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1987 FIFA World Youth Championship

FieldValue
tourney_nameFIFA World Youth Championship
year1987
other_titlesCopa Mundial Juvenil de la FIFA
Chile 1987
countryChile
dates10–25 October
num_teams16
confederations6
venues4
cities4
championYugoslavia
count1
secondWest Germany
thirdEast Germany
fourthChile
matches32
goals86
attendance712000
top_scorerFRG Marcel Witeczek (7 goals)
playerYUG Robert Prosinečki
fair_play
prevseason[1985](1985-fifa-world-youth-championship)
nextseason[1989](1989-fifa-world-youth-championship)

Chile 1987

The 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Chile from 10 to 25 October 1987. The 1987 championship was the 6th edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship and won for the first time by Yugoslavia. Remarkably, in the course of the tournament the Yugoslavs defeated each of the three other semi-finalists, and eliminated the defending champions Brazil. The tournament took place in four venues: Antofagasta, Valparaíso, Concepción and Santiago.

Qualification

ConfederationQualifying TournamentQualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)[1986 AFC Youth Championship](1986-afc-youth-championship)
CAF (Africa)[1987 African Youth Championship](1987-african-youth-championship)
CONCACAF
(North, Central America & Caribbean)[1986 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament](1986-concacaf-u-20-tournament)
CONMEBOL (South America)Host nation
[1987 South American Youth Championship](1987-south-american-youth-championship)
OFC (Oceania)[1986 OFC U-20 Championship](1986-ofc-u-20-championship)
UEFA (Europe)[1986 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship](1986-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 1987 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

|October 21 - Santiago|**** |2||1 |October 21 - Valparaíso|**** |2||0 |October 21 - Concepción||0||1 |October 21 - Antofagasta|** **|1 (4)||1 (3) |October 23 - Santiago||2||1 |October 23 - Concepción||0|****|4 |October 25 - Santiago|** |1 (5) ||1 (4) |October 25 - Santiago| **|1 (3) | |1 (1)

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Third place play-off

15:00 |team1= |score=1–1 | penaltyscore= 3–1 |team2= |goals1=Kracht |goals2=González |stadium=Estadio Nacional, Santiago | attendance = 65,000 | referee = Arnaldo Coelho (Brazil) |report=(Report) Zimmerling
Jähnig Navarrete Estay González

Final

18:00 |team1= |score=1–1 | penaltyscore= 5–4 |team2= |goals1=Boban |goals2=Witeczek |stadium=Estadio Nacional, Santiago | attendance = 65,000 | referee = Juan Carlos Loustau (Argentina) |report=(Report) Šuker Brnović Zirojević Boban Strehmel Luginger Spyrka Reinhardt

Result

Awards

Golden ShoeGolden BallFair Play Award
FRG Marcel WiteczekYUG Robert Prosinečki

Goalscorers

Marcel Witeczek of West Germany won the Golden Boot award for scoring seven goals. In total, 86 goals were scored by 51 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

;7 goals

  • FRG Marcel Witeczek ;6 goals
  • YUG Davor Šuker ;5 goals
  • CHI Camilo Pino ;4 goals
  • GDR Matthias Sammer ;3 goals
  • CHI Luka Tudor
  • YUG Predrag Mijatović
  • YUG Zvonimir Boban ;2 goals
  • BRA Alcindo Sartori
  • BRA André Cruz
  • BRA William
  • COL John Jairo Trellez
  • COL Miguel Guerrero
  • GDR Dariusz Wosz
  • ITA Alessandro Melli
  • SCO Joe McLeod
  • SCO Scott Nisbet
  • FRG Knut Reinhardt
  • YUG Igor Štimac ;1 goal
  • AUS Alistair Edwards
  • AUS Kurt Reynolds
  • BHR Mohamed Al Kharraz
  • BUL Dimitar Trendafilov
  • BUL Ivo Slavtchev
  • BUL Radko Kalaydjiev
  • CAN Billy Domezetis
  • CAN Domenic Mobilio
  • CAN James Grimes
  • CAN Steve Jansen
  • CHI Pedro González Vera
  • GDR Jörg Prasse
  • GDR Heiko Liebers
  • GDR Rico Steinmann
  • GDR Torsten Kracht
  • ITA Antonio Rizzolo
  • ITA Marco Carrara
  • ITA Stefano Impallomeni
  • NGA David Adekola
  • NGA Okon Ene Effa
  • SCO John Butler
  • SCO Paul Wright
  • TOG Salissou Ali
  • USA Christian Unger
  • USA Michael Constantino
  • FRG Alexander Strehmel
  • FRG Andreas Möller
  • FRG Detlev Dammeier
  • FRG Henrik Eichenauer
  • FRG Thomas Epp
  • YUG Branko Brnović
  • YUG Ranko Zirojević
  • YUG Robert Prosinečki

Final ranking

Quarter-finals Group stage

Notes

References

  1. The FIFA states "[[Serbia and Montenegro]]" here, which is an [[anachronism]]. Reporting him like this means that this official report was made in the period 2003-2006.
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