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1981 FIFA World Youth Championship

FIFA World Youth Championship Australia 1981
Tournament details
Host country	Australia
Dates	3–18 October
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	West Germany (1st title)
Runners-up	Qatar
Third place	Romania
Fourth place	England
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	87 (2.72 per match)
Attendance	443,094 (13,847 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ralf Loose Roland Wohlfarth Taher Abouzaid Mark Koussas (4 goals)
Best player(s)	Romulus Gabor
Fair play award	Australia
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The 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship, the third edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship, was held in Australia from 3 to 18 October 1981. The tournament took place in across venues in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney where a total of 32 matches were played. The championship winner was West Germany, who defeated Qatar 4–0 in a final held at Sydney Cricket Ground. The official mascot was the kookaburra 'Kickaburra'.

Qualification

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)	1980 AFC Youth Championship	Qatar  South Korea
CAF (Africa)	1981 African Youth Championship	Cameroon  Egypt
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)	1980 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament	Mexico  United States
CONMEBOL (South America)	1981 South American Youth Championship	Argentina  Brazil  Uruguay
OFC (Oceania)	Host nation	Australia
UEFA (Europe)	1980 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship	England  Italy  Poland  Romania  Spain  West Germany

1. Teams that made their debut.

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship squads.

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Uruguay	3	3	0	0	5	0	+5	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Qatar	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	3
3	Poland	3	1	0	2	4	2	+2	2
4	United States	3	0	1	2	1	8	−7	1

Poland	0–1	Qatar
	(Report)	Bilal 37'

United States	0–3	Uruguay
	(Report)	López Báez 5' Aguilera 60' Da Silva 67'

United States	1–1	Qatar
Devey 43'	(Report)	Bilal 56'

Uruguay	1–0	Poland
Da Silva 58'	(Report)

Qatar	0–1	Uruguay
	(Report)	Villazán 52'

Poland	4–0	United States
Rzepka 17' Kowalik 18' Dziekanowski 65', 67'	(Report)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Brazil	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	5	Advance to knockout stage
2	Romania	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	5
3	South Korea	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	2
4	Italy	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0

Italy	1–4	South Korea
Mariani 83'	(Report)	Kwak Sung-ho 7' Choi Soon-ho 12', 29' Lee Kyung-nam 88'

Romania	1–1	Brazil
Zamfir 82'	(Report)	Leomir 67'

Romania	1–0	South Korea
Sertov 5'	(Report)

Brazil	1–0	Italy
Djalma Baia 56'	(Report)

South Korea	0–3	Brazil
	(Report)	Paulo Roberto 48' Ronaldo 61' Jun J.S. 79' (o.g.)

Italy	0–1	Romania
	(Report)	Gabor 56' (pen.)

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	West Germany	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	Egypt	3	1	2	0	7	6	+1	4
3	Mexico	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
4	Spain	3	0	2	1	5	7	−2	2

Spain	2–2	Egypt
Chano 65' Nadal 74'	(Report)	Abouzaid 6', 78'

West Germany	1–0	Mexico
Loose 2'	(Report)

West Germany	1–2	Egypt
Loose 35'	(Report)	Helmy 31' Abouzaid 54'

Mexico	1–1	Spain
Coss 75'	(Report)	Chano 45' (pen.)

Egypt	3–3	Mexico
Guillén 33' (o.g.) Saleh 64', 71'	(Report)	Vaca 18' Farfán 28' Ríos 69'

Spain	2–4	West Germany
F. López 72' Fabregat 78'	(Report)	Trieb 29' Wohlfarth 47', 85' Anthes 55'

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	England	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	Australia (H)	3	1	2	0	6	5	+1	4
3	Argentina	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
4	Cameroon	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

England	2–0	Cameroon
Finnigan 57' Dey 78'	(Report)

Australia	2–1	Argentina
Koussas 79' Hunter 89'	(Report)	Morresi 66'

Australia	3–3	Cameroon
Mitchell 9' Koussas 53', 78' (pen.)	(Report)	Olle Olle 17' Djonkep 35', 52'

England	1–1	Argentina
Small 79'	(Report)	Urruti 57'

Cameroon	0–1	Argentina
	(Report)	Cecchi 6'

England	1–1	Australia
Small 82'	(Report)	Koussas 7'

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	11 October - Melbourne
	Uruguay	1
					14 October - Melbourne
	Romania	2
					Romania	0
	11 October - Canberra
					West Germany (a.e.t.)	1
	West Germany	1
									18 October - Sydney
	Australia	0
									West Germany	4
	11 October - Newcastle
									Qatar	0
	Brazil	2
					14 October - Sydney
	Qatar	3
					Qatar	2
	11 October - Sydney
					England	1			Third place
	England	4
									17 October - Adelaide
	Egypt	2
									Romania	1
									England	0

Quarter-finals

Uruguay	1–2	Romania
Berruetta 60'	(Report)	Eduard 25' Fisic 84'

Brazil	2–3	Qatar
Ronaldo 27', 78'	(Report)	Al-Muhannadi 10', 54', 87'

West Germany	1–0	Australia
Wohlfarth 69'	(Report)

England	4–2	Egypt
Webb 41', 64', 82' Cooke 60'	(Report)	Abouzaid 28' (pen.) Helmy 40'

Semi-finals

Qatar	2–1	England
Bilal 12' Alsada 62'	(Report)	Small 70'

Romania	0–1 (a.e.t.)	West Germany
	(Report)	Schön 103'

Third place play-off

Romania	1–0	England
Gabor 36'	(Report)

Final

West Germany	4–0	Qatar
Loose 28', 66' Wohlfarth 42' Anthes 86'	(Report)

Result

1981 World Youth Championship winners
West Germany First title

Awards

Golden Shoe	Golden Ball	Fair Play Award
Mark Koussas	Romulus Gabor	Australia

Goalscorers

Mark Koussas of Australia won the Golden Boot award for scoring four goals. In total, 87 goals were scored by 56 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.

4 goals

• Mark Koussas
• Taher Abouzaid
• Ralf Loose
• Roland Wohlfarth

3 goals

• Ronaldão
• Hisham Saleh
• Michael Small
• Neil Webb
• Badr Bilal
• Khalid Salman

2 goals

• Bonaventure Djonkep
• Dariusz Dziekanowski
• Romulus Gabor
• Choi Soon-Ho
• Chano
• Holger Anthes
• Jorge da Silva

1 goal

• Claudio Morresi
• Jorge Cecchi
• Juan Jose Urruti
• David Mitchell
• Ian Hunter
• Djalma Baia
• Leomir
• Paulo Roberto
• Bertin Olle Olle
• Mohamed Helmy
• Anthony Finnigan
• Geoffrey Dey
• John Cooke
• Pietro Mariani
• Agustín Coss
• González Farfán
• Ildefonso Ríos
• José Enrique Vaca
• Piotr Rzepka
• Jerzy Kowalik
• Ali Alsada
• Augustin Eduard
• Cornel Fisic
• Dorel Zamfir
• Stere Sertov
• Kwak Sung-Ho
• Lee Kyung-Nam
• Francisco López
• Jorge Fabregat
• Sebastián Nadal
• Mark Devey
• Carlos Berruetta
• Javier López Báez
• Carlos Aguilera
• Jorge Villazán
• Alfred Schön
• Martin Trieb

Own goals

• Jose Guillen (playing against Egypt)
• Jun Jong-Son (playing against Brazil)

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	West Germany	6	5	0	1	12	4	+8	10	Champions
2	Qatar	6	3	1	2	7	9	−2	7	Runners-up
3	Romania	6	4	1	1	6	3	+3	9	Third place
4	England	6	2	2	2	9	7	+2	6	Fourth place
5	Uruguay	4	3	0	1	6	2	+4	6	Eliminated in Quarter-finals
6	Brazil	4	2	1	1	7	4	+3	5
7	Australia (H)	4	1	2	1	6	6	0	4
8	Egypt	4	1	2	1	9	10	−1	4
9	Argentina	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3	Eliminated in Group stage
10	Poland	3	1	0	2	4	2	+2	2
11	South Korea	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	2
12	Mexico	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
13	Spain	3	0	2	1	5	7	−2	2
14	Cameroon	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1
15	United States	3	0	1	2	1	8	−7	1
16	Italy	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0

Notes

1. Actually Eritrea, as the FIFA anachronistically reports.

External links

• FIFA World Youth Championship Australia 1981 Archived 4 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine, FIFA.com
• RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1981
• FIFA Technical Report

• 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship
• FIFA World Youth Championship
• International association football competitions hosted by Australia
• 1981 in youth association football
• 1981 in Australian men's soccer
• October 1981 sports events in Australia