1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship

1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship

FIFA U-16 World Tournament for the Kodak Cup
Tournament details
Host country	China
Dates	July 31 – August 11, 1985
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (1st title)
Runners-up	West Germany
Third place	Brazil
Fourth place	Guinea
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	91 (2.84 per match)
Attendance	735,000 (22,969 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Marcel Witeczek
Best player	William
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The 1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship was held in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Dalian in People's Republic of China from July 31, 1985 to August 11, 1985. Players born after August 1, 1968 can participate in this tournament.

Contents 1 Venues 2 Qualified Teams 3 Squads 4 Referees 5 Group stages 5.1 Group A 5.2 Group B 5.3 Group C 5.4 Group D 6 Knockout stages 6.1 Quarterfinals 6.2 Semifinals 6.3 Third place play-off 6.4 Final 7 Result 8 Top goalscorers 9 External links

Venues

City	Stadium	Capacity
Beijing	Workers' Stadium	80,000
Tianjin	-	-
Dalian	-	-
Shanghai	-	-

Qualified Teams

Africa (African U-16 Qualifying Tournament 1985)

•  Congo
•  Guinea
•  Nigeria

Asia (AFC U-16 Qualifying Tournament 1985)

•  Qatar
•  Saudi Arabia

Europe

•  Hungary (By invitation)
•  Italy (As winner of European U-16 Championship 1982)
•  West Germany (As winner of European U-16 Championship 1984)

North America (CONCACAF U-16 Qualifying Tournament 1985)

•  Costa Rica
•  Mexico
•  United States (As winner of CONCACAF U-16 Championship 1983)

South America (CONMEBOL U-16 Qualifying Tournament 1985)

•  Argentina
•  Bolivia (By invitation)
•  Brazil

Oceania (OFC U-16 Qualifying Tournament 1983)

•  Australia

Host Nation Automatically qualified

•  China PR

Squads

For full squad lists for the 1985 U-16 World Championship see 1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship Squads.

Referees

Asia Fallaj Al-Shanar Chen Shengcai Cui Baoyin Zhang Diqiao Africa Simon Bantsimba Karim Camara Alhati Salahudeen CONCACAF Carlos Alfaro Angelo Bratsis Joaquin Urrea

South America Arnaldo Cézar Coelho Carlos Espósito Juan Ortube Europe Miklos Nagy Claudio Pieri Karl-Heinz Tritschler Oceania Chris Bambridge

Group stages

Group A

Teams	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
China PR	5	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3
Guinea	4	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3
United States	2	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2
Bolivia	1	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4

July 31, 1985 19:00	China PR	1–1	Bolivia	Workers' Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 80,000 Referee: Miklos Nagy
	Xie Yuxin  28' (pen.)	(Report)	Sánchez  13'

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July 31, 1985 20:45	Guinea	1–0	United States	Workers' Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 80,000 Referee: Fallaj Khuzam Al Shanar
	Koita  68'	(Report)

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August 2, 1985 19:00	China PR	2–1	Guinea	Workers' Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Carlos Alfaro Venegas
	Xie Yuxin  18' (pen.) Guo Zhuang  27'	(Report)	Sylla  42'

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August 2, 1985 20:45	Bolivia	1–2	United States	Workers' Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Alhati Salahudeen
	Etcheverry  31'	(Report)	McPhail  51' Pride  64'

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August 4, 1985 19:00	China PR	3–1	United States	Workers' Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Carlos Esposito
	Cao Xiandong  20' Guo Zhuang  22' Sun Bowei  25'	(Report)	Pride  75'

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August 4, 1985 20:45	Bolivia	0–3	Guinea	Workers' Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Miklos Nagy
		(Report)	Soumah  32' Toure  37' Koita  55'

Group B

Teams	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Australia	6	3	3	0	0	4	1	+3
West Germany	3	3	1	1	1	5	3	+2
Argentina	3	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1
Congo	0	3	0	0	3	4	10	−6

July 31, 1985 19:00	Australia	1–0	Argentina	Tianjin Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Joaquin Urrea Reyes
	Naven  28'	(Report)

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July 31, 1985 20:45	Congo	1–4	West Germany	Tianjin Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Chen Shengcai
	Kakou  73'	(Report)	Mirwald  21' Witeczek  38', 65' Dammeier  56'

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August 2, 1985 19:00	Australia	2–1	Congo	Tianjin Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Hassan Abdullah Al Mullah
	Trimboli  19' Thodis  42'	(Report)	Kakou  76'

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August 2, 1985 20:45	Argentina	1–1	West Germany	Tianjin Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Claudio Pieri
	Cáceres  16'	(Report)	Gabriel  15'

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August 4, 1985 19:00	Australia	1–0	West Germany	Tianjin Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Karim Camara
	Trimboli  12'	(Report)

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August 4, 1985 20:45	Argentina	4–2	Congo	Tianjin Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Joaquin Urrea Reyes
	Maradona  23' (pen.), 24' Rodriguez  38' Alvarez  63'	(Report)	Salles  46' Mantot  60' (pen.)

Group C

Teams	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Saudi Arabia	5	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5
Nigeria	5	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4
Italy	2	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1
Costa Rica	0	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8

July 31, 1985 19:00	Saudi Arabia	4–1	Costa Rica	Dalian Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Arnaldo Coelho
	Al Dosary  25' Al Suraiti  63' Al Razgan  66' Al Fahad  68'	(Report)	Medford  12'

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July 31, 1985 20:45	Nigeria	1–0	Italy	Dalian Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Angelo Bratsis
	Momoh  67'	(Report)

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August 2, 1985 19:00	Saudi Arabia	0–0	Nigeria	Dalian Attendance: 36,000 Referee: Angelo Bratsis
		(Report)

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August 2, 1985 20:45	Costa Rica	0–2	Italy	Dalian Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Simon Bantsimba
		(Report)	Caverzan  17' Bresciani  46'

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August 4, 1985 19:00	Saudi Arabia	3–1	Italy	Dalian Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Arnaldo Coelho
	Al Boushal  4', 61' Al Razgan  78' (pen.)	(Report)	Bresciani  37'

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August 4, 1985 20:45	Costa Rica	0–3	Nigeria	Dalian Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Zhang Daqiao
		(Report)	Igbinoba  62' Momoh  70' Babatunde  72'

Group D

Teams	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Hungary	5	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4
Brazil	4	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2
Mexico	3	3	1	1	1	3	3	0
Qatar	0	3	0	0	3	2	8	−6

July 31, 1985 19:00	Qatar	1–2	Brazil	Shanghai Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Christopher Bambridge
	Al Abdulla  50'	(Report)	Bismarck  9' William  58'

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July 31, 1985 20:45	Mexico	0–0	Hungary	Shanghai Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Cui Baoyin
		(Report)

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August 2, 1985 19:00	Qatar	1–3	Mexico	Shanghai Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler
	Al Mohannadi  5' (pen.)	(Report)	Cortes  36' Ledesma  52', 77' (pen.)

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August 2, 1985 20:45	Brazil	0–1	Hungary	Shanghai Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Christopher Bambridge
		(Report)	Kanal  55'

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August 4, 1985 19:00	Qatar	0–3	Hungary	Shanghai Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Juan Ortube Vargas
		(Report)	Huszak  9' Marik  38' Kanal  80'

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August 4, 1985 20:45	Brazil	2–0	Mexico	Shanghai Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler
	William  60' Mauricio  67'	(Report)

Knockout stages

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	August 7 - Beijing
	China PR	2
					August 9 - Beijing
	West Germany	4
					West Germany	4
	August 7 - Dalian
					Brazil	3
	Saudi Arabia	1
									August 11 - Beijing
	Brazil	2
									West Germany	0
	August 7 - Tianjin
									Nigeria	2
	Australia	0 (2)
					August 9 - Shanghai
	Guinea (PSO)	0 (4)
					Nigeria (PSO)	1 (4)			Third place
	August 7 - Shanghai
					Guinea	1 (2)
	Hungary	1							Brazil	4
	Nigeria	3							Guinea	1
									August 11 - Beijing

Quarterfinals

August 7, 1985 19:30	China PR	2–4	West Germany	Workers' Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 80,000 Referee: Amaldo Coelho
	Guo Zhuang  14' Tu Shengqiao  39'	(Report)	Witeczek  10', 37', 45' Bi Sheng  35' (o.g.)

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August 7, 1985 19:30	Australia	0–0 (AET) (2–4 PSO)	Guinea	Tianjin Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Claudio Pieri
		(Report)

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August 7, 1985 19:30	Saudi Arabia	1–2	Brazil	Dalian Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Carlos Alfaro Venegas
	Al Razgan  52' (pen.)	(Report)	William

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August 7, 1985 19:30	Hungary	1–3	Nigeria	Shanghai Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Christopher Bambridge
	Marik  2'	(Report)	Momoh  17', 58' Igbinoba  60'

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Semifinals

August 9, 1985 19:30	West Germany	4–3	Brazil	Workers' Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Joaquin Urrea Reyes
	Witeczek  15', 57', 66' Konerding  47'	(Report)	Bismarck  6' Andre Cruz  37' Rodrigues  70'

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August 9, 1985 19:30	Nigeria	1–1 (AET) (4–2 PSO)	Guinea	Shanghai Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Carlos Esposito
	Atere  10'	(Report)	Soumah  20'

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Third place play-off

August 11, 1985 17:30	Brazil	4–1	Guinea	Workers' Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 80,000 Referee: Cui Baoyin
	Marques  11' Mauricio  42' William  51' Bismarck  73'	(Report)	Sylla  65'

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Final

August 11, 1985 19:30	West Germany	0–2	Nigeria	Workers' Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 80,000 Referee: Christopher Bambridge
		(Report)	Akpoborie  4' Igbinoba  79'

Result

1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship Winners
Nigeria First title

Top goalscorers

8 goals

• Marcel Witeczek

5 goals

• William

4 goals

• Momoh Billa

3 goals

• Zhuang Guo
• Abdulaziz Al Razgan
• Bismarck
• Victor Igbinoba

External links

• FIFA.com: 1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship

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