1991 FIFA World Youth Championship

The 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship was the eighth staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, an international football competition organized by FIFA for men's youth national teams, and the eighth since it was established in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Tournament. The final tournament took place for the first time in Portugal, between 14 and 30 June 1991. Matches were played across five venues in as many cities: Faro, Braga, Guimarães, Porto and Lisbon. Nigeria originally won the bid to host but was stripped of its right after found guilty for committing age fabrication.

North Korea and South Korea competed for the first time as a united team, although FIFA attributes its historical data to South Korea. Portugal entered the competition as the defending champions, after winning the previous tournament. They reached the final, where a record attendance of 127,000 witnessed the hosts defeat Portuguese-speaking rival Brazil 4–2 on penalties to secure their second consecutive title. The Soviet Union made its last FIFA tournament appearance, as the country was dissolved later that year.

Qualification
In addition to the host team, Portugal, 15 other national teams qualified from six continental tournaments.


 * 1.Teams that made their debut.

Match officials

 * Africa
 * 🇬🇲 Alhagi Ibrahima Faye
 * Mawukpona Hounnake-Kouassi
 * Idrissa Sarr


 * Asia
 * Ali Bujsaim
 * 🇯🇵 Kiichiro Tachi
 * 🇨🇳 Wei Jihong


 * Europe
 * 🇧🇪 Guy Goethals
 * 🇩🇪 Bernd Heynemann
 * Leslie Irvine
 * João Martins Correia Pinto
 * 🇳🇴 Egil Nervik
 * 🇮🇹 Pierluigi Pairetto
 * 🇭🇺 Sándor Puhl
 * Daniel Roudit
 * 🇵🇱 Ryszard Wojcik


 * North, Central America and Caribbean
 * 🇺🇸 Raúl Domínguez
 * Juan Pablo Escobar López
 * 🇨🇦 Robert Sawtell


 * South America
 * Ernesto Filippi
 * 🇦🇷 Francisco Lamolina
 * Enrique Marín Gallo
 * 🇧🇷 Renato Marsiglia
 * 🇵🇪 Alberto Tejada


 * Oceania
 * 🇦🇺 John McConnell

Squads
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship squads

Group stages
The 16 teams were split into four groups of four teams. Four group winners, and four second-place finishers qualify for the knockout round.

Goalscorers
Serhiy Scherbakov of Soviet Union 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
 * Serhiy Scherbakov
 * 4 goals
 * 🇧🇷 Giovane Élber
 * 🇲🇽 Pedro Pineda
 * 🇪🇸 Ismael Urzaiz
 * 3 goals
 * 🇦🇺 David Seal
 * Paulo Torres
 * 🇪🇸 Pier Luigi Cherubino
 * 2 goals


 * 🇧🇷 Djair Kaye de Brito
 * 🇧🇷 Luíz Fernando
 * 🇧🇷 Marquinhos
 * 🇧🇷 Paulo Nunes
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andy Awford
 * Choi Chol
 * Nélson Gama
 * 🇸🇪 Andreas Bild
 * 🇸🇾 Munaf Ramadan


 * 1 goal


 * 🇦🇺 Brad Maloney
 * 🇦🇺 Paul Okon
 * 🇦🇺 Kris Trajanovski
 * 🇦🇷 Marcelo Delgado
 * 🇦🇷 Roberto Molina
 * 🇧🇷 Castro
 * 🇧🇷 Andrei Frascarelli
 * 🇪🇬 Amir Abdel Aziz
 * 🇪🇬 Sami El-Sheshini
 * 🇪🇬 Samir Hussein
 * 🇪🇬 Sami Abdel Halil Ismail
 * 🇪🇬 Mostafa Sadek
 * 🇪🇬 Tamer Sakr
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bradley Allen
 * 🇮🇪 Stephen Gallagher
 * 🇮🇪 Paul McCarthy
 * 🇮🇪 Barry O'Connor
 * 🇨🇮 Ambroise Mambo
 * 🇨🇮 Ambroise Seri
 * 🇨🇮 Sylvain Tiehi
 * Cho In-Chol
 * 🇲🇽 Álvarez Arcos
 * 🇲🇽 Héctor Hernández
 * 🇲🇽 Bruno Mendoza
 * Capucho
 * Rui Costa
 * Gil Gomes
 * João Vieira Pinto
 * Serhiy Konovalov
 * Sergei Mandreko
 * Dmytro Mykhaylenko
 * Yevhen Pokhlebayev
 * 🇪🇸 José Mauricio Casas
 * 🇸🇪 Patrik Andersson
 * 🇸🇪 Jonny Rödlund
 * 🇸🇾 Ammar Awad
 * 🇸🇾 Abdul Latif Helou
 * 🇸🇾 Abdullah Mando