1977 FIFA World Youth Championship

1977 FIFA World Youth Championship
بطولة العالم للشباب لكرة القدم 1977
Tournament details
Host country	Tunisia
Dates	27 June – 10 July
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Soviet Union (1st title)
Runners-up	Mexico
Third place	Brazil
Fourth place	Uruguay
Tournament statistics
Matches played	28
Goals scored	70 (2.5 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Guina (4 goals)
Best player(s)	Vladimir Bessonov
Fair play award	Brazil
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International football competition

The 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship was the inaugural staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, hosted by Tunisia from 27 June to 10 July 1977, in three venues — Tunis, Sousse and Sfax. The 28 matches played were the smallest number in tournament history. The USSR U20s defeated Mexico U20s in a penalty shootout, in the final held at Tunis's Stade El Menzah.

The Tournament Committee was chaired by FIFA Vice-President Harry Cavan, who had spearheaded the creation of the World Youth Championship.

Qualification

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)	1977 AFC Youth Championship	Iran Iraq
CAF (Africa)	Host nation	Tunisia
CAF (Africa)	1977 African Youth Qualifying for World Cup	Ivory Coast Morocco
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)	1976 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament	Honduras Mexico
CONMEBOL (South America)	1977 South American Youth Championship	Brazil Paraguay Uruguay
UEFA (Europe)	1976 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship	Austria France Hungary Italy Soviet Union Spain

Squads

For a list of all squads that began play in the group stage of the tournament, see 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship squads

Venues

Tunis	Tunis Sousse Sfax	Tunis
Stade El Menzah		Stade Chedly Zouiten

Capacity: 45,000		Capacity: 18,000
Sousse		Sfax
Stade Olympique de Sousse		Stade Ameur El-Gargouri

Capacity: 10,000		Capacity: 4,000

Group stage

The group winners advanced directly to the semifinals.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Mexico	3	1	2	0	8	2	+6	4	Advance to semi-finals
2	Spain	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
3	France	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
4	Tunisia (H)	3	1	0	2	1	7	−6	2

Source:
(H) Hosts 27 June 1977
12:00

France	1–2	Spain
Bacconnier 75'	(Report)	Escobar 29' Casas 60'

Stade El Menzah, TunisReferee: Orhan Cebe (Turkey)

27 June 1977
16:00

Mexico	6–0	Tunisia
Manzo 46', 47' Placencia 48', 69', 72' Garduno 56'	(Report)

Stade El Menzah, TunisReferee: Farouk Bouzo (Syria)

30 June 1977
12:00

Spain	1–1	Mexico
Escobar 46'	(Report)	Rodríguez 73'

Stade El Menzah, TunisReferee: Franz Woehrer (Austria)

30 June 1977
16:00

Tunisia	0–1	France
	(Report)	Meyer 20'

Stade El Menzah, TunisReferee: Arturo Andrés Ithurralde (Argentina)

3 July 1977
12:00

France	1–1	Mexico
Wiss 64'	(Report)	Moses 70'

Stade El Menzah, TunisReferee: Gianfranco Menegali (Italy)

3 July 1977
16:00

Spain	0–1	Tunisia
	(Report)	Ben Fattoum 52'

Stade El Menzah, TunisReferee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Uruguay	3	3	0	6	1	+5	6	Advance to semi-finals
2	Honduras	3	2	1	3	1	+2	4
3	Hungary	3	1	2	3	4	−1	2
4	Morocco	3	0	3	0	6	−6	0

Source: 28 June 1977
12:00

Morocco	0–1	Honduras
	(Report)	Norales 46'

Stade Chedly Zouiten, TunisReferee: Gerard Racine (Switzerland)

28 June 1977
16:00

Uruguay	2–1	Hungary
Diogo 15' Bica 25' (pen.)	(Report)	Péter 17'

Stade Chedly Zouiten, TunisReferee: Gianfranco Menegali (Italy)

1 July 1977
12:00

Honduras	0–1	Uruguay
	(Report)	Nadal 29'

Stade Chedly Zouiten, TunisReferee: Birame N'Diaye (Senegal)

1 July 1977
16:00

Hungary	2–0	Morocco
Kerekes 26' Nagy 56'	(Report)

Stade Chedly Zouiten, TunisReferee: Arnaldo Coelho (Brazil)

4 July 1977
12:00

Hungary	0–2	Honduras
	(Report)	Yearwood 7' Duarte 30'

Stade Chedly Zouiten, TunisReferee: Sahar El Hawary (Egypt)

4 July 1977
16:00

Uruguay	3–0	Morocco
Nadal 36' Enrique 44' Ramos 51'	(Report)

Stade Chedly Zouiten, TunisReferee: Farouk Bouzo (Syria)

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Brazil	3	2	1	0	8	2	+6	5	Advance to semi-finals
2	Iran	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	3
3	Italy	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2
4	Ivory Coast	3	0	2	1	2	5	−3	2

Source: 27 June 1977
12:00

Italy	1–1	Ivory Coast
Capuzzo 11'	(Report)	Kouassi 77'

Stade Olympique de Sousse, SousseReferee: Emmanuel Platopoulos (Greece)

27 June 1977
16:00

Brazil	5–1	Iran
Guina 22', 29', 39' Paulo Roberto 37' Júnior Brasília 52'	(Report)	Rajabi 55'

Stade Olympique de Sousse, SousseReferee: Michel Vautrot (France)

30 June 1977
12:00

Iran	0–0	Italy
	(Report)

Stade Olympique de Sousse, SousseReferee: Lajos Somlai (Hungary)

30 June 1977
16:00

Ivory Coast	1–1	Brazil
Ya Semon 46'	(Report)	Cléber 89'

Stade Olympique de Sousse, SousseReferee: Mohamed Kadri (Tunisia)

3 July 1977
12:00

Iran	3–0	Ivory Coast
Asheri 31', 87' Barzegar 80'	(Report)

Stade Olympique de Sousse, SousseReferee: Salem Mahmud Adal (Syria)

3 July 1977
16:00

Brazil	2–0	Italy
Guina 11' Paulinho 48'	(Report)

Stade Olympique de Sousse, SousseReferee: Dusan Maksimovic (Yugoslavia)

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	5	Advance to semi-finals
2	Paraguay	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4	4
3	Iraq	3	1	0	2	6	8	−2	2
4	Austria	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

Source: 28 June 1977
12:00

Soviet Union	3–1	Iraq
Petrakov 19', 23' Bal 39'	(Report)	Luaibi 77'

Stade Ameur El-Gargouri, SfaxReferee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

28 June 1977
16:00

Austria	0–1	Paraguay
	(Report)	Morel 62'

Stade Ameur El-Gargouri, SfaxReferee: Zoubir Benganif (Algeria)

1 July 1977
12:00

Iraq	5–1	Austria
Luaibi 30' Hussain 34', 38', 90+3' Hammadi 90+4'	(Report)	Weiss 28'

Stade Ameur El-Gargouri, SfaxReferee: Tesfaye Gebreyesus (Ethiopia)

1 July 1977
16:00

Paraguay	1–2	Soviet Union
Battaglia 38'	(Report)	Khidiyatullin 29' Bessonov 59'

Stade Ameur El-Gargouri, SfaxReferee: Michel Vautrot (France)

4 July 1977
12:00

Paraguay	4–0	Iraq
Salmaniego 26' López 30', 68' Giménez 67'	(Report)

Stade Ameur El-Gargouri, SfaxReferee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

4 July 1977
16:00

Austria	0–0	Soviet Union
	(Report)

Stade Ameur El-Gargouri, SfaxReferee: Mohamed Larache (Morocco)

Knockout stage

Semi-finals		Final

6 July – Tunis

Mexico (pen.)	1 (5)
		10 July – Tunis
Brazil	1 (3)
		Mexico	2 (8)
7 July – Tunis
		Soviet Union (pen.)	2 (9)
Uruguay	0 (3)

Soviet Union (pen.)	0 (4)
		Third place

		9 July – Tunis

		Brazil	4

		Uruguay	0

Semi-finals

6 July 1977
12:00

Mexico	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Brazil
Rergis 53'	(Report)	Jorge Luís 59'
Penalties
	5–3

Stade El Menzah, TunisReferee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

7 July 1977
12:00

Uruguay	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Soviet Union
	(Report)
Penalties
	3–4

Stade El Menzah, TunisReferee: Gianfranco Menegali (Italy)

Third place play-off

9 July 1977
12:00

Brazil	4–0	Uruguay
Cléber 13' Paulo Roberto 30' Paulinho 53' Tião 69'	(Report)

Stade El Menzah, TunisReferee: Farouk Bouzo (Syria)

Final

10 July 1977
18:30

Mexico	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Soviet Union
Garduno 50' Manzo 58'	(Report)	Bessonov 43', 54'
Penalties
	8–9

Stade El Menzah, TunisAttendance: 22,000Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

Result

FIFA World Youth Championship 1977 winners
Soviet Union First title

Awards

Golden Shoe	Golden Ball	Fair Play Award
Guina	Vladimir Bessonov	Brazil

Goalscorers

Guina of Brazil won the Golden Boot award for scoring four goals. In total, 70 goals were scored by 49 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

4 goals

Guina

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Soviet Union	5	2	3	0	7	4	+3	7	Champions
2	Mexico	5	1	4	0	11	5	+6	6	Runners-up
3	Brazil	5	3	2	0	13	3	+10	8	Third place
4	Uruguay	5	3	1	1	6	5	+1	7	Fourth place

5	Paraguay	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4	4	Eliminated in Group stage
6	Honduras	3	2	0	1	3	1	+2	4
7	Spain	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
7	France	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
9	Iran	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	3
10	Hungary	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	2
11	Iraq	3	1	0	2	6	8	−2	2
12	Italy	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2
13	Ivory Coast	3	0	2	1	2	5	−3	2
14	Tunisia (H)	3	1	0	2	1	7	−6	2
15	Austria	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1
16	Morocco	3	0	0	3	0	6	−6	0

Source: rsssf.com
(H) Hosts

Notes

The official FIFA match report indicates that the first half finished 1:0 for France, but this contradicts the data on the scoring.
The FIFA match report states "Russia" here, which is an anachronism.
^ The official FIFA report accounts no minute for this goal.
The FIFA match report anachronistically states Eritrea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjaN93fo8VU This video in 43:21 gives a view of the scoreboard at the end of regulation, different of what appears at FIFA report of the match in its website. Also, playing time in this tournament were 2 periods of 40 minutes

External links

FIFA World Youth Championship Tunisia 1977 Archived 4 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine, FIFA.com
RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1977
FIFA Technical Report
All Matches of the Brazilian Soccer Team
Todos os Jogos da Seleção Brasileira de Futebol

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