1979 FIFA World Youth Championship
- 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship
Infobox International Football Competition
tourney_name = FIFA World Youth Championship
year = 1979
other_titles = 1979 FIFAワールドユース選手権
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country = Japan
dates = August 26–September 7
num_teams = 16
confederations = 5
venues = 4
cities = 4
champion = Argentina
champion-flagvar = alt
count = 1
second = USSR
third = Uruguay
fourth = Poland
matches = 32
goals = 83
attendance = 454500
top_scorer = flagicon|Argentina|alt Ramón Díaz (8 goals)
player = flagicon|Argentina|alt Diego Armando Maradona
updated =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.
Group stage
Group A
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Group D
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Knockout stage
Round8-with third
2 September - Tokyo |fb|ARG|alt |5 |fb|ALG |0
2 September - Yokohama |fb|URU (AET) |1 |fb|POR |0
2 September - Omiya |fb|ESP|1977 |0 (3) |fb|POL (PSO) |0 (4)
2 September - Kobe |fb|PAR |2 (5) |fb|URS (PSO) |2 (6)
September 4 - Tokyo |fb|ARG|alt |2 |fb|URU |0
September 4 - Kobe |fb|POL |0 |fb|URS |1
September 7 - Tokyo |fb|ARG|alt |3 |fb|URS |1
September 6 - Tokyo |fb|URU (PSO) |1 (5) |fb|POL |1 (3)
Quarter-finals
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emi-finals
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Third place play-off
Final
Result
Awards
Notes
External links
* [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=104/edition=191081/index.html FIFA World Youth Championship 1979]
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesw/wyc79.html RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1979]
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