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{{Infobox international football competition
| tourney_name = FIFA World Youth Championship
| year = 1989
| other_titles = 1989 بطولة العالم للشباب لكرة القدم
| country = Saudi Arabia
| dates = 16 February – 3 March
| num_teams = 16
| confederations = 5
| venues = 4
| cities = 4
| champion = Portugal
| count = 1
| second = Nigeria
| third = Brazil
| third-flagvar = 1968
| fourth = USA
| matches = 32
| goals = 81
| attendance = 643815
| top_scorer = {{flagicon|URS}} [[Oleg Salenko]] (5 goals)
| player = {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Bismarck Barreto Faria|Bismarck]]
| fair_play = {{fbu|20|USA}}
| prevseason = [[1987 FIFA World Youth Championship|1987]]
| nextseason = [[1991 FIFA World Youth Championship|1991]]
}}

The '''1989 [[FIFA U-20 World Cup|FIFA World Youth Championship]]''' took place in [[Saudi Arabia]] between 16 February and 3 March 1989. The 1989 championship was the 7th contested. The tournament took place across four cities: [[Riyadh]], [[Jeddah]], [[Dammam]], and [[Ta'if]].

== Qualification ==
{| class=wikitable
!Confederation
!Qualifying Tournament
!Qualifier(s)
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Asian Football Confederation|AFC (Asia)]]
||Host nation
|{{fbu|20|SAU}}
|-
|[[1988 AFC Youth Championship]]
|{{fbu|20|IRQ|1963}} <br /> {{fbu|20|SYR|1980}}{{Ref|1|1}}
|-
|[[Confederation of African Football|CAF (Africa)]]
|[[1989 African Youth Championship]]
|{{fbu|20|MLI}}{{Ref|1|1}} <br /> {{fbu|20|NGA}}
|-
|[[CONCACAF]]<br/>(North, Central America & Caribbean)
|[[1988 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament]]
|{{fbu|20|CRC}}{{Ref|1|1}} <br /> {{fbu|20|USA}}{{Ref|2|2}}
|-
|[[CONMEBOL]] (South America)
|[[1988 South American U-20 Championship]]
|{{fbu|20|ARG}} <br /> {{fbu|20|BRA|1968}} <br /> {{fbu|20|COL}}
|-
|[[UEFA]] (Europe)
|[[1988 UEFA European Under-18 Championship]]
|{{fbu|20|TCH}} <br /> {{fbu|21|GDR}} <br /> {{fbu|20|NOR}}{{Ref|1|1}} <br /> {{fbu|20|POR}} <br /> {{fbu|20|SOV}}<br /> {{fbu|20|SPA}}
|}
{{refbegin}}
:1.{{Note|1}}Teams that made their debut.
:2.{{Note|2}}Replaced {{fbu|20|MEX}}, who was disqualified from the tournament due to the [[Cachirules]] scandal.
{{refend}}

==Match officials==
{{col-begin-small}}
{{col-2}}
;Africa
*{{flagicon|SEN}} [[Badara Sène (referee)|Badara Sene]]
*{{flagicon|MTN|1959}} [[Idrissa Sarr]]
*{{flagicon|TUN|1959}} [[Neji Jouini]]

;Asia
*{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Abdul Al Nasri]]
*{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Chen Shengcai]]
*{{flagicon|BHR|1972}} [[Ahmed Mohammed Jassim]]

;Europe 
*{{flagicon|AUT}} [[Hubert Forstinger]]
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Tullio Lanese]]
*{{flagicon|ENG}} [[Neil Midgley (referee)|Neil Midgley]]
*{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Egil Nervik]]
*{{flagicon|FRG}} [[Aron Schmidhuber]]
*{{flagicon|NIR}} [[Alan Snoddy]]
*{{flagicon|URS}} [[Alexey Spirin]]
*{{flagicon|BEL}} [[Marcel van Langenhove (referee)|Marcel van Langenhove]]
{{col-2}}
;North, Central America and Caribbean
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Arturo Angeles]]
*{{flagicon|MEX}} [[Arturo Brizio Carter]]
*{{flagicon|SLV}} [[José Carlos Ortíz]]

;South America
*{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Juan Antonio Bava]]
*{{flagicon|ECU}} [[Elias Jácome]]
*{{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[José Roberto Wright]]
*{{flagicon|COL}} [[José Torres Cadena]]
{{col-end}}

== Squads ==
''For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see [[1989 FIFA World Youth Championship squads]]''
[[File:King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 2014.jpg|thumbnail|King Fahd International Stadium]]

== Group stages ==

The 16 teams were split into four groups of four teams.  Four group winners, and four second-place finishers qualify for the knockout round.

===Group A===

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|res_col_header=Group stage result
|winpoints=2

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|team2=NGA|name_NGA={{fbu|20|NGA}}
|team3=TCH|name_TCH={{fbu|20|TCH}}
|team4=KSA|name_KSA={{fbu|20|KSA}}
|win_POR=2|draw_POR=0|loss_POR=1|gf_POR=2|ga_POR=3
|win_NGA=1|draw_NGA=1|loss_NGA=1|gf_NGA=3|ga_NGA=3
|win_TCH=1|draw_TCH=1|loss_TCH=1|gf_TCH=2|ga_TCH=2
|win_KSA=1|draw_KSA=0|loss_KSA=2|gf_KSA=4|ga_KSA=3|status_KSA=H

|col_A=green1|text_A=Advance to [[#Knockout stages|knockout stage]]
|result1=A|result2=A
|update=complete|source=
}}

{{football box
|date=16 February 1989 <br/> 18:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|KSA}} |score=1–2 |team2={{fbu|20|NGA}} |goals1=[[Saadoun Al Suraiti|Al Suraiti]] {{goal|16}} |goals2=[[Mutiu Adepoju|Adepoju]] {{goal|52}} <br/> [[Christopher Ohenhen|Ohenhen]] {{goal|87}} |stadium=[[King Fahd International Stadium]], [[Riyadh]] 
| attendance = 70,000 | referee = [[Marcel van Langenhove (referee)|Marcel van Langenhove]] ([[Belgium]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20151010132131/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30845/index.html (Report)] }}
----
{{football box
|date=17 February 1989 <br/> 18:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|TCH}} |score=0–1 |team2={{fbu|20|POR}} |goals1= 
|goals2=[[Paulo Alves (footballer, born 1969)|Alves]] {{goal|88}} |stadium=[[King Fahd International Stadium]], [[Riyadh]] 
| attendance = 7,000 | referee = [[José Roberto Wright]] ([[Brazil]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20151010132142/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30846/index.html (Report)] }}
----
{{football box
|date=19 February 1989 <br/> 18:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|KSA}} |score=0–1 |team2={{fbu|20|TCH}} |goals1= |goals2=[[Radoslav Látal|Látal]] {{goal|52}} |stadium=[[King Fahd International Stadium]], [[Riyadh]] 
| attendance = 20,000 | referee = [[Alan Snoddy]] ([[Northern Ireland]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150915005825/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30853/index.html (Report)] }}
----
{{football box
|date=20 February 1989 <br/> 18:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|NGA}} |score=0–1 |team2={{fbu|20|POR}} |goals1= |goals2=[[Joao Manuel Vieira Pinto|João Pinto]] {{goal|79}} |stadium=[[King Fahd International Stadium]], [[Riyadh]] 
| attendance = 7,000 | referee = [[Egil Nervik]] ([[Norway]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20151010132200/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30857/index.html (Report)] }}
----
{{football box
|date=22 February 1989 <br/> 15:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|KSA}} |score=3–0 |team2={{fbu|20|POR}} |goals1=[[Khaled Al Harbi|Al Harbi]] {{goal|52}} <br/> [[Khalid Al Rowaihi|Al Rowaihi]] {{goal|56}} <br/> [[Hamad Al Debaikhi|Al Debaikhi]] {{goal|83}} |goals2= |stadium=[[King Fahd International Stadium]], [[Riyadh]] 
| attendance = 8,000 | referee = [[José Roberto Wright]] ([[Brazil]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150926110441/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30861/index.html (Report)] }}
----
{{football box
|date=22 February 1989 <br/> 18:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|NGA}} |score=1–1 |team2={{fbu|20|TCH}} |goals1=[[Christopher Nwosu|Nwosu]] {{goal|72}} |goals2=[[Radoslav Látal|Látal]] {{goal|14}} |stadium=[[King Fahd International Stadium]], [[Riyadh]] 
| attendance = 8,000 | referee = [[Arturo Brizio Carter]] ([[Mexico]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20151010132206/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30862/index.html (Report)] }}
----

===Group B===

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

|team1=URS|name_URS={{fbu|20|URS}}
|team2=COL|name_COL={{fbu|20|COL}}
|team3=SYR|name_SYR={{fbu|20|SYR|1980}}
|team4=CRC|name_CRC={{fbu|20|CRC}}
|win_URS=3|draw_URS=0|loss_URS=0|gf_URS=7|ga_URS=2
|win_COL=1|draw_COL=0|loss_COL=2|gf_COL=3|ga_COL=4
|win_SYR=1|draw_SYR=0|loss_SYR=2|gf_SYR=4|ga_SYR=6
|win_CRC=1|draw_CRC=0|loss_CRC=2|gf_CRC=2|ga_CRC=4

|col_A=green1|text_A=Advance to [[#Knockout stages|knockout stage]]
|result1=A|result2=A
|update=complete|source=
}}

{{football box
|date=17 February 1989 <br/> 15:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|CRC}} |score=1–0 |team2={{fbu|20|COL}} |goals1=[[Rónald González Brenes|González]] {{goal|88}} |goals2= |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium]], [[Dammam]] 
| attendance = 11,000 | referee = [[Abdullah Al Nasir|Al Nasir]] ([[Saudi Arabia]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/u20worldcup/saudiarabia1989/matches/round=191210/match=30847/index.html (Report)]}}
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{{football box
|date=17 February 1989 <br/> 18:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|URS}} |score=3–1 |team2={{fbu|20|SYR|1980}} |goals1=[[Bakhva Tedeev|Tedeev]] {{goal|29}} <br/> [[Oleg Salenko|Salenko]] {{goal|49||83}} |goals2=[[Yasser Sibai|Sibai]] {{goal|65}} |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium]], [[Dammam]] 
| attendance = 11,000 | referee = [[Juan Antonio Bava]] ([[Argentina]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20151010132149/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30848/index.html (Report)] }}
----
{{football box
|date=19 February 1989 <br/> 18:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|CRC}} |score=0–1 |team2={{fbu|20|URS}} |goals1= |goals2=[[Oleh Matveyev|Matveev]] {{goal|84}} |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium]], [[Dammam]] 
| attendance = 5,000 | referee = [[Aron Schmidhuber]] ([[West Germany]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150926110411/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30854/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=20 February 1989 <br/> 18:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|COL}} |score=2–0 |team2={{fbu|20|SYR|1980}} |goals1=[[Wilson Muñoz|Muñoz]] {{goal|42}} <br/> [[Diego Osorio|Osorio]] {{goal|85}} |goals2= |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium]], [[Dammam]] 
| attendance = 9,545 | referee = [[Kenneth Wallace (referee)|Kenneth Wallace]] ([[New Zealand]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150915005909/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30858/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=22 February 1989 <br/> 15:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|CRC}} |score=1–3 |team2={{fbu|20|SYR|1980}} |goals1=[[Danilo Brenes|Brenes]] {{goal|80}} |goals2=[[Abdul Latif Helou|Helou]] {{goal|16||45}} <br/> [[Mohammad Afash|Afash]] {{goal|30}} |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium]], [[Dammam]] 
| attendance = 6,000 | referee = [[Badara Sène (referee)|Badara Sene]] ([[Senegal]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150926110448/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30863/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=22 February 1989 <br/> 18:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|COL}} |score=1–3 |team2={{fbu|20|URS}} |goals1=[[Wilson Muñoz|Muñoz]] {{goal|5}} |goals2=[[Andrei Timoshenko|Timoshenko]] {{goal|25}} <br/> [[Oleg Salenko|Salenko]] {{goal|29||32}} |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium]], [[Dammam]] 
| attendance = 9,770 | referee = [[Tullio Lanese]] ([[Italy]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150926110456/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30864/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=USA|name_USA={{fbu|20|USA}}
|team3=GDR|name_GDR={{fbu|20|GDR}}
|team4=MLI|name_MLI={{fbu|20|MLI}}
|win_BRA=3|draw_BRA=0|loss_BRA=0|gf_BRA=10|ga_BRA=1
|win_USA=1|draw_USA=1|loss_USA=1|gf_USA=4|ga_USA=4
|win_GDR=1|draw_GDR=0|loss_GDR=2|gf_GDR=3|ga_GDR=4
|win_MLI=0|draw_MLI=1|loss_MLI=2|gf_MLI=1|ga_MLI=9

|col_A=green1|text_A=Advance to [[#Knockout stages|knockout stage]]
|result1=A|result2=A
|update=complete|source=
}}

{{football box
|date=17 February 1989 <br/> 16:30 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|BRA|1968}} |score=2–0 |team2={{fbu|20|GDR}} |goals1=[[Marcelo Henrique dos Santos|Marcelo Henrique]] {{goal|35}} <br/> [[Ricardo França|França]] {{goal|68}} |goals2= |stadium=[[Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium]], [[Jeddah]] 
| attendance = 35,000 | referee = [[Neil Midgley (referee)|Neil Midgley]] ([[England]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150926110405/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30849/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=17 February 1989 <br/> 18:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|MLI}} |score=1–1 |team2={{fbu|20|USA}} |goals1=[[Kante Nfaly|Nfaly]] {{goal|42}}|goals2=[[Steve Snow|Snow]] {{goal|11}} |stadium=[[Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium]], [[Jeddah]] 
| attendance = 35,000 | referee = [[Elias Jacome|Elías Jácome]] ([[Ecuador]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150908224926/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30850/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=19 February 1989 <br/> 18:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|BRA|1968}} |score=5–0 |team2={{fbu|20|MLI}} |goals1=[[Cássio de Barros Alves|Cássio]] {{goal|50}} <br/> [[Bismarck Barreto Faria|Bismarck]] {{goal|53||83}} <br/> [[Sonny Anderson]] {{goal|66||80}} |goals2= |stadium=[[Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium]], [[Jeddah]] 
| attendance = 10,000 | referee = [[Ahmed Mohammed Jassim]] ([[Bahrain]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150926110421/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30855/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=20 February 1989 <br/> 18:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|GDR}} |score=0–2 |team2={{fbu|20|USA}} |goals1= |goals2=[[Troy Dayak|Dayak]] {{goal|47}} <br/> [[Steve Snow|Snow]] {{goal|87|pen.}} |stadium=[[Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium]], [[Jeddah]] 
| attendance = 10,000 | referee = [[Idrissa Sarr]] ([[Mauritania]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150908230352/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30859/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=22 February 1989 <br/> 16:30 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|BRA|1968}} |score=3–1 |team2={{fbu|20|USA}} |goals1=[[Bismarck Barreto Faria|Bismarck]] {{goal|39}} <br/> [[Marcelo Henrique dos Santos|Marcelo Henrique]] {{goal|44}} <br/> [[Sonny Anderson]] {{goal|55}} |goals2=[[Troy Dayak|Dayak]] {{goal|10}} |stadium=[[Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium]], [[Jeddah]] 
| attendance = 25,000 | referee = [[Hubert Forstinger]] ([[Austria]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150908224900/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30865/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=22 February 1989 <br/> 18:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|GDR}} |score=3–0 |team2={{fbu|20|MLI}} |goals1=[[Stephan Prausse|Prausse]] {{goal|28}} <br/> [[Henri Fuchs|Fuchs]] {{goal|46}} <br/> [[Uwe Jahnig|Jahnig]] {{goal|55}} |goals2= |stadium=[[Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium]], [[Jeddah]] 
| attendance = 25,000 | referee = [[José Carlos Ortiz]] ([[Colombia]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20151010132214/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30866/index.html (Report)] }}
----

===Group D===

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

|team1=IRQ|name_IRQ={{fbu|20|IRQ|1963}}
|team2=ARG|name_ARG={{fbu|20|ARG}}
|team3=NOR|name_NOR={{fbu|20|NOR}}
|team4=ESP|name_ESP={{fbu|20|ESP}}
|win_IRQ=3|draw_IRQ=0|loss_IRQ=0|gf_IRQ=4|ga_IRQ=0
|win_ARG=1|draw_ARG=0|loss_ARG=2|gf_ARG=3|ga_ARG=3
|win_NOR=1|draw_NOR=0|loss_NOR=2|gf_NOR=4|ga_NOR=5
|win_ESP=1|draw_ESP=0|loss_ESP=2|gf_ESP=4|ga_ESP=7

|col_A=green1|text_A=Advance to [[#Knockout stages|knockout stage]]
|result1=A|result2=A
|update=complete|source=
}}

{{football box
|date=17 February 1989 <br/> 16:30 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|NOR}} |score=0–1 |team2={{fbu|20|IRQ|1963}} |goals1= |goals2=[[Naeem Saddam|Saddam]] {{goal|66}} |stadium=[[King Fahd Sports City (Taif)|King Fahd Stadium]], [[Taif]]  
| attendance = 14,000 | referee = [[José Torres Cadena]] ([[Colombia]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150915004946/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30851/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=17 February 1989 <br/> 18:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|ARG}} |score=1–2 |team2={{fbu|20|ESP}} |goals1=[[Diego Simeone|Simeone]] {{goal|12}} |goals2=[[Moisés García (footballer, born 1971)|Moisés]] {{goal|26}} <br/> [[David Villabona|Villabona]] {{goal|58|pen.}} |stadium=[[King Fahd Sports City (Taif)|King Fahd Stadium]], [[Taif]] 
| attendance = 14,000 | referee = [[Alexey Spirin]] ([[Soviet Union]]) <ref name="Spirin">The FIFA states "[[Russian SFSR|Russia]]" here, which is an [[anachronism]].</ref> |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20151010132154/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30852/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=19 February 1989 <br/> 18:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|NOR}} |score=0–2 |team2={{fbu|20|ARG}}|goals1= |goals2=[[Humberto Biazotti|Biazotti]] {{goal|5}} <br/> [[Martín Félix Ubaldi|Ubaldi]] {{goal|89}} |stadium=[[King Fahd Sports City (Taif)|King Fahd Stadium]], [[Taif]] 
| attendance = 3,000 | referee = [[Arturo Angeles]] ([[United States]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150926110426/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30856/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=20 February 1989 <br/> 18:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|IRQ|1963}} |score=2–0 |team2={{fbu|20|ESP}} |goals1=[[Wali Kareem|Kareem]] {{goal|41}} <br/> [[Laith Hussein|Hussein]] {{goal|51}} |goals2= |stadium=[[King Fahd Sports City (Taif)|King Fahd Stadium]], [[Taif]] 
| attendance = 13,500 | referee = [[Chen Shengcai]] ([[China]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150915005254/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30860/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
| date = 22 February 1989 <br/> 16:30
| team1 = {{fbu-rt|20|NOR}}
| score = 4–2
| team2 = {{fbu|20|ESP}}
| goals1 = [[Oystein Drillestad|Drillestad]] {{goal|43}} <br/> [[Bjørn Johansen (footballer)|Johansen]] {{goal|47}} <br/> [[Lars Bohinen|Bohinen]] {{goal|58}}<br/> [[Oyvind Mellemstrand|Mellemstrand]] {{goal|90}}
| goals2 = [[Antonio Pinilla|Pinilla]] {{goal|46||49}}
| stadium = [[King Fahd Sports City (Taif)|King Fahd Stadium]], [[Taif]]
| attendance = 17,000
| referee = [[Neji Jouini]] ([[Tunisia]])
| report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150926110516/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30867/index.html (Report)]
| event = 
| time = 
| round = 
| score1 = 
| score2 = 
}}
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{{football box
|date=22 February 1989 <br/> 18:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|IRQ|1963}} |score=1–0 |team2={{fbu|20|ARG}} |goals1=[[Radhi Shenaishil|Shenaishil]] {{goal|67|pen.}} |goals2= |stadium=[[King Fahd Sports City (Taif)|King Fahd Stadium]], [[Taif]] 
| attendance = 17,000 | referee = [[Jozef Marko (referee)|Jozef Marko]]  ([[Czechoslovakia]]) <ref name="Marko">Actually [[Slovakia]], as the FIFA anachronistically reports.</ref> |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150915005848/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191210/match=30868/index.html (Report)] }}

==Knockout stages==
{{Round8-with third
<!--Date-Place|Team 1|Score 1|Team 2|Score 2 -->
<!--quarter finals  -->
|February 25 - [[Riyadh]]|'''{{fbu|20|POR}}''' |'''1'''|{{fbu|20|COL}}|0
|February 25 - [[Jeddah]]|'''{{fbu|20|BRA|1968}}'''|'''1'''|{{fbu|20|ARG}}|0
|February 25 - [[Dammam]]|{{fbu|20|URS}} |4 (3)|'''{{fbu|20|NGA}}''' ([[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|'''pen.''']])| '''4 (5)'''
|February 25 - [[Taif]]|{{fbu|20|IRQ|1963}}|1|'''{{fbu|20|USA}}'''|'''2'''
<!--semi finals  -->
|February 28 - [[Riyadh]]|'''{{fbu|20|POR}}'''|'''1'''|{{fbu|20|BRA|1968}}|0
|February 28 - [[Jeddah]]|'''{{fbu|20|NGA}}''' ('''[[Overtime (sports)|aet]]''')|'''2'''|{{fbu|20|USA}}|1
<!--final  -->
|March 3 - [[Riyadh]]|'''{{fbu|20|POR}}'''|'''2'''|{{fbu|20|NGA}}|0
<!--third place  -->
|March 3 - [[Riyadh]]|'''{{fbu|20|BRA|1968}}'''|'''2'''|{{fbu|20|USA}} |0
}}

===Quarterfinals===
{{football box
|date=25 February 1989 <br/> 18:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|POR}} |score=1–0 |team2={{fbu|20|COL}} |goals1=[[Jorge Couto]] {{goal|40}} |goals2= |stadium=[[King Fahd International Stadium]], [[Riyadh]] 
| attendance = 5,000 | referee = [[Neji Jouini]] ([[Tunisia]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150912180345/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191216/match=30869/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{Main|Miracle of Dammam}}
{{football box
|date=25 February 1989 <br/> 18:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|URS}} |score=4–4 |aet=yes |penaltyscore=3–5 |team2={{fbu|20|NGA}} |goals1=[[Sergei Kiriakov|Kiriakov]] {{goal|30||58}} <br/> [[Bakhva Tedeev|Tedeev]] {{goal|45}} <br/> [[Oleg Salenko|Salenko]] {{goal|46}} |goals2=[[Oladimeji Lawal|Oladimeji]] {{goal|61}} <br/>[[Christopher Ohenhen|Ohenhen]] {{goal|75}}<br/> [[Samuel Elijah|Elijah]] {{goal|83}} <br/> [[Nduka Ugbade|Ugbade]] {{goal|84}} | penalties1 = [[Oleg Salenko|Salenko]] {{pengoal}}<br />[[Serhiy Bezhenar|Bezhenar]] {{pengoal}}<br />[[Mirjalol Qosimov|Qosimov]] {{penmiss}}<br />[[Oleg Benko|Benko]] {{pengoal}} | penalties2 = {{pengoal}} [[Christopher Ohen|Ohen]]<br />{{pengoal}} [[Peter Ogaba|Ogaba]]<br />{{pengoal}} [[Michael Onyemachara|Onyemachara]]<br />{{pengoal}} [[Mutiu Adepoju|Adepoju]]<br />{{pengoal}} [[Samuel Elijah|Elijah]] |stadium=[[Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium]], [[Dammam]] 
| attendance = 10,000 | referee = [[Hubert Forstinger]] ([[Austria]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150926110525/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191216/match=30870/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=25 February 1989 <br/> 18:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|BRA|1968}} |score=1–0 |team2={{fbu|20|ARG}} |goals1=[[Marcelo Henrique dos Santos|Marcelo Henrique]] {{goal|15}} |goals2= |stadium=[[Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium]], [[Jeddah]] 
| attendance = 35,000 | referee = [[Tullio Lanese]] ([[Italy]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150926110533/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191216/match=30871/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=25 February 1989 <br/> 18:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|IRQ|1963}} |score=1–2 |team2={{fbu|20|USA}} |goals1=[[Wali Kareem|Kareem]] {{goal|35}} |goals2=[[Chris Henderson|Henderson]] {{goal|17}} <br/> [[Dario Brose|Brose]] {{goal|56}} |stadium=[[King Fahd Stadium, Taif|King Fahd Stadium]], [[Taif]] 
| attendance = 18,000 | referee = [[Aron Schmidhuber]] ([[West Germany]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150909181036/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191216/match=30872/index.html (Report)] }}
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===Semifinals===
{{football box
|date=28 February 1989 <br/> 18:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|POR}} |score=1–0 |team2={{fbu|20|BRA|1968}} |goals1=[[Jorge Amaral Rodrigues|Amaral]] {{goal|68}} |goals2= |stadium=[[King Fahd International Stadium]], [[Riyadh]] 
| attendance = 15,000 | referee = [[Jozef Marko (referee)|Jozef Marko]] ([[Czechoslovakia]]) <ref name="Marko"/> |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20151029054242/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191217/match=30873/index.html (Report)] }}
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{{football box
|date=28 February 1989 <br/> 18:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|NGA}} |score=2–1 {{aet}}|team2={{fbu|20|USA}} |goals1=[[Mutiu Adepoju|Adepoju]] {{goal|47||93}}|goals2=[[Steve Snow|Snow]] {{goal|52|pen.}} |stadium=[[Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium]], [[Jeddah]] 
| attendance = 40,000 | referee = [[Neil Midgley (referee)|Neil Midgley]] ([[England]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150908231100/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191217/match=30874/index.html (Report)] }}
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===Third place play-off===
{{football box|date=3 March 1989 <br /> 15:45 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|BRA|1968}} |score=2–0 |team2={{fbu|20|USA}} |goals1=[[Ricardo Franca|Franca]] {{goal|65}}<br /> [[Leonardo Araújo|Leonardo]] {{goal|69}}|goals2= |stadium=[[King Fahd International Stadium]], [[Riyadh]] | attendance = 65,000  | referee = [[Neji Jouini]] ([[Tunisia]]) |report=[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/u20worldcup/saudiarabia1989/match-center/30875 (Report)] }}
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===Final===
{{football box|date=3 March 1989 <br/> 18:00 |team1={{fbu-rt|20|POR}} |score=2–0 |team2={{fbu|20|NGA}} |goals1=[[Abel Silva]] {{goal|44}}<br/> [[Jorge Couto]] {{goal|76}}|goals2= |stadium=[[King Fahd International Stadium]], [[Riyadh]] | attendance = 65,000  | referee = [[Aron Schmidhuber]] ([[Germany]]) |report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906013722/http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=191219/match=30876/index.html (Report)] }}

==Result==

{{winners|fbu|20|1989 FIFA World Youth Championship winners|Portugal|First}}

==Awards==
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center; margin:auto"
!Golden Shoe
!Golden Ball
!FIFA Fair Play Award
|-
|{{flagicon|URS}} [[Oleg Salenko]]
|{{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Bismarck Barreto Faria|Bismarck]]
|{{fbu|20|USA}}
|}

==Goalscorers==

Oleg Salenko of Soviet Union won the [[FIFA U-20 World Cup#Awards|Golden Boot]] award for scoring five goals. In total, 81 goals were scored by 55 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

;5 goals
*{{flagicon|URS}} [[Oleg Salenko]]
;3 goals
*{{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Bismarck Barreto Faria|Bismarck]]
*{{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Marcelo Henrique dos Santos|Marcelo Henrique]]
*{{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Sonny Anderson]]
*{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Mutiu Adepoju]]
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Steve Snow]]
;2 goals
{{colbegin|colwidth=18em}}
*{{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Ricardo França]]
*{{flagicon|COL}} [[Wilson Muñoz]]
*{{flagicon|TCH}} [[Radoslav Látal]]
*{{flagicon|IRQ|1963}} [[Wali Kareem]]
*{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Christopher Ohenhen]]
*{{flagicon|POR}} [[Jorge Couto]]
*{{flagicon|URS}} [[Bakhva Tedeev]]
*{{flagicon|URS}} [[Sergei Kiriakov]]
*{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Antonio Pinilla]]
*{{flagicon|SYR|1980}} [[Abdul Latif Helou]]
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Troy Dayak]]
{{colend}}
;1 goal
{{colbegin|colwidth=18em}}
*{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Diego Simeone]]
*{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Humberto Biazotti]]
*{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Martín Ubaldi]]
*{{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Cássio de Barros Alves|Cássio]]
*{{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Leonardo Araújo]]
*{{flagicon|COL}} [[Diego Osorio]]
*{{flagicon|CRC}} [[Danilo Brenes]]
*{{flagicon|CRC}} [[Rónald González Brenes]]
*{{flagicon|GDR}} [[Henri Fuchs]]
*{{flagicon|GDR}} [[Stephan Prausse]]
*{{flagicon|GDR}} [[Uwe Jahnig]]
*{{flagicon|IRQ|1963}} [[Laith Hussein]]
*{{flagicon|IRQ|1963}} [[Naeem Saddam]]
*{{flagicon|IRQ|1963}} [[Radhi Shenaishil]]
*{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Christopher Nwosu]]
*{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Oladimeji Lawal]]
*{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Nduka Ugbade]]
*{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Samuel Elijah]]
*{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Bjørn Johansen (footballer)|Bjørn Johansen]]
*{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Lars Bohinen]]
*{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Oystein Drillestad]]
*{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Oyvind Mellemstrand]]
*{{flagicon|MLI}} [[Kante Nfaly]]
*{{flagicon|POR}} [[Abel Silva]]
*{{flagicon|POR}} [[João Pinto]]
*{{flagicon|POR}} [[Jorge Amaral]]
*{{flagicon|POR}} [[Paulo Alves (footballer, born 1969)|Paulo Alves]]
*{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Hamad Al Debaikhi]]
*{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Khaled Al Harbi]]
*{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Khalid Al Rowaihi]]
*{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Saadoun Al Suraiti]]
*{{flagicon|URS}} [[Andrei Timoshenko]]
*{{flagicon|URS}} [[Oleg Matveev]]
*{{flagicon|ESP}} [[David Villabona]]
*{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Moisés García (footballer, born 1971)|Moisés García León]]
*{{flagicon|SYR|1980}} [[Mohammad Afash]]
*{{flagicon|SYR|1980}} [[Yasser Sibai]]
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Chris Henderson]]
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Dario Brose]]
{{colend}}

==Final ranking==

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

|team1=POR|name_POR={{fbu|20|Portugal}}
|team2=NGR|name_NGR={{fbu|20|Nigeria}}
|team3=BRA|name_BRA={{fbu|20|Brazil|1968}}
|team4=USA|name_USA={{fbu|20|United States}}
|team5=URS|name_URS={{fbu|20|Soviet Union}}
|team6=IRQ|name_IRQ={{fbu|20|Iraq|1963}}
|team7=ARG|name_ARG={{fbu|20|Argentina}}
|team8=COL|name_COL={{fbu|20|Colombia}}
|team9=CZE|name_CZE={{fbu|20|Czechoslovakia}}
|team10=KSA|name_KSA={{fbu|20|Saudi Arabia}}
|team11=NOR|name_NOR={{fbu|20|Norway}}
|team12=DDR|name_DDR={{fbu|20|East Germany}}
|team13=SYR|name_SYR={{fbu|20|Syria|1980}}
|team14=CRC|name_CRC={{fbu|20|Costa Rica}}
|team15=ESP|name_ESP={{fbu|20|Spain}}
|team16=MLI|name_MLI={{fbu|20|Mali}}
|win_POR=5|draw_POR=0|loss_POR=1|gf_POR=6|ga_POR=3
|win_NGR=2|draw_NGR=2|loss_NGR=2|gf_NGR=9|ga_NGR=10
|win_BRA=5|draw_BRA=0|loss_BRA=1|gf_BRA=13|ga_BRA=2
|win_USA=2|draw_USA=1|loss_USA=3|gf_USA=7|ga_USA=9
|win_URS=3|draw_URS=1|loss_URS=0|gf_URS=11|ga_URS=6
|win_IRQ=3|draw_IRQ=0|loss_IRQ=1|gf_IRQ=5|ga_IRQ=2
|win_ARG=1|draw_ARG=0|loss_ARG=3|gf_ARG=3|ga_ARG=4
|win_COL=1|draw_COL=0|loss_COL=3|gf_COL=3|ga_COL=5
|win_CZE=1|draw_CZE=1|loss_CZE=1|gf_CZE=2|ga_CZE=2
|win_KSA=1|draw_KSA=0|loss_KSA=2|gf_KSA=4|ga_KSA=3|status_KSA=H
|win_NOR=1|draw_NOR=0|loss_NOR=2|gf_NOR=4|ga_NOR=5
|win_DDR=1|draw_DDR=0|loss_DDR=2|gf_DDR=3|ga_DDR=4
|win_SYR=1|draw_SYR=0|loss_SYR=2|gf_SYR=4|ga_SYR=6
|win_CRC=1|draw_CRC=0|loss_CRC=2|gf_CRC=2|ga_CRC=4
|win_ESP=1|draw_ESP=0|loss_ESP=2|gf_ESP=4|ga_ESP=7
|win_MLI=0|draw_MLI=1|loss_MLI=2|gf_MLI=1|ga_MLI=9
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|result5=QF|result6=QF|result7=QF|result8=QF
|result9=GS|result10=GS|result11=GS|result12=GS|result13=GS|result14=GS|result15=GS|result16=GS
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|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_QF=Eliminated in<br />[[#Quarterfinals|Quarter-finals]]
|text_GS=Eliminated in<br />[[#Group stage|Group stage]]
|update=complete|source=[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesw/wyc89.html rsssf.com]
}}

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/archive/saudiarabia1989/index.html FIFA World Youth Championship Saudi Arabia 1989] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414144202/https://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/archive/saudiarabia1989/index.html |date=2020-04-14 }}, FIFA.com
*[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesw/wyc89.html RSSSF > FIFA World Youth Championship > 1989]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111220070437/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/technicaldevp/50/06/37/wyc%5f89%5ftr%5fpart1%5f198.pdf FIFA Technical Report (Part 1)], [https://web.archive.org/web/20111220053841/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/technicaldevp/50/06/31/wyc%5f89%5ftr%5fpart2%5f197.pdf (Part 2)], [https://web.archive.org/web/20111220055050/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/technicaldevp/50/06/28/wyc%5f89%5ftr%5fpart3%5f196.pdf (Part 3)] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20111220070132/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/technicaldevp/50/06/24/wyc%5f89%5ftr%5fpart4%5f195.pdf (Part 4)]

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