1995 FIFA World Youth Championship

The 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship, known as the 1995 FIFA/Coca-Cola World Youth Championship for sponsorship purposes, was the 10th edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship. It was held in Qatar from 13 to 28 April 1995. The tournament took place in three venues within the city of Doha. The tournament was originally going to be held in Nigeria, but due to the meningitis outbreak, it withdrew from hosting duties. FIFA relocated the event to Qatar.

1995 FIFA World Youth Championship

1995 بطولة العالم للشباب تحت 20 سنة
Tournament details
Host country	Qatar
Dates	13–28 April
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	3 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Argentina (2nd title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Portugal
Fourth place	Spain
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	105 (3.28 per match)
Attendance	455,000 (14,219 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Joseba Etxeberria (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Caio
Fair play award	Japan
← 1993 1997 →

Qualification

Confederation	Qualifying Tournament	Qualifier(s)
AFC (Asia)	Host nation	Qatar
	1994 AFC Youth Championship	Japan  Syria
CAF (Africa)	1995 African Youth Championship	Burundi1  Cameroon
CONCACAF (North, Central America & Caribbean)	1994 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament	Costa Rica  Honduras
CONMEBOL (South America)	1995 South American Youth Championship	Argentina  Brazil  Chile
OFC (Oceania)	1994 OFC U-20 Championship	Australia
UEFA (Europe)	1994 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship	Germany  Netherlands  Portugal  Russia  Spain

1.^ Teams that made their debut.

Squads

For a list of the squads see 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship squads.

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Brazil	3	2	1	0	8	0	+8	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Russia	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	5
3	Syria	3	1	0	2	1	8	−7	3
4	Qatar (H)	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(H) Hosts

Qatar	1–1	Russia
Al Enazi 54'	(Report)	Semak 52'

13 April 1995
20:15

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 65,000

Referee: Hermann Albrecht (Germany)

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Syria	0–6	Brazil
	(Report)	Reinaldo 12' (pen.), 25', 70' Élder 67' Caio 73' Murilo 85'

14 April 1995
17:15

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Alain Sars (France)

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Qatar	0–1	Syria
	(Report)	Al Boushi 52'

16 April 1995
17:15

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Dermot Gallagher (England)

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Russia	0–0	Brazil
	(Report)

17 April 1995
17:15

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Gamal Ghandour (Egypt)

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Qatar	0–2	Brazil
	(Report)	Caio 50' Élder 61'

19 April 1995
17:15

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Ramón Luis Méndez Vega (Costa Rica)

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Russia	2–0	Syria
Chumachenko 2' Lysenko 90'	(Report)

19 April 1995
17:15

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Javier Castrilli (Argentina)

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Spain	3	3	0	0	13	5	+8	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Japan	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
3	Chile	3	0	2	1	6	9	−3	2
4	Burundi	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Burundi	1–5	Spain
Ndayishimite 82'	(Report)	Martínez 26' Raúl 36' Roger 40' (pen.) Etxeberria 72', 86'

13 April 1995
17:15

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Marcio Rezende (Brazil)

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Chile	2–2	Japan
Rozental 11' (pen.), 67'	(Report)	Oki 47' Nakata 87'

14 April 1995
17:15

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Charles Masembe (Uganda)

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Burundi	1–1	Chile
Butunungu 83'	(Report)	Rozental 14'

16 April 1995
17:15

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Ramón Luis Méndez Vega (Costa Rica)

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Spain	2–1	Japan
Roger 8' Raúl 83'	(Report)	Nakata 69'

17 April 1995
17:15

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Zeli Sinko (Côte d'Ivoire)

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Burundi	0–2	Japan
	(Report)	Yasunaga 10' Yamada 17' (pen.)

19 April 1995
19:45

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Gamal Ghandour (Egypt)

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Spain	6–3	Chile
Etxeberria 9', 13' Ochoa 20', 61' Salgado 47' De la Peña 80' (pen.)	(Report)	Rozental 52' Poli 77' Lobos 83'

19 April 1995
19:45

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Pascual Rebolledo Cárdenas (Mexico)

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Portugal	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Argentina	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
3	Netherlands	3	1	0	2	7	5	+2	3
4	Honduras	3	0	0	3	5	14	−9	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Netherlands	0–1	Argentina
	(Report)	Garrone 90'

13 April 1995
17:15

Qatar SC Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Pascual Rebolledo Cárdenas (Mexico)

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Honduras	2–3	Portugal
Guevara 26' Cabrera 34'	(Report)	Nuno Gomes 18', 66' Dani 53'

14 April 1995
19:45

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Emmanuel Dada Obafemi (Nigeria)

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Netherlands	7–1	Honduras
Wooter 3', 44' Witzenhausen 10', 24', 77' Gehring 67' Bouma 78'	(Report) [1]	Oseguera 48' (pen.)

16 April 1995
19:45

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Masayoshi Okada (Japan)

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Argentina	0–1	Portugal
	(Report)	Dani 71'

17 April 1995
19:45

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)

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Netherlands	0–3	Portugal
	(Report)	Beto 9' (pen.) Dani 47' Agostinho 70'

20 April 1995
17:15

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Hermann Albrecht (Germany)

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Argentina	4–2	Honduras
Ibagaza 6' Pena 3', 42', 72'	(Report)	Guevara 48' Medina 60'

20 April 1995
17:15

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia)

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Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Cameroon	3	2	1	0	7	4	+3	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Australia	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
3	Costa Rica	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3
4	Germany	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Australia	2–0	Costa Rica
Viduka 51' Enes 74' (pen.)	(Report)

13 April 1995
19:45

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Abdul Rahman Al-Zeid (Saudi Arabia)

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Cameroon	1–1	Germany
Simo 90'	(Report)	Hinz 9' (pen.)

14 April 1995
19:45

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Javier Castrilli (Argentina)

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Australia	2–3	Cameroon
Viduka 11', 72'	(Report)	Ntamag 52', 90' Ndiefi 67'

16 April 1995
19:45

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia)

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Costa Rica	2–1	Germany
Bennette 42' (pen.) Soto 52'	(Report)	Walle 90'

17 April 1995
19:45

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Alain Sars (France)

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Australia	1–1	Germany
Viduka 54'	(Report)	Rath 23'

20 April 1995
19:45

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Marcio Rezende (Brazil)

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Costa Rica	1–3	Cameroon
Bennette 30'	(Report)	Ndiefi 26' Essa 36', 75'

20 April 1995
19:45

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Dermot Gallagher (England)

Knockout stages

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	April 23 - Doha (KOS)
	Brazil	2
					April 25 - Doha (KOS)
	Japan	1
					Brazil	1
	April 23 - Doha (KOS)
					Portugal	0
	Portugal (aet)	2
									April 28 - Doha (KOS)
	Australia	1
									Brazil	0
	April 23 - Doha (AAS)
									Argentina	2
	Spain	4
					April 25 - Doha (KOS)
	Russia	1
					Spain	0
	April 23 - Doha (AAS)
					Argentina	3			Third place
	Cameroon	0
									April 28 - Doha (KOS)
	Argentina	2
									Portugal	3
									Spain	2

Quarter-finals

Brazil	2–1	Japan
Caio 26', 40'	(Report)	Oku 15'

23 April 1995
17:15

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Hermann Albrecht (Germany)

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Spain	4–1	Russia
Raúl 3' Etxeberria 13', 21', 62'	(Report)	Lipko 65' (pen.)

23 April 1995
17:15

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Gamal Ghandour (Egypt)

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Portugal	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Australia
Agostinho 66', 100'	(Report)	Carlos Felipe 72' (o.g.)

23 April 1995
20:15

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)

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Cameroon	0–2	Argentina
	(Report)	Guerrero 37' Coyette 49'

23 April 1995
20:15

Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Alain Sars (France)

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Semi-finals

Brazil	1–0	Portugal
Caio 90'	(Report)

25 April 1995
17:15

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Pascual Rebolledo Cárdenas (Mexico)

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Spain	0–3	Argentina
	(Report)	Biagini 21' Coyette 54' Chaparro 81'

25 April 1995
20:15

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Hermann Albrecht (Germany)

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Third place play-off

Portugal	3–2	Spain
Nuno Gomes 68', 82' Dani 73'	(Report)	Salgado 25' De la Peña 38'

28 April 1995
14:45

Khalifa Olympic Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Abdul Rahman Al-Zeid (Saudi Arabia)

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Final

Brazil	0–2	Argentina
	(Report)	Biagini 25' Guerrero 89'

28 April 1995

17:15

Khalifa Olympic Stadium,^[2] Doha

Attendance: 65,000

Referee: Dermot Gallagher (England)

Team details

Brazil Argentina GK 1 Fábio Noronha DF 2 Dedimar DF 3 Fabiano DF 13 César Belli DF 6 Léo Inácio MF 5 Zé Elias MF 8 Élder MF 11 Gláucio MF 16 Murilo FW 7 Reinaldo FW 9 Caio Substitutes: MF 10 Claudinho  a' MF 18 Denílson  b' FW 17 Luizao  b' Manager: Júlio César Leal GK 1 Joaquín Irigoytía  a' DF 4 Gustavo Lombardi DF 2 Sebastián Pena DF 6 Juan Pablo Sorín DF 3 Federico Domínguez MF 8 Guillermo Larrosa MF 5 Mariano Juan MF 10 Ariel Ibagaza FW 17 Walter Coyette FW 11 Leonardo Biagini  a' FW 18 Cristián Chaparro Substitutes: GK 12 Gastón Pezzuti  a' FW 7 Francisco Guerrero FW 9 Carlos Arangio Manager: José Pekerman

Result

FIFA World Youth Championship 1995 winners
Argentina 2nd title

Awards

Golden Shoe	Golden Ball	FIFA Fair Play Award
Joseba Etxeberria	Caio	Japan

Goalscorers

Joseba Etxeberria of Spain won the Golden Boot award for scoring seven goals. In total, 105 goals were scored by 58 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

7 goals

• Joseba Etxeberria

5 goals

• Caio

4 goals

• Mark Viduka
• Sebastián Rozental
• Dani
• Nuno Gomes

3 goals

• Sebastián Pena
• Reinaldo
• Mendel Witzenhausen
• Agostinho
• Raúl

2 goals

• Francisco Gabriel Guerrero
• Leonardo Biagini
• Walter Coyette
• Élder
• Basile Essa
• Macdonald Ndiefi
• Valery Ntamag
• Jewison Bennette
• Amado Guevara
• Hidetoshi Nakata
• Nordin Wooter
• Iván de la Peña
• Míchel Salgado
• Raúl Ochoa
• Roger

1 goal

• Andrés Garrone
• Ariel Ibagaza
• Raúl Chaparro
• Robert Enes
• Murilo
• Blaise Butunungu
• Fredy Ndayishimite
• Augustine Simo
• Dante Poli
• Frank Lobos
• Jafet Soto
• Carsten Hinz
• Jan Walle
• Marcel Rath
• Edwin Medina
• Luis Oseguera
• Orvin Cabrera
• Daisuke Oku
• Nobuhisa Yamada
• Sotaro Yasunaga
• Susumu Oki
• Rob Gehring
• Wilfred Bouma
• Beto
• Mohammed Salem Al-Enazi
• Aleksandr Lipko
• Sergei Lysenko
• Sergei Semak
• Yevgeni Chumachenko
• Luis Martínez
• Nihad Al Boushi

Own goal

• Carlos Felipe (playing against Australia)

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Argentina	6	5	0	1	12	3	+9	15	Champions
2	Brazil	6	4	1	1	11	3	+8	13	Runners-up
3	Portugal	6	5	0	1	12	6	+6	15	Third place
4	Spain	6	4	0	2	19	12	+7	12	Fourth place
5	Cameroon	4	2	1	1	7	6	+1	7	Eliminated in Quarter-finals
6	Russia	4	1	2	1	4	5	−1	5
7	Australia	4	1	1	2	6	6	0	4
7	Japan	4	1	1	2	6	6	0	4
9	Netherlands	3	1	0	2	7	5	+2	3	Eliminated in Group stage
10	Costa Rica	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3
11	Syria	3	1	0	2	1	8	−7	3
12	Germany	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
13	Chile	3	0	2	1	6	9	−3	2
14	Qatar (H)	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1
15	Burundi	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1
16	Honduras	3	0	0	3	5	14	−9	0

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