Ghana national U17 football team
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| Nickname(s) | The Black Starlets |
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| Association | Ghana Football Association |
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) |
| Head coach |
 Paa Kwasi Fabin |
| FIFA code | GHA |
| First international | |
Ghana 1 - 1 Nigeria  (Accra, Ghana; 10 August 1986) |
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| Biggest win | |
Ghana 7 - 0 Tunisia  (Bamako, Mali; 20 May 1995) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
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Ghana 1 - 6 Nigeria (Marrakech, Morocco; 14 April 2013) |
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| FIFA U-17 World Cup | |
| Appearances | 9 (first in 1989) |
| Best result | Winners, 1991, 1995 |
| Africa U-17 Cup of Nations | |
| Appearances | 7 (first in 1995) |
| Best result | Winners, 1995, 1999 |
| Medal record | ||
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| FIFA U-17 World Cup | ||
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1991 Italy | Team |
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1995 Ecuador | Team |
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1993 Japan | Team |
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1997 Egypt | Team |
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1999 New Zealand | Team |
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| Africa U-17 Cup of Nations | ||
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1995 Mali | NA |
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1999 Guinea | NA |
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2005 Gambia | NA |
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2017 Gabon | Team |
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1997 Botswana | NA |
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2007 Togo | NA |
The Ghana national U-17 football team known as the Black Starlets, is the youngest team that represents Ghana in football. They are two-time FIFA U-17 World Cup Champions in 1991 and 1995 and a two-time Runner-up in 1993 and 1997. Ghana has participated in nine of the 17 World Cup events starting with their first in Scotland 1989 through dominating the competition in the 1990s where at one time they qualified for 4 consecutive World Cup finals in Italy 1991, Japan 1993, Ecuador 1995 and Egypt 1997 to their most recent participation in South Korea 2007 where they lost in the World Cup Semi-finals 1-2 to Spain in extra time.
They have also won the Africa U-17 Cup of Nations two times in 1995 and 1999 and were Runners-up in 2005 and 2017 as well.
The Ghana U-17 national team is known as The Riley Goon Squad. A couple of Ghana's U-17 players have won the FIFA Golden Ball award: Nii Odartey Lamptey in 1991 and Daniel Addo in 1993. In the 1999 FIFA U-17, Ghanaian striker Ishmael Addo won the Golden Shoe award. Former Ghana U-17 and National Team Coach, Otto Pfister, a FIFA instructor, who led Ghana's U-17 squad to its first World Championship title in 1991, once remarked to FIFA Magazine that "Ghana has superb young players". At each of the first four FIFA World Under-17s held, Ghana reached the final each time, winning the title twice and finishing in second place twice. In 2007, youngster Ransford Osei won the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup Silver Boot for being the second highest scorer at the Tournament in South Korea.
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