The 1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship, the first edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Dalian in the People's Republic of China from July 31, 1985, to August 11, 1985. Players born after August 1, 1968, could participate in this tournament. The total attendance for the tournament was a record 1,230,976. The 2017 U-17 World Cup surpassed this, with a record attendance of 1,347,133.
Venues Beijing Dalian Shanghai Tianjin Workers' Stadium People's Stadium Hongkou Stadium Minyuan Stadium Capacity: 80,000 Capacity: 40,000 Capacity: 32,220 Capacity: 18,000
Qualified teams Confederation Qualifying Tournament Qualifier(s)AFC (Asia)Host nation 1985 AFC U-16 Championship CAF (Africa) 1985 African U-16 Qualifying for World Cup CONCACAF (Central, North America and Caribbean) 1985 CONCACAF U-16 Championship 1983 CONCACAF U-17 Championship CONMEBOL (South America) 1985 South American U-16 Championship Invitee OFC (Oceania) 1983 OFC U-17 Championship UEFA (Europe) 1982 UEFA European Under-16 Championship 1984 UEFA European Under-16 Championship Invitee
Squads
For full squad lists for the 1985 U-16 World Championship see 1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship squads.
Referees
Asia Fallaj Al-Shanar Chen Shengcai Cui Baoyin Zhang Daqiao Hassan Abdullah Al Mullah Africa Simon Bantsimba Karim Camara Alhati Salahudeen CONCACAF Carlos Alfaro Angelo Bratsis Joaquin Urrea Reyes
South America Arnaldo Cézar Coelho Carlos Espósito Juan Ortube Europe Miklós Nagy Claudio Pieri Karl-Heinz Tritschler Oceania Chris Bambridge
Group stages
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Result
Goalscorers
Marcel Witeczek of West Germany won the Golden Shoe award for scoring eight goals. In total, 91 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
8 goals Marcel Witeczek 5 goals William 4 goals Billa Momoh 3 goals Bismarck Barreto Faria Guo Zhuang Victor Igbinoba Abdulaziz Al Razgan 2 goals
Hugo Maradona Paul Trimboli Mauricio Xie Yuxin Herve Kakou Mohamed Soumah Mohamed Sylla Salifou Koita László Marik Zoltán Kanál Giorgio Bresciani Elias Ledesma Boushal Al Boushal Curtis Pride
1 goal
Diego Álvarez Fernando Cáceres Lorenzo Frutos Craig Naven Stan Thodis Erwin Sánchez Marco Etcheverry Andre Cruz Marques Natalino Rodrigues Antunes Cao Xiandong Sun Bowei Tu Shengqiao Eric Mantot Etienne Salles Hernán Medford Lamine Touré (Guinean football player) Zsolt Huszák Andrea Caverzan Francisco Cortes Fatai Atere Jonathan Akpoborie Joseph Babatunde Adel Al Abdulla Saleh Al Mohannadi Adel Al Dosary Nasser Al Fahad Saadoun Al Suraiti Larry McPhail Detlev Dammeier Dirk Konerding Helmut Gabriel Klaus Mirwald
Own goal Bi Sheng (playing against West Germany)
Final ranking
RankTeam16420102+810263121310+3736402138+58462227706 Eliminated in the quarter-finals5431041+376421184+457421153+258421187+15 Eliminated at the group stage9311154+13103111330311310234–1212310235–2213301226–41143003410–6015300328–6016300319–80
References
External links FIFA U-16 World Championship China PR 1985, FIFA.com FIFA Technical Report (Part 1) and (Part 2)