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. ConfederationQualifying tournamentQualifier(s)AFC (Asia)1990 AFC Youth Championship KoreaCAF (Africa)1991 African Youth ChampionshipCONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)1990 CONCACAF U-20 TournamentCONMEBOL (South America)1991 South American Youth ChampionshipOFC (Oceania)1990 OFC U-20 ChampionshipUEFA (Europe)Host nation1990 UEFA European Under-18 Championship
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 Pinto Correia Egil Nervik Pierluigi Pairetto Sándor Puhl Daniel Roudit Ryszard Wojcik
North, Central America and Caribbean Raúl Domínguez Juan 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 Golden ShoeGolden BallFair Play Award Serhiy Scherbakov Emílio Peixe
Goalscorers
Serhiy Scherbakov of Soviet Union won the Golden Boot 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 2 goals
Djair Luiz Fernando Marquinhos Paulo Nunes Andy Awford Choi Chol Toni 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 Mostafa Sadek Tamer Sakr Bradley Allen Brian Byrne Paul McCarthy Barry O'Connor Ambroise Mambo Ambroise Seri Sylvain Tiéhi Cho In-chol Damián Álvarez Héctor Hernández Bruno Mendoza Capucho Rui Costa Gil Gomes João 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)