1977 FIFA World Youth Championship

1977 FIFA World Youth Championship
بطولة العالم للشباب لكرة القدم 1977
Tournament details
Host country	Tunisia
Dates	27 June – 10 July
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Soviet Union (1st title)
Runners-up	Mexico
Third place	Brazil
Fourth place	Uruguay
Tournament statistics
Matches played	28
Goals scored	70 (2.5 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Guina (4 goals)
Best player(s)	Vladimir Bessonov
Fair play award	Brazil
	1979 →

The 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship was the inaugural staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship and was held in Tunisia from 27 June to 10 July 1977. The tournament took place in three venues — Tunis, Sousse and Sfax — where a total of 28 matches were played, the smallest number in its history. The winner was the USSR, who beat Mexico in a penalty shootout, in the final held at Tunis's Stade El Menzah.

The Tournament Committee was chaired by FIFA Vice-President Harry Cavan, who had spearheaded the creation of the World Youth Championship.

Qualification[]

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)	1977 AFC Youth Championship	Iran Iraq
CAF (Africa)	Host nation	Tunisia
CAF (Africa)	1977 African Youth Qualifying for World Cup	Ivory Coast Morocco
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)	1976 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament	Honduras Mexico
CONMEBOL (South America)	1977 South American Youth Championship	Brazil Paraguay Uruguay
UEFA (Europe)	1976 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship	Austria France Hungary Italy Soviet Union Spain

Squads[]

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship squads

Venues[]

Tunis	Tunis Sousse Sfax	Tunis
Stade El Menzah		Stade Chedly Zouiten

Capacity: 45,000		Capacity: 18,000
Sousse		Sfax
Stade Olympique de Sousse		Stade Ameur El-Gargouri

Capacity: 10,000		Capacity: 4,000

Group stage[]

The group winners advanced directly to the semifinals.

Group A[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Mexico	3	1	2	0	8	2	+6	4	Advance to semi-finals
2	Spain	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
3	France	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
4	Tunisia (H)	3	1	0	2	1	7	−6	2

Source:^{[citation needed]}
(H) Host

27 June 1977
12:00

France	1–2	Spain
75'	(Report) ^[1]	29' 60'

Stade El Menzah, Tunis

Referee: (Turkey)

27 June 1977
16:00

Mexico	6–0	Tunisia
46, 47' 48, 69, 72' 56'	(Report)

Stade El Menzah, Tunis

Referee: Farouk Bouzo (Syria)

30 June 1977
12:00

Spain	1–1	Mexico
46'	(Report)	Rodríguez 73'

Stade El Menzah, Tunis

Referee: Franz Woehrer (Austria)

30 June 1977
16:00

Tunisia	0–1	France
	(Report)	20'

Stade El Menzah, Tunis

Referee: (Argentina)

3 July 1977
12:00

France	1–1	Mexico
64'	(Report)	70'

Stade El Menzah, Tunis

Referee: (Italy)

3 July 1977
16:00

Spain	0–1	Tunisia
	(Report)	52'

Stade El Menzah, Tunis

Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union) ^[2]

Group B[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Uruguay	3	3	0	6	1	+5	6	Advance to semi-finals
2	Honduras	3	2	1	3	1	+2	4
3	Hungary	3	1	2	3	4	−1	2
4	Morocco	3	0	3	0	6	−6	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

28 June 1977
12:00

Morocco	0–1	Honduras
	(Report)	Norales 46'

Stade Chedli Zouiten, Tunis

Referee: (Switzerland)

28 June 1977
16:00

Uruguay	2–1	Hungary
Diogo 15' Bica 25' (pen.)	(Report)	Péter 17'

Stade Chedli Zouiten, Tunis

Referee: (Italy)

1 July 1977
12:00

Honduras	0–1	Uruguay
	(Report)	29'

Stade Chedli Zouiten, Tunis

Referee: (Senegal)

1 July 1977
16:00

Hungary	2–0	Morocco
26' 56'	(Report)

Stade Chedli Zouiten, Tunis

Referee: Arnaldo Coelho (Brazil)

4 July 1977
12:00

Hungary	0–2	Honduras
	(Report)	Yearwood 7' 30'

Stade Chedli Zouiten, Tunis

Referee: (Egypt)

4 July 1977
16:00

Uruguay	3–0	Morocco
36' 44' Ramos 51'	(Report)

Stade Chedli Zouiten, Tunis

Referee: Farouk Bouzo (Syria)

Group C[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Brazil	3	2	1	0	8	2	+6	5	Advance to semi-finals
2	Iran	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	3
3	Italy	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2
4	Ivory Coast	3	0	2	1	2	5	−3	2

Source:^{[citation needed]}

27 June 1977
12:00

Italy	1–1	Ivory Coast
11'	(Report)	77'

Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse

Referee: (Greece)

27 June 1977
16:00

Brazil	5–1	Iran
Guina 22, 29, 39' Paulo Roberto 37' Júnior Brasília 52'	(Report)	55'

Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse

Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

30 June 1977
12:00

Iran	0–0	Italy
	(Report)

Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse

Referee: (Hungary)

30 June 1977
16:00

Ivory Coast	1–1	Brazil
46'	(Report)	Cléber 89'

Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse

Referee: (Tunisia)

3 July 1977
12:00

Iran	3–0	Ivory Coast
Asheri 31, 87' 80'	(Report)

Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse

Referee: (Syria)

3 July 1977
16:00

Brazil	2–0	Italy
Guina 11' Paulinho^{[disambiguation needed]} 48'	(Report)^[dead link]

Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse

Referee: (Yugoslavia)

Group D[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	5	Advance to semi-finals
2	Paraguay	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4	4
3	Iraq	3	1	0	2	6	8	−2	2
4	Austria	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

Source:^{[citation needed]}

28 June 1977
12:00

Soviet Union	3–1	Iraq
Petrakov 19, 23' Bal 39'	(Report)	Luaibi 77'

Stade Ameur El-Gargouri, Sfax

Referee: (Spain)

28 June 1977
16:00

Austria	0–1	Paraguay
	(Report)	62'

Stade Ameur El-Gargouri, Sfax

Referee: (Algeria)

1 July 1977
12:00

Iraq	5–1	Austria
Munshid 30' Hussain 34, 38, 90+3' ^[3] 90+4' ^[3]	(Report)	28'

Stade Ameur El-Gargouri, Sfax

Referee: Tesfaye Gebreyesus (Ethiopia) ^[4]

1 July 1977
16:00

Paraguay	1–2	Soviet Union
38'	(Report)	Khidiyatullin 29' Bessonov 59'

Stade Ameur El-Gargouri, Sfax

Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

4 July 1977
12:00

Paraguay	4–0	Iraq
26' 30, 68' 67'	(Report)

Stade Ameur El-Gargouri, Sfax

Referee: (Spain)

4 July 1977
16:00

Austria	0–0	Soviet Union
	(Report)

Stade Ameur El-Gargouri, Sfax

Referee: (Morocco)

Knockout stage[]

Semi-finals		Final

6 July - Tunis

Mexico (pen.)	1 (5)
		10 July - Tunis
Brazil	1 (3)
		Mexico	2 (8)
6 July - Tunis
		Soviet Union (pen.)	2 (9)
Uruguay	0 (3)

Soviet Union (pen.)	0 (4)
		Third place

		9 July - Tunis

		Brazil	4

		Uruguay	0

Semifinals[]

6 July 1977
12:00

Mexico	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Brazil
Rergis 53'	(Report)	Jorge Luís 59'
Penalties
	5–3

Stade El Menzah, Tunis

Referee: (Spain)

7 July 1977
12:00

Uruguay	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Soviet Union
	(Report)
Penalties
	3–4

Stade El Menzah, Tunis

Referee: (Italy)

Third place play-off[]

9 July 1977
12:00

Brazil	4–0	Uruguay
Cléber 13' Paulo Roberto 30' Paulinho 53' 69'	(Report)

Stade El Menzah, Tunis

Referee: Farouk Bouzo (Syria)

Final[]

10 July 1977
18:30

Mexico	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Soviet Union
50' 58'	(Report)^[5]	Bessonov 43', 54'
Penalties
	8–9

Stade El Menzah, Tunis

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

Result[]

FIFA World Youth Championship 1977 Winners
Soviet Union First title

Awards[]

Golden Shoe	Golden Ball	Fair Play Award
Guina	Vladimir Bessonov	Brazil

Goalscorers[]

Guina of Brazil won the Golden Shoe award for scoring four goals. In total, 70 goals were scored by 49 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

4 goals

Guina

3 goals

Hussein Saeed
Vladimir Bessonov

2 goals

1 goal

Final ranking[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Soviet Union	5	2	3	0	7	4	+3	7	Champions
2	Mexico	5	1	4	0	11	5	+6	6	Runners-up
3	Brazil	5	3	2	0	13	3	+10	8	Third place
4	Uruguay	5	3	1	1	6	5	+1	7	Fourth place

5	Paraguay	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4	4	Eliminated in Group stage
6	Honduras	3	2	0	1	3	1	+2	4
7	Spain	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
7	France	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
9	Iran	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	3
10	Hungary	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	2
11	Iraq	3	1	0	2	6	8	−2	2
12	Italy	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2
13	Ivory Coast	3	0	2	1	2	5	−3	2
14	Tunisia (H)	3	1	0	2	1	7	−6	2
15	Austria	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1
16	Morocco	3	0	0	3	0	6	−6	0

Source: rsssf.com
(H) Host

Notes[]

^ The official FIFA match report indicates that the first half finished 1:0 for France, but this contradicts the data on the scoring.
^ The FIFA match report states "Russia" here, which is an anachronism.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b The official FIFA report accounts no minute for this goal.
^ The FIFA match report anachronistically states Eritrea.
^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjaN93fo8VU This video in 43:21 gives a view of the scoreboard at the end of regulation, different of what appears at FIFA report of the match in its website. Also, playing time in this tournament were 2 periods of 40 minutes

External links[]

[FRA_v_ESP-1] The official FIFA match report indicates that the first half finished 1:0 for France, but this contradicts the data on the scoring.

[Azim_Zade-2] The FIFA match report states "Russia" here, which is an anachronism.

[No_ref-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b The official FIFA report accounts no minute for this goal.

[Gebreyesus-4] The FIFA match report anachronistically states Eritrea.

[5] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjaN93fo8VU This video in 43:21 gives a view of the scoreboard at the end of regulation, different of what appears at FIFA report of the match in its website. Also, playing time in this tournament were 2 periods of 40 minutes

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