1987 FIFA U-16 World Championship

The 1987 FIFA U-16 World Championship, the second edition of the tournament, was hosted by Canada and held in the cities of Montreal, Saint John, St. John's, and Toronto between 12 and 25 July 1987. Players born after 1 August 1970 could participate in this tournament.

Venues
The cities of Montreal, Saint John, St. John's, and Toronto hosted tournament matches.

Squads
For full squad lists for the 1987 U-16 World Championship see 1987 FIFA U-16 World Championship Squads.

Referees
Asia Africa North America, Central America and the Caribbean
 * 🇮🇱 Itzhak Ben Itzhak
 * Ibrahim Al-Jassas
 * 🇰🇷 Lee Do-Ha
 * 🇧🇭 Jassim Mandi
 * Simon Bantsimba
 * 🇪🇬 Mohamed Hafez
 * 🇹🇳 Naji Jouini
 * 🇲🇽 Arturo Brizio Carter
 * 🇺🇸 David DiPlacido
 * 🇨🇦 Antonio Evangelista
 * Berny Ulloa Morera

South America Europe Oceania
 * 🇪🇨 Jorge Orellano
 * 🇧🇴 Juan Ortube
 * 🇧🇷 José Roberto Wright
 * John Blankenstein
 * Kenny Hope
 * Alexey Spirin
 * 🇳🇿 Ken Wallace

Group A
Venue: Varsity Stadium, Toronto

Group B
Venue: King George V Park, St. John's

Group C
Venue: Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard, Montreal

Group D
Venue: Jeux Canada Games Stadium, Saint John

Goalscorers
Moussa Traoré of Ivory Coast won the Golden Shoe award for scoring five goals. In total, 82 goals were scored by 54 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.


 * 5 goals
 * 🇨🇮 Moussa Traoré
 * Yuri Nikiforov
 * 4 goals
 * 🇳🇬 Philip Osondu
 * Sergei Arutyunian
 * 3 goals
 * 🇫🇷 Mickaël Debève
 * 🇮🇹 Fabio Gallo
 * 2 goals


 * 🇧🇴 Luis Cristaldo
 * 🇮🇹 Massimiliano Cappellini
 * 🇨🇮 Michel Bassole
 * 🇳🇬 Christopher Nwosu
 * 🇰🇷 Shin Tae-Yong
 * Anatoly Mushinka
 * Mirdjalal Kasimov
 * Nikolai Rusin
 * Oleh Matveyev
 * Serhiy Bezhenar


 * 1 goal


 * 🇦🇺 Phillip Richardson
 * 🇦🇺 Steve Georgakis
 * 🇦🇺 Steve Horvat
 * 🇧🇴 Hebert Arandia
 * 🇧🇴 Manuel Lobo
 * 🇧🇴 Marco Etcheverry
 * 🇧🇴 Marcos Urquiza
 * 🇨🇦 Guido Titotto
 * 🇪🇨 Victor Ramos
 * 🇪🇬 Gamal Musaed
 * 🇪🇬 Hany Hussain
 * 🇪🇬 Mohamed Ramadan
 * 🇫🇷 David Rincon
 * 🇫🇷 Gilles Adrian
 * 🇫🇷 Stephane Roche
 * 🇮🇹 Carlo Bocchialini
 * 🇮🇹 Gianluca Pessotto
 * 🇮🇹 Marcello Melli
 * 🇨🇮 Beda Beda
 * 🇨🇮 Lama Dea
 * 🇲🇽 Carlos Rivera
 * 🇲🇽 Daniel Landa
 * 🇲🇽 Ramiro Romero
 * 🇳🇬 Albert Eke
 * 🇶🇦 Abdulla Hassan
 * 🇶🇦 Abdulla Yousuf
 * 🇶🇦 Edress Khairi
 * 🇶🇦 Rashid Suwaid
 * Mohammed Shalgan
 * Turki Zayed
 * 🇰🇷 Kim In-Wan
 * 🇰🇷 Lee Tae-Hong
 * 🇰🇷 Noh Jung-Yoon
 * Vladislav Kadyrov
 * Arif Asadov
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Crawley
 * 🇺🇸 Chad Deering
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Snow

Final ranking
FIFA awarded the Golden Boot to Moussa Traoré because Côte d'Ivoire had scored fewer goals than USSR.