football world youth championship

The Football World Youth Championship is the world championship of football for male players under the age of 20 and is organized by Fdration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Often, some of the biggest names in the sport make their first mark on the world's stage at this competition. These include Diego Maradona (1979), Davor Suker (1987), and Luis Figo (1991). The first edition was hosted by Tunisia in 1977 and was won by the Soviet Union. It has taken place in all odd-numbered years since, with Argentina and Brazil leading the way with four wins each. A corresponding event for women's teams, the FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship, began in 2002.

Results

owspan=2 width=5%\|Year	rowspan=2 width=10%\|Host	width=1% rowspan=35 bgcolor=ffffff\|	colspan=3\|Final	width=1% rowspan=35 bgcolor=ffffff\|	colspan=3\|Third Place Match
idth=15%\|Champion	width=10%\|Score	width=15%\|Second Place	width=15%\|Third Place	width=10%\|Score	width=15%\|Fourth Place
owspan=2\|1977	rowspan=2\|Tunisia	30px USSR	2 - 2 aet	30px Mexico	rowspan=2\|30px Brazil	rowspan=2\|4 - 0	rowspan=2\|30px Uruguay
olspan=3\|7 - 6 on penalty shootout
owspan=2\|1979	rowspan=2\|Japan	rowspan=2\|30px Argentina	rowspan=2\|3 - 1	rowspan=2\|30px USSR	30px Uruguay	1 - 1 aet	30px Poland
olspan=3\|5 - 3 on penalty shootout
a href="/encyclopedia/1981" title="1981">1981	Australia	30px West Germany	4 - 0	30px Qatar	30px Romania	1 - 0	30px England
a href="/encyclopedia/1983" title="1983">1983	Mexico	30px Brazil	1 - 0	30px Argentina	30px Poland	2 - 1 aet	30px South Korea
owspan=2\|1985	rowspan=2\|USSR	rowspan=2\|30px Brazil	rowspan=2\|1 - 0 aet	rowspan=2\|30px Spain	30px Nigeria	0 - 0 aet	30px USSR
olspan=3\|3 - 1 on penalty shootout
owspan=2\|1987	rowspan=2\|Chile	30px Yugoslavia	1 - 1 aet	30px West Germany	30px East Germany	2 - 2 aet	30px Chile
olspan=3\|5 - 4 on penalty shootout	colspan=3\|3 - 1 on penalty shootout
a href="/encyclopedia/1989" title="1989">1989	Saudi Arabia	30px Portugal	2 - 0	30px Nigeria	30px Brazil	2 - 0	30px USA
owspan=2\|1991	rowspan=2\|Portugal	30px Portugal	0 - 0 aet	30px Brazil	30px USSR	1 - 1	30px Argentina
olspan=3\|4 - 2 on penalty shootout	colspan=3\|5 - 4 on penalty shootout
a href="/encyclopedia/1993" title="1993">1993	Australia	30px Brazil	2 - 1	30px Ghana	30px England	2 - 1	30px Australia
a href="/encyclopedia/1995" title="1995">1995	Qatar	30px Argentina	2 - 0	30px Brazil	30px Portugal	3 - 2	30px Spain
a href="/encyclopedia/1997" title="1997">1997	Malaysia	30px Argentina	2 - 1	30px Uruguay	30px Ireland	2 - 1	30px Ghana
a href="/encyclopedia/1999" title="1999">1999	Nigeria	30px Spain	4 - 0	30px Japan	30px Mali	1 - 0	30px Uruguay
a href="/encyclopedia/2001" title="2001">2001	Argentina	30px Argentina	3 - 0	30px Ghana	30px Egypt	1 - 0	30px Paraguay
a href="/encyclopedia/2003" title="2003">2003	UAE	30px Brazil	1 - 0	30px Spain	30px Colombia	2 - 1	30px Argentina
a href="/encyclopedia/2005" title="2005">2005	Netherlands
a href="/encyclopedia/2007" title="2007">2007	Canada

Key:

aet - after extra time
asdet - after sudden death extra time

Total Wins

Argentina 4 (1979, 1995, 1997, 2001)
Brazil 4 (1983, 1985, 1993, 2003)
Portugal 2 (1989, 1991)
USSR 1 (1977)
West Germany 1 (1981)
Yugoslavia 1 (1987)
Netherlands 1 (1988)
Spain 1 (1999)

Football World Youth Championship

Results

Total Wins

See Also