1985 FIFA World Youth Championship
The 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship, the fifth edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship, was held in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 24 August to 7 September 1985. The tournament took place in ten venues within eight host cities — Baku, Yerevan, Leningrad, Minsk (2 stadiums), Moscow, Hoktemberyan, Tbilisi (2 stadiums) and Sumqayit — where a total of 32 matches were played. The winner was Brazil, which managed to retain the title, by beating Spain by 1–0, in the final played at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium.
Кубок ФИФА Кока-Кола 1985 | |
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Tournament details | |
Host country | Soviet Union |
Dates | 24 August – 7 September |
Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 10 (in 8 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | |
Runners-up | |
Third place | |
Fourth place | |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 80 (2.5 per match) |
Attendance | 657,800 (20,556 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | (3 goals) |
Best player(s) | |
Fair play award | |
Venues
10 different stadiums were used during the championship in 8 host cities, divided among 5 Soviet republics: Armenian SSR (2 venues in 2 host cities), Azerbaijan SSR (2 venues in 2 host cities), Byelorussian SSR (2 venues in 1 host city), Georgian SSR (2 venues in 1 host city), and Russian SFSR (2 venues in 2 host cities).
Moscow | Leningrad | Tbilisi | |
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Central Lenin Stadium | Kirov Stadium | Lenin Dinamo Stadium | Lokomotivi Stadium |
Capacity: 103,000 | Capacity: 72,000 | Capacity: 74,354 | Capacity: 36,000 |
Minsk | |||
Dinamo Stadium | Traktor Stadium | ||
Capacity: 40,000 | Capacity: 17,600 | ||
Yerevan | Hoktemberyan | Baku | Sumqayit |
Hrazdan Stadium | Yubileynyi Stadium | Vladimir Lenin Stadium | Mehdi Huseynzade Stadium |
Capacity: 70,000 | Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 30,000 | Capacity: 15,500 |
Qualification
Confederation | Qualifying Tournament | Qualifier(s) |
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AFC (Asia) | 1985 AFC Youth Championship | |
CAF (Africa) | 1985 African Youth Championship | |
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean) |
1984 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament | |
CONMEBOL (South America) | 1985 South American Youth Championship | |
OFC (Oceania) | 1985 OFC U-20 Championship | |
UEFA (Europe) | Host nation | |
1984 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship |
- 1.^ Teams that made their debut.
Squads
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship squads
Group stage
Group A
Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
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4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | ||
4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | ||
0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | –4 |
Hungary | 1–1 | |
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Fischer |
Report | Kostadinov |
Group B
Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
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6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||
3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | –4 |
Saudi Arabia | 0–0 | |
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Report |
Republic of Ireland | 0–1 | |
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Report | Al-Jam'an |
Brazil | 1–0 | |
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Müller |
Report |
Group C
Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
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5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | ||
2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | –1 | ||
1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | –7 |
Soviet Union | 2–1 | |
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Khudozhilov Chedia |
Report | Anunobi |
Soviet Union | 5–0 | |
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Ketashvili Tatarchuk Ivanauskas Sklyarov Kuzhlev |
Report |
Group D
Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
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6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | ||
1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | –3 | ||
1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | –3 |
England | 0–2 | |
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Report | Gao Hongbo Gong Lei |
Paraguay | 0–2 | |
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Report | Cruz García Aspe |
Paraguay | 1–2 | |
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Mereles |
Report | Song Lianyong Gao Hongbo |
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
September 1 - Yerevan | ||||||||||
1 | ||||||||||
September 4 - Moscow | ||||||||||
2 | ||||||||||
2 (4) | ||||||||||
September 1 - Minsk | ||||||||||
2 (3) | ||||||||||
1 | ||||||||||
September 7 - Moscow | ||||||||||
0 | ||||||||||
0 | ||||||||||
September 1 - Tbilisi | ||||||||||
1 | ||||||||||
6 | ||||||||||
September 4 - Leningrad | ||||||||||
0 | ||||||||||
2 | ||||||||||
September 1 - Baku | ||||||||||
0 | Third place | |||||||||
1 | ||||||||||
September 7 - Moscow | ||||||||||
2 | ||||||||||
0 (1) | ||||||||||
0 (3) | ||||||||||
Quarterfinals
Bulgaria | 1–2 | |
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Kostadinov |
Report | Marcelino Fernando |
Soviet Union | 1–0 | |
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Kuzhlev |
Report |
Semi-finals
Spain | 2–2 (a.e.t.) | |
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Losada Goikoetxea |
Report | Khudozhilov Ivanauskas |
Penalties | ||
4–3 |
Awards
Golden Shoe | Golden Ball | FIFA Fair Play Award |
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Goalscorers
Sebastián Losada of Spain won the Golden Shoe award for scoring three goals. In total, 80 goals were scored by 55 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
- 3 goals
Balalo Gérson da Silva Müller Alberto García Aspe Odiaka Monday Fernando Gómez Colomer Sebastián Losada
- 2 goals
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- 1 goal
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Final ranking
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
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1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | +13 | 12 | ||
2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 6 | ||
3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 7 | ||
4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 9 | ||
Eliminated in the quarter-finals | ||||||||||
5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 6 | ||
6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | ||
7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 | ||
8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | –5 | 4 | ||
Eliminated at the group stage | ||||||||||
9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 | ||
10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ||
11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | –1 | 2 | ||
12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | –3 | 1 | ||
13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | –3 | 1 | ||
14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | –7 | 1 | ||
15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | –4 | 0 | ||
16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | –4 | 0 |
Notes
- Colombia advanced by drawing.
- The FIFA gives no reference as to which stadiums were used for the games all along the competition, except for the match Brazil v Nigeria, played in Kirov Stadium, Leningrad. The information has been retrieved from other sources.
- The FIFA states "Russia" here, which is an anachronism.
- Due to the FIFA not informing on the Stadiums of the competition, there's an inconsistency with the hour of these matches. Whether they were played at different venues, or at different hours in the same venues, is uncertain.
- FIFA acknowledges him first from Scotland and then from England.