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from 10 January to 25 January 2001.

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were the eventual champions after defeating

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in the final.

Venues

Teams

; AFC * * * * * (withdrew) * (withdrew) * University XI * * ; CAF * (withdrew) ; CONMEBOL * * B ;

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* * * XI *

Results

Group stage

Group I

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Group II

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Group III

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Group IV

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Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

;3 goals * Tryggvi Guðmundsson * Keisuke Ota * Saša Ilić ;2 goals *

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* Héctor Tapia * Kwok Yue Hung * Hideki Sekine * Juan Selages * Ricardo Varela * Bahadir Annamotov * Oybek Usmankhodjaev * Igor Bogdanović *

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;1 goal *

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* Zehrudin Kavazović *

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* Rodrigo Meléndez * Marco Villaseca * Þórhallur Hinriksson * Yoshimasa Fujita * Satoshi Horinouchi * Keiji Yoshimura *

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* Faisal Ibrahim * Ioan Luca *

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* Liviu Zahariuc * Wilson Martirena * Daniel Pereira * Alexandro Umpiérrez * Aleksei Zhdanov * Dušan Petković *

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References

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External links

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International association football competitions hosted by India 2000–01 in Bahraini football 2000–01 in Bosnia and Herzegovina football 2000–01 in Hong Kong football 2000–01 in Indian football 2000–01 in Jordanian football 2000–01 in Romanian football 2000–01 in Yugoslav football 2001 in Bangladeshi football 2001 in Chilean football 2001 in Icelandic football 2001 in Japanese football 2001 in Uruguayan football 2001 in Uzbekistani football