The 1993 FIFA U-17 World Championship, the fifth edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Kobe, Nagoya, and Gifu City in Japan from 21 August to 4 September 1993. Players born after 1 August 1976 were allowed to participate in the tournament.
Venues TokyoHiroshimaKobeTokyo National StadiumHiroshima Big ArchKobe Universiade Memorial StadiumCapacity: 48,000Capacity: 50,000Capacity: 35,910Gifu CityKyotoNagoyaGifu Nagaragawa StadiumNishikyogoku Athletic StadiumPaloma Mizuho Rugby StadiumCapacity: 26,109Capacity: 20,588Capacity: 15,000
Qualified Teams Confederation Qualifying Tournament Qualifier(s)AFC (Asia)Host nation1992 AFC U-17 ChampionshipCAF (Africa)1993 African U-17 Qualifying for World CupCONCACAF(North, Central America & Caribbean)1992 CONCACAF U-17 TournamentCONMEBOL (South America)1993 South American U-17 Football ChampionshipOFC (Oceania)1993 OFC U-17 ChampionshipUEFA (Europe)1993 UEFA U-16 Championship
Squads
For the complete list of players, see 1993 FIFA U-17 World Championship squads.
Referees
Asia Shin-Ichiro Obata Omar Al-Mohanna Africa Jean-Fidele Diramba Alhagi Faye CONCACAF Benito Archundia Brian Hall
South America Javier Castrilli Salvador Imperatore John Toro Rendón Europe Eric Blareau Sandor Piller José Pratas Anders Frisk
Group stage All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Result
Goalscorers Wilson Oruma of Nigeria won the Golden Shoe award for scoring six goals. In total, 107 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
6 goals Wilson Oruma 5 goals Manuel Neira Nwankwo Kanu Peter Anosike 4 goals Sebastián Rozental Joseph Fameye Judah Cooks 3 goals Petr Ruman Daniel Addo Emmanuel Duah Essuman Dadzie Tomasz Kosztowniak 2 goals
Andrés Grande Leonardo Biagini Jonathon Carter Paul Bilokapić Héctor Tapia Ricardo Ciciliano Edgar García Edgar Santa Cruz Festus Odini Ibrahim Maciej Terlecki Piotr Orliński Hassan Al-Otaibi Fayzal Arouri Pierre Venditti
1 goal
Federico Domínguez Mauro Cantoro Rodrigo Vilariño David Ristevski Nick Bosevski Sebastian Naglieri Alejandro Osorio Yao Xia Yu Genwei Juan Madrid Libor Sionko Miroslav Rada Miroslav Vápeník Richard Spanik Zoltán Novota Daniel Armah Francesco Totti Hidetoshi Nakata Naoki Matsuda Yuzo Funakoshi Artur Andruszczak Artur Wichniarek Artur Wyczalkowski Jacek Magiera Mirosław Szymkowiak Mohamed Al-Enazi Jason Moore Steve Armas
Own goal Dante Poli (playing against Poland)
Final ranking RankTeam16600203+171226501143+1110362311210+2746321137+68 Eliminated in the quarter-finals5421187+156411275+237411288038411234−13 Eliminated at the group stage9311176+1310310247−3211310236−3212310225−3213310237−4214301225−3115301216−51163003018−180
External links FIFA U-17 World Championship Japan 1993, FIFA.com FIFA Technical Report (Part 1) and (Part 2)