The 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship was the eighth staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, an international

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competition organized by

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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

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, between 14 and 30 June 1991. Matches were played across five venues in as many cities: Faro,

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and

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. Nigeria originally won the bid to host but was stripped of its right after found guilty for committing age fabrication.

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and

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competed for the first time as a united team, although FIFA attributes its historical data to South Korea.

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

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4–2 on penalties to secure their second consecutive title. The

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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. :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 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

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

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Third place play-off

Final

Awards

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 *

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* Pedro Pineda * Ismael Urzaiz ;3 goals *

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* Paulo Torres * Pier Luigi Cherubino ;2 goals * Djair * Luiz Fernando * Marquinhos * Paulo Nunes * Andy Awford * Choi Chol * Nélson Gama * Andreas Bild * Munaf Ramadan ;1 goal * Brad Maloney * Paul Okon *

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* Marcelo Delgado * Roberto Molina * Castro * Andrei Frascarelli * Amir Abdel Aziz * Sami El-Sheshini * Samir Hussein * Sami Abdel Halil Ismail * Mostafa Sadek * Tamer Sakr * Bradley Allen * Stephen Gallagher * Paul McCarthy * Barry O'Connor * Ambroise Mambo * Ambroise Seri * Sylvain Tiehi * Cho In-Chol * Álvarez Arcos * Héctor Hernández * Bruno Mendoza * Capucho * Rui Costa * Gil Gomes * João Vieira Pinto * Serhiy Konovalov * Sergei Mandreko * Dmytro Mykhaylenko * Yevhen Pokhlebayev * José Mauricio Casas *

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* Jonny Rödlund * Ammar Awad * Abdul Latif Helou * Abdullah Mando

Final ranking

References

External links

1991 FIFA World Youth Championship
at FIFA.com
FIFA Technical Report (Part 1)(Part 2)(Part 3)
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(Part 4)
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