1979 FIFA World Youth Championship

**1979 FIFA World Youth Championship** was held in Japan from 25 August to 7 September.

## Qualification

|Confederation|Qualifying Tournament|Qualifier(s)|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=2|AFC (Asia)||Host nation||
|1978 AFC Youth Championship|||||
|CAF (Africa)|1979 African Youth Championship||||
|CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)|1978 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament||||
|CONMEBOL (South America)|1979 South American Youth Championship||||
|UEFA (Europe)|1978 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship||||

- 1.Teams that made their debut.

## Venues

<div style="text-align: center;">
|Tokyo||width=160|Omiya|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|National Stadium|Omiya Stadium|||
|Capacity: **48,000**|Capacity: **15,500**|||
|Chuo Stadium|Yokohama Mitsuzawa Football Stadium|||
|Capacity: **13,000**|Capacity: **15,000**|||
</div>

#### Group A

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|align=left|3|2|0|1|3|2|+1|**4**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|2|0|2|1|+1|**4**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|2|1|3|4|-1|**2**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|2|1|1|2|-1|**2**||||||||||

#### Group B

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|3|3|0|0|10|1|+9|**6**||||||||||
|align=left|3|2|0|1|9|4|+5|**4**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|0|2|5|3|+2|**2**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|0|3|0|16|-16|**0**||||||||||

#### Group C

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|align=left|3|2|0|1|6|1|+5|**4**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|1|1|2|3|-1|**3**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|1|1|1|3|-2|**3**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|0|2|3|5|-2|**2**||||||||||

#### Group D

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|align=left|3|3|0|0|8|0|+8|**6**||||||||||
|align=left|3|2|0|1|8|2|+6|**4**||||||||||
|align=left|3|1|0|2|3|7|-4|**2**||||||||||
|align=left|3|0|0|3|0|10|-10|**0**||||||||||

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: FIFA World Youth Championship
- **year**: 1979
- **other titles**: 1979 FIFAワールドユース選手権
- **country**: Japan
- **dates**: 25 August – 7 September
- **num teams**: 16
- **confederations**: 5
- **venues**: 4
- **cities**: 4
- **champion**: Argentina
- **count**: 1
- **second**: USSR
- **second-flagvar**: 1955
- **third**: Uruguay
- **fourth**: Poland
- **fourth-flagvar**: 1928
- **matches**: 32
- **goals**: 83
- **attendance**: 454500
- **top scorer**: Ramón Díaz (8 goals)
- **player**: Diego Maradona
- **prevseason**: 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship, 1977
- **nextseason**: 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship, 1981