1977 FIFA World Youth Championship

1977 FIFA World Youth Championship

كأس العالم للشباب تحت 20 سنة 1977
Tournament details
Host country	Tunisia
Dates	June 27–July 10
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 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	Vladimir Bessonov
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The 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship was the inaugural staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship and was held in Tunisia from June 27 to July 10, 1977. The tournament took place in four venues — Tunis, Rades, Sousse and Sfax — where a total of 28 matches were played, the smallest number in its history. The winner was USSR, who beat Mexico by a penalty shootout, in a final held at Rades'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.

Squads

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

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Mexico	4	3	1	2	0	8	2	+6
Spain	3	3	1	1	1	3	3	0
France	3	3	1	1	1	3	3	0
Tunisia	2	3	1	0	2	1	7	−6

June 27, 1977 12:00	France	1 – 2	Spain	Stade El Menzah, Rades Attendance: Not available Referee: Orhan Cebe (Turkey)
	Bacconnier  75'	(Report) [1]	Escobar  29' Casas  60'

June 27, 1977 16:00	Mexico	6 – 0	Tunisia	Stade El Menzah, Rades Attendance: Not available Referee: Farouk Bouzo (Syria)
	Manzo  46, 47' Placencia  48, 69, 72' Garduno  56'	(Report)

June 30, 1977 12:00	Spain	1 – 1	Mexico	Stade El Menzah, Rades Attendance: Not available Referee: Franz Woehrer (Austria)
	Escobar  46'	(Report)	Rodríguez  73'

June 30, 1977 16:00	Tunisia	0 – 1	France	Stade El Menzah, Rades Attendance: Not available Referee: Arturo Andrés Ithurralde (Argentina)
		(Report)	Meyer  20'

July 3, 1977 12:00	France	1 – 1	Mexico	Stade El Menzah, Rades Attendance: Not available Referee: Gianfranco Menegali (Italy)
	Wiss  64'	(Report)	Moses  70'

July 3, 1977 16:00	Spain	0 – 1	Tunisia	Stade El Menzah, Rades Attendance: Not available Referee: Eldar Azim Zade (Soviet Union) [2]
		(Report)	Ben Fattoum  52'

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Uruguay	6	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5
Honduras	4	3	2	0	1	3	1	+2
Hungary	2	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1
Morocco	0	3	0	0	3	0	6	−6

June 28, 1977 12:00	Morocco	0 – 1	Honduras	Stade Chedli Zouiten, Tunis Attendance: Not available Referee: Gerard Racine (Switzerland)
		(Report)	Norales  46'

June 28, 1977 16:00	Uruguay	2 – 1	Hungary	Stade Chedli Zouiten, Tunis Attendance: Not available Referee: Gianfranco Menegali (Italy)
	Diogo  15' Bica  25' (pen.)	(Report)	Péter  17'

July 1, 1977 12:00	Honduras	0 – 1	Uruguay	Stade Chedli Zouiten, Tunis Attendance: Not available Referee: Birame N'Diaye (Senegal)
		(Report)	Nadal  29'

July 1, 1977 16:00	Hungary	2 – 0	Morocco	Stade Chedli Zouiten, Tunis Attendance: Not available Referee: Arnaldo Coelho (Brazil)
	Kerekes  26' Nagy  56'	(Report)

July 4, 1977 12:00	Hungary	0 – 2	Honduras	Stade Chedli Zouiten, Tunis Attendance: Not available Referee: Sahar El Hawary (Egypt)
		(Report)	Yearwood  7' Duarte  30'

July 4, 1977 16:00	Uruguay	3 – 0	Morocco	Stade Chedli Zouiten, Tunis Attendance: Not available Referee: Farouk Bouzo (Syria)
	Nadal  36' Enrique  44' Ramos  51'	(Report)

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Brazil	5	3	2	1	0	8	2	+6
Iran	3	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1
Italy	2	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2
Côte d'Ivoire	2	3	0	2	1	2	5	−3

June 27, 1977 12:00	Italy	1 – 1	Côte d'Ivoire	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Attendance: Not available Referee: Emmanuel Platopoulos (Greece)
	Capuzzo  11'	(Report)	Kouassi  77'

June 27, 1977 16:00	Brazil	5 – 1	Iran	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Attendance: Not available Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
	Guina  22, 29, 39' Paulo Roberto  37' Júnior Brasília  52'	(Report)	Rajabi  55'

June 30, 1977 12:00	Iran	0 – 0	Italy	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Attendance: Not available Referee: Lajos Somlai (Hungary)
		(Report)

June 30, 1977 16:00	Côte d'Ivoire	1 – 1	Brazil	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Attendance: Not available Referee: Mohamed Kadri (Tunisia)
	Ya Semon  46'	(Report)	Cléber  89'

July 3, 1977 12:00	Iran	3 – 0	Côte d'Ivoire	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Attendance: Not available Referee: Salem Mahmud Adal (Syria)
	Asheri  31, 87' Barzegar  80'	(Report)

July 3, 1977 16:00	Brazil	2 – 0	Italy	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Attendance: Not available Referee: Dusan Maksimovic (Yugoslavia)
	Guina  11' Paulinho  48'	(Report)

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Soviet Union	5	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3
Paraguay	4	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4
Iraq	2	3	1	0	2	6	8	−2
Austria	1	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5

June 28, 1977 12:00	Soviet Union	3 – 1	Iraq	Sfax Stadium, Sfax Attendance: Not available Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)
	Petrakov  19, 23' Bal  39'	(Report)	Munshid  77'

June 28, 1977 16:00	Austria	0 – 1	Paraguay	Sfax Stadium, Sfax Attendance: Not available Referee: Zoubir Benganif (Algeria)
		(Report)	Morel  62'

July 1, 1977 12:00	Iraq	5 – 1	Austria	Sfax Stadium, Sfax Attendance: Not available Referee: Tesfaye Gebreyesus (Ethiopia) [3]
	Munshid  30' Hussain  34, 38, 90 3+' [4] Hammadi 90 4+ [4]	(Report)	Weiss  28'

July 1, 1977 16:00	Paraguay	1 – 2	Soviet Union	Sfax Stadium, Sfax Attendance: Not available Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
	Battaglia  38'	(Report)	Khidiyatullin  29' Bessonov  59'

July 4, 1977 12:00	Paraguay	4 – 0	Iraq	Sfax Stadium, Sfax Attendance: Not available Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)
	Salmaniego  26' López  30, 68' Giménez  67'	(Report)

July 4, 1977 16:00	Austria	0 – 0	Soviet Union	Sfax Stadium, Sfax Attendance: Not available Referee: Mohamed Larache (Morocco)
		(Report)

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	6 July - Rades
	Mexico (PSO)	1 (5)
	Brazil	1 (3)
					10 July - Rades
					Mexico	2 (8)
					Soviet Union (PSO)	2 (9)
					Third place
	6 July - Rades			9 July - Rades
	Uruguay	0 (3)		Brazil	4
	Soviet Union (PSO)	0 (4)			Uruguay	0

Semifinals

July 6, 1977 12:00	Mexico	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) (5-3 pen.)	Brazil	Stade El Menzah, Rades Attendance: Not available Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)
	Rergis  53'	(Report)	Jorge Luíz  59'

July 7, 1977 12:00	Uruguay	0 – 0 (a.e.t.) (3-4 pen.)	Soviet Union	Stade El Menzah, Rades Attendance: Not available Referee: Gianfranco Menegali (Italy)
		(Report)

Third place play-off

July 9, 1977 12:00	Brazil	4 – 0	Uruguay	Stade El Menzah, Rades Attendance: Not available Referee: Farouk Bouzo (Syria)
	Cléber  13' Paulo Roberto  30' Paulinho  53' Tiao  69'	(Report)

Final

July 10, 1977 18:30	Mexico	2 – 2 (a.e.t.) (8-9 pen.)	Soviet Union	Stade El Menzah, Rades Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
	Garduno  50' Manzo  59'	(Report)	Bessonov  52, 88'

Result

FIFA World Youth Championship 1977 Winners
Soviet Union First title

Awards

Golden Shoe	Golden Ball	Fair Play Award
Guina	Vladimir Bessonov	Brazil

Notes

External links

• FIFA World Youth Championship 1977
• RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1977

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