World Cup of Football Sub- 20 of 1999

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The 1999 Sub- 20 World Cup was the twelfth edition of the world youth championship organized by FIFA and was played between April 3 and 24 in Nigeria. After three editions where South America had achieved supremacy, it achieved its first youth title by defeating a surprising one. On the other hand, an even more surprising defeat in the definition by the third place.

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Classification Process

In addition to the host, 23 teams classified the final stage of the tournament through the tournaments performed by each of the remaining six confederations.

A team from Oceania ranked in the 1998 OFC Sub-20 Championship in Samoa.
Four teams from Central and North America classified at the 1998 Concacaf Sub- 20 Tournament. which was held in two groups, the first in Guatemala and the second in Trinidad and Tobago.
Four Asian teams qualified at the 1998 AFC Youth Championship in Thailand.
Four African teams qualified at the 1999 African Youth Championship in Ghana.
Four South American teams qualified for the 1999 South American Championship Sub- 20 in Argentina.
Six European representatives qualified in the European Championship Sub- 18 1998 in Cyprus.

In italics, debuts at the World Cup of Football Sub- 20.

Results
The hours correspond to the time of Abuya (UTC + 1)
Legend: Pts: Points; PJ: Parts played; PG: Parties won; PE: Parties tied; PP: Parties lost; GF: Goals in favor; GC: Goals against; Dif: Difference of goals.

Phase I

Group A

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Best third-party posts
The top four of the third positions advance to the second round.

The matches of the final octaves were defined as follows:

Part 1: 1.
Party 2: 2.
Part 3: 1.
Part 4: 1.
Part 5: 1.
Party 6: 2.
Part 7: 1.
Part 8 ': 1 ° of Group C v 3 ° of Group A / B / F

The matches of parties 1, 4, 5 and 8 depend on who are the third places that are classified to the final octaves. The following table shows the different options for defining the rivals of the winners of groups A, B, C and D.

- Combination