1991 FIFA World Youth Championship

1991 FIFA World Youth Championship

Campeonato Mundial de Júniores Portugal '91
Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Dates	14–30 June
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Portugal (2nd title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Soviet Union
Fourth place	Australia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	82 (2.56 per match)
Attendance	731,500 (22,859 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Serhiy Scherbakov (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Emílio Peixe
Fair play award	Soviet Union
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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.^[1]

North Korea and South Korea competed for the first time as a united team, although FIFA attributes its historical data to South Korea.^[2] 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.