+3}}
|stadium = [[Larry Gomes Stadium]], [[Malabar, Trinidad and Tobago|Malabar]]
|attendance = 4,000
|referee = [[Jakobsson Kristinn]] (Iceland) }}

== Knockout stages ==
{{Round8-with third
<!--Date-Place|Team 1|Score 1|Team 2|Score 2 -->
<!--Quarterfinals  -->
|23 September - [[Port of Spain]]|{{fbu|17|BRA}}|1|'''{{fbu|17|FRA|1974}}'''|2
|24 September - [[Marabella]]|'''{{fbu|17|ARG}}''' ([[Overtime (sports)#Association football|aet]])|2|{{fbu|17|MLI}}|1
|23 September - [[Port of Spain]]|'''{{fbu|17|NGA}}'''|5|{{fbu|17|AUS}}|1
|24 September - [[Marabella]]|{{fbu|17|CRC}}|0|'''{{fbu|17|BFA}}'''|2
<!--Semifinals  -->
|27 September - [[Port of Spain]]|'''{{fbu|17|FRA|1974}}'''|2|{{fbu|17|ARG}}|1
|27 September - [[Malabar, Trinidad and Tobago|Malabar]]|'''{{fbu|17|NGA}}'''|1|{{fbu|17|BFA}}|0
<!--Finals  -->
|30 September - [[Port of Spain]]|'''{{fbu|17|FRA|1974}}'''|3|{{fbu|17|NGA}}|0
<!--third place match-->
|30 September - [[Port of Spain]]|{{fbu|17|ARG}}|0|'''{{fbu|17|BFA}}'''|2
}}

=== Quarter-finals ===

{{football box
|date = 23 September 2001
|time = 16:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|BRA}}
|score = 1 – 2
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171103220558/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5453/match=25002/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|FRA|1974}}
|goals1 = [[Francisco Alberoni|Alberoni]] {{goal|70}}
|goals2 = [[Florent Sinama Pongolle|Sinama Pongolle]] {{goal|38}} <br />[[Anthony Le Tallec|Le Tallec]] {{goal|40}}
|stadium = [[Dwight Yorke Stadium]], [[Bacolet]]
|attendance = 7,500
|referee = [[Ramdhan Ramesh]] (Trinidad & Tobago) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 23 September 2001
|time = 19:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|NGA}}
|score = 5 – 1
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171104000112/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5453/match=25003/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|AUS}}
|goals1 = [[Femi Opabunmi|Opabunmi]] {{goal|24|pen.|69||79}} <br />[[Suleiman Mohammed|Mohammed]] {{goal|81}} <br>[[Omonigho Temile|Temile]] {{goal|85}}
|goals2 = [[Matthew Engele|Engele]] {{goal|86}} 
|stadium = [[Dwight Yorke Stadium]], [[Bacolet]]
|attendance = 8,000
|referee = [[Jakobsson Kristinn]] (Iceland) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 24 September 2001
|time = 16:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|ARG}}
|score = 2 – 1 ([[Overtime (sports)#Association football|a.e.t.]])
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171103225452/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5453/match=25004/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|MLI}}
|goals1 = [[Gonzalo Javier Rodríguez|Rodríguez]] {{goal|38}} <br />[[Mauro Fanari|Fanari]] {{goal|96}}
|goals2 = [[Drissa Diarra (footballer, born 1985)|Diarra]] {{goal|35}}
|stadium = [[Manny Ramjohn Stadium]], [[Marabella]]
|attendance = 8,000
|referee = [[Cardoso Batista Lucilio]] (Portugal) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 24 September 2001
|time = 19:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|CRC}}
|score = 0 – 2
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171103225457/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5453/match=25005/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|BFA}}
|goals1 = 
|goals2 = [[Paul Gorogo|Gorogo]] {{goal|56}} <br />[[Wilfried Sanou|Sanou]] {{goal|84}} 
|stadium = [[Manny Ramjohn Stadium]], [[Marabella]]
|attendance = 8,700
|referee = [[Attison Harry]] (Vanuatu) }}

=== Semi-finals ===

{{football box
|date = 27 September 2001
|time = 16:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|FRA|1974}}
|score = 2 – 1
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171103212006/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5453/match=25006/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|ARG}}
|goals1 = [[Anthony Le Tallec|Le Tallec]] {{goal|56}} <br />[[Jérémy Berthod|Berthod]] {{goal|58}}
|goals2 = [[Carlos Tevez|Tevez]] {{goal|49}}
|stadium = [[Hasely Crawford Stadium]], [[Port of Spain]]
|attendance = 9,200
|referee = [[Evehe Divine]] (Cameroon) }}
----
{{football box
|date = 27 September 2001
|time = 19:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|NGA}}
|score = 1 – 0
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171103225502/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5453/match=25007/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|BFA}}
|goals1 = [[Femi Opabunmi|Opabunmi]] {{goal|4|pen.}}
|goals2 = 
|stadium = [[Larry Gomes Stadium]], [[Malabar, Trinidad and Tobago|Malabar]]
|attendance = 7,500
|referee = [[Richard Contreras Samuel]] (Dominican Republic) }}

=== Third place match ===

{{football box
|date = 30 September 2001
|time = 15:30
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|ARG}}
|score = 0 – 2
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171104001149/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5453/match=25008/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|BFA}}
|goals1 = 
|goals2 = [[Paul Gorogo|Gorogo]] {{goal|30}} <br />[[Henoc Conombo|Conombo]] {{goal|78}}
|stadium = [[Hasely Crawford Stadium]], [[Port of Spain]]
|attendance = 25,000
|referee = [[Issa Hussein]] (Iraq) }}

=== Final ===

{{football box
|date = 30 September 2001
|time = 18:00
|team1 = {{fbu-rt|17|FRA|1974}}
|score = 3 – 0
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20170923013442/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=5453/match=25009/index.html Report]
|team2 = {{fbu|17|NGA}}
|goals1 = [[Florent Sinama Pongolle|Sinama Pongolle]] {{goal|34}} <br />[[Anthony Le Tallec|Le Tallec]] {{goal|53}} <br />[[Samuel Piètre|Piètre]] {{goal|81}}
|goals2 = 
|stadium = [[Hasely Crawford Stadium]], [[Port of Spain]]
|attendance = 20,790
|referee = [[Lucílio Batista]] ([[Portuguese Football Federation|Portugal]])
}}

== Winners ==
{{winners|fbu|17|2001 FIFA U-17 World champions|France|First}}

== Awards ==

{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 0 auto;"
|-
!'''FIFA Golden Shoe'''
!'''FIFA Golden Ball'''
!'''FIFA Fair Play Award'''
|-
|colspan="2" align="center"|{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Florent Sinama Pongolle]]
|align=center|{{fbu|17|NGA}}
|}

== Goalscorers ==
Florent Sinama Pongolle of France won the [[FIFA U-17 World Cup#Awards|Golden Shoe]] award for scoring nine goals.

{{Goalscorers
|goals=102 |matches=32
|9 goals=
*{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Florent Sinama Pongolle]]

|5 goals=
*{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Femi Opabunmi]]

|4 goals=
*{{flagicon|BRA}} [[Caetano Prósperi Calil|Caetano]]

|3 goals=
*{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Maxi López]]
*{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Anthony Danze]]
*{{flagicon|BFA}} [[Wilfried Sanou]]
*{{flagicon|CRC}} [[Armando Alonso]]
*{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Anthony Le Tallec]]
*{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Samuel Piètre]]
*{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Karimu Shaibu]]

|2 goals=
*{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Carlos Tevez]]
*{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Hugo Colace (footballer)|Hugo Colace]]
*{{flagicon|BFA}} [[Henoc Conombo]]
*{{flagicon|BFA}} [[Paul Gorogo]]
*{{flagicon|CRC}} [[Randall Azofeifa]]
*{{flagicon|CRO}} [[Niko Kranjčar]]
*{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mansour Ahmadzadeh]]
*{{flagicon|MLI}} [[Bakary Coulibaly]]
*{{flagicon|MLI}} [[Drissa Diarra (footballer, born 1985)|Drissa Diarra]]
*{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Omonigho Temile]]
*{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Victor Brown (footballer)|Victor Brown]]
*{{flagicon|OMA}} [[Mohammed Al-Hinai]]
*{{flagicon|PAR|1990}} [[Aldo Jara]]
*{{flagicon|PAR|1990}} [[Andrés Pérez Matto]]

|1 goal=
*{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Gonzalo Javier Rodríguez|Gonzalo Rodríguez]]
*{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Lucas Correa]]
*{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Marcos Aguirre]]
*{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Mauro Fanari]]
*{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Pablo Zabaleta]]
*{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Fred Agius]]
*{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Matthew Engele]]
*{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Terry Smith (footballer, born 1984)|Terry Smith]]
*{{flagicon|BRA}} [[Francisco Alberoni|Alberoni]]
*{{flagicon|BRA}} [[Anderson Costa (footballer, born 1984)|Anderson Costa]]
*{{flagicon|BRA}} [[Bruno (Brazilian footballer)|Bruno]]
*{{flagicon|BRA}} [[Júnior]]
*{{flagicon|BRA}} [[Leandro Bonfim]]
*{{flagicon|BRA}} [[Malzoni]]
*{{flagicon|BFA}} [[Abdoul Aziz Nikiema]]
*{{flagicon|CRO}} [[Dejan Prijić]]
*{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Jérémy Berthod]]
*{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Mourad Meghni]]
*{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Stephen Drouin]]
*{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kisho Yano]]
*{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Yutaro Abe]]
*{{flagicon|MLI}} [[Alain Claude Traoré]]
*{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Moses Ayuba]]
*{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Suleiman Mohammed]]
*{{flagicon|PAR|1990}} [[Blas López]]
*{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Fernando Torres]]
*{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Guillem Bauzà]]
*{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Melli (Spanish footballer)|Melli]]
*{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Senel]]
*{{flagicon|TRI}} [[Jerol Forbes]]
*{{flagicon|TRI}} [[Nkosi Blackman]]
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Eddie Johnson (soccer)|Eddie Johnson]]
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Mike Magee (soccer)|Mike Magee]]

|1 own goal=
*{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Julio Colombo]] (against United States)
*{{flagicon|TRI}} [[Julius James]] (against Brazil)
}}

== Final ranking ==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!width=20|Rank
!width=200|Team
!width="20"|{{Tooltip|Pld|Played}}
!width="20"|{{Tooltip|W|Won}}
!width="20"|{{Tooltip|D|Drawn}}
!width="20"|{{Tooltip|L|Lost}}
!width="20"|{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
!width="20"|{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
!width="20"|{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
!width="20"|{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}
|- style="background:gold;"
|1
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|France}}
|6||5||0||1||18||8||+10||'''15'''
|- style="background:silver;"
|2
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Nigeria}}
|6||5||0||1||14||5||+9||'''15'''
|- style="background:#a67d3d;"
|3
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Burkina Faso}}
|6||3||2||1||8||4||+4||'''11'''
|- style="background:beige;"
|4
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Argentina}}
|6||3||1||2||12||9||+3||'''10'''
|-
| colspan="11"| '''Eliminated in the quarter-finals'''
|-
|5
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Brazil}}
|4||3||0||1||11||4||+7||'''9'''
|-
|6
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Costa Rica}}
|4||2||0||2||5||4||+1||'''6'''
|-
|6
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Mali}}
|4||2||0||2||5||4||+1||'''6'''
|-
|8
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Australia}}
|4||2||0||2||6||6||0||'''6'''
|-
| colspan="11"| '''Eliminated at the group stage'''
|-
|9
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Paraguay|1990}}
|3||2||0||1||5||6||–1||'''6'''
|-
|10
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Spain}}
|3||1||0||2||4||6||–2||'''3'''
|-
|11
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Croatia}}
|3||1||0||2||3||8||–5||'''3'''
|-
|12
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Japan}}
|3||1||0||2||2||9||–7||'''3'''
|-
|13
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Oman}}
|3||0||1||2||2||6||–4||'''1'''
|-
|14
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Iran}}
|3||0||0||3||2||6||–4||'''0'''
|-
|15
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|United States}}
|3||0||0||3||3||8||–5||'''0'''
|-
|16
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|17|Trinidad and Tobago}}
|3||0||0||3||2||9||–7||'''0'''
|}

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304193208/http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/archive/trinidadandtobago2001/index.html FIFA U-17 World Championship Trinidad and Tobago 2001], FIFA.com
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111220063439/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/technicaldevp/50/07/06/u17%5ftrinidad%5f2001%5fa%5fpart1%5f231.pdf FIFA Technical Report (Part 1)] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20111220054156/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/technicaldevp/50/07/02/u17%5ftrinidad%5f2001%5fa%5fpart2%5f230.pdf (Part 2)]

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