1989 FIFA World Youth Championship
The 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Saudi Arabia between 16 February and 3 March 1989. The 1989 championship was the 7th contested. The tournament took place across four cities: Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, and Ta'if.
Qualification
Match officials
;Africa;Asia
;Europe
- Hubert Forstinger
- Tullio Lanese
- Neil Midgley
- Egil Nervik
- Aron Schmidhuber
- Alan Snoddy
- Alexey Spirin
- Marcel van Langenhove
;South America
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1989 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.Group A
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | +1 |
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Group B
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | ||
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 |
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Group C
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | ||
| 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | −8 |
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Group D
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | ||
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 |
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Knockout stages
Quarterfinals
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Semifinals
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Third place play-off
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Result
Awards
Goalscorers
Oleg Salenko of Soviet Union won the Golden Shoe award for scoring five goals. In total, 81 goals were scored by 55 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.;5 goals
- Oleg Salenko
;2 goals
- Ricardo França
- Wilson Muñoz
- Radoslav Látal
- Wali Kareem
- Jorge Couto
- Bakhva Tedeev
- Sergei Kiriakov
- Antonio Pinilla
- Abdul Latif Helou
- Troy Dayak
- Diego Simeone
- Humberto Biazotti
- Martín Ubaldi
- Cássio
- Leonardo Araújo
- Diego Osorio
- Danilo Brenes
- Rónald González Brenes
- Henri Fuchs
- Stephan Prausse
- Uwe Jahnig
- Laith Hussein
- Naeem Saddam
- Radhi Shenaishil
- Christopher Nwosu
- Nduka Ugbade
- Samuel Elijah
- Bjørn Johansen
- Lars Bohinen
- Oystein Drillestad
- Oyvind Mellemstrand
- Kante Nfaly
- Abel Silva
- Joao Manuel Vieira Pinto
- Jorge Amaral Rodrigues
- Paulo Alves
- Hamad Al Debaikhi
- Khaled Al Harbi
- Khalid Al Rowaihi
- Saadoun Al Suraiti
- Andrei Timoshenko
- Oleg Matveev
- David Villabona
- Moisés García León
- Mohammad Afash
- Yasser Sibai
- Chris Henderson
- Dario Brose
Final ranking