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1989 FIFA World Youth Championship

1989 بطولة العالم للشباب لكرة القدم
Tournament details
Host country	Saudi Arabia
Dates	16 February – 3 March
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Portugal (1st title)
Runners-up	Nigeria
Third place	Brazil
Fourth place	United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	81 (2.53 per match)
Attendance	643,815 (20,119 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Oleg Salenko (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Bismarck
Fair play award	United States
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The 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Saudi Arabia between 16 February and 3 March 1989. The 1989 championship was the 7th contested. The tournament took place across four cities: Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, and Ta'if.

Qualification

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)	Host nation	Saudi Arabia
	1988 AFC Youth Championship	Iraq  Syria
CAF (Africa)	1989 African Youth Championship	Mali  Nigeria
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)	1988 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament	Costa Rica  United States
CONMEBOL (South America)	1988 South American U-20 Championship	Argentina  Brazil  Colombia
UEFA (Europe)	1988 UEFA European Under-18 Championship	Czechoslovakia  East Germany  Norway  Portugal  Soviet Union  Spain

1. Teams that made their debut.

2. Replaced  Mexico, who was disqualified from the tournament due to the Cachirules scandal.

Match officials

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1989 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	3	2	0	1	2	3	−1	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	Nigeria	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
3	Czechoslovakia	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	3
4	Saudi Arabia (H)	3	1	0	2	4	3	+1	2

Saudi Arabia	1–2	Nigeria
Al Suraiti 16'	(Report)	Adepoju 52' Ohenhen 87'

Czechoslovakia	0–1	Portugal
	(Report)	Alves 88'

Saudi Arabia	0–1	Czechoslovakia
	(Report)	Látal 52'

Nigeria	0–1	Portugal
	(Report)	João Pinto 79'

Saudi Arabia	3–0	Portugal
Al Harbi 52' Al Rowaihi 56' Al Debaikhi 83'	(Report)

Nigeria	1–1	Czechoslovakia
Nwosu 72'	(Report)	Látal 14'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Soviet Union	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Colombia	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	2
3	Syria	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	2
4	Costa Rica	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	2

Costa Rica	1–0	Colombia
González 88'	(Report)

Soviet Union	3–1	Syria
Tedeev 29' Salenko 49', 83'	(Report)	Sibai 65'

Costa Rica	0–1	Soviet Union
	(Report)	Matveev 84'

Colombia	2–0	Syria
Muñoz 42' Osorio 85'	(Report)

Costa Rica	1–3	Syria
Brenes 80'	(Report)	Helou 16', 45' Afash 30'

Colombia	1–3	Soviet Union
Muñoz 5'	(Report)	Timoshenko 25' Salenko 29', 32'

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Brazil	3	3	0	0	10	1	+9	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	United States	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	3
3	East Germany	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	2
4	Mali	3	0	1	2	1	9	−8	1

Brazil	2–0	East Germany
Marcelo Henrique 35' França 68'	(Report)

Mali	1–1	United States
Nfaly 42'	(Report)	Snow 11'

Brazil	5–0	Mali
Cássio 50' Bismarck 53', 83' Sonny Anderson 66', 80'	(Report)

East Germany	0–2	United States
	(Report)	Dayak 47' Snow 87' (pen.)

Brazil	3–1	United States
Bismarck 39' Marcelo Henrique 44' Sonny Anderson 55'	(Report)	Dayak 10'

East Germany	3–0	Mali
Prausse 28' Fuchs 46' Jahnig 55'	(Report)

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Iraq	3	3	0	0	4	0	+4	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Argentina	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	2
3	Norway	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	2
4	Spain	3	1	0	2	4	7	−3	2

Norway	0–1	Iraq
	(Report)	Saddam 66'

Argentina	1–2	Spain
Simeone 12'	(Report)	Moisés 26' Villabona 58' (pen.)

Norway	0–2	Argentina
	(Report)	Biazotti 5' Ubaldi 89'

Iraq	2–0	Spain
Kareem 41' Hussein 51'	(Report)

Norway	4–2	Spain
Drillestad 43' Johansen 47' Bohinen 58' Mellemstrand 90'	(Report)	Pinilla 46', 49'

Iraq	1–0	Argentina
Shenaishil 67' (pen.)	(Report)

Knockout stages

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	February 25 - Riyadh
	Portugal	1
					February 28 - Riyadh
	Colombia	0
					Portugal	1
	February 25 - Jeddah
					Brazil	0
	Brazil	1
									March 3 - Riyadh
	Argentina	0
									Portugal	2
	February 25 - Dammam
									Nigeria	0
	Soviet Union	4 (3)
					February 28 - Jeddah
	Nigeria (pen.)	4 (5)
					Nigeria (aet)	2
	February 25 - Taif
					United States	1			Third place
	Iraq	1
									March 3 - Riyadh
	United States	2
									Brazil	2
									United States	0

Quarterfinals

Portugal	1–0	Colombia
Jorge Couto 40'	(Report)

Soviet Union	4–4 (a.e.t.)	Nigeria
Kiriakov 30', 58' Tedeev 45' Salenko 46'	(Report)	Ohenhen 61', 75' Elijah 83' Ugbade 84'
Penalties
Salenko Bezhenar Qosimov Benko	3–5	Ohen Ogaba Onyemachara Adepoju Elijah

Brazil	1–0	Argentina
Marcelo Henrique 15'	(Report)

Iraq	1–2	United States
Kareem 35'	(Report)	Henderson 17' Brose 56'

Semifinals

Portugal	1–0	Brazil
Amaral 68'	(Report)

Nigeria	2–1 (a.e.t.)	United States
Adepoju 47', 93'	(Report)	Snow 52' (pen.)

Third place play-off

Brazil	2–0	United States
Franca 65' Leonardo 69'	(Report)

Final

Portugal	2–0	Nigeria
Abel Silva 44' Jorge Couto 76'	(Report)

Result

1989 FIFA World Youth Championship winners
Portugal First title

Awards

Golden Shoe	Golden Ball	FIFA Fair Play Award
Oleg Salenko	Bismarck	United States

Goalscorers

Oleg Salenko of Soviet Union won the Golden Boot award for scoring five goals. In total, 81 goals were scored by 55 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

5 goals

• Oleg Salenko

3 goals

• Bismarck
• Marcelo Henrique
• Sonny Anderson
• Christopher Ohenhen
• Mutiu Adepoju
• Steve Snow

2 goals

• Ricardo França
• Wilson Muñoz
• Radoslav Látal
• Wali Kareem
• Jorge Couto
• Bakhva Tedeev
• Sergei Kiriakov
• Antonio Pinilla
• Abdul Latif Helou
• Troy Dayak

1 goal

• Diego Simeone
• Humberto Biazotti
• Martín Ubaldi
• Cássio
• Leonardo Araújo
• Diego Osorio
• Danilo Brenes
• Rónald González Brenes
• Henri Fuchs
• Stephan Prausse
• Uwe Jahnig
• Laith Hussein
• Naeem Saddam
• Radhi Shenaishil
• Christopher Nwosu
• Nduka Ugbade
• Samuel Elijah
• Bjørn Johansen
• Lars Bohinen
• Oystein Drillestad
• Oyvind Mellemstrand
• Kante Nfaly
• Abel Silva
• João Pinto
• Jorge Amaral
• Paulo Alves
• Hamad Al Debaikhi
• Khaled Al Harbi
• Khalid Al Rowaihi
• Saadoun Al Suraiti
• Andrei Timoshenko
• Oleg Matveev
• David Villabona
• Moisés García León
• Mohammad Afash
• Yasser Sibai
• Chris Henderson
• Dario Brose

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Portugal	6	5	0	1	6	3	+3	10	Champions
2	Nigeria	6	2	2	2	9	10	−1	6	Runners-up
3	Brazil	6	5	0	1	13	2	+11	10	Third place
4	United States	6	2	1	3	7	9	−2	5	Fourth place
5	Soviet Union	4	3	1	0	11	6	+5	7	Eliminated in Quarter-finals
6	Iraq	4	3	0	1	5	2	+3	6
7	Argentina	4	1	0	3	3	4	−1	2
8	Colombia	4	1	0	3	3	5	−2	2
9	Czechoslovakia	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	3	Eliminated in Group stage
10	Saudi Arabia (H)	3	1	0	2	4	3	+1	2
11	Norway	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	2
12	East Germany	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	2
13	Syria	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	2
14	Costa Rica	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	2
15	Spain	3	1	0	2	4	7	−3	2
16	Mali	3	0	1	2	1	9	−8	1

Notes

1. The FIFA states "Russia" here, which is an anachronism.
2. ^ Actually Slovakia, as the FIFA anachronistically reports.

External links

• FIFA World Youth Championship Saudi Arabia 1989 Archived 2020-04-14 at the Wayback Machine, FIFA.com
• RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1989
• FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)

• 1989 in youth association football
• International association football competitions hosted by Saudi Arabia
• FIFA World Youth Championship
• 1988–89 in Saudi Arabian football
• February 1989 sports events in Asia
• March 1989 sports events in Asia