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2005 FIFA World Youth Championship
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The 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship was the 15th edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship. It took place in the Netherlands between 10 June and 2 July 2005.
Venues
Qualification
The following 24 teams qualified for the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship. Host country the Netherlands did not have to qualify for the tournament.

1.Teams that made their debut.

Sponsorship
FIFA partners
Adidas
Coca-Cola
Toshiba
Fujifilm
MasterCard
McDonald's
T-Mobile
Yahoo
Hyundai
Philips
Avaya
National supporters
Hubo
Unive
FIFA.com
FIFA Fair Play
Match officials
Squads
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship squads.

Group stages
The 24 teams were split into six groups of four teams. Six group winners, six second-place finishers and the four best third-place finishers qualify for the knockout round.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Ranking of third-placed teams
Knockout stages
Bracket
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Winners
Goalscorers
6 goals
Lionel Messi
5 goals
Fernando Llorente
Oleksandr Aliev
4 goals
Graziano Pellè
David Silva
3 goals
Pablo Zabaleta
Chen Tao
Mouhcine Iajour
Chinedu Ogbuke
2 goals
Rafinha
Renato
José Pedro Fuenzalida
Ricardo Parada
Radamel Falcao
Fredy Guarín
Nicky Adler
Marvin Matip
Daniele Galloppa
Tarik Bendamou
Ryan Babel
Hedwiges Maduro
Taye Taiwo
Juanfran
Miquel Robusté
Gokhan Gulec
Sezer Öztürk
1 goal
Julio Barroso
Neri Cardozo
Gustavo Oberman
Ryan Townsend
Nick Ward
Abou Maiga
Razak Omotoyossi
Diego Tardelli
Edcarlos
Gladstone
Fábio Santos
Rafael Sobis
Marcel de Jong
Jaime Peters
Matías Fernández
Gonzalo Jara
Pedro Morales
Cui Peng
Hao Junmin
Gao Lin
Lu Lin
Tan Wangsong
Zhao Xuri
Zhou Haibin
Zhu Ting
Harrison Otálvaro
Wason Rentería
Hugo Rodallega
Christian Gentner
Alexander Huber
Michele Canini
Andrea Coda
Raffaele De Martino
Sota Hirayama
Shunsuke Maeda
Koki Mizuno
Abdessalam Benjelloun
Adil Chihi
Reda Doulyazal
Nabil El Zhar
Quincy Owusu-Abeyie
Ibrahim Afellay
Urby Emanuelson
Collins John
Rick Kruys
Ron Vlaar
David Abwo
Olubayo Adefemi
Isaac Promise
Mikel John Obi
John Owoeri
Jose Venegas
Baek Ji-hoon
Park Chu-young
Shin Young-rok
Jonathan Soriano
Francisco Molinero
Víctor
Alberto Zapater
Goran Antić
Johan Vonlanthen
Majed Al Haj
Mohamad Al Hamawi
Abdelrazaq Al Hussain
Maxym Feschuk
Dmytro Vorobei
Chad Barrett
Hunter Freeman
Jacob Peterson
Awards
Final ranking
External links
FIFA World Youth Championship Netherlands 2005 , FIFA.com
RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 2005
FIFA Technical Report
Fifa World Youth Championship, 2005
FIFA
FIFA World Youth Championship
International association football competitions hosted by the Netherlands
2004–05 in Dutch football
FIFA World Youth Championship
FIFA World Youth Championship