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1991 FIFA World Youth Championship

Campeonato Mundial de Júniores Portugal '91
Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Dates	14–30 June
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Portugal (2nd title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Soviet Union
Fourth place	Australia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	82 (2.56 per match)
Attendance	731,500 (22,859 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Serhiy Scherbakov (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Emílio Peixe
Fair play award	Soviet Union
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The 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship was the eighth staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, an international football competition organized by FIFA for men's youth national teams, and the eighth since it was established in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Tournament. The final tournament took place for the first time in Portugal, between 14 and 30 June 1991. Matches were played across five venues in as many cities: Faro, Braga, Guimarães, Porto and Lisbon. Nigeria originally won the bid to host but was stripped of its right after found guilty for committing age fabrication.

North Korea and South Korea competed for the first time as a united team, although FIFA attributes its historical data to South Korea. Portugal entered the competition as the defending champions, after winning the previous tournament. They reached the final, where a record attendance of 127,000 witnessed the hosts defeat Portuguese-speaking rival Brazil 4–2 on penalties to secure their second consecutive title. The Soviet Union made its last FIFA tournament appearance, as the country was dissolved later that year.

Qualification

In addition to the host team, Portugal, 15 other national teams qualified from six continental tournaments.

Confederation	Qualifying tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)	1990 AFC Youth Championship	Korea  Syria
CAF (Africa)	1991 African Youth Championship	Ivory Coast  Egypt
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)	1990 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament	Mexico  Trinidad and Tobago
CONMEBOL (South America)	1991 South American Youth Championship	Argentina  Brazil  Uruguay
OFC (Oceania)	1990 OFC U-20 Championship	Australia
UEFA (Europe)	Host nation	Portugal
	1990 UEFA European Under-18 Championship	England  Republic of Ireland  Soviet Union  Spain  Sweden

1. Teams that made their debut.

Match officials

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship squads

Group stages

The 16 teams were split into four groups of four teams. Four group winners, and four second-place finishers qualify for the knockout round.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Portugal (H)	3	3	0	0	6	0	+6	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Korea	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	3
3	Republic of Ireland	3	0	2	1	3	5	−2	2
4	Argentina	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

Portugal	2–0	Republic of Ireland
Pinto 17' Capucho 78'	Report

Argentina	0–1	Korea
	Report	Cho In-chol 88'

Republic of Ireland	1–1	Korea
McCarthy 58'	Report	Choi Chol 89'

Portugal	3–0	Argentina
Gil 56' Torres 80' Toni 86'	Report

Republic of Ireland	2–2	Argentina
O'Connor 9' Gallagher 63'	Report	Delgado 55' Molina 57' (pen.)

Portugal	1–0	Korea
Torres 42'	Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Brazil	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	5	Advance to knockout stage
2	Mexico	3	1	2	0	6	3	+3	4
3	Sweden	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	2
4	Ivory Coast	3	0	1	2	3	7	−4	1

Mexico	3–0	Sweden
Hernández 20' Pineda 51' Álvarez Arcos 64'	Report

Brazil	2–1	Ivory Coast
Andrei 29' Luiz Fernando 79'	Report	Tiehi 48'

Brazil	2–2	Mexico
Paulo Nunes 18' Luiz Fernando 45'	Report	Pineda 57', 67'

Ivory Coast	1–4	Sweden
Mambo 64' (pen.)	Report	Rödlund 13' Bild 23', 46' Andersson 87'

Ivory Coast	1–1	Mexico
Seri 79'	Report	Pineda 83'

Brazil	2–0	Sweden
Paulo Nunes 29' Élber 78'	Report

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Australia	3	3	0	0	4	0	+4	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Soviet Union	3	2	0	1	5	1	+4	4
3	Egypt	3	1	0	2	6	2	+4	2
4	Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	0	3	0	12	−12	0

Trinidad and Tobago	0–2	Australia
	Report	Okon 52' Seal 76'

Egypt	0–1	Soviet Union
	Report	Scherbakov 6'

Trinidad and Tobago	0–6	Egypt
	Report	Hussein 8' Sadek 24' Ismail 36' Sakr 60' El-Sheshini 79' Abdel Aziz 82'

Australia	1–0	Soviet Union
Maloney 21'	Report

Australia	1–0	Egypt
Trajanovski 43'	Report

Trinidad and Tobago	0–4	Soviet Union
	Report	Pokhlebayev 9' Konovalov 15' Mikhailenko 22' Scherbakov 35'

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Spain	3	2	1	0	7	0	+7	5	Advance to knockout stage
2	Syria	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	4
3	England	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
4	Uruguay	3	0	1	2	0	7	−7	1

England	0–1	Spain
	Report	Pier 84'

Syria	1–0	Uruguay
Ramadan 57'	Report

Spain	6–0	Uruguay
Pier 10' (pen.), 34' Urzáiz 22', 75', 80' (pen.) Mauricio 36'	Report

England	3–3	Syria
Allen 12' Awford 69', 84'	Report	Ramadan 18' Awad 27' Helou 65'

Spain	0–0	Syria
	Report

England	0–0	Uruguay
	Report

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	June 22 – Lisbon
	Portugal (a.e.t.)	2
					June 26 – Lisbon
	Mexico	1
					Portugal	1
	June 23 – Braga
					Australia	0
	Australia (p)	1 (5)
									June 30 – Lisbon
	Syria	1 (4)
									Portugal (p)	0 (4)
	June 22 – Porto
									Brazil	0 (2)
	Brazil	5
					June 26 – Guimarães
	Korea	1
					Brazil	3
	July 23 – Faro
					Soviet Union	0			Third place
	Spain	1
									June 29 – Porto
	Soviet Union	3
									Australia	1 (4)
									Soviet Union (p)	1 (5)

Quarter-finals

Portugal	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Mexico
Torres 3' (pen.) Toni 101'	Report	Mendoza 35'

Brazil	5–1	Korea
Marquinhos 15' Élber 41', 67' Djair 47', 53'	Report	Choi Chol 40'

Australia	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Syria
Seal 20'	Report	A. Mando 56'
Penalties
Seal Okon Kindtner Muscat Babic Stanton	5–4	F. Mando Khalifa Ghaeb Abdul Razak Ramadan Sibai

Spain	1–3	Soviet Union
Urzáiz 85'	Report	Scherbakov 35', 64' Mandreko 80'

Semi-finals

Brazil	3–0	Soviet Union
Marquinhos 15' Castro 18' Élber 32'	Report

Portugal	1–0	Australia
Rui Costa 31'	Report

Third place play-off

Australia	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Soviet Union
Seal 87'	Report	Scherbakov 39' (pen.)
Penalties
Seal Okon Corica Babic Popovic Stanton	4–5	Pokhlebayev Bushmanov Babalaryan Mamchur Scherbakov Minko

Final

Portugal	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Brazil
	Report
Penalties
Jorge Costa Figo Paulo Torres Rui Costa	4–2	Ramon Élber Andrei Marquinhos

1991 FIFA World Youth Championship winners
Portugal Second title

Awards

Golden Shoe	Golden Ball	Fair Play Award
Serhiy Scherbakov	Emílio Peixe	Soviet Union

Goalscorers

Serhiy Scherbakov of Soviet Union won the Golden Boot award for scoring five goals. In total, 82 goals were scored by 54 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

5 goals

• Serhiy Scherbakov

4 goals

• Giovane Élber
• Pedro Pineda
• Ismael Urzaiz

3 goals

• David Seal
• Paulo Torres
• Pier Luigi Cherubino

2 goals

• Djair
• Luiz Fernando
• Marquinhos
• Paulo Nunes
• Andy Awford
• Choi Chol
• Nélson Gama
• Andreas Bild
• Munaf Ramadan

1 goal

• Brad Maloney
• Paul Okon
• Kris Trajanovski
• Marcelo Delgado
• Roberto Molina
• Castro
• Andrei Frascarelli
• Amir Abdel Aziz
• Sami El-Sheshini
• Samir Hussein
• Sami Abdel Halil Ismail
• Mostafa Sadek
• Tamer Sakr
• Bradley Allen
• Stephen Gallagher
• Paul McCarthy
• Barry O'Connor
• Ambroise Mambo
• Ambroise Seri
• Sylvain Tiehi
• Cho In-Chol
• Álvarez Arcos
• Héctor Hernández
• Bruno Mendoza
• Capucho
• Rui Costa
• Gil Gomes
• João Vieira Pinto
• Serhiy Konovalov
• Sergei Mandreko
• Dmytro Mykhaylenko
• Yevhen Pokhlebayev
• José Mauricio Casas
• Patrik Andersson
• Jonny Rödlund
• Ammar Awad
• Abdul Latif Helou
• Abdullah Mando

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Portugal (H)	6	5	1	0	9	1	+8	11	Champions
2	Brazil	6	4	2	0	14	4	+10	10	Runners-up
3	Soviet Union	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	7	Third place
4	Australia	6	3	2	1	6	3	+3	8	Fourth place
5	Spain	4	2	1	1	8	3	+5	5	Eliminated in Quarter-finals
6	Syria	4	1	3	0	5	4	+1	5
7	Mexico	4	1	2	1	7	5	+2	4
8	Korea	4	1	1	2	3	7	−4	3
9	Egypt	3	1	0	2	6	2	+4	2	Eliminated in Group stage
10	England	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
11	Sweden	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	2
12	Republic of Ireland	3	0	2	1	3	5	−2	2
13	Ivory Coast	3	0	1	2	3	7	−4	1
14	Argentina	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
15	Uruguay	3	0	1	2	0	7	−7	1
16	Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	0	3	0	12	−12	0

References

1. "After The Eaglets Have Landed". NigeriaVillageSquare.com. 26 February 2007. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
2. "FIFA World Youth Championship Portugal 1991 – Teams". FIFA. Archived from the original on March 30, 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2014.

External links

• 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship Archived 2020-03-04 at the Wayback Machine at FIFA.com
• RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1991
• FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)

• 1991 in youth association football
• 1990–91 in Portuguese football
• FIFA World Youth Championship
• International association football competitions hosted by Portugal
• June 1991 sports events in Europe