The 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship, known as the 1993 FIFA/Coca-Cola World Youth Championship for sponsorship purposes, was the 9th edition FIFA World Youth Championship. U20 Brazil defeated Ghana, 2–1 for its third title. It took place across five cities in Australia. The tournament was originally to be held in Yugoslavia, but due to the Yugoslav Wars, was moved to Australia.
Venues Sydney Melbourne Adelaide Sydney Football Stadium Olympic Park Stadium Football Park Capacity: 45,500 Capacity: 18,500 Capacity: 51,240 BrisbaneCanberraLang ParkBruce Stadium Capacity: 52,500Capacity: 25,011
Qualification For the first time ever, Russia competed after the dissolution of Soviet Union. It was also the first time Germany played after the reunification. However, as they are designated as descendant of East Germany and West Germany respectively, they are not considered as tournament debutants.
ConfederationQualifying TournamentQualifier(s)AFC (Asia)1992 AFC Youth Championship CAF (Africa)1993 African Youth Championship CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)1992 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament CONMEBOL (South America)1992 South American Youth Championship OFC (Oceania)Host nationUEFA (Europe)1992 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship
1.Teams that made their debut. 2.Germany made their debut as a unified nation. They were chosen as the descendant of the now-defunct West Germany, which qualified in 1981 and 1987 tournaments. The now-defunct East Germany qualified in 1987 and 1989 tournaments. 3.Russia made their debut as independent nation. They were chosen as the descendant of the now-defunct Soviet Union, which qualified in 1977, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1989, and 1991 tournaments.
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
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Result
Awards Golden ShoeGolden BallFair Play Award Henry Zambrano Adriano
Goalscorers
Henry Zambrano of Colombia won the Golden Boot award for scoring three goals. In total, 82 goals were scored by 56 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.
3 goals
Ante Milicic Gian Adriano Henry Zambrano Augustine Ahinful Vicente Nieto Chris Faklaris
2 goals
Paul Agostino Julian Joachim André Breitenreiter Carsten Jancker Emmanuel Duah Luis Salazar Aleksandr Karatayev Lee Ki-hyung Miles Joseph Fabián O'Neill Fernando Correa
1 goal
Anthony Carbone Kevin Muscat Bruno Carvalho Catê Marcelinho Paulista Yan Razera Bernard Tchoutang David Embé Marc-Vivien Foé Pius Ndiefi Arley Betancourth Oscar Restrepo Chris Bart-Williams David Unsworth Ian Pearce Jamie Pollock Charles Akonnor Daniel Addo Isaac Asare Mohammed Gargo Nii Lamptey Samuel Kuffour Jesús Olalde Bambo Aleksei Savchenko Dmitri Ananko Igor Zazulin Sergei Chudin Abdullah Al Takrouni Cho Jin-ho Serkan Reçber Brian Kelly Imad Baba Kerry Zavagnin Diego López Sergio Sena Lamela
Own goal Steve Watson (playing against South Korea) Murad Magomedov (playing against Australia)
Final ranking
External links FIFA World Youth Championship Australia 1993 , FIFA.com RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1993 FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)