1979 Torneo di Viareggio

1979 Torneo Mondiale di Calcio Coppa Carnevale
31° Torneo di Viareggio
Tournament details
Host country Italy
City Viareggio
Teams 16
Final positions
Champions Italy Fiorentina
Runners-up Italy Perugia
Third place Italy Pistoiese
Fourth place Italy Juventus
Tournament statistics
Matches played 30
Goals scored 78 (2.6 per match)

The 1979 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.

Format

The 16 teams are seeded in 4 groups. Each team from a group meets the others in a single tie. The winner of each group progress to the final knockout stage.

Participating Teams

Italian teams
European teams
American teams
  • Mexico Mexico City
Asian teams
  • China Hebei

Group stage

Group A

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
Italy Roma 6330060+6
Italy Fiorentina 4320171+6
Mexico Mexico City 2310214-3
Poland Wisła Kraków 0300309-9

Group B

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
Italy Inter 4312074+3
Italy Pistoiese[1] 33111330
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia OFK Beograd 3310225-3
Italy Napoli 23102550

Group C

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
Spain Atlético Madrid 4320152+3
Italy Milan[1] 3311132+1
Italy Lanerossi Vicenza 3311123-1
Scotland Celtic 2302125-3

Group D

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
Italy Juventus 5321071+6
Italy Perugia 5321051+4
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Rijeka 2310246-2
China Hebei 03003412-8

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                   
       
 Italy Fiorentina  1
 Italy Inter  0  
 Italy Fiorentina  2
     Italy Pistoiese  1  
 Italy Pistoiese(pen)  0
 Italy Roma  0  
 Italy Fiorentina  1
   
   Italy Perugia  0
 Italy Juventus(pen)  2
 Italy Milan  2  
 Italy Juventus  1 Third place
     Italy Perugia(pen)  1  
 Spain Atlético Madrid  0
 Italy Pistoiese  2
 Italy Perugia  1  
 Italy Juventus  1
 

Champions

Torneo di Viareggio 1979 Champions



Fiorentina
5th time

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Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Qualified on goal difference.