| 1979 FIFAワールドユース選手権 | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Host country |  Japan |
| Dates | 25 August – 7 September |
| Teams | 16 (from 5 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 4 (in 4 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Argentina (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Soviet Union |
| Third place |  Uruguay |
| Fourth place |  Poland |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 32 |
| Goals scored | 83 (2.59 per match) |
| Attendance | 454,500 (14,203 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Ramón Díaz (8 goals) |
| Best player(s) | Diego Maradona |
| Fair play award | Poland |
← 1977 1981 → | |
The 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship, the second staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, was held in Japan from 26 August to 7 September 1979. It was the first FIFA tournament played in Asia. The tournament took place in four cities — Kobe, Omiya, Tokyo and Yokohama — where a total of 32 matches were played, four more than in the previous edition due to the addition of a quarterfinal round in the knockout stage.
Argentina won the trophy after beating holders Soviet Union 3–1, in a final held at Tokyo's National Stadium. Argentina fielded an attack-minded high-scoring team, averaging 3.33 goals per game. They were led by the powerful duo of Diego Maradona and Ramón Díaz, who were the tournament's best player and top scorer respectively. Between the two of them, they scored 14 of Argentina's 20 goals (70%).
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship squads.
| Tokyo |
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Omiya |
|---|---|---|
| National Stadium | Omiya Stadium | |
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| Capacity: 48,000 | Capacity: 15,500 | |
| Kobe | Yokohama | |
| Chuo Stadium | Yokohama Mitsuzawa Football Stadium | |
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| Capacity: 13,000 | Capacity: 15,000 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Spain
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 |  Algeria
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 4 | |
| 3 |  Mexico
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3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 2 | |
| 4 |  Japan (H)
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3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 |
| Mexico | 1–1 | Algeria |
|---|---|---|
Hernández  24' |
Report | Yahi 67' |
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Anatoly Milchenko (Soviet Union)
| Japan | 0–1 | Spain |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Zúñiga 51' |
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Marjan Raus (Yugoslavia)
| Spain | 2–1 | Mexico |
|---|---|---|
| Joaquín 8' Gail 74' |
Report | Díaz 56' |
Attendance: 28,000
Referee: José Roberto Wright (Brazil)
| Algeria | 0–0 | Japan |
|---|---|---|
| Report |
Attendance: 32,000
Referee: Héctor Ortíz Ramírez (Paraguay)
| Spain | 0–1 | Algeria |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Bendjaballah 15' |
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Kosasih Kartadiredja (Indonesia)
| Japan | 1–1 | Mexico |
|---|---|---|
| Mizunuma 58' |
Report | Romero 69' |
Attendance: 38,000
Referee: Laszlo Padar (Hungary)
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argentina
|
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Poland
|
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 4 | |
| 3 |  Yugoslavia
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 2 | |
| 4 |  Indonesia
|
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 16 | −16 | 0 |
| Poland | 2–0 | Yugoslavia |
|---|---|---|
| Pałasz 49' Frankowski 76' |
Report |
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)
| Argentina | 5–0 | Indonesia |
|---|---|---|
| Díaz 10', 23', 25' Maradona 19', 39' |
Report |
Attendance: 15,500
Referee: Rolando Fusco (Canada)
| Yugoslavia | 0–1 | Argentina |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Escudero 55' |
Attendance: 9,500
Referee: Andre Daina (Switzerland)
| Indonesia | 0–6 | Poland |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Pałasz 11', 37' Janiec 12' Baran 22', 31' Buda 73' |
Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Kazuo Yasudo (Japan)
| Poland | 1–4 | Argentina |
|---|---|---|
| Pałasz 27' |
Report | Maradona 7' Calderón 23', 70' Simón 35' |
Attendance: 12,500
Referee: Marcel van Langenhove (Belgium)
| Yugoslavia | 5–0 | Indonesia |
|---|---|---|
| Smajić 5', 77' Milosavljević 19', 63' Mlinarić 73' |
Report |
Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Toshio Asami (Japan)
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Paraguay
|
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 |  Portugal
|
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 | |
| 3 |  South Korea
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 3 | |
| 4 |  Canada
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 2 |
| Canada | 3–1 | Portugal |
|---|---|---|
| Segota 7', 66' Nagy 79' |
Report | Grilo 46' |
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Juan Daniel Cardellino (Uruguay)
| Paraguay | 3–0 | South Korea |
|---|---|---|
| Romero 5' Cabañas 70', 74' |
Report |
Attendance: 13,000
Referee: Mohamed Hansal (Algeria)
| Portugal | 1–0 | Paraguay |
|---|---|---|
| Ferreira 23' |
Report |
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Alojzy Jarguz (Poland)
| South Korea | 1–0 | Canada |
|---|---|---|
| Lee Tae-ho 63' |
Report |
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: George Joseph (Malaysia)
| Canada | 0–3 | Paraguay |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Romero 37', 58' Isasi 40' |
Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Morisaburo Kuramochi (Japan)
| Portugal | 0–0 | South Korea |
|---|---|---|
| Report |
Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez (Mexico)
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Group stage result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uruguay
|
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | +8 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Soviet Union
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 4 | |
| 3 |  Hungary
|
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 | |
| 4 |  Guinea
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | −10 | 0 |
| Soviet Union | 5–1 | Hungary |
|---|---|---|
| Ponomaryov 24' Stukashov 41' Zavarov 57' Taran 71', 78' |
Report | Kardos 9' |
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Arturo Andrés Ithurralde (Argentina)
| Uruguay | 5–0 | Guinea |
|---|---|---|
| Molina 7' Revelez 22', 74' Paz 53' Vargas 76' |
Report |
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Melvyn D'Souza (India)
| Hungary | 0–2 | Uruguay |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Vargas 23' Paz 35' |
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Marcel van Langenhove (Belgium)
| Guinea | 0–3 | Soviet Union |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Olefirenko 6' Mikhalevsky 59' Radenko 80' |
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Suk Han-Kyu (South Korea)
| Soviet Union | 0–1 | Uruguay |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Martínez 66' |
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: César Correia Diaz da Luz (Portugal)
| Hungary | 2–0 | Guinea |
|---|---|---|
| Segesvári 17' Kerepeczky 80' |
Report |
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Thomson Chan Tam Sun (Hong Kong)
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||
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| 2 September – National Stadium | |||||||||
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| Argentina | 5 | ||||||||
| 4 September – National Stadium | |||||||||
| Algeria | 0 | ||||||||
| Argentina | 2 | ||||||||
| 2 September – Yokohama | |||||||||
| Uruguay | 0 | ||||||||
| Uruguay (a.e.t.) | 1 | ||||||||
| 7 September – National Stadium | |||||||||
| Portugal | 0 | ||||||||
| Argentina | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 September – Omiya | |||||||||
| Soviet Union | 1 | ||||||||
| Spain | 0 (3) | ||||||||
| 4 September – Kobe | |||||||||
| Poland (p) | 0 (4) | ||||||||
| Poland | 0 | ||||||||
| 2 September – Kobe | |||||||||
| Soviet Union | 1 | Third place | |||||||
| Paraguay | 2 (5) | ||||||||
| 6 September – National Stadium | |||||||||
| Soviet Union (p) | 2 (6) | ||||||||
| Uruguay (p) | 1 (5) | ||||||||
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| Poland | 1 (3) | ||||||||
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| Spain | 0–0 (a.e.t.) | Poland |
|---|---|---|
| Report | ||
| Penalties | ||
Pichardo  Gail  Manolo Zúñiga Tendillo |
3–4 | Chojnacki Buncol Jarosz Pałasz Skrobowski |
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: José Roberto Wright (Brazil)
| Argentina | 5–0 | Algeria |
|---|---|---|
| Maradona 25' Calderón 34'Díaz 39', 51', 66' |
Report |
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: George Joseph (Malaysia)
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)
| Uruguay | 1–0 (a.e.t.) | Portugal |
|---|---|---|
| Paz 94' |
Report |
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Marcel van Langenhove (Belgium)
| Argentina | 2–0 | Uruguay |
|---|---|---|
| Díaz 52' Maradona 74' |
Report |
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)
| Poland | 0–1 | Soviet Union |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Ponomaryov 50' |
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Marcel van Langenhove (Belgium)
| Uruguay | 1–1 (a.e.t.) | Poland |
|---|---|---|
| Paz 9' |
Report | Pałasz 26' |
| Penalties | ||
| 5–3 | ||
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Thomson Chan Tam Sun (Hong Kong)
| Argentina | 3–1 | Soviet Union |
|---|---|---|
| Alves 68' Díaz 71'Maradona 76' |
Report | Ponomaryov 52' |
Attendance: 52,000
Referee: José Roberto Wright (Brazil)
| FIFA World Youth Championship 1979 winners |
|---|
 Argentina First title |
| Golden Shoe | Golden Ball | Fair Play Award |
|---|---|---|
| Ramón Díaz
|
Diego Maradona
|
Poland
|
Ramón Díaz of Argentina won the Golden Shoe award for scoring eight goals. In total, 83 goals were scored by 48 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
Roberto Cabañas Krzysztof Baran Oleg Taran Ernesto Vargas Felipe Revelez Haris Smajić Nedeljko Milosavljević Hocine Yahi Hugo Alves Juan Simón Osvaldo Escudero Louis Nagy György Kerepeczky József Kardos Sándor Segesvári Takashi Mizunuma Lee Tae-Ho Armando Romero Manríquez Enrique Hernández Velázquez Mario Diaz Julio Achucarro Ramon Isasi Jan Janiec Kazimierz Buda Krzysztof Frankowski Joao Grilo Rui Ferreira Aleksandr Zavarov Anatoli Radenko Mikhail Olefirenko Sergei Stukashov Vladimir Mikhalevsky Yaroslav Dumansky Joaquín Pichardo Luis Miguel Gail Manuel Zúñiga Daniel Martínez Hector Molina Marko Mlinarić| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argentina
|
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | +18 | 12 | Champions |
| 2 | Soviet Union
|
6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 7 | Runners-up |
| 3 | Uruguay
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 9 | Third place |
| 4 | Poland
|
6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 6 | Fourth place |
| 5 | Paraguay
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4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 5 | Eliminated in Quarter-finals |
| 6 | Spain
|
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 5 | |
| 7 | Algeria
|
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 4 | |
| 8 | Portugal
|
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 | |
| 9 | South Korea
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 3 | Eliminated in Group stage |
| 10 | Yugoslavia
|
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 2 | |
| 11 | Mexico
|
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 2 | |
| 12 | Japan (H)
|
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 | |
| 13 | Canada
|
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 2 | |
| 14 | Hungary
|
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 | |
| 15 | Guinea
|
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | −10 | 0 | |
| 16 | Indonesia
|
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 16 | −16 | 0 |
