Year Venue Champion Second Place Result Third Place 1977 Tunis Soviet Union Mexico 2-2 (7-6 pen) Brazil 1979 Japan Argentina Soviet Union 3-1 Uruguay 1981 Australia West Germany Qatar 4-0 Romania 1983 Mexico Brazil Argentina 1-0 Poland 1985 USSR Brazil Spain 1-0 Nigeria 1987 Chile Yugoslavia West Germany 1-1 (5-4 pen) East Germany 1989 Saudi Arabia Portugal Nigeria 2-0 Brazil 1991 Portugal Portugal Brazil 0-0 (4-2 pen) Soviet Union 1993 Australia Brazil Ghana 2-1 England 1995 Qatar Argentina Brazil 2-0 Portugal 1997 Malaysia Argentina Uruguay 2-1 Ireland 1999 Nigeria Spain Japan 4-0 Mali 2001 Argentina Argentina Ghana 3-0 Egypt 2003 UAE Brazil Spain 1-0 Colombia 2005 Netherlands Argentina Nigeria 2-1 Brazil 2007 Canada Argentina Czech Republic 2-1 Chile 2009 Egypt 2011 Colombia
Argentina 6 Brazil 4 Portugal 2 Soviet Union 1 Spain 1 West Germany 1 Yugoslavia 1
1st 2nd 3rd 4th wins finals semis
Argentina 6 1 1 6 7 8
Brazil 4 2 3 4 6 9
Portugal 2 1 2 2 3
Spain 1 2 1 1 3 4
Soviet Union 1 1 1 1 1 2 4
West Germany 1 1 1 2 2
Yugoslavia 1 1 1 1
Nigeria 2 1 2 3
Ghana 2 1 2 3
Uruguay 1 1 2 1 4
Czech Republic 1 1 1
Japan 1 1 1
Mexico 1 1 1
Qatar 1 1 1
Chile 1 1 2
England 1 1 2
Poland 1 1 2
Colombia 1 1
Egypt 1 1
East Germany 1 1
Ireland 1 1
Mali 1 1
Romania 1 1
Australia 2 2
Austria 1 1
Morocco 1 1
Paraguay 1 1
South Korea 1 1
USA 1 1
total 16 16 16 16 16 32 64
All-Time Table World Youth Cup
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Author: Héctor Villa Martínez
Last updated: 6 Jun 2008
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