1989 FIFA World Youth Championship

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1989 FIFA World Youth Championship 1989 كأس العالم للشباب تحت 20 سنة
Tournament details
Host country	Saudi Arabia
Dates	February 16–March 3
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Portugal (1st title)
Second place	Nigeria
Third place	Brazil
Fourth place	USA
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	Bismark

The 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Saudi Arabia between February 16 and March 3, 1989. The 1989 championship was the 7th contested. The tournament took place in four venues: Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, and Ta'if.

Contents 1 Qualification 2 Match officials 3 Squads 4 Tournament 4.1 Group A 4.2 Group B 4.3 Group C 4.4 Group D 5 Knockout stages 5.1 Quarterfinals 5.2 Semifinals 5.3 Third place play-off 5.4 Final 6 Result 7 Awards 7.1 Top Scorers 8 Notes 9 External links

[edit] Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship. Host Saudi Arabia did not have to qualify for the tournament.

Africa (CAF)  Nigeria  Mali Asia (AFC)  Saudi Arabia  Iraq  Syria North America, Central America & Caribbean (CONCACAF)  Costa Rica  USA

South America (CONMEBOL)  Colombia  Brazil  Argentina Europe (UEFA)  Czechoslovakia  Portugal  USSR  East Germany  Norway  Spain

[edit] Match officials

Africa Badara Sene Idrissa Sarr Neji Jouini Asia Abdul Al Nasri Chen Shengcai Ahmed Mohammed Jassim Europe Hubert Forstinger Tullio Lanese Neil Midgley Egil Nervik Aron Schmidhuber Alan Snoddy Alexey Spirin Marcel van Langenhove

North, Central America and Caribbean Arturo Angeles Arturo Brizio Carter José Carlos Ortíz South America Juan Antonio Bava Elias Jácome José Roberto Wright José Torres Cadena

[edit] Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship squads

[edit] Tournament

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

[edit] Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Portugal	4	3	2	0	1	2	3	−1
Nigeria	3	3	1	1	1	3	3	0
Czechoslovakia	3	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
Saudi Arabia	2	3	1	0	2	4	3	+1

February 16, 1989 18:00	Saudi Arabia	1–2	Nigeria	King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh Attendance: 70,000 Referee: Marcel van Langenhove (Belgium)
	Al Suraiti 16’	(Report)	Adepoju 52’ Ohenhen 87’

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February 17, 1989 18:00	Czechoslovakia	0–1	Portugal	King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh Attendance: 70,000 Referee: José Roberto Wright (Brazil)
		(Report)	Alves 88’

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February 19, 1989 18:00	Saudi Arabia	0–1	Czechoslovakia	King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Alan Snoddy (Northern Ireland)
		(Report)	Látal 52’

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February 20, 1989 18:00	Nigeria	0–1	Portugal	King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Egil Nervik (Norway)
		(Report)	João Pinto 79’

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February 22, 1989 15:45	Saudi Arabia	3–0	Portugal	King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh Attendance: 8,000 Referee: José Roberto Wright (Brazil)
	Al Harbi 52’ Al Romaihi 56’ Al Debaikhi 83’	(Report)

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February 22, 1989 18:00	Nigeria	1–1	Czechoslovakia	King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico)
	Nwosu 72’	(Report)	Látal 14’

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[edit] Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
USSR	6	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5
Colombia	2	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1
Syria	2	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2
Costa Rica	2	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2

February 17, 1989 15:45	Costa Rica	1–0	Colombia	Dammam Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Al Nasir (Saudi Arabia)
	González 88’	(Report)

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February 17, 1989 18:00	USSR	3–1	Syria	Dammam Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Juan Antonio Bava (Argentina)
	Tedeev 29’ Salenko 49’, 83’	(Report)	Sibai 65’

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February 19, 1989 18:00	Costa Rica	0–1	USSR	Dammam Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)
		(Report)	Matveev 84’

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February 20, 1989 18:00	Colombia	2–0	Syria	Dammam Attendance: 9,545 Referee: Kenneth Wallace (New Zealand)
	Muñoz 42’ Osorio 85’	(Report)

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February 22, 1989 15:45	Costa Rica	1–3	Syria	Dammam Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Badara Sene (Senegal)
	Brenes 80’	(Report)	Helou 16’, 45’ Afash 30’

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February 22, 1989 18:00	Colombia	1–3	USSR	Dammam Attendance: 9,770 Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)
	Muñoz 5’	(Report)	Timoshenko 25’ Salenko 29’, 32’

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[edit] Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Brazil	6	3	3	0	0	10	1	+9
USA	2	3	1	1	1	4	4	0
East Germany	2	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1
Mali	2	3	0	1	2	1	9	−8

February 17, 1989 16:30	Brazil	2–0	East Germany	Jeddah Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Neil Midgley (England)
	Marcelo Henrique 35’ Franca 68’	(Report)

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February 17, 1989 18:45	Mali	1–1	USA	Jeddah Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Elías Jácome (Ecuador)
	Nfaly 42’	(Report)	Snow 11’

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February 19, 1989 18:45	Brazil	5–0	Mali	Jeddah Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Ahmed Mohammed Jassim (Bahrain)
	Cássio 50’ Bismarck 53’, 83’ Sonny Anderson 66’, 80’	(Report)

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February 20, 1989 18:45	East Germany	0–2	USA	Jeddah Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Idrissa Sarr (Mauritania)
		(Report)	Dayak 47’ Snow 87’ (pen.)

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February 22, 1989 16:30	Brazil	3–1	USA	Jeddah Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)
	Bismarck 39’ Marcelo Henrique 44’ Sonny Anderson 55’	(Report)	Dayak 10’

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February 22, 1989 18:45	East Germany	3–0	Mali	Jeddah Attendance: 25,000 Referee: José Carlos Ortíz (Colombia)
	Prausse 28’ Fuchs 46’ Jahnig 55’	(Report)

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[edit] Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Iraq	6	3	3	0	0	4	0	+4
Argentina	2	3	1	0	2	3	3	0
Norway	2	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1
Spain	2	3	1	0	2	4	7	−3

February 17, 1989 16:30	Norway	0–1	Iraq	King Fahd Stadium, Taif Attendance: 14,000 Referee: José Torres Cadena (Colombia)
		(Report)	Naiem 66’

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February 17, 1989 18:45	Argentina	1–2	Spain	King Fahd Stadium, Taif Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Alexey Spirin (Soviet Union) [1]
	Simeone 12’	(Report)	Moisés 26’

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February 19, 1989 18:45	Norway	0–2	Argentina	King Fahd Stadium, Taif Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Arturo Angeles (United States)
		(Report)	Biazotti 5’ Ubaldi 89’

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February 20, 1989 18:45	Iraq	2–0	Spain	King Fahd Stadium, Taif Attendance: 13,500 Referee: Chen Shengcai (China)
	Wali 41’ Shabib 51’	(Report)

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February 22, 1989 16:30	Norway	4–2	Spain	King Fahd Stadium, Taif Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Neji Jouini (Tunisia)
	Drillestad 43’ Johansen 47’ Bohinen 58’ Mellemstrand 90’	(Report)	Pinilla 46’, 49’

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February 22, 1989 18:45	Iraq	1–0	Argentina	King Fahd Stadium, Taif Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Jozef Marko (Czechoslovakia) [2]
	Swadi 67’ (pen.)	(Report)

[edit] Knockout stages

	Quarter finals				Semi finals				Final
	February 25 - Riyadh
	Portugal	1
					February 28 - Riyadh
	Colombia	0
					Portugal	1
	February 25 - Dammam
					Brazil	0
	USSR	4 (3)
									March 3 - Riyadh
	Nigeria (PSO)	4 (5)
									Portugal	2
	February 25 - Jeddah
									Nigeria	0
	Brazil	1
					February 28 - Jeddah
	Argentina	0
					Nigeria (AET)	2			Third place
	February 25 - Taif
					USA	1
	Iraq	1							Brazil	2
	USA	2							USA	0
									March 3 - Riyadh

[edit] Quarterfinals

February 25, 1989 18:00	Portugal	1–0	Colombia	King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Neji Jouini (Tunisia)
	Jorge Couto 40’	(Report)

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February 25, 1989 18:00	USSR	4–4 (a.e.t.) (3-5 pen.)	Nigeria	Dammam Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)
	Kiriakov 30’, 58’ Tedeev 45’ Salenko 46’	(Report)	Ohenhen 61’, 75’ Elijah 83’ Ugbade 84’

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February 25, 1989 18:45	Brazil	1–0	Argentina	Jeddah Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)
	Marcelo Henrique 15’	(Report)

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February 25, 1989 18:45	Iraq	1–2	USA	King Fahd Stadium, Taif Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)
	Wali 35’	(Report)	Henderson 17’ Brose 56’

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[edit] Semifinals

February 28, 1989 18:00	Portugal	1–0	Brazil	King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Jozef Marko (Czechoslovakia) [2]
	Amaral 68'	(Report)

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February 28, 1989 18:45	Nigeria	2–1 (a.e.t.)	USA	Jeddah Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Neil Midgley (England)
	Adepoju 47', 93'	(Report)	Snow 52' (pen.)

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[edit] Third place play-off

March 3, 1989 15:45	Brazil	2–0	USA	King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Neji Jouini (Tunisia)
	Franca 65' Leonardo 69'	(Report)

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[edit] Final

March 3, 1989 18:00	Portugal	2–0	Nigeria	King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)
	Abel 44' Jorge Couto 76'	(Report)

[edit] Result

1989 FIFA World Youth Championship Winners
Portugal First title

[edit] Awards

Golden Shoe	Golden Ball	FIFA Fair Play Award
Oleg Salenko	Bismarck	USA

[edit] Top Scorers

1. Oleg Salenko, Soviet Union - 5 goals
2. Mutiu Adepoju, Nigeria - 3 goals
3. Sonny Anderson, Brazil - 3 goals
4. Bismarck, Brazil - 3 goals
5. Marcelo Henrique, Brazil - 3 goals
6. Christopher Ohenhen, Nigeria - 3 goals
7. Steve Snow, United States - 3 goals

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• FIFA World Youth Championship 1989
• RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1989

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