1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship

The 1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship, the first edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Dalian in People's Republic of China from July 31, 1985, to August 11, 1985. Players born after August 1, 1968, could participate in this tournament. The total attendance for the tournament was a record 1,230,976. The 2017 U-17 World Cup surpassed this, with a record attendance of 1,347,133.

Squads
For full squad lists for the 1985 U-16 World Championship see 1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship squads.

Referees
Asia Africa CONCACAF
 * Fallaj Al-Shanar
 * 🇨🇳 Chen Shengcai
 * 🇨🇳 Cui Baoyin
 * 🇨🇳 Zhang Daqiao
 * 🇶🇦 Hassan Abdullah Al Mullah
 * Simon Bantsimba
 * Karim Camara
 * Alhati Salahudeen
 * Carlos Alfaro
 * 🇺🇸 Angelo Bratsis
 * 🇲🇽 Joaquin Urrea Reyes

South America Europe Oceania
 * 🇧🇷 Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
 * 🇦🇷 Carlos Espósito
 * 🇧🇴 Juan Ortube
 * 🇭🇺 Miklós Nagy
 * 🇮🇹 Claudio Pieri
 * Karl-Heinz Tritschler
 * 🇦🇺 Chris Bambridge

Goalscorers
Marcel Witeczek of West Germany won the Golden Shoe award for scoring eight goals. In total, 91 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.


 * 8 goals
 * Marcel Witeczek
 * 5 goals
 * 🇧🇷 William
 * 4 goals
 * 🇳🇬 Billa Momoh
 * 3 goals
 * 🇧🇷 Bismarck Barreto Faria
 * 🇨🇳 Guo Zhuang
 * 🇳🇬 Victor Igbinoba
 * Abdulaziz Al Razgan
 * 2 goals


 * 🇦🇷 Hugo Maradona
 * 🇦🇺 Paul Trimboli
 * 🇧🇷 Mauricio
 * 🇨🇳 Xie Yuxin
 * Herve Kakou
 * Mohamed Soumah
 * Mohamed Sylla
 * Salifou Koita
 * 🇭🇺 László Marik
 * 🇭🇺 Zoltán Kanál
 * 🇮🇹 Giorgio Bresciani
 * 🇲🇽 Elias Ledesma
 * Boushal Al Boushal
 * 🇺🇸 Curtis Pride


 * 1 goal


 * 🇦🇷 Diego Álvarez
 * 🇦🇷 Fernando Cáceres
 * 🇦🇷 Lorenzo Frutos
 * 🇦🇺 Craig Naven
 * 🇦🇺 Stan Thodis
 * 🇧🇴 Erwin Sánchez
 * 🇧🇴 Marco Etcheverry
 * 🇧🇷 Andre Cruz
 * 🇧🇷 Marques
 * 🇧🇷 Natalino Rodrigues Antunes
 * 🇨🇳 Cao Xiandong
 * 🇨🇳 Sun Bowei
 * 🇨🇳 Tu Shengqiao
 * Eric Mantot
 * Etienne Salles
 * Hernán Medford
 * Lamine Toure
 * 🇭🇺 Zsolt Huszák
 * 🇮🇹 Andrea Caverzan
 * 🇲🇽 Francisco Cortes
 * 🇳🇬 Fatai Atere
 * 🇳🇬 Jonathan Akpoborie
 * 🇳🇬 Joseph Babatunde
 * 🇶🇦 Adel Al Abdulla
 * 🇶🇦 Saleh Al Mohannadi
 * Adel Al Dosary
 * Nasser Al Fahad
 * Saadoun Al Suraiti
 * 🇺🇸 Larry McPhail
 * Detlev Dammeier
 * Dirk Konerding
 * Helmut Gabriel
 * Klaus Mirwald


 * Own goal
 * 🇨🇳 Bi Sheng (playing against West Germany)