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1989 FIFA World Youth Championship

Field	Value
tourney_name	FIFA World Youth Championship
year	1989
other_titles	1989 بطولة العالم للشباب لكرة القدم
country	Saudi Arabia
dates	16 February – 3 March
num_teams	16
confederations	5
venues	4
cities	4
champion	Portugal
count	1
second	Nigeria
third	Brazil
third-flagvar	1968
fourth	USA
matches	32
goals	81
attendance	643815
top_scorer	URS Oleg Salenko (5 goals)
player	BRA Bismarck
fair_play
prevseason	[1987](1987-fifa-world-youth-championship)
nextseason	[1991](1991-fifa-world-youth-championship)

| third-flagvar = 1968

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

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)		Host nation
[1988 AFC Youth Championship](1988-afc-youth-championship)

CAF (Africa)	[1989 African Youth Championship](1989-african-youth-championship)

CONCACAF
(North, Central America & Caribbean)	[1988 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament](1988-concacaf-u-20-tournament)

CONMEBOL (South America)	[1988 South American U-20 Championship](1988-south-american-u-20-championship)

UEFA (Europe)	[1988 UEFA European Under-18 Championship](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

{{Location map+	Saudi Arabia	border=	caption=Location of the host cities of the 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship.
King Fahd International Stadium	Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium
Capacity: 70,000	Capacity: 35,000
[[File:キングファハド国際スタジアム.jpg	197x197px]]	[[File:Prince_Abdullah_Al-Faisal_Sports_City.jpg	195x195px]]
Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin
Abdul Aziz Stadium	King Fahd Stadium
Capacity: 22 042	Capacity: 20,000
[[File:Mohammed Bin Fahd Stadium, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.jpg	197x197px]]	[[File:King Fahd Stadium THAILAND U-17 VS SAUDI ARABIA U-17.jpg	210x210px]]

Match officials

;Africa

SEN Badara Sene
MTN Idrissa Sarr
TUN Neji Jouini

;Asia

KSA Abdul Al Nasri
CHN Chen Shengcai
BHR Ahmed Mohammed Jassim

;Europe

AUT Hubert Forstinger
ITA Tullio Lanese
ENG Neil Midgley
NOR Egil Nervik
FRG Aron Schmidhuber
NIR Alan Snoddy
URS Alexey Spirin
BEL Marcel van Langenhove ;North, Central America and Caribbean
USA Arturo Angeles
MEX Arturo Brizio Carter
SLV José Carlos Ortíz

;South America

ARG Juan Antonio Bava
ECU Elias Jácome
BRA José Roberto Wright
COL 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

18:00 |team1= |score=1–2 |team2= |goals1=Al Suraiti |goals2=Adepoju
Ohenhen |stadium=King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

18:00 |team1= |score=0–1 |team2= |goals1=

18:00 |team1= |score=0–1 |team2= |goals1= |goals2=Látal |stadium=King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

18:00 |team1= |score=0–1 |team2= |goals1= |goals2=João Pinto |stadium=King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

15:45 |team1= |score=3–0 |team2= |goals1=Al Harbi
Al Rowaihi
Al Debaikhi |goals2= |stadium=King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

18:00 |team1= |score=1–1 |team2= |goals1=Nwosu |goals2=Látal |stadium=King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Group B

15:45 |team1= |score=1–0 |team2= |goals1=González |goals2= |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium|Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium]], Dammam

18:00 |team1= |score=3–1 |team2= |goals1=Tedeev
Salenko |goals2=Sibai |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium|Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium]], Dammam

18:00 |team1= |score=0–1 |team2= |goals1= |goals2=Matveev |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium|Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium]], Dammam

18:00 |team1= |score=2–0 |team2= |goals1=Muñoz
Osorio |goals2= |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium|Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium]], Dammam

15:45 |team1= |score=1–3 |team2= |goals1=Brenes |goals2=Helou
Afash |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium|Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium]], Dammam

18:00 |team1= |score=1–3 |team2= |goals1=Muñoz |goals2=Timoshenko
Salenko |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium|Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium]], Dammam

Group C

16:30 |team1= |score=2–0 |team2= |goals1=Marcelo Henrique
França |goals2= |stadium=Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

18:45 |team1= |score=1–1 |team2= |goals1=Nfaly |goals2=Snow |stadium=Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

18:45 |team1= |score=5–0 |team2= |goals1=Cássio
Bismarck
Sonny Anderson |goals2= |stadium=Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

18:45 |team1= |score=0–2 |team2= |goals1= |goals2=Dayak
Snow |stadium=Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

16:30 |team1= |score=3–1 |team2= |goals1=Bismarck
Marcelo Henrique
Sonny Anderson |goals2=Dayak |stadium=Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

18:45 |team1= |score=3–0 |team2= |goals1=Prausse
Fuchs
Jahnig |goals2= |stadium=Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Group D

16:30 |team1= |score=0–1 |team2= |goals1= |goals2=Saddam |stadium=King Fahd Stadium, Taif

18:45 |team1= |score=1–2 |team2= |goals1=Simeone |goals2=Moisés
Villabona |stadium=King Fahd Stadium, Taif

18:45 |team1= |score=0–2 |team2=|goals1= |goals2=Biazotti
Ubaldi |stadium=King Fahd Stadium, Taif

18:45 |team1= |score=2–0 |team2= |goals1=Kareem
Hussein |goals2= |stadium=King Fahd Stadium, Taif

16:30 Johansen
Bohinen Mellemstrand

Knockout stage

|February 25 - Riyadh|**** |1||0 |February 25 - Jeddah||1||0 |February 25 - Dammam| |4 (3)| | 4 (5) |February 25 - Taif||1||2 |February 28 - Riyadh||1||0 |February 28 - Jeddah|**** |2||1 |March 3 - Riyadh||2||0 |March 3 - Riyadh||2| |0

Quarterfinals

18:00 |team1= |score=1–0 |team2= |goals1=Jorge Couto |goals2= |stadium=King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Main article: Miracle of Dammam

18:00 |team1= |score=4–4 |aet=yes |penaltyscore=3–5 |team2= |goals1=Kiriakov
Tedeev
Salenko |goals2=Oladimeji
Ohenhen Elijah
Ugbade | penalties1 = Salenko Bezhenar Qosimov Benko | penalties2 = Ohen Ogaba Onyemachara Adepoju Elijah |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium|Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Bin Abdul Aziz Stadium]], Dammam

18:45 |team1= |score=1–0 |team2= |goals1=Marcelo Henrique |goals2= |stadium=Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

18:45 |team1= |score=1–2 |team2= |goals1=Kareem |goals2=Henderson
Brose |stadium=King Fahd Stadium, Taif

Semifinals

18:00 |team1= |score=1–0 |team2= |goals1=Amaral |goals2= |stadium=King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

18:45 |team1= |score=2–1 |team2= |goals1=Adepoju |goals2=Snow |stadium=Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Third place play-off

Final

Result

Awards

Golden Shoe	Golden Ball	FIFA Fair Play Award
URS Oleg Salenko	BRA 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

URS Oleg Salenko ;3 goals
BRA Bismarck
BRA Marcelo Henrique
BRA Sonny Anderson
NGA Mutiu Adepoju
USA Steve Snow ;2 goals
BRA Ricardo França
COL Wilson Muñoz
TCH Radoslav Látal
IRQ Wali Kareem
NGA Christopher Ohenhen
POR Jorge Couto
URS Bakhva Tedeev
URS Sergei Kiriakov
ESP Antonio Pinilla
SYR Abdul Latif Helou
USA Troy Dayak ;1 goal
ARG Diego Simeone
ARG Humberto Biazotti
ARG Martín Ubaldi
BRA Cássio
BRA Leonardo Araújo
COL Diego Osorio
CRC Danilo Brenes
CRC Rónald González Brenes
GDR Henri Fuchs
GDR Stephan Prausse
GDR Uwe Jahnig
IRQ Laith Hussein
IRQ Naeem Saddam
IRQ Radhi Shenaishil
NGA Christopher Nwosu
NGA Oladimeji Lawal
NGA Nduka Ugbade
NGA Samuel Elijah
NOR Bjørn Johansen
NOR Lars Bohinen
NOR Oystein Drillestad
NOR Oyvind Mellemstrand
MLI Kante Nfaly
POR Abel Silva
POR João Pinto
POR Jorge Amaral
POR Paulo Alves
KSA Hamad Al Debaikhi
KSA Khaled Al Harbi
KSA Khalid Al Rowaihi
KSA Saadoun Al Suraiti
URS Andrei Timoshenko
URS Oleg Matveev
ESP David Villabona
ESP Moisés García León
SYR Mohammad Afash
SYR Yasser Sibai
USA Chris Henderson
USA Dario Brose

Final ranking

Quarter-finals Group stage

Notes

References

The FIFA states "[[Russian SFSR. Russia]]" here, which is an [[anachronism]].
Actually [[Slovakia]], as the FIFA anachronistically reports.

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