Host country Japan Champions Argentina (1st title) Fourth place Poland Dates 25 Aug 1979 – 7 Sep 1979 Best player Diego Maradona Attendance 454,500 | Venue(s) 4 (in 4 host cities) Runners-up Soviet Union Matches played 32 Top scorer Ramón Díaz Teams 16 | |
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Third place Uruguay national football team Similar 1995 FIFA World Youth Ch, 1981 FIFA World Youth Ch, 1997 FIFA World Youth Ch, 1989 FIFA World Youth Ch, 1993 FIFA World Youth Ch | ||
1979 fifa world youth championship
The 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship, the second staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, was held in Japan from August 26 to September 7, 1979. The tournament took place in four venues — Kobe, Omiya, Tokyo and Yokohama — where a total of 32 matches were played, four more than in the previous edition due to the addition of a quarterfinal round in the knockout stage. The winner was Argentina, who beat holders Soviet Union by 3–1, in a final held at Tokyo's National Stadium.
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Squads
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship squads.
Goalscorers
Ramón Díaz of Argentina won the Golden Shoe award for scoring eight goals. In total, 83 goals were scored by 48 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.