1981 FIFA World Youth Championship

March 2020 November 2011 FIFA World Youth Championship 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship Australia 1981 Australia 3–18 October 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship.png 200px 16 6 6 6 West Germany 1 Qatar Romania 1965 England 32 87 443094 FRG Ralf LooseFRG Roland WohlfarthEGY Taher AbouzaidAUS Mark Koussas(4 goals) ROU 1965 Romulus Gabor 20 AUS 1979 1983 The 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship, the third edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship, was held in Australia from 3 to 18 October 1981. The tournament took place in across venues in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney where a total of 32 matches were played. The championship winner was West Germany, who defeated Qatar 4–0 in a final held at Sydney Cricket Ground. The official mascot was the kookaburra 'Kickaburra'. Qualification ConfederationQualifying TournamentQualifier(s)AFC (Asia)1980 AFC Youth Championship20 QAT1 1 20 KORCAF (Africa)1981 African Youth Championship20 CMR1 1 20 EGY 19721 1CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)1980 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament20 MEX USA1 1CONMEBOL (South America)1981 South American Youth Championship20 ARG 20 BRA 1968 20 URUOFC (Oceania)Host nation20 AUS1 1UEFA (Europe)1980 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship20 ENG1 1 20 ITA 20 POL 20 ROU 19651 1 20 ESP 1977 20 FRG1 1 1.1Teams that made their debut. Squads For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship squads. Group stage Group A main WDL Group stage result 2 URU 20 URU QAT 20 QAT POL 20 POL USA 20 USA 3 0 0 5 0 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 2 4 2 0 1 2 1 8 green1 Advance to knockout stage A A complete 3 October 1981 18:30 20 POL 0–1 20 QAT Bilal 37 Lang Park, Brisbane 17,200 Tony Boskovic (Australia) (Report) 3 October 1981 20:30 20 USA 0–3 20 URU López Báez 5 Aguilera 60 Da Silva 67 Lang Park, Brisbane 17,200 Emilio Soriano Aladren (Spain) (Report) 6 October 1981 18:30 20 USA 1–1 20 QAT Devey 43 Bilal 56 Lang Park, Brisbane 10,122 Tesfaye Gebreyesus (Ethiopia)Actually Eritrea, as the FIFA anachronistically reports. (Report) 6 October 1981 20:30 20 URU 1–0 20 POL Da Silva 58 Lang Park, Brisbane 10,122 Antonio Márquez Ramírez (Mexico) (Report) 8 October 1981 19:00 20 QAT 0–1 20 URU Villazán 52 Lang Park, Brisbane 8,264 Stanislas Kamdem (Cameroon) (Report) 8 October 1981 21:00 20 POL 4–0 20 USA Rzepka 17 Kowalik 18 Dziekanowski 65 67 Lang Park, Brisbane 8,264 Tony Boskovic (Australia) (Report) Group B main WDL Group stage result 2 BRA 20 BRA 1968 ROU 20 ROU 1965 KOR 20 KOR ITA 20 ITA 2 1 0 5 1 2 1 0 3 1 1 0 2 4 5 0 0 3 1 6 green1 Advance to knockout stage A A complete 3 October 1981 18:30 20 ITA 1–4 20 KOR Mariani 83 Kwak Sung-ho 7 Choi Soon-ho 12 29 Lee Kyung-nam 88 Olympic Park, Melbourne 13,538 Gastón Castro (Chile) (Report) 3 October 1981 20:30 20 ROU 1965 1–1 20 BRA 1968 Zamfir 82 Leomir 67 Olympic Park, Melbourne 13,538 George Courtney (England) (Report) 6 October 1981 18:45 20 ROU 1965 1–0 20 KOR Sertov 5 Olympic Park, Melbourne 17,500 Jorge Romero (Argentina) (Report) 6 October 1981 20:45 20 BRA 1968 1–0 20 ITA Djalma Baia 56 Olympic Park, Melbourne 17,500 Jan Redelfs (West Germany) (Report) 8 October 1981 18:45 20 KOR 0–3 20 BRA 1968 Paulo Roberto 48 Ronaldo 61 Jun J.S. 79 o.g. Olympic Park, Melbourne 9,000 Hussein Fahmy Baheig (Egypt) (Report) 8 October 1981 20:45 20 ITA 0–1 20 ROU 1965 Gabor 56 pen. Olympic Park, Melbourne 9,000 Robert Valentine (Scotland) (Report) Group C main WDL Group stage result 2 FRG 20 FRG EGY 20 EGY 1972 MEX 20 MEX ESP 20 ESP 1977 2 0 1 6 4 1 2 0 7 6 0 2 1 4 5 0 2 1 5 7 green1 Advance to knockout stage A A complete 3 October 1981 19:00 20 ESP 1977 2–2 20 EGY 1972 Chano 65 Nadal 74 Abouzaid 6 78 Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide 7,504 Lee Woo Bong (South Korea) (Report) 3 October 1981 21:00 20 FRG 1–0 20 MEX Loose 2 Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide 7,504 Robert Valentine (Scotland) (Report) 6 October 1981 19:00 20 FRG 1–2 20 EGY 1972 Loose 35 Helmy 31 Abouzaid 54 Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide 14,120 Rómulo Méndez Molina (Guatemala) (Report) 6 October 1981 21:00 20 MEX 1–1 20 ESP 1977 Coss 75 Chano 45 pen. Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide 14,120 José Martínez Bazán (Uruguay) (Report) 8 October 1981 18:30 20 EGY 1972 3–3 20 MEX Guillén 33 o.g. Saleh 64 71 Vaca 18 Farfán 28 Ríos 69 Bruce Stadium, Canberra 8,150 Henning Lund-Sorensen (Denmark) (Report) 8 October 1981 20:30 20 ESP 1977 2–4 20 FRG F. López 72 Fabregat 78 Trieb 29 Wohlfarth 47 85 Anthes 55 Bruce Stadium, Canberra 14,120 Arnaldo Coelho (Brazil) (Report) Group D main WDL Group stage result 2 ENG 20 ENG AUS 20 AUS ARG 20 ARG CMR 20 CMR 1 2 0 4 2 1 2 0 6 5 H 1 1 1 3 3 0 1 2 3 6 green1 Advance to knockout stage A A complete 3 October 1981 13:00 20 ENG 2–0 20 CMR Finnigan 57 Dey 78 Sports Ground, Sydney 15,814 Toshikazu Sano (Japan) (Report) 3 October 1981 15:00 20 AUS 2–1 20 ARG Koussas 79 Hunter 89 Morresi 66 Sports Ground, Sydney 15,814 Alojzy Jarguz (Poland) (Report) 5 October 1981 15:00 20 AUS 3–3 20 CMR Mitchell 9 Koussas 53 78 pen. Olle Olle 17 Djonkep 35 52 Newcastle Stadium, Newcastle 13,797 Toros Kibritjian (Syria) (Report) 5 October 1981 15:00 ENG 1–1 20 ARG Small 79 Urruti 57 Sports Ground, Sydney 16,674 Gianfranco Menegali (Italy) (Report) 8 October 1981 19:00 CMR 0–1 20 ARG Cecchi 6 Sports Ground, Sydney 28,932 Mubarak Waleed Saeed (Qatar) (Report) 8 October 1981 21:00 ENG 1–1 AUS Small 82 Koussas 7 Sports Ground, Sydney 28,932 Ioan Igna (Romania) (Report) Knockout stage white-space:nowrap 11 October - Melbourne 20 URU 1 20 ROU 1965 2 11 October - Canberra 20 FRG 1 20 AUS 0 11 October - Newcastle 20 BRA 1968 2 20 QAT 3 11 October - Sydney 20 ENG 4 20 EGY 1972 2 14 October - Melbourne 20 ROU 1965 0 20 FRG 1 14 October - Sydney 20 QAT 2 20 ENG 1 18 October - Sydney 20 FRG 4 20 QAT 0 17 October - Adelaide 20 ROU 1965 1 20 ENG 0 Quarter-finals 11 October 1981 15:00 20 URU 1–2 20 ROU 1965 Berruetta 60 Gabor 25 84 Olympic Park, Melbourne 14,800 Gianfranco Menegali (Italy) (Report) 11 October 1981 15:00 20 BRA 1968 2–3 20 QAT Ronaldo 27 78 Al-Muhannadi 10 54 87 Newcastle Stadium, Newcastle 12,993 Antonio Márquez Ramírez (Mexico) (Report) 11 October 1981 15:00 20 FRG 1–0 20 AUS Wohlfarth 69 Bruce Stadium, Canberra 13,780 Henning Lund-Sorensen (Denmark) (Report) 11 October 1981 15:00 20 ENG 4–2 20 EGY 1972 Webb 41 64 82 Cooke 60 Abouzaid 28 pen. Helmy 40 Sports Ground, Sydney 8,293 José Martínez Bazán (Uruguay) (Report) Semi-finals 14 October 1981 20:00 20 QAT 2–1 20 ENG Bilal 12 Alsada 62 Small 70 Cricket Ground, Sydney 12,476 Jorge Romero (Argentina) (Report) 14 October 1981 20:30 20 ROU 1965 0–1 20 FRG Schön 103 Olympic Park, Melbourne 15,000 Robert Valentine (Scotland) (Report) Third place play-off 17 October 1981 15:00 20 ROU 1965 1–0 20 ENG Gabor 36 Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide 10,492 Henning Lund-Sorensen (Denmark) (Report) Final 18 October 1981 15:00 20 FRG 4–0 20 QAT Loose 28 66 Wohlfarth 42 Anthes 86 Cricket Ground, Sydney 18,531 Arnaldo Coelho (Brazil) (Report) Result fbu 20 1981 World Youth Championship winners West Germany First Awards Golden ShoeGolden BallFair Play AwardROU 1965 Romulus GaborROU 1965 Romulus Gabor20 AUS Goalscorers Romulus Gabor of Romania won the Golden Boot award for scoring four goals. In total, 87 goals were scored by 56 different players, with two of them credited as own goals. 4 goals 18em ROU 1965 Romulus Gabor AUS Mark Koussas EGY 1972 Taher Abouzaid FRG Ralf Loose FRG Roland Wohlfarth 3 goals 18em BRA 1968 Ronaldo EGY 1972 Hisham Saleh ENG Michael Small ENG Neil Webb QAT Badr Bilal QAT Khalid Salman 2 goals 18em CMR Bonaventure Djonkep POL Dariusz Dziekanowski KOR Choi Soon-Ho ESP 1977 Chano FRG Holger Anthes URU Jorge da Silva 1 goal 18em ARG Claudio Morresi ARG Jorge Cecchi ARG Juan Jose Urruti AUS David Mitchell AUS Ian Hunter BRA 1968 Djalma Baia BRA 1968 Leomir BRA 1968 Paulo Roberto CMR Bertin Olle Olle EGY 1972 Mohamed Helmy ENG Anthony Finnigan ENG Geoffrey Dey ENG John Cooke ITA Pietro Mariani MEX Agustín Coss MEX González Farfán MEX Ildefonso Ríos MEX José Enrique Vaca POL Piotr Rzepka POL Jerzy Kowalik QAT Ali Alsada ROU 1965 Augustin Eduard ROU 1965 Cornel Fisic ROU 1965 Dorel Zamfir ROU 1965 Stere Sertov KOR Kwak Sung-Ho KOR Lee Kyung-Nam ESP 1977 Francisco López ESP 1977 Jorge Fabregat ESP 1977 Sebastián Nadal USA Mark Devey URU Carlos Berruetta URU Javier López Báez URU Carlos Aguilera URU Jorge Villazán FRG Alfred Schön FRG Martin Trieb Own goals MEX Jose Guillen (playing against Egypt) KOR Jun Jong-Son (playing against Brazil) Final ranking main WDL 2 FRG 20 West Germany QAT 20 Qatar ROU 20 Romania 1965 ENG 20 England URU 20 Uruguay BRA 20 Brazil 1968 AUS 20 Australia EGY 20 Egypt 1972 ARG 20 ARG POL 20 Poland KOR 20 South Korea MEX 20 Mexico ESP 20 Spain 1977 CMR 20 Cameroon USA 20 United States ITA 20 Italy 5 0 1 12 4 3 1 2 7 9 4 1 1 6 3 2 2 2 9 7 3 0 1 6 2 2 1 1 7 4 1 2 1 6 6 H 1 2 1 9 10 1 1 1 3 3 1 0 2 4 2 1 0 2 4 5 0 2 1 4 5 0 2 1 5 7 0 1 2 3 6 0 1 2 1 8 0 0 3 1 6 1st 2nd 3rd 4th QF QF QF QF GS GS GS GS GS GS GS GS yes yes Final result #FFD700 Champions #C0C0C0 Runners-up #CD7F32 Third place Fourth place Eliminated inQuarter-finals Eliminated inGroup stage complete rsssf.com Notes External links FIFA World Youth Championship Australia 1981 https://web.archive.org/web/20200304162413/https://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/archive/australia1981/index.html 4 March 2020 , FIFA.com RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1981 FIFA Technical Report 1981 World Youth Championship World Championship Category:1981 in Australian men's soccer 1981 1981 Category:October 1981 sports events in Australia