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 Taif.

1989 FIFA World Youth Championship

1989 بطولة العالم للشباب لكرة القدم
Tournament details
Host country	Saudi Arabia
Dates	16 February – 3 March
Teams	16 (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 played	32
Goals scored	81 (2.53 per match)
Attendance	643,815 (20,119 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Oleg Salenko (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Bismarck
Fair play award	United States
← 1987 1991 →

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.

Venues

Riyadh Jeddah Dammam Taif Location of the host cities of the 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship.	Riyadh	Jeddah
	King Fahd International Stadium	Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium
	Capacity: 70,000	Capacity: 35,000
	Dammam	Taif
	Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium	King Fahd Stadium
	Capacity: 22 042	Capacity: 20,000

Match officials

Africa Badara Sene Idrissa Sarr Neji Jouini Asia Abdul Al Nasri Chen Shengcai Ahmed Mohammed Jassim Europe Hubert Forstinger Tullio Lanese Neil Midgley Egil Nervik Aron Schmidhuber Alan Snoddy Alexey Spirin Marcel van Langenhove

North, Central America and Caribbean Arturo Angeles Arturo Brizio Carter José Carlos Ortíz South America Juan Antonio Bava Elias Jácome José Roberto Wright José Torres Cadena

Squads

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

Group stage

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: ^{[citation needed]}
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16 February 1989
18:00

Saudi Arabia	1–2	Nigeria
Al Suraiti 16'	(Report)	Adepoju 52' Ohenhen 87'

King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Marcel van Langenhove (Belgium)

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17 February 1989
18:00

Czechoslovakia	0–1	Portugal
	(Report)	Alves 88'

King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: José Roberto Wright (Brazil)

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19 February 1989
18:00

Saudi Arabia	0–1	Czechoslovakia
	(Report)	Látal 52'

King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Alan Snoddy (Northern Ireland)

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20 February 1989
18:00

Nigeria	0–1	Portugal
	(Report)	João Pinto 79'

King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Egil Nervik (Norway)

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22 February 1989
15:45

Saudi Arabia	3–0	Portugal
Al Harbi 52' Al Rowaihi 56' Al Debaikhi 83'	(Report)

King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: José Roberto Wright (Brazil)

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22 February 1989
18:00

Nigeria	1–1	Czechoslovakia
Nwosu 72'	(Report)	Látal 14'

King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico)

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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: ^{[citation needed]}

17 February 1989
15:45

Costa Rica	1–0	Colombia
González 88'	(Report)

Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Dammam

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Al Nasir (Saudi Arabia)

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17 February 1989
18:00

Soviet Union	3–1	Syria
Tedeev 29' Salenko 49', 83'	(Report)	Sibai 65'

Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Dammam

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Juan Antonio Bava (Argentina)

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19 February 1989
18:00

Costa Rica	0–1	Soviet Union
	(Report)	Matveev 84'

Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Dammam

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)

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20 February 1989
18:00

Colombia	2–0	Syria
Muñoz 42' Osorio 85'	(Report)

Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Dammam

Attendance: 9,545

Referee: Kenneth Wallace (New Zealand)

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22 February 1989
15:45

Costa Rica	1–3	Syria
Brenes 80'	(Report)	Helou 16', 45' Afash 30'

Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Dammam

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Badara Sene (Senegal)

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22 February 1989
18:00

Colombia	1–3	Soviet Union
Muñoz 5'	(Report)	Timoshenko 25' Salenko 29', 32'

Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Dammam

Attendance: 9,770

Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)

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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: ^{[citation needed]}

17 February 1989
16:30

Brazil	2–0	East Germany
Marcelo Henrique 35' França 68'	(Report)

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Neil Midgley (England)

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17 February 1989
18:45

Mali	1–1	United States
Nfaly 42'	(Report)	Snow 11'

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Elías Jácome (Ecuador)

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19 February 1989
18:45

Brazil	5–0	Mali
Cássio 50' Bismarck 53', 83' Sonny Anderson 66', 80'	(Report)

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Ahmed Mohammed Jassim (Bahrain)

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20 February 1989
18:45

East Germany	0–2	United States
	(Report)	Dayak 47' Snow 87' (pen.)

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Idrissa Sarr (Mauritania)

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22 February 1989
16:30

Brazil	3–1	United States
Bismarck 39' Marcelo Henrique 44' Sonny Anderson 55'	(Report)	Dayak 10'

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)

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22 February 1989
18:45

East Germany	3–0	Mali
Prausse 28' Fuchs 46' Jahnig 55'	(Report)

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: José Carlos Ortiz (Colombia)

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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: ^{[citation needed]}

17 February 1989
16:30

Norway	0–1	Iraq
	(Report)	Saddam 66'

King Fahd Stadium, Taif

Attendance: 14,000

Referee: José Torres Cadena (Colombia)

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17 February 1989
18:45

Argentina	1–2	Spain
Simeone 12'	(Report)	Moisés 26' Villabona 58' (pen.)

King Fahd Stadium, Taif

Attendance: 14,000

Referee: Alexey Spirin (Soviet Union) ^[1]

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19 February 1989
18:45

Norway	0–2	Argentina
	(Report)	Biazotti 5' Ubaldi 89'

King Fahd Stadium, Taif

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Arturo Angeles (United States)

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20 February 1989
18:45

Iraq	2–0	Spain
Kareem 41' Hussein 51'	(Report)

King Fahd Stadium, Taif

Attendance: 13,500

Referee: Chen Shengcai (China)

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22 February 1989
16:30

Norway	4–2	Spain
Drillestad 43' Johansen 47' Bohinen 58' Mellemstrand 90'	(Report)	Pinilla 46', 49'

King Fahd Stadium, Taif

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Neji Jouini (Tunisia)

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22 February 1989
18:45

Iraq	1–0	Argentina
Shenaishil 67' (pen.)	(Report)

King Fahd Stadium, Taif

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Jozef Marko (Czechoslovakia) ^[2]

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	February 25 - Riyadh
	Portugal	1
					February 28 - Riyadh
	Colombia	0
					Portugal	1
	February 25 - Jeddah
					Brazil	0
	Brazil	1
									March 3 - Riyadh
	Argentina	0
									Portugal	2
	February 25 - Dammam
									Nigeria	0
	Soviet Union	4 (3)
					February 28 - Jeddah
	Nigeria (pen.)	4 (5)
					Nigeria (aet)	2
	February 25 - Taif
					United States	1			Third place
	Iraq	1
									March 3 - Riyadh
	United States	2
									Brazil	2
									United States	0

Quarterfinals

25 February 1989
18:00

Portugal	1–0	Colombia
Jorge Couto 40'	(Report)

King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Neji Jouini (Tunisia)

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Main article: Miracle of Dammam

25 February 1989
18:00

Soviet Union	4–4 (a.e.t.)	Nigeria
Kiriakov 30', 58' Tedeev 45' Salenko 46'	(Report)	Oladimeji 61' Ohenhen 75' Elijah 83' Ugbade 84'
Penalties
Salenko Bezhenar Qosimov Benko	3–5	Ohen Ogaba Onyemachara Adepoju Elijah

Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Dammam

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)

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25 February 1989
18:45

Brazil	1–0	Argentina
Marcelo Henrique 15'	(Report)

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)

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25 February 1989
18:45

Iraq	1–2	United States
Kareem 35'	(Report)	Henderson 17' Brose 56'

King Fahd Stadium, Taif

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)

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Semifinals

28 February 1989
18:00

Portugal	1–0	Brazil
Amaral 68'	(Report)

King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Jozef Marko (Czechoslovakia) ^[2]

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28 February 1989
18:45

Nigeria	2–1 (a.e.t.)	United States
Adepoju 47', 93'	(Report)	Snow 52' (pen.)

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Neil Midgley (England)

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Third place play-off

3 March 1989
15:45

Brazil	2–0	United States
Franca 65' Leonardo 69'	(Report)

King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Attendance: 65,000

Referee: Neji Jouini (Tunisia)

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Final

3 March 1989
18:00

Portugal	2–0	Nigeria
Abel Silva 44' Jorge Couto 76'	(Report)

King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Attendance: 65,000

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)

Result

1989 FIFA World Youth Championship winners
Portugal 1st title

Awards

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

Goalscorers

Oleg Salenko of Soviet Union won the Golden Boot 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

• Oleg Salenko

3 goals

• Bismarck
• Marcelo Henrique
• Sonny Anderson
• Mutiu Adepoju
• Steve Snow

2 goals

• Ricardo França
• Wilson Muñoz
• Radoslav Látal
• Wali Kareem
• Christopher Ohenhen
• Jorge Couto
• Bakhva Tedeev
• Sergei Kiriakov
• Antonio Pinilla
• Abdul Latif Helou
• Troy Dayak

1 goal

• Diego Simeone
• Humberto Biazotti
• Martín Ubaldi
• Cássio
• Leonardo Araújo
• Diego Osorio
• Danilo Brenes
• Rónald González Brenes
• Henri Fuchs
• Stephan Prausse
• Uwe Jahnig
• Laith Hussein
• Naeem Saddam
• Radhi Shenaishil
• Christopher Nwosu
• Oladimeji Lawal
• Nduka Ugbade
• Samuel Elijah
• Bjørn Johansen
• Lars Bohinen
• Oystein Drillestad
• Oyvind Mellemstrand
• Kante Nfaly
• Abel Silva
• João Pinto
• Jorge Amaral
• Paulo Alves
• Hamad Al Debaikhi
• Khaled Al Harbi
• Khalid Al Rowaihi
• Saadoun Al Suraiti
• Andrei Timoshenko
• Oleg Matveev
• David Villabona
• Moisés García León
• Mohammad Afash
• Yasser Sibai
• Chris Henderson
• Dario Brose

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

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