1991 FIFA World Youth Championship

Mundial Sub-20 da FIFA Portugal '91
Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Dates	June 14–June 30
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Portugal (2nd title)
Runner-up	Brazil
Third place	Soviet Union
Fourth place	Australia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	82 (2.56 per match)
Attendance	731,500 (22,859 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sergei Sherbakov (5 goals)
Best player	Emílio Peixe

The 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Portugal from June 14 to June 30, 1991. The 1991 championship was the 8th contested. Korea competed as a united team of both Koreas (though FIFA attributes its historical data to South Korea).^[1] The tournament took place in five venues: Faro, Porto, Braga, Lisbon and Guimaraes.

Contents 1 Match officials 2 Squads 3 Group stages 3.1 Group A 3.2 Group B 3.3 Group C 3.4 Group D 4 Knockout stages 4.1 Quarter finals 4.2 Semifinals 4.3 Third place play-off 4.4 Final 5 Result 6 Awards 7 References 8 External links

[edit] 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

[edit] Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship squads

[edit] 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.

[edit] Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Portugal	6	3	3	0	0	6	0	+6
Korea	3	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
Republic of Ireland	2	3	0	2	1	3	5	−2
Argentina	1	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4

June 14, 1991 21:00	Portugal	2–0	Republic of Ireland	Estádio das Antas, Porto Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Pierluigi Pairetto (Italy)
	João Pinto 17' Capucho 78'	(Report)

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June 15, 1991 19:00	Argentina	0–1	Korea	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Ernesto Filippi (Uruguay)
		(Report)	Cho In-Chol 88'

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June 17, 1991 19:00	Republic of Ireland	1–1	Korea	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 5,500 Referee: Robert Sawtell (Canada)
	McCarthy 58'	(Report)	Choi Chol 89'

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June 17, 1991 21:30	Portugal	3–0	Argentina	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Guy Goethals (Belgium)
	Gil 56' Paulo Torres 80' Toni 86'	(Report)

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June 20, 1991 19:00	Republic of Ireland	2–2	Argentina	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 38,000 Referee: Raúl Domínguez (United States)
	O'Connor 9' Byrne 63'	(Report)	Delgado 55' Molina 57' (pen.)

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June 20, 1991 21:30	Portugal	1–0	Korea	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 38,000 Referee: Enrique Marín Gallo (Chile)
	Paulo Torres 42'	(Report)

[edit] Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Brazil	5	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3
Mexico	4	3	1	2	0	6	3	+3
Sweden	2	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2
Côte d'Ivoire	1	3	0	1	2	3	7	−4

June 15, 1991 19:00	Mexico	3–0	Sweden	Estádio das Antas, Porto Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Kiichiro Tachi (Japan)
	Hernández 20' Pineda 51' Álvarez Arcos 64'	(Report)

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June 15, 1991 21:30	Brazil	2–1	Côte d'Ivoire	Estádio das Antas, Porto Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Ryszard Wojcik (Poland)
	Andrei 29' Luíz Fernando 79'	(Report)	Tiehi 48'

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June 17, 1991 19:00	Brazil	2–2	Mexico	Estádio das Antas, Porto Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Leslie Irvine (Northern Ireland)
	Paulo Nunes 18' Luíz Fernando 45'	(Report)	Pineda 57', 67'

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June 18, 1991 19:00	Côte d'Ivoire	1–4	Sweden	Estádio das Antas, Porto Attendance: 1,500 Referee: João Martins Pinto Correia (Portugal)
	Mambo 64' (pen.)	(Report)	Rodlund 13' Bild 23', 46' Andersson 87'

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June 20, 1991 19:00	Côte d'Ivoire	1–1	Mexico	Estádio das Antas, Porto Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Ali Bujsaim (United Arab Emirates)
	Seri 79'	(Report)	Pineda 83'

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June 20, 1991 21:30	Brazil	2–0	Sweden	Estádio das Antas, Porto Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Pierluigi Pairetto (Italy)
	Paulo Nunes 29' Élber 78'	(Report)

[edit] Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Australia	6	3	3	0	0	4	0	+4
Soviet Union	4	3	2	0	1	5	1	+4
Egypt	2	3	1	0	2	6	2	+4
Trinidad and Tobago	0	3	0	0	3	0	12	−12

June 15, 1991 19:30	Trinidad and Tobago	0–2	Australia	Estádio Primeiro de Maio, Braga Attendance: 1,720 Referee: Alberto Tejada Noriega (Peru)
		(Report)	Okon 52' Seal 76'

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June 16, 1991 17:00	Egypt	0–1	Soviet Union	Guimarães Attendance: 5,680 Referee: Juan Pablo Escobar López (Guatemala)
		(Report)	Sherbakov 6'

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June 18, 1991 19:30	Trinidad and Tobago	0–6	Egypt	Estádio Primeiro de Maio, Braga Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Wei Jihong (China)
		(Report)	Hussein 8' Sadek 24' Abdel Halil Ismail 36' Sakr 60' Sheshini 79' Abdel Aziz 82'

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June 18, 1991 21:30	Australia	1–0	Soviet Union	Estádio Primeiro de Maio, Braga Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Germany)
	Maloney 21'	(Report)

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June 20, 1991 17:00	Australia	1–0	Egypt	Guimarães Attendance: 8,800 Referee: Francisco Lamolina (Argentina)
	Trajanovski 43'	(Report)

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June 20, 1991 19:30	Trinidad and Tobago	0–4	Soviet Union	Guimarães Attendance: 8,800 Referee: Idrissa Sarr (Mauritania)
		(Report)	Pokhlebaev 9' Konovalov 15' Mikhailenko 22' Sherbakov 35'

[edit] Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Spain	5	3	2	1	0	7	0	+7
Syria	4	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1
England	2	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1
Uruguay	1	3	0	1	2	0	7	−7

June 15, 1991 19:30	England	0–1	Spain	Faro Attendance: 11,500 Referee: Renato Marsiglia (Brazil)
		(Report)	Pier 84'

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June 16, 1991 19:00	Syria	1–0	Uruguay	Faro Attendance: 5,500 Referee: Alhagi Faye (Gambia)
	Ramadan 57'	(Report)

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June 18, 1991 19:00	Spain	6–0	Uruguay	Faro Attendance: 11,500 Referee: Daniel Roduit (Switzerland)
	Pier 10' (pen.), 34' Urzáiz 22', 75', 80' (pen.) Mauricio 36'	(Report)

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June 18, 1991 21:30	England	3–3	Syria	Faro Attendance: 11,500 Referee: John McConnell (Australia)
	Allen 12' Awford 69', 84'	(Report)	Ramadan 18' Awad 27' Helou 65'

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June 20, 1991 19:00	Spain	0–0	Syria	Faro Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Leslie Irvine (Northern Ireland)
		(Report)

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June 20, 1991 21:30	England	0–0	Uruguay	Faro Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)
		(Report)

[edit] Knockout stages

	Quarter finals				Semi finals				Final
	June 22 - Lisbon
	Portugal (AET)	2
					June 26 - Lisbon
	Mexico	1
					Portugal	1
	June 23 - Braga
					Australia	0
	Australia (PSO)	1 (5)
									June 29 - Lisbon
	Syria	1 (4)
									Portugal (PSO)	0 (4)
	June 22 - Porto
									Brazil	0 (2)
	Brazil	5
					June 26 - Guimarães
	Korea	1
					Brazil	3			Third place
	July 23 - Faro
					Soviet Union	0
	Spain	1							Australia	1 (4)
	Soviet Union	3							Soviet Union (PSO)	1 (5)
									June 29 - Porto

[edit] Quarter finals

June 22, 1991 18:30	Portugal	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Mexico	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 90,000 Referee: Ryszard Wojcik (Poland)
	Paulo Torres 3' (pen.) Toni 101'	(Report)	Mendoza 35'

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June 22, 1991 21:30	Brazil	5–1	Korea	Estádio das Antas, Porto Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Guy Goethals (Belgium)
	Marquinhos 15' Élber 41', 67' Djair 47', 53'	(Report)	Choi Chol 40'

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June 23, 1991 17:00	Australia	1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–4 pen.)	Syria	Estádio Primeiro de Maio, Braga Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Renato Marsiglia (Brazil)
	Seal 20'	(Report)	Mando 56'

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June 23, 1991 21:30	Spain	1–3	Soviet Union	Faro Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Francisco Lamolina (Argentina)
	Urzáiz 85'	(Report)	Sherbakov 35', 64' Mandreko 80'

[edit] Semifinals

June 26, 1991 18:30	Brazil	3–0	Soviet Union	Guimarães Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Raúl Domínguez (United States)
	Marquinhos 15' Castro 18' Élber 32'	(Report)

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June 26, 1991 21:30	Portugal	1–0	Australia	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 112,000 Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)
	Rui Costa 31'	(Report)

[edit] Third place play-off

June 29, 1991 21:30	Australia	1–1 (a.e.t.) (4–5 pen.)	Soviet Union	Estádio das Antas, Porto Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Idrissa Sarr (Mauritania)
	Seal 87'	(Report)	Sherbakov 39' (pen.)

[edit] Final

June 30, 1991 19:00	Portugal	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–2 pen.)	Brazil	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 127,000 Referee: Francisco Lamolina (Argentina)
		(Report)

[edit] Result

1991 FIFA World Youth Championship Winners
Portugal Second title

[edit] Awards

Golden Shoe	Golden Ball	Fair Play Award
Sergei Sherbakov	Emílio Peixe	Soviet Union

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• FIFA World Youth Championship 1991
• RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1991

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