1979 FIFA World Youth Championship
1979 FIFAワールドユース選手権 | |
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Tournament details | |
Host country | Japan |
Dates | August 25 – September 7 |
Teams | 16 (from 5 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 4 (in 4 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions |
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Runners-up |
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Third place |
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Fourth place |
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Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 83 (2.59 per match) |
Attendance | 454,500 (14,203 per match) |
Top scorer(s) |
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Best player |
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Fair play award |
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The 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship, the second staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, was held in Japan from August 26 to September 7, 1979. The tournament took place in four venues — Kobe, Omiya, Tokyo and Yokohama — where a total of 32 matches were played, four more than in the previous edition due to the addition of a quarterfinal round in the knockout stage. The winner was Argentina, who beat holders Soviet Union by 3–1, in a final held at Tokyo's National Stadium.
Qualification
- 1.^ Teams that made their debut.
Squads
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship squads.
Group stage
Group A
Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
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4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | Advanced to the quarter-finals | |
4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | ||
2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | ||
2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 |
Group B
Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
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6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | Advanced to the quarter-finals | |
4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | ||
2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | +2 | ||
0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 16 | −16 |
Poland |
2–0 | |
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Pałasz Frankowski |
(Report) |
Yugoslavia |
0–1 | |
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(Report) | Escudero |
Yugoslavia |
5–0 | |
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Smajić Milosavljević Mlinarić |
(Report) |
Group C
Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
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4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | +5 | Advanced to the quarter-finals | |
3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | ||
3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | ||
2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 |
Paraguay |
3–0 | |
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Romero Cabañas |
(Report) |
South Korea |
1–0 | |
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Lee Tae-Ho |
(Report) |
Group D
Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
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6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | +8 | Advanced to the quarter-finals | |
4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | ||
2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | ||
0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | −10 |
Soviet Union |
5–1 | |
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Ponomaryov Stukashov Zavarov Taran |
(Report) | Kardos |
Guinea |
0–3 | |
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(Report) | Olefirenko Mikhalevsky Radenko |
Soviet Union |
0–1 | |
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(Report) | Martínez |
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
2 September - Tokyo | ||||||||||
5 | ||||||||||
September 4 - Tokyo | ||||||||||
0 | ||||||||||
2 | ||||||||||
2 September - Yokohama | ||||||||||
0 | ||||||||||
1 | ||||||||||
September 7 - Tokyo | ||||||||||
0 | ||||||||||
3 | ||||||||||
2 September - Omiya | ||||||||||
1 | ||||||||||
0 (3) | ||||||||||
September 4 - Kobe | ||||||||||
0 (4) | ||||||||||
0 | ||||||||||
2 September - Kobe | ||||||||||
1 | Third place | |||||||||
2 (5) | ||||||||||
September 6 - Tokyo | ||||||||||
2 (6) | ||||||||||
1 (5) | ||||||||||
1 (3) | ||||||||||
Quarter-finals
Spain |
0–0 (a.e.t.) | |
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(Report) | ||
Penalties | ||
Pichardo Gail Manolo Zúñiga Tendillo |
3–4 |
Paraguay |
2–2 (a.e.t.) | |
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Romero Achucarro |
(Report) | Dumansky Ponomaryov |
Penalties | ||
Miño Valinotti Romero Giménez Vera Olmedo Mora García Isasi |
5–6 |
Semi-finals
Poland |
0–1 | |
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(Report) | Ponomaryov |
Third place play-off
Final
Argentina |
3–1 | |
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Alves Díaz Maradona |
(Report) | Ponomaryov |
Result
FIFA World Youth Championship 1979 Winners |
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Argentina First title |
Awards
Golden Shoe | Golden Ball | Fair Play Award |
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Goalscorers
Ramón Díaz of Argentina won the Golden Shoe award for scoring eight goals. In total, 83 goals were scored by 48 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
- 8 goals
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
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- 1 goal
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Final ranking
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
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1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | +18 | 12 | ||
2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 7 | ||
3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 9 | ||
4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 6 | ||
Eliminated in the quarter-finals | ||||||||||
5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 5 | ||
6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 5 | ||
7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | –4 | 4 | ||
8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | –2 | 3 | ||
Eliminated at the group stage | ||||||||||
9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | –2 | 3 | ||
10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 2 | ||
11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | –1 | 2 | ||
12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | –1 | 2 | ||
13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | –2 | 2 | ||
14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | –4 | 2 | ||
15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | –10 | 0 | ||
16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 16 | –16 | 0 |