1989 FIFA World Youth Championship

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

1989 FIFA World Youth Championship
1989 بطولة العالم للشباب لكرة القدم
Tournament details
Host countrySaudi Arabia
Dates16 February – 3 March
Teams16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Portugal (1st title)
Runners-up Nigeria
Third place Brazil
Fourth place United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored81 (2.53 per match)
Attendance643,815 (20,119 per match)
Top scorer(s) Oleg Salenko (5 goals)
Best player(s) Bismarck
Fair play award United States

Qualification
Confederation Qualifying Tournament Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia) Host nation  Saudi Arabia
1988 AFC Youth Championship  Iraq
 Syria1
CAF (Africa) 1989 African Youth Championship  Mali1
 Nigeria
CONCACAF
(North, Central America & Caribbean)		 1988 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament  Costa Rica1
 United States2
CONMEBOL (South America) 1988 South American U-20 Championship  Argentina
 Brazil
 Colombia
UEFA (Europe) 1988 UEFA European Under-18 Championship  Czechoslovakia
 East Germany
 Norway1
 Portugal
 Soviet Union
 Spain
1.^ Teams that made their debut.
2.^ Replaced  Mexico, who was disqualified from the tournament due to the Cachirules scandal.

Match officials

Squads

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

King Fahd International Stadium

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
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1  Portugal 3 2 0 1 2 3 −1 4 Advance to knockout stage
2  Nigeria 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 3
3  Czechoslovakia 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 3
4  Saudi Arabia (H) 3 1 0 2 4 3 +1 2
Source:
(H) Host
Saudi Arabia 1–2 Nigeria
Al Suraiti  16' (Report) Adepoju  52'
Ohenhen  87'
Attendance: 70,000
Czechoslovakia 0–1 Portugal
(Report) Alves  88'
Attendance: 7,000
Saudi Arabia 0–1 Czechoslovakia
(Report) Látal  52'
Attendance: 20,000
Nigeria 0–1 Portugal
(Report) João Pinto  79'
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Egil Nervik (Norway)
Saudi Arabia 3–0 Portugal
Al Harbi  52'
Al Rowaihi  56'
Al Debaikhi  83'		 (Report)
Attendance: 8,000
Nigeria 1–1 Czechoslovakia
Nwosu  72' (Report) Látal  14'
Attendance: 8,000

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1  Soviet Union 3 3 0 0 7 2 +5 6 Advance to knockout stage
2  Colombia 3 1 0 2 3 4 −1 2
3  Syria 3 1 0 2 4 6 −2 2
4  Costa Rica 3 1 0 2 2 4 −2 2
Source:
Costa Rica 1–0 Colombia
González  88' (Report)
Attendance: 11,000
Referee: Al Nasir (Saudi Arabia)
Soviet Union 3–1 Syria
Tedeev  29'
Salenko  49', 83'		 (Report) Sibai  65'
Attendance: 11,000
Referee: Juan Antonio Bava (Argentina)
Costa Rica 0–1 Soviet Union
(Report) Matveev  84'
Attendance: 5,000
Colombia 2–0 Syria
Muñoz  42'
Osorio  85'		 (Report)
Attendance: 9,545
Referee: Kenneth Wallace (New Zealand)
Costa Rica 1–3 Syria
Brenes  80' (Report) Helou  16', 45'
Afash  30'
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Badara Sene (Senegal)
Colombia 1–3 Soviet Union
Muñoz  5' (Report) Timoshenko  25'
Salenko  29', 32'
Attendance: 9,770
Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)

Group C
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1  Brazil 3 3 0 0 10 1 +9 6 Advance to knockout stage
2  United States 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 3
3  East Germany 3 1 0 2 3 4 −1 2
4  Mali 3 0 1 2 1 9 −8 1
Source:
Brazil 2–0 East Germany
Marcelo Henrique  35'
França  68'		 (Report)
Attendance: 35,000
Mali 1–1 United States
Nfaly  42' (Report) Snow  11'
Attendance: 35,000
Brazil 5–0 Mali
Cássio  50'
Bismarck  53', 83'
Sonny Anderson  66', 80'		 (Report)
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Ahmed Mohammed Jassim (Bahrain)
East Germany 0–2 United States
(Report) Dayak  47'
Snow  87' (pen.)
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Idrissa Sarr (Mauritania)
Brazil 3–1 United States
Bismarck  39'
Marcelo Henrique  44'
Sonny Anderson  55'		 (Report) Dayak  10'
Attendance: 25,000
East Germany 3–0 Mali
Prausse  28'
Fuchs  46'
Jahnig  55'		 (Report)
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: José Carlos Ortiz (Colombia)

Group D
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1  Iraq 3 3 0 0 4 0 +4 6 Advance to knockout stage
2  Argentina 3 1 0 2 3 3 0 2
3  Norway 3 1 0 2 4 5 −1 2
4  Spain 3 1 0 2 4 7 −3 2
Source:
Norway 0–1 Iraq
(Report) Saddam  66'
Attendance: 14,000
Argentina 1–2 Spain
Simeone  12' (Report) Moisés  26'
Villabona  58' (pen.)
Attendance: 14,000
Norway 0–2 Argentina
(Report) Biazotti  5'
Ubaldi  89'
Attendance: 3,000
Iraq 2–0 Spain
Kareem  41'
Hussein  51'		 (Report)
Attendance: 13,500
Referee: Chen Shengcai (China)
Norway 4–2 Spain
Drillestad  43'
Johansen  47'
Bohinen  58'
Mellemstrand  90'		 (Report) Pinilla  4', 49'
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Neji Jouini (Tunisia)
Iraq 1–0 Argentina
Shenaishil  67' (pen.) (Report)
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Jozef Marko (Czechoslovakia) [2]

Knockout stages
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
February 25 - Riyadh
 
 
 Portugal 1
 
February 28 - Riyadh
 
 Colombia0
 
 Portugal1
 
February 25 - Jeddah
 
 Brazil0
 
 Brazil1
 
March 3 - Riyadh
 
 Argentina0
 
 Portugal2
 
February 25 - Dammam
 
 Nigeria0
 
 Soviet Union 4 (3)
 
February 28 - Jeddah
 
 Nigeria (pen.) 4 (5)
 
 Nigeria (aet)2
 
February 25 - Taif
 
 United States1 Third place
 
 Iraq1
 
March 3 - Riyadh
 
 United States2
 
 Brazil2
 
 
 United States 0
 

Quarterfinals
Portugal 1–0 Colombia
Jorge Couto  40' (Report)
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Neji Jouini (Tunisia)
Main article: Miracle of Dammam
Soviet Union 4–4 (a.e.t.) Nigeria
Kiriakov  30', 58'
Tedeev  45'
Salenko  46'		 (Report) Ohenhen  61', 75'
Elijah  83'
Ugbade  84'
Penalties
Salenko
Bezhenar
Qosimov
Benko 		3–5 Ohen
Ogaba
Onyemachara
Adepoju
Elijah
Attendance: 10,000
Brazil 1–0 Argentina
Marcelo Henrique  15' (Report)
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)
Iraq 1–2 United States
Kareem  35' (Report) Henderson  17'
Brose  56'
Attendance: 18,000

Semifinals
Portugal 1–0 Brazil
Amaral  68' (Report)
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Jozef Marko (Czechoslovakia) [2]
Nigeria 2–1 (a.e.t.) United States
Adepoju  47', 93' (Report) Snow  52' (pen.)
Attendance: 40,000

Third place play-off
Brazil 2–0 United States
Franca  65'
Leonardo  69'		 (Report)
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Neji Jouini (Tunisia)

Final
Portugal 2–0 Nigeria
Abel Silva  44'
Jorge Couto  76'		 (Report)
Attendance: 65,000

Result
 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship Winners 

Portugal
First title

Awards
Golden Shoe Golden Ball FIFA Fair Play Award
Oleg Salenko Bismarck  United States

Goalscorers

Oleg Salenko of Soviet Union won the Golden Shoe award for scoring five goals. In total, 81 goals were scored by 55 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

5 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal

Final ranking
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
1  Portugal 6 5 0 1 6 3 +3 10 Champions
2  Nigeria 6 2 2 2 9 10 −1 6 Runners-up
3  Brazil 6 5 0 1 13 2 +11 10 Third place
4  United States 6 2 1 3 7 9 −2 5 Fourth place
5  Soviet Union 4 3 1 0 11 6 +5 7 Eliminated in
Quarter-finals
6  Iraq 4 3 0 1 5 2 +3 6
7  Argentina 4 1 0 3 3 4 −1 2
8  Colombia 4 1 0 3 3 5 −2 2
9  Czechoslovakia 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 3 Eliminated in
Group stage
10  Saudi Arabia (H) 3 1 0 2 4 3 +1 2
11  Norway 3 1 0 2 4 5 −1 2
12  East Germany 3 1 0 2 3 4 −1 2
13  Syria 3 1 0 2 4 6 −2 2
14  Costa Rica 3 1 0 2 2 4 −2 2
15  Spain 3 1 0 2 4 7 −3 2
16  Mali 3 0 1 2 1 9 −8 1
Source: rsssf.com
(H) Host

Notes
  1. The FIFA states "Russia" here, which is an anachronism.
  2. Actually Slovakia, as the FIFA anachronistically reports.
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