The 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Saudi Arabia between 16 February and 3 March 1989. The 1989 championship was the 7th contested. The tournament took place across four cities: Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, and Taif.
Qualification ConfederationQualifying TournamentQualifier(s)AFC (Asia)Host nation1988 AFC Youth Championship CAF (Africa)1989 African Youth Championship CONCACAF(North, Central America & Caribbean)1988 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament CONMEBOL (South America)1988 South American U-20 Championship UEFA (Europe)1988 UEFA European Under-18 Championship
1.Teams that made their debut. 2.Replaced , who was disqualified from the tournament due to the Cachirules scandal.
Venues RiyadhJeddah King Fahd International Stadium Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium Capacity: 70,000 Capacity: 35,000 Dammam Taif Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium King Fahd Stadium Capacity: 22 042 Capacity: 20,000
Match officials
Africa Badara Sene Idrissa Sarr Neji Jouini
Asia Abdul Al Nasri Chen Shengcai Ahmed Mohammed Jassim
Europe Hubert Forstinger Tullio Lanese Neil Midgley Egil Nervik Aron Schmidhuber Alan Snoddy Alexey Spirin Marcel van Langenhove
North, Central America and Caribbean Arturo Angeles Arturo Brizio Carter José Carlos Ortíz
South America Juan Antonio Bava Elias Jácome José Roberto Wright José Torres Cadena
Squads For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship 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
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Third place play-off
Final
Result
Awards Golden ShoeGolden BallFIFA Fair Play Award Oleg Salenko Bismarck
Goalscorers
Oleg Salenko of Soviet Union won the Golden Boot award for scoring five goals. In total, 81 goals were scored by 55 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
5 goals Oleg Salenko 3 goals Bismarck Marcelo Henrique Sonny Anderson Mutiu Adepoju Steve Snow 2 goals
Ricardo França Wilson Muñoz Radoslav Látal Wali Kareem Christopher Ohenhen Jorge Couto Bakhva Tedeev Sergei Kiriakov Antonio Pinilla Abdul Latif Helou Troy Dayak
1 goal
Diego Simeone Humberto Biazotti Martín Ubaldi Cássio Leonardo Araújo Diego Osorio Danilo Brenes Rónald González Brenes Henri Fuchs Stephan Prausse Uwe Jahnig Laith Hussein Naeem Saddam Radhi Shenaishil Christopher Nwosu Oladimeji Lawal Nduka Ugbade Samuel Elijah Bjørn Johansen Lars Bohinen Oystein Drillestad Oyvind Mellemstrand Kante Nfaly Abel Silva João Pinto Jorge Amaral Paulo Alves Hamad Al Debaikhi Khaled Al Harbi Khalid Al Rowaihi Saadoun Al Suraiti Andrei Timoshenko Oleg Matveev David Villabona Moisés García León Mohammad Afash Yasser Sibai Chris Henderson Dario Brose
Final ranking
Notes
External links FIFA World Youth Championship Saudi Arabia 1989 , FIFA.com RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1989 FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4)