The 1991 FIFA U-17 World Championship, the fourth edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of Florence, Montecatini Terme, Viareggio, Massa, Carrara, and Livorno in Italy between 16 and 31 August 1991. Players born after 1 August 1974 could participate in this tournament.
Saudi Arabia, the 1989 champions, were not able to defend their title as they withdrew from the final round of the AFC qualifying tournament, citing the Blue Diamond Affair.
The tournament was originally to be scheduled in Ecuador, but due to the cholera outbreak earlier that year, it was moved to Italy, which hosted the previous year's World Cup. This was the second time a FIFA event was moved from its original hosting country, after the 1986 World Cup was moved from Colombia to Mexico.
Cities & Stadiums Città Stadio Florence Stadio Artemio Franchi Livorno Stadio Armando Picchi Massa Stadio Gianpiero Vitali Carrara Stadio dei Marmi Montecatini Terme Stadio Daniele Mariotti Viareggio Stadio Torquato Bresciani
Qualified Teams
Confederation Qualifying Tournament Qualifier(s) AFC (Asia) 1990 AFC U-16 Championship CAF (Africa) 1991 African U-17 Qualifying for World Cup CONCACAF (Central, North America and Caribbean)1991 CONCACAF U-17 Tournament CONMEBOL (South America)1991 South American U-17 Championship OFC (Oceania)1991 OFC U-17 Championship UEFA (Europe)Host nation1991 UEFA European Under-16 Championship
1. replacing Ecuador.
Squads For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1991 FIFA U-17 World Championship squads
Referees
Asia Omar Al-Mohanna Lechmanasamy Kathirveloo Nizar Watti Africa Sylvain Abikanlou Rachid Ben Khadija Lim Kee Chong CONCACAF Errol Forbes Miguel Angel Salas Arlington Success
South America Juan Bava Sabino Cespedes Jorge Orellano Ulisses Tavares da Silva Europe Angelo Amendolia Fabio Baldas Jan Damgaard Philippe Leduc Leif Sundell Mario van der Ende Oceania Ronald Gallon
Group stages Group A TeamsPtsPldWDLGFGAGDStatus63300514Advanced to the quarterfinals331112202302123−1Eliminated1301247−3
Group B Venue: Carrara TeamsPtsPldWDLGFGAGDStatus43201642Advanced to the quarterfinals331111103311123−1Eliminated2310256−1
Group C Venue: Massa TeamsPtsPldWDLGFGAGDStatus63300707Advanced to the quarterfinals3311155023102550Eliminated13012310−7
Group D Venue: Livorno TeamsPtsPldWDLGFGAGDStatus53210936Advanced to the quarterfinals532105232310213−2Eliminated03003310−7
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Result
Awards Golden ShoeGolden BallFIFA Fair Play Adriano (4 goals) Nii Lamptey
Goalscorers
Adriano of Brazil won the Golden Shoe award for scoring four goals. In total, 81 goals were scored by 59 different players, with only one of them credited as own goals.
4 goals Adriano Nii Lamptey 3 goals Paul Agostino Jorge Toledano Antonio Robaina Juan Carlos Murgui 2 goals
Ruben Comelles Alex Kiratzoglu Gao Fei Goya Jaekel Jens Sarna Mohammed Gargo Mohamed Ahmed Matt McKeon
1 goal
Christian Akselman Juan Sebastián Verón Ricardo Castellani Aaron Healey Argel Leandro Nenê Yan Huang Yi Liang Yu Gaston Kibiti Patrick Tchicaya Eliezer Casamayor Luis Marten Vladimir Sánchez Christof Babatz Karl-Heinz Lutz Emmanuel Duah Nana Opoku Alessandro Del Piero Daniele Giraldi García Mario Garza Ahmed Bu Jassim Al Tamimi Mohamed Al Bedaid Ibrahim Hussein Khalid Elmustafa Nemairi Saeed César Palacios Dani Emilio Carrasco James Beattie José Miguel López Pedro Velasco Morón Ramón Adel Mohamed Ali Abdulrahman Jamal Ibrahim Albertin Montoya Brian Kelly Mike Dunne Shohn Beachum Diego López
Own goal Juan Azconzobal (playing against Australia)
Final ranking
RankTeam1642083+51026411135+89362225506461413306 Eliminated in the quarter-finals5431062+476430182+667420276+148411268–23 Eliminated at the group stage9311123–13103102550211310256–1212302123–1213310213–2214301247–31153012310–71163003310–70
External links FIFA U-17 World Championship Italy 1991, FIFA.com FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2) and (Part 3)