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{{Infobox international football competition
| tourney_name = FIFA World Youth Championship
| year = 1977
| other_titles = بطولة العالم للشباب لكرة القدم 1977
| image = 
| size = 
| caption = 
| country = Tunisia
| dates = 27 June – 10 July
| num_teams = 16
| confederations = 5
| venues = 4
| cities = 3
| champion = USSR
| count = 1
| second = Mexico
| third = Brazil
| third-flagvar = 1968
| fourth = Uruguay
| matches = 28
| goals = 70
| attendance =
| top_scorer = {{flagicon|Brazil|1968}} [[Aguinaldo Roberto Gallon|Guina]] (4 goals)
| fair_play = {{fbu|20|BRA|1968}}
| player = {{flagicon|URS}} [[Vladimir Bessonov]]
| nextseason = [[1979 FIFA World Youth Championship|1979]]
}}
The '''1977 FIFA World Youth Championship''' was the inaugural staging of the [[FIFA U-20 World Cup|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 [[Soviet Union national under-20 football team|USSR U20s]] defeated [[Mexico national under-20 football team|Mexico U20s]] in a [[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|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 ==
{| class=wikitable
!Confederation
!Qualifying Tournament
!Qualifier(s)
|-
|[[Asian Football Confederation|AFC (Asia)]]
|[[1977 AFC Youth Championship]]
|{{fbu|20|IRI|1964}} <br /> {{fbu|20|IRQ|1963}}
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Confederation of African Football|CAF (Africa)]]
||Host nation
|{{fbu|20|TUN|1959}}
|-
|[[1977 African Youth Qualifying for World Cup]]
|{{fbu|20|CIV}} <br /> {{fbu|20|MAR}}
|-
|[[CONCACAF|CONCACAF <br /> (North, Central America & Caribbean)]]
|[[1976 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament]]
|{{fbu|20|HON|1949}} <br /> {{fbu|20|MEX}}
|-
|[[CONMEBOL|CONMEBOL (South America)]]
|[[1977 South American Youth Championship]]
|{{fbu|20|BRA|1968}} <br /> {{fbu|20|PAR|1954}} <br /> {{fb|URU}}
|-
|[[UEFA|UEFA (Europe)]]
|[[1976 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship]]
|{{fbu|20|AUT}} <br /> {{fbu|20|FRA|1974}} <br /> {{fbu|20|HUN|1957}} <br /> {{fbu|20|ITA}} <br /> {{fbu|20|URS}}<br /> {{fbu|20|ESP|1977}}
|}

== 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 ==
<div style="text-align: center;">
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center"
|-
!width=160|[[Tunis]]!!rowspan=8|
{{location map+|Tunisia|float=right|width=210|caption=|places=
{{location map~|Tunisia|lat=36.8|long=10.183333|label=[[Tunis]]|position=low}}
{{location map~|Tunisia|lat=35.833333|long=10.633333|label=[[Sousse]]|position=left}}
{{location map~|Tunisia|lat=34.733333|long=10.766667|label=[[Sfax]]|position=low}}
}}
!width=160|[[Tunis]] 
|-
|[[Stade El Menzah]] || [[Stade Chedly Zouiten]]
|-
|[[Image:Stade Olympique d'El Menzah.jpg|200px]] || [[Image:Stade Chedly Zouiten.jpg|200px]]
|-
|Capacity: '''45,000''' || Capacity: '''18,000'''
|-
!width=160|[[Sousse]] || [[Sfax]]
|-
|[[Stade Olympique de Sousse]] || [[Stade Ameur El-Gargouri]]
|-
|[[Image:Stade olympique de Sousse.jpg|200px]] || [[Image:Stade taieb mehiri.JPG|200px]]
|-
|Capacity: '''10,000''' || Capacity: '''4,000'''
|}
</div>

== Group stage ==

The group winners advanced directly to the semifinals.

=== Group A ===
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|res_col_header=Group stage result
|winpoints=2

|team1=MEX|name_MEX={{fbu|20|MEX}}
|team2=ESP|name_ESP={{fbu|20|ESP|1977}}
|team3=FRA|name_FRA={{fbu|20|FRA|1974}}
|team4=TUN|name_TUN={{fbu|20|TUN|1959}}
|win_MEX=1|draw_MEX=2|loss_MEX=0|gf_MEX=8|ga_MEX=2
|win_ESP=1|draw_ESP=1|loss_ESP=1|gf_ESP=3|ga_ESP=3
|win_FRA=1|draw_FRA=1|loss_FRA=1|gf_FRA=3|ga_FRA=3
|win_TUN=1|draw_TUN=0|loss_TUN=2|gf_TUN=1|ga_TUN=7|status_TUN=H

|col_A=green1|text_A=Advance to [[#Semifinals|semi-finals]]
|result1=A
|update=complete|source=
}}

{{football box|date=27 June 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|FRA|1974}} |score=1–2 |team2={{fbu|20|ESP|1977}} |goals1=[[Gerard Bacconnier|Bacconnier]] {{goal|75}} |goals2=[[Ricardo Escobar Palacios|Escobar]] {{goal|29}} <br/> [[José Casas (football)|Casas]] {{goal|60}} |stadium=[[Stade El Menzah]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Orhan Cebe]] ([[Turkey]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30614/index.html (Report)] <ref name="FRA v ESP">The official FIFA match report indicates that the first half finished 1:0 for France, but this contradicts the data on the scoring.</ref>}}
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{{football box|date=27 June 1977 <br/> 16:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|MEX}} |score=6–0 |team2={{fbu|20|TUN|1959}} |goals1=[[Agustin Manzo|Manzo]] {{goal|46||47}} <br/> [[Luis Placencia|Placencia]] {{goal|48||69||72}} <br/> [[Fernando Garduno|Garduno]] {{goal|56}} |goals2= |stadium=[[Stade El Menzah]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Farouk Bouzo]] ([[Syria]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30615/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=30 June 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|ESP|1977}} |score=1–1 |team2={{fbu|20|MEX}} |goals1=[[Ricardo Escobar Palacios|Escobar]] {{goal|46}} |goals2=[[Hugo René Rodríguez|Rodríguez]] {{goal|73}} |stadium=[[Stade El Menzah]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Franz Woehrer]] ([[Austria]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30622/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=30 June 1977 <br/> 16:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|TUN|1959}} |score=0–1 |team2={{fbu|20|FRA|1974}} |goals1= |goals2=[[Thierry Meyer|Meyer]] {{goal|20}}  |stadium=[[Stade El Menzah]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Arturo Andrés Ithurralde]] ([[Argentina]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30623/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=3 July 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|FRA|1974}} |score=1–1 |team2={{fbu|20|MEX}} |goals1=[[Andre Wiss|Wiss]] {{goal|64}} |goals2=[[Eduardo Moses|Moses]] {{goal|70}} |stadium=[[Stade El Menzah]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Gianfranco Menegali]] ([[Italy]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30630/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=3 July 1977 <br/> 16:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|ESP|1977}} |score=0–1 |team2={{fbu|20|TUN|1959}} |goals1= |goals2=[[Ali Ben Fattoum|Ben Fattoum]] {{goal|52}} |stadium=[[Stade El Menzah]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Eldar Azimzade]] ([[Soviet Union]]) <ref name="Azim Zade">The FIFA match report states "[[Russian SFSR|Russia]]" here, which is an [[anachronism]].</ref> |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30631/index.html (Report)]}}

=== Group B ===
{{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WDL
|res_col_header=Group stage result
|winpoints=2

|team1=URU|name_URU={{fbu|20|URU}}
|team2=HON|name_HON={{fbu|20|HON|1949}}
|team3=HUN|name_HUN={{fbu|20|HUN|1957}}
|team4=MAR|name_MAR={{fbu|20|MAR}}
|win_URU=3|draw_URU=0|loss_URU=0|gf_URU=6|ga_URU=1
|win_HON=2|draw_HON=0|loss_HON=1|gf_HON=3|ga_HON=1
|win_HUN=1|draw_HUN=0|loss_HUN=2|gf_HUN=3|ga_HUN=4
|win_MAR=0|draw_MAR=0|loss_MAR=3|gf_MAR=0|ga_MAR=6

|col_A=green1|text_A=Advance to [[#Semifinals|semi-finals]]
|result1=A
|update=complete|source=
}}

{{football box|date=28 June 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|MAR}} |score=0–1 |team2={{fbu|20|HON|1949}} |goals1= |goals2=[[Prudencio Norales|Norales]] {{goal|46}} |stadium=[[Stade Chedly Zouiten]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Gerard Racine]] ([[Switzerland]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30618/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=28 June 1977 <br/> 16:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|URU}} |score=2–1 |team2={{fbu|20|HUN|1957}} |goals1=[[Víctor Diogo|Diogo]] {{goal|15}} <br/> [[Alberto Bica|Bica]] {{goal|25|pen.}} |goals2= [[Zoltán Péter|Péter]] {{goal|17}} |stadium=[[Stade Chedly Zouiten]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Gianfranco Menegali]] ([[Italy]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30619/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=1 July 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|HON|1949}} |score=0–1 |team2={{fbu|20|URU}} |goals1= |goals2=[[Amaro Nadal|Nadal]] {{goal|29}} |stadium=[[Stade Chedly Zouiten]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Birame N'Diaye]] ([[Senegal]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30626/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=1 July 1977 <br/> 16:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|HUN|1957}} |score=2–0 |team2={{fbu|20|MAR}} |goals1= [[János Kerekes|Kerekes]] {{goal|26}} <br/> [[Imre Nagy (footballer)|Nagy]] {{goal|56}} |goals2= |stadium=[[Stade Chedly Zouiten]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Arnaldo Cézar Coelho|Arnaldo Coelho]] ([[Brazil]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30627/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=4 July 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|HUN|1957}} |score=0–2 |team2={{fbu|20|HON|1949}} |goals1= |goals2=[[Gilberto Yearwood|Yearwood]] {{goal|7}} <br/> [[José Enrique Duarte|Duarte]] {{goal|30}} |stadium=[[Stade Chedly Zouiten]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Sahar El Hawary]] ([[Egypt]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30634/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=4 July 1977 <br/> 16:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|URU}} |score=3–0 |team2={{fbu|20|MAR}} |goals1= [[Amaro Nadal|Nadal]] {{goal|36}} <br/> [[Daniel Enrique|Enrique]] {{goal|44}} <br/> [[Venancio Ramos|Ramos]] {{goal|51}} |goals2= |stadium=[[Stade Chedly Zouiten]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Farouk Bouzo]] ([[Syria]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30635/index.html (Report)]}}

=== Group C ===
{{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WDL
|res_col_header=Group stage result
|winpoints=2

|team1=BRA|name_BRA={{fbu|20|BRA|1968}}
|team2=IRN|name_IRN={{fbu|20|IRN|1964}}
|team3=ITA|name_ITA={{fbu|20|ITA}}
|team4=CIV|name_CIV={{fbu|20|CIV}}
|win_BRA=2|draw_BRA=1|loss_BRA=0|gf_BRA=8|ga_BRA=2
|win_IRN=1|draw_IRN=1|loss_IRN=1|gf_IRN=4|ga_IRN=5
|win_ITA=0|draw_ITA=2|loss_ITA=1|gf_ITA=1|ga_ITA=3
|win_CIV=0|draw_CIV=2|loss_CIV=1|gf_CIV=2|ga_CIV=5

|col_A=green1|text_A=Advance to [[#Semifinals|semi-finals]]
|result1=A
|update=complete|source=
}}

{{football box|date=27 June 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|ITA}} |score=1–1 |team2={{fbu|20|CIV}} |goals1= [[Luigi Capuzzo|Capuzzo]] {{goal|11}} |goals2=[[Lucien Kouassi|Kouassi]] {{goal|77}} |stadium=[[Stade Olympique de Sousse]], [[Sousse]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Emmanuel Platopoulos]] ([[Greece]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30616/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=27 June 1977 <br/> 16:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|BRA|1968}} |score=5–1 |team2={{fbu|20|IRN|1964}} |goals1=[[Aguinaldo Roberto Gallon|Guina]] {{goal|22||29||39}} <br/> [[Paulo Roberto]] {{goal|37}} <br/> [[Júnior Brasília]] {{goal|52}} |goals2= [[Reza Rajabi|Rajabi]] {{goal|55}} |stadium=[[Stade Olympique de Sousse]], [[Sousse]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Michel Vautrot]] ([[France]]) |report=[https://futeboldaselecaobrasileira.blogspot.com/1977/06/brasil-5-x-1-iran.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=30 June 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|IRN|1964}} |score=0–0 |team2={{fbu|20|ITA}} |goals1= |goals2= |stadium=[[Stade Olympique de Sousse]], [[Sousse]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Lajos Somlai]] ([[Hungary]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30624/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=30 June 1977 <br/> 16:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|CIV}} |score=1–1 |team2={{fbu|20|BRA|1968}} |goals1= [[Honore Ya Semon|Ya Semon]] {{goal|46}} |goals2= [[Cléber Gonçalves de Lima|Cléber]] {{goal|89}} |stadium=[[Stade Olympique de Sousse]], [[Sousse]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Mohamed Kadri]] ([[Tunisia]]) |report=[https://futeboldaselecaobrasileira.blogspot.com/1977/06/costa-do-marfim-1-x-1-brasil.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=3 July 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|IRN|1964}} |score=3–0 |team2={{fbu|20|CIV}} |goals1= [[Moharam Asheri|Asheri]] {{goal|31||87}} <br/> [[Abdolreza Barzegar|Barzegar]] {{goal|80}} |goals2= |stadium=[[Stade Olympique de Sousse]], [[Sousse]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Salem Mahmud Adal]] ([[Syria]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30632/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=3 July 1977 <br/> 16:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|BRA|1968}} |score=2–0 |team2={{fbu|20|ITA}} |goals1= [[Aguinaldo Roberto Gallon|Guina]] {{goal|11}} <br/> [[Paulinho (footballer, born 1958)|Paulinho]] {{goal|48}}  |goals2= |stadium=[[Stade Olympique de Sousse]], [[Sousse]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Dusan Maksimovic]] ([[Yugoslavia]]) |report=[https://futeboldaselecaobrasileira.blogspot.com/1977/07/brasil-2-x-0-italia.html (Report)] {{dl|date=July 2021}}}}

=== Group D ===
{{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WDL
|res_col_header=Group stage result
|winpoints=2

|team1=URS|name_URS={{fbu|20|URS}}
|team2=PAR|name_PAR={{fbu|20|PAR|1954}}
|team3=IRQ|name_IRQ={{fbu|20|IRQ|1963}}
|team4=AUT|name_AUT={{fbu|20|AUT}}
|win_URS=2|draw_URS=1|loss_URS=0|gf_URS=5|ga_URS=2
|win_PAR=2|draw_PAR=0|loss_PAR=1|gf_PAR=6|ga_PAR=2
|win_IRQ=1|draw_IRQ=0|loss_IRQ=2|gf_IRQ=6|ga_IRQ=8
|win_AUT=0|draw_AUT=1|loss_AUT=2|gf_AUT=1|ga_AUT=6

|col_A=green1|text_A=Advance to [[#Semifinals|semi-finals]]
|result1=A
|update=complete|source=
}}

{{football box|date=28 June 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|URS}} |score=3–1 |team2={{fbu|20|IRQ|1963}} |goals1= [[Valeri Petrakov|Petrakov]] {{goal|19||23}} <br/> [[Andrei Bal|Bal]] {{goal|39}} |goals2=[[Hussein Luaibi|Luaibi]] {{goal|77}} |stadium=[[Stade Ameur El-Gargouri]], [[Sfax]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Ángel Franco Martínez]] ([[Spain]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30620/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=28 June 1977 <br/> 16:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|AUT}} |score=0–1 |team2={{fbu|20|PAR|1954}} |goals1= |goals2= [[Víctor Morel|Morel]] {{goal|62}} |stadium=[[Stade Ameur El-Gargouri]], [[Sfax]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Zoubir Benganif]] ([[Algeria]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30621/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=1 July 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|IRQ|1963}} |score=5–1 |team2={{fbu|20|AUT}} |goals1= [[Hussein Luaibi|Luaibi]] {{goal|30}} <br/> [[Hussein Saeed|Hussain]] {{goal|34||38||90+3}} <ref name="No ref">The official FIFA report accounts no minute for this goal.</ref> <br/> [[Haddi Hammadi|Hammadi]] {{goal|90+4}} <ref name="No ref"/> |goals2=[[Heinz Weiss (footballer)|Weiss]] {{goal|28}} |stadium=[[Stade Ameur El-Gargouri]], [[Sfax]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Tesfaye Gebreyesus]] ([[Ethiopia]]) <ref name="Gebreyesus">The FIFA match report anachronistically states [[Eritrea]].</ref> |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30628/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=1 July 1977 <br/> 16:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|PAR|1954}} |score=1–2 |team2={{fbu|20|URS}} |goals1= [[Juan Battaglia|Battaglia]] {{goal|38}}  |goals2= [[Vagiz Khidiyatullin|Khidiyatullin]] {{goal|29}} <br/> [[Vladimir Bessonov|Bessonov]] {{goal|59}} |stadium=[[Stade Ameur El-Gargouri]], [[Sfax]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Michel Vautrot]] ([[France]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30629/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=4 July 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|PAR|1954}} |score=4–0 |team2={{fbu|20|IRQ|1963}} |goals1= [[Domingo Salmaniego|Salmaniego]] {{goal|26}} <br/> [[Pedro López (footballer)|López]] {{goal|30||68}} <br/> [[Eugenio Giménez|Giménez]] {{goal|67}} |goals2= |stadium=[[Stade Ameur El-Gargouri]], [[Sfax]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Ángel Franco Martínez]] ([[Spain]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30636/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=4 July 1977 <br/> 16:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|AUT}} |score=0–0 |team2={{fbu|20|URS}} |goals1= |goals2= |stadium=[[Stade Ameur El-Gargouri]], [[Sfax]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Mohamed Larache]] ([[Morocco]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=191058/match=30637/index.html (Report)]}}

== Knockout stage ==
{{Round4-with third
<!--Date-Place|Team 1|Score 1|Team 2|Score 2 -->
<!--semi finals  -->
|6 July – [[Tunis]] |'''{{fbu|20|MEX}} ([[Penalty shootout (association football)|pen.]])'''|'''1 (5)'''|{{fbu|20|BRA|1968}}|1 (3)
|7 July – [[Tunis]] |{{fbu|20|URU}}|0 (3)|'''{{fbu|20|URS}} ([[Penalty shootout (association football)|pen.]])'''|'''0 (4)'''
<!--final  -->
|10 July – [[Tunis]] |{{fbu|20|MEX}}|2 (8)|'''{{fbu|20|URS}} ([[Penalty shootout (association football)|pen.]])'''|'''2 (9)'''
<!--third place -->
|9 July – [[Tunis]] |'''{{fbu|20|BRA|1968}}'''|'''4'''|{{fbu|20|URU}}|0
}}

=== Semi-finals ===
{{football box|date=6 July 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|MEX }} |score=1–1|aet=yes|penaltyscore=5–3|team2={{fbu|20|BRA|1968}} |goals1=[[Eduardo Rergis (footballer, born 1956)|Rergis]] {{goal|53}} |goals2= [[Jorge Luís (footballer, born 1958)|Jorge Luís]] {{goal|59}} |stadium=[[Stade El Menzah]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Ángel Franco Martínez]] ([[Spain]]) |report=[https://futeboldaselecaobrasileira.blogspot.com/1977/07/mexico-1-x-1-brasil.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box|date=7 July 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|URU}} |score=0–0|aet=yes|penaltyscore=3–4 |team2={{fbu|20|URS}} |goals1= |goals2= |stadium=[[Stade El Menzah]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Gianfranco Menegali]] ([[Italy]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=2000001025/match=30639/index.html (Report)]}}
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=== Third place play-off ===
{{football box|date=9 July 1977 <br/> 12:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|BRA|1968}} |score=4–0 |team2={{fbu|20|URU}} |goals1=[[Cléber Gonçalves de Lima|Cléber]] {{goal|13}} <br/> [[Paulo Roberto]] {{goal|30}} <br/> [[Paulinho (footballer, born 1958)|Paulinho]] {{goal|53}} <br/> [[Sebastião Dutra Pereira|Tião]] {{goal|69}} |goals2= |stadium=[[Stade El Menzah]], [[Tunis]] | attendance =  | referee = [[Farouk Bouzo]] ([[Syria]]) |report=[https://futeboldaselecaobrasileira.blogspot.com/1977/07/brasil-4-x-0-uruguai.html (Report)]}}
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=== Final ===
{{football box
|date=10 July 1977 <br/> 18:30 
| event = 
|team1={{fbu-rt|20|MEX}} 
|team2={{fbu|20|URS}} 
| time = 
| round = 
|score=2–2 {{aet}}
|goals1=[[Fernando Garduno|Garduno]] {{goal|50}} <br/> [[Agustín Manzo|Manzo]] {{goal|58}} 
| report = [https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/tunisia1977/matches/round=2000001027/match=30641/index.html (Report)]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjaN93fo8VU This video in 43:21 gives a view of the scoreboard at the end of regulation, different of what appears at FIFA report of the match in its website. Also, playing time in this tournament were 2 periods of 40 minutes</ref>
|goals2=[[Vladimir Bessonov|Bessonov]] {{goal|43||54}} 
| penaltyscore = 8–9
| penalties1 = 
| penalties2 = 
|stadium=[[Stade El Menzah]], [[Tunis]] 
| attendance =  22,000 
| referee = [[Michel Vautrot]] ([[France]]) 
| aet = 
}}

== Result ==
{{winners|fbu|20|FIFA World Youth Championship 1977 winners|USSR|First}}

== Awards ==
{| class=wikitable style="margin:auto; text-align:center"
!Golden Shoe
!Golden Ball
!Fair Play Award
|-
|{{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Aguinaldo Roberto Gallon|Guina]]
|{{fbuicon|20|URS}} [[Vladimir Bessonov]]
|{{fbu|20|BRA|1968}}
|}

== Goalscorers ==

Guina of Brazil won the [[FIFA U-20 World Cup#Awards|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
* {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Aguinaldo Roberto Gallon|Guina]]
;3 goals
* {{flagicon|IRQ|1963}} [[Hussein Saeed]]
* {{flagicon|MEX}} [[Agustin Manzo]]
* {{flagicon|MEX}} [[Luis Placencia]]
* {{flagicon|URS}} [[Vladimir Bessonov]]
;2 goals
{{colbegin|colwidth=18em}}
* {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Cléber Gonçalves de Lima|Cléber]]
* {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Paulinho (footballer, born 1958)|Paulinho]]
* {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Paulo Roberto]]
* {{flagicon|IRN|1964}} [[Moharam Asheri]]
* {{flagicon|IRQ|1963}} [[Hussein Luaibi]]
* {{flagicon|MEX}} [[Fernando Garduno]]
* {{flagicon|PAR|1954}} [[Pedro López (footballer)|Pedro López]]
* {{flagicon|URS}} [[Valeri Petrakov]]
* {{flagicon|ESP|1977}} [[Ricardo Escobar Palacios]]
* {{flagicon|URU}} [[Amaro Nadal]]
{{colend}}
;1 goal
{{colbegin|colwidth=18em}}
* {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Heinz Weiss (footballer)|Heinz Weiss]]
* {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Jorge Luís Brochado Pereira|Jorge Luís]]
* {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Júnior Brasília]]
* {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Sebastião Dutra Pereira|Tião]]
* {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Andre Wiss]]
* {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Gerard Bacconnier]]
* {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} [[Thierry Meyer]]
* {{flagicon|HON|1949}} [[Gilberto Yearwood]]
* {{flagicon|HON|1949}} [[José Enrique Duarte]]
* {{flagicon|HON|1949}} [[Prudencio Norales]]
* {{flagicon|HUN|1957}} [[Imre Nagy (footballer)|Imre Nagy]]
* {{flagicon|HUN|1957}} [[János Kerekes]]
* {{flagicon|HUN|1957}} [[Zoltán Péter]]
* {{flagicon|IRN|1964}} [[Reza Rajabi]]
* {{flagicon|IRN|1964}} [[Abdolreza Barzegar]]
* {{flagicon|IRQ|1963}} [[Haddi Hammadi]]
* {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Luigi Capuzzo]]
* {{flagicon|CIV}} [[Honore Ya Semon]]
* {{flagicon|CIV}} [[Lucien Kouassi]]
* {{flagicon|MEX}} [[Eduardo Moses]]
* {{flagicon|MEX}} [[Eduardo Rergis (footballer, born 1956)|Eduardo Rergis]]
* {{flagicon|MEX}} [[Hugo René Rodríguez|Hugo Rodríguez]]
* {{flagicon|PAR|1954}} [[Eugenio Giménez]]
* {{flagicon|PAR|1954}} [[Domingo Salmaniego]]
* {{flagicon|PAR|1954}} [[Juan Battaglia]]
* {{flagicon|PAR|1954}} [[Víctor Morel]]
* {{flagicon|URS}} [[Andrei Bal]]
* {{flagicon|URS}} [[Vagiz Khidiyatullin]]
* {{flagicon|ESP|1977}} [[José Casas (football)|José Casas]]
* {{flagicon|TUN|1959}} [[Ali Ben Fattoum]]
* {{flagicon|URU}} [[Alberto Bica]]
* {{flagicon|URU}} [[Daniel Enrique]]
* {{flagicon|URU}} [[Venancio Ramos]]
* {{flagicon|URU}} [[Víctor Diogo]]
{{colend}}

== Final ranking ==

{{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WDL
|winpoints=2

|team1=URS|name_URS={{fbu|20|Soviet Union}}
|team2=MEX|name_MEX={{fbu|20|Mexico}}
|team3=BRA|name_BRA={{fbu|20|Brazil|1968}}
|team4=URU|name_URU={{fbu|20|Uruguay}}
|team5=PAR|name_PAR={{fbu|20|Paraguay|1954}}
|team6=HON|name_HON={{fbu|20|Honduras|1949}}
|team7=ESP|name_ESP={{fbu|20|Spain}}
|team8=FRA|pos_FRA=7|name_FRA={{fbu|20|France}}
|team9=IRI|name_IRI={{fbu|20|Iran|1964}}
|team10=HUN|name_HUN={{fbu|20|Hungary}}
|team11=IRQ|name_IRQ={{fbu|20|Iraq|1963}}
|team12=ITA|name_ITA={{fbu|20|Italy}}
|team13=CIV|name_CIV={{fbu|20|Ivory Coast}}
|team14=TUN|name_TUN={{fbu|20|Tunisia|1959}}
|team15=AUT|name_AUT={{fbu|20|Austria}}
|team16=MAR|name_MAR={{fbu|20|Morocco}}
|win_URS=2|draw_URS=3|loss_URS=0|gf_URS=7|ga_URS=4
|win_MEX=1|draw_MEX=4|loss_MEX=0|gf_MEX=11|ga_MEX=5
|win_BRA=3|draw_BRA=2|loss_BRA=0|gf_BRA=13|ga_BRA=3
|win_URU=3|draw_URU=1|loss_URU=1|gf_URU=6|ga_URU=5
|win_PAR=2|draw_PAR=0|loss_PAR=1|gf_PAR=6|ga_PAR=2
|win_HON=2|draw_HON=0|loss_HON=1|gf_HON=3|ga_HON=1
|win_ESP=1|draw_ESP=1|loss_ESP=1|gf_ESP=3|ga_ESP=3
|win_FRA=1|draw_FRA=1|loss_FRA=1|gf_FRA=3|ga_FRA=3
|win_IRI=1|draw_IRI=1|loss_IRI=1|gf_IRI=4|ga_IRI=5
|win_HUN=1|draw_HUN=0|loss_HUN=2|gf_HUN=3|ga_HUN=4
|win_IRQ=1|draw_IRQ=0|loss_IRQ=2|gf_IRQ=6|ga_IRQ=8
|win_ITA=0|draw_ITA=2|loss_ITA=1|gf_ITA=1|ga_ITA=3
|win_CIV=0|draw_CIV=2|loss_CIV=1|gf_CIV=2|ga_CIV=5
|win_TUN=1|draw_TUN=0|loss_TUN=2|gf_TUN=1|ga_TUN=7|status_TUN=H
|win_AUT=0|draw_AUT=1|loss_AUT=2|gf_AUT=1|ga_AUT=6
|win_MAR=0|draw_MAR=0|loss_MAR=3|gf_MAR=0|ga_MAR=6

|result1=1st|result2=2nd|result3=3rd|result4=4th
|result5=GS|result6=GS|result7=GS|result8=GS|result9=GS|result10=GS|result11=GS|result12=GS|result13=GS|result14=GS|result15=GS|result16=GS
|split4=yes

|res_col_header=Final result
|col_1st=#FFD700|text_1st=Champions
|col_2nd=#C0C0C0|text_2nd=Runners-up
|col_3rd=#CD7F32|text_3rd=Third place
|text_4th=Fourth place
|text_GS=Eliminated in<br />[[#Group stage|Group stage]]
|update=complete|source=[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesw/wyc77.html rsssf.com]
}}

== Notes ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/archive/tunisia1977/index.html FIFA World Youth Championship Tunisia 1977] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304162321/https://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/archive/tunisia1977/index.html |date=4 March 2020 }}, FIFA.com
* [https://www.rsssf.org/tablesw/wyc77.html RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1977]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090807012928/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/technicaldevp/50/06/63/u20_tunisia_1977_en_213.pdf FIFA Technical Report]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170622151510/https://jogosdaselecaobrasileira.wordpress.com/ All Matches of the Brazilian Soccer Team]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170622151510/https://jogosdaselecaobrasileira.wordpress.com/ Todos os Jogos da Seleção Brasileira de Futebol]

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