1991 FIFA World Youth Championship

1991 FIFA World Youth Championship
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.
1.Teams that made their debut.
Match officials
Africa
Alhagi Ibrahima Faye
Mawukpona Hounnake-Kouassi
Idrissa Sarr
Asia
Ali Bujsaim
Kiichiro Tachi
Wei Jihong
Europe
Guy Goethals
Bernd Heynemann
Leslie Irvine
João Martins Correia Pinto
Egil Nervik
Pierluigi Pairetto
Sándor Puhl
Daniel Roudit
Ryszard Wojcik
North, Central America and Caribbean
Raúl Domínguez
Juan Pablo Escobar López
Robert Sawtell
South America
Ernesto Filippi
Francisco Lamolina
Enrique Marín Gallo
Renato Marsiglia
Alberto Tejada
Oceania
John McConnell
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
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Awards
Goalscorers
Serhiy Scherbakov of Soviet Union won the Golden Shoe 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 Kaye de Brito
Luíz 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
Brian Byrne
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
References
External links
1991 FIFA World Youth Championship at FIFA.com
RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1991
FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)
Fifa World Youth Championship, 1991
World
FIFA World Youth Championship
International association football competitions hosted by Portugal
June 1991 sports events in Europe