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1981 FIFA World Youth Championship

Field	Value
tourney_name	FIFA World Youth Championship
year	1981
other_titles	FIFA World Youth Championship Australia 1981
country	Australia
dates	3–18 October
image	1981 FIFA World Youth Championship.png
size	200px
num_teams	16
confederations	6
venues	6
cities	6
champion	West Germany
count	1
second	Qatar
third	Romania
third-flagvar	1965
fourth	England
matches	32
goals	87
attendance	443094
top_scorer	FRG Ralf Loose
FRG Roland Wohlfarth
EGY Taher Abouzaid
AUS Mark Koussas
(4 goals)
player	ROU Romulus Gabor
fair_play
prevseason	[1979](1979-fifa-world-youth-championship)
nextseason	[1983](1983-fifa-world-youth-championship)

| third-flagvar = 1965 FRG Roland Wohlfarth EGY Taher Abouzaid AUS Mark Koussas (4 goals)

The 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship, the third edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship, was held in Australia from 3 to 18 October 1981. The tournament took place in across venues in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney where a total of 32 matches were played. The championship winner was West Germany, who defeated Qatar 4–0 in a final held at Sydney Cricket Ground. The official mascot was the kookaburra 'Kickaburra'.

Qualification

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)	[1980 AFC Youth Championship](1980-afc-youth-championship)

CAF (Africa)	[1981 African Youth Championship](1981-african-youth-championship)

CONCACAF
(North, Central America & Caribbean)	[1980 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament](1980-concacaf-u-20-tournament)

CONMEBOL (South America)	[1981 South American Youth Championship](1981-south-american-youth-championship)

OFC (Oceania)	Host nation
UEFA (Europe)	[1980 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship](1980-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 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship squads.

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

19:00 Abouzaid

Group D

Knockout stage

|11 October - Melbourne | |1 |**** |2 |11 October - Canberra |**** |1 | |0 |11 October - Newcastle | |2 |**** |3 |11 October - Sydney |**** |4 | |2 |14 October - Melbourne | |0 |** ** |1 |14 October - Sydney |**** |2 | |1 |18 October - Sydney |**** |4 | |0 |17 October - Adelaide |**** |1 | |0

Quarter-finals

15:00 Cooke Helmy

Semi-finals

Third place play-off

Final

Result

Awards

Golden Shoe	Golden Ball	Fair Play Award
ROU Romulus Gabor	ROU Romulus Gabor

Goalscorers

Romulus Gabor of Romania won the Golden Boot award for scoring four goals. In total, 87 goals were scored by 56 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.

4 goals

ROU Romulus Gabor
AUS Mark Koussas
EGY Taher Abouzaid
FRG Ralf Loose
FRG Roland Wohlfarth 3 goals
BRA Ronaldo
EGY Hisham Saleh
ENG Michael Small
ENG Neil Webb
QAT Badr Bilal
QAT Khalid Salman 2 goals
CMR Bonaventure Djonkep
POL Dariusz Dziekanowski
KOR Choi Soon-Ho
ESP Chano
FRG Holger Anthes
URU Jorge da Silva

1 goal

ARG Claudio Morresi
ARG Jorge Cecchi
ARG Juan Jose Urruti
AUS David Mitchell
AUS Ian Hunter
BRA Djalma Baia
BRA Leomir
BRA Paulo Roberto
CMR Bertin Olle Olle
EGY Mohamed Helmy
ENG Anthony Finnigan
ENG Geoffrey Dey
ENG John Cooke
ITA Pietro Mariani
MEX Agustín Coss
MEX González Farfán
MEX Ildefonso Ríos
MEX José Enrique Vaca
POL Piotr Rzepka
POL Jerzy Kowalik
QAT Ali Alsada
ROU Augustin Eduard
ROU Cornel Fisic
ROU Dorel Zamfir
ROU Stere Sertov
KOR Kwak Sung-Ho
KOR Lee Kyung-Nam
ESP Francisco López
ESP Jorge Fabregat
ESP Sebastián Nadal
USA Mark Devey
URU Carlos Berruetta
URU Javier López Báez
URU Carlos Aguilera
URU Jorge Villazán
FRG Alfred Schön
FRG Martin Trieb

Own goals

MEX Jose Guillen (playing against Egypt)
KOR Jun Jong-Son (playing against Brazil)

Final ranking

Quarter-finals Group stage

Notes

References

Actually [[Eritrea]], as the FIFA [[anachronism. anachronistically]] reports.

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