U-17 football world championship 1991

FIFA U-16 World Cup 1991
FIFA U-16 World Championship 1991
Number of nations	16
World Champion	Ghana (1st title)
venue	Italy
Opening game	August 16, 1991
Endgame	August 31, 1991
Games	32
Gates	81  (⌀: 2.53 per game)
spectator	37,000  (⌀: 1,156 per game)
Top scorer	Adriano Nii Lamptey (4 each)
Best player	Nii Lamptey
yellow cards	75  (⌀: 2.34 per game)
Red cards	6  (⌀: 0.19 per game)

The 4th Youth World Cup took place from August 16 to 31, 1991 in Italy , for the first time as the U-17 World Cup . The defending champion was the national team of Saudi Arabia , which could not qualify for this tournament. The new title holder was the national team of Ghana .

The selection of the DFB could qualify for the tournament. After surviving the preliminary round, however, they failed in the quarter-finals against later finalists Spain.

Venues

All games took place in six locations in the Italian region of Tuscany in:

Montecatini Viareggio Carrara Massa Livorno Florence

Venues in Italy in 1991

• Montecatini : Opening game (Group A), 1 quarter-finals and the game for 3rd place
• Viareggio : 5 preliminary round matches (Group A), 1 quarter-finals and 1 semi-finals
• Carrara : 6 preliminary round matches (Group B) and 1 quarter-finals
• Massa : 6 preliminary round matches (Group C) and 1 semi-final
• Livorno : 6 preliminary round matches (Group D) and 1 quarter-finals
• Florence : final

Attendees

3 from Europe	Germany	Italy	Spain
3 from South America	Argentina	Brazil	Uruguay
3 from North and Central America	Cuba	Mexico	United States
3 from Africa	Ghana	Congo	Sudan
3 from Asia	China	Qatar	UA Emirates
1 from Oceania	Australia

DFB selection

player	society	Games
1 Christian Fiedler	Hertha BSC	4 (0)
2 Markus Schenk	FC Berlin	4 (0)
3 Jens Rasiejewski	VfL 1860 Marburg	4 (0)
4 Lars Schiersand	VfL Osnabrück	4 (0)
5 Stefan Odenhausen	SF Oestrich-Iserlohn	3 (0)
6 Jörg Krawczyk	VfL Bochum
7 Markus Bähr	Karlsruher SC	3 (0)
8 Karl-Heinz Lutz	Karlsruher SC	4 (1)
9 Christof Babatz	Hannover 96	3 (1)
10 Michael Groh	Eintracht Frankfurt	1 (0)
11 Rafael Lehmann	Borussia Dortmund	2 (0)
12 Karsten Kusch	SG Rot-Weiss Frankfurt
13 Mirko Leuschner	Eintracht Frankfurt	1 (0)
14 Sascha Lense	Eintracht Frankfurt	4 (0)
15 Oliver book	SG Rot-Weiss Frankfurt	1 (0)
16 Jens Sarna	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	4 (2)
17 Goya Jaekel	Hertha BSC	4 (0)
18 Kai Michalke	VfL Bochum	4 (0)

• Trainer: Fritz Bischoff

mode

• The preliminary round is played in four groups of four teams each.
• The first two in each group reach the quarter-finals.
• From the quarter-finals onwards, the knockout system will continue.

Preliminary round

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	United States	3	3	0	0	005: 100	+4	06-00
2.	Argentina	3	1	1	1	002: 200	± 0	03: 30
3.	Italy	3	0	2	1	002: 300	−1	02: 40
4th	People's Republic of China	3	0	1	2	004: 700	−3	01: 50

08/16/1991
Italy	-	United States	0: 1
08/17/1991
China	-	Argentina	1: 2
08/20/1991
Italy	-	China	2: 2
United States	-	Argentina	1-0
08/22/1991
Italy	-	Argentina	0-0
United States	-	China	3: 1

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Australia	3	2	0	1	006: 400	+2	04: 20
2.	Qatar	3	1	1	1	001: 100	± 0	03: 30
3.	Republic of the Congo	3	1	1	1	002: 300	−1	03: 30
4th	Mexico	3	0	2	1	005: 600	−1	02: 40

08/17/1991
Congo	-	Qatar	0-0
08/18/1991
Australia	-	Mexico	4: 3
08/20/1991
Congo	-	Australia	0: 2
Qatar	-	Mexico	0: 1
08/22/1991
Congo	-	Mexico	2: 1
Qatar	-	Australia	1-0

Group C

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Brazil	3	3	0	0	007-000	+7	06-00
2.	Germany	3	1	1	1	005: 500	± 0	03: 30
3.	Sudan	3	1	0	2	005: 500	± 0	02: 40
4th	UA Emirates	3	0	1	2	003:100	−7	01: 50

08/17/1991
Sudan	-	UA Emirates	4: 1
08/18/1991
Germany	-	Brazil	0: 2
08/20/1991
Sudan	-	Germany	1: 3
UA Emirates	-	Brazil	0: 4
08/22/1991
Sudan	-	Brazil	0: 1
UA Emirates	-	Germany	2: 2

Group D

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	3	2	1	0	009: 300	+6	05: 10
2.	Ghana	3	2	1	0	005: 200	+3	05: 10
3.	Uruguay	3	1	0	2	001: 300	−2	02: 40
4th	Cuba	3	0	0	3	003:100	−7	00: 60

08/17/1991
Ghana	-	Cuba	2: 1
08/18/1991
Uruguay	-	Spain	0: 1
08/20/1991
Ghana	-	Uruguay	2-0
Cuba	-	Spain	2: 7
08/22/1991
Ghana	-	Spain	1: 1
Cuba	-	Uruguay	0: 1

Final round

Quarter finals

08/25/1991
United States	-	Qatar	1: 1 n.V., 4: 5 i. E.
Australia	-	Argentina	1: 2
Brazil	-	Ghana	1: 2
Spain	-	Germany	3: 1

Semifinals

08/28/1991
Qatar	-	Ghana	0: 0 a.d., 2: 4 i. E.
Argentina	-	Spain	0: 1

3rd place match

08/30/1991
Qatar	-	Argentina	1: 1 n.V., 1: 4 i. E.

final

08/31/1991
Ghana	-	Spain	1-0

Best goal scorers

Below are the top scorers of the U-17 World Cup in 1991. They are sorted alphabetically according to the number of hits or if the number of goals is the same.

space	player	Gates
1	Adriano	4th
	Nii Lamptey	4th
3	Jorge Toledano	3
	Paul Agostino	3
	Juan Carlos Murgui	3
	Antonio Robaina	3

Web links

• Official website of the FIFA competition