The 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship was the inaugural staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, hosted by Tunisia from 27 June to 10 July 1977, in three venues — Tunis, Sousse and Sfax. The 28 matches played were the smallest number in tournament history. The USSR U20s defeated Mexico U20s in a penalty shootout, in the final held at Tunis's Stade El Menzah.
The Tournament Committee was chaired by FIFA Vice-President Harry Cavan, who had spearheaded the creation of the World Youth Championship.
Qualification ConfederationQualifying tournamentQualifier(s)AFC (Asia)1977 AFC Youth Championship CAF (Africa)Host nation1977 African Youth Qualifying for World Cup CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)1976 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament CONMEBOL (South America)1977 South American Youth Championship UEFA (Europe)1976 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship
Squads For a list of all squads that began play in the group stage of the tournament, see 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship squads
Venues TunisTunis Stade El Menzah Stade Chedly Zouiten Capacity: 45,000 Capacity: 18,000Sousse SfaxStade Olympique de Sousse Stade Ameur El-Gargouri Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 4,000
Group stage
The group winners advanced directly to the semifinals.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Result
Awards Golden ShoeGolden BallFair Play Award Guina Vladimir Bessonov
Goalscorers
Guina of Brazil won the Golden Boot award for scoring four goals. In total, 70 goals were scored by 49 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
4 goals Guina 3 goals Hussein Saeed Agustín Manzo Luis Placencia Vladimir Bessonov 2 goals
Cléber Paulinho Paulo Roberto Moharam Asheri Hussein Luaibi Fernando Garduno Pedro López Valeri Petrakov Ricardo Escobar Palacios Amaro Nadal
1 goal
Heinz Weiss Jorge Luís Júnior Brasília Tião Andre Wiss Gerard Bacconnier Thierry Meyer Gilberto Yearwood José Enrique Duarte Prudencio Norales Imre Nagy János Kerekes Zoltán Péter Reza Rajabi Abdolreza Barzegar Haddi Hammadi Luigi Capuzzo Honore Ya Semon Lucien Kouassi Eduardo Moses Eduardo Rergis Hugo Rodríguez Eugenio Giménez Domingo Salmaniego Juan Battaglia Víctor Morel Andrei Bal Vagiz Khidiyatullin José Casas Ali Ben Fattoum Alberto Bica Daniel Enrique Venancio Ramos Víctor Diogo
Final ranking
Notes
External links FIFA World Youth Championship Tunisia 1977 , FIFA.com RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1977 FIFA Technical Report All Matches of the Brazilian Soccer Team Todos os Jogos da Seleção Brasileira de Futebol