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The 1987
FIFA World Youth Championship The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members’ men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 wh ...
took place in
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from 10 to 25 October 1987. The 1987 championship was the 6th contested and won for the first time by Yugoslavia. Remarkably, in the course of the tournament the Yugoslavs defeated each of the three other semi-finalists, and eliminated the defending champions Brazil. The tournament took place in four venues:
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,
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, Concepción and
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.


Qualification

:1.Teams that made their debut.


Squads

''For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1987 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

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stages


Quarter-finals

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Semifinals

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Third place play-off

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Final


Result


Awards


Goalscorers

Marcel Witeczek of West Germany won the Golden Shoe award for scoring seven goals. In total, 86 goals were scored by 51 different players, with none of them credited as own goal. ;7 goals *
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Final ranking


Notes


External links


FIFA World Youth Championship Chile 1987
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(Part 2)Yugoslavia in the 90s: the greatest team there never was?
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