1983 FIFA World Youth Championship

Infobox International Football Competition
tourney_name = FIFA World Youth Championship
year = 1983
other_titles = Copa Mundial Juvenil Mexico '83


size =
caption =
country = Mexico
dates = June 2–June 19
num_teams = 16
confederations = 6
venues = 7
cities = 7
champion = Brazil
champion-flagvar = 1968
count = 1
second = Argentina
second-flagvar = alt
third = Poland
fourth = South Korea
matches = 32
goals = 90
attendance = 1155160
top_scorer = flagicon|BRA Geovani (6 goals)
player = flagicon|BRA Geovani
updated =The 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship, the fourth edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship, was held in Mexico from June 2 to June 19, 1983. The tournament took place in seven venues — Guadalajara, Irapuato, León, Mexico City, Monterrey, Puebla and Toluca — where a total of 32 matches were played. The winner was Brazil, who beat Argentina by 1–0, in a final held at Mexico City's Azteca Stadium.

This edition still holds the record for average (36,099) attendances of the tournament's history. For many this edition was a kind of proof to Mexico to test the capacity to hold a FIFA competition after the designation from FIFA in May for hold the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

Group stage

Group A

footballbox|date=June 4, 1983 12:00 |team1=fb-rt|CHN |score=0–5 |team2=fb|ARG|alt |goals1=
goals2=Gabrich 16'
García 53' Dertycia 70' Zárate 81' Acosta 89' |stadium=Mexico City
Attendance: 19,376 Referee: Hernán Silva Arce (Chile) |report= [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=104/edition=191120/matches/match=30719/report.html (Report)] ------------------------

Group D

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Knockout stage

Round8-with third
11 June - Mexico City |fb|SCO |0 |fb|POL |1
12 June - León |fb|ARG|alt |2 |fb|NED |1
11 June - Monterrey |fb|URU |1 |fb|KOR (aet) |2
12 June - Guadalajara |fb|BRA |4 |fb|TCH |1
15 June - Mexico City |fb|POL |0 |fb|ARG|alt |1
15 June - Monterrey |fb|KOR |1 |fb|BRA |2
19 June - Mexico City |fb|ARG|alt |0 |fb|BRA |1
18 June - Guadalajara |fb|POL (aet) |2 |fb|KOR |1

Quarter-finals

------------footballbox|date=June 12, 1983 12:00 |team1=fb-rt|BRA |score=4–1 |team2=fb|TCH |goals1=Dunga 18'
Bebeto 29' Geovani 40', 60' |goals2=Dostal 6' |stadium=Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 36,183 Referee: Fermín Ramírez Zermeno (Mexico)
report= [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=104/edition=191120/matches/match=30742/report.html (Report)] ----

emi-finals

footballbox|date=June 15, 1983 17:00 |team1=fb-rt|POL |score=0–1 |team2=fb|ARG|alt |goals1=
goals2=Zárate 59' |stadium=Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 39,896 Referee: José Luis Martínez Bazán (Uruguay) |report= [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=104/edition=191120/matches/match=30743/report.html (Report)] --------

Third place play-off

goals1=Krauze 77' Szczepanski 103' |goals2=Lee Ki-Keun 37' |stadium=Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Luis C. Felix Ferreira (Brazil)
report= [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=104/edition=191120/matches/match=30745/report.html (Report)] ----

Final

footballbox|date=June 19, 1983 12:00 |team1=fb-rt|ARG|alt |score=0–1 |team2=fb|BRA |goals1=
goals2=Geovani 39' [RSSSF indicates the goal as a penalty, and scored at 31' instead of 39'. See http://www.rsssf.com/tablesw/wyc83.html.] |stadium=Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 110,000 Referee: Gerard Biguet (France) |report= [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=104/edition=191120/matches/match=30746/report.html (Report)]

Result

Awards

Notes

External links

* [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=104/edition=191120/index.html FIFA World Youth Championship 1983]
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesw/wyc83.html RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1983]