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Japan - 25 August 1979 - 7 September 1979

Winner : Argentina U-20

 

Podium

1	Argentina U-20
2	U.S.S.R. U-20
3	Uruguay U-20

 

Group A (Japan - Tokyo - 25/08/1979 - 29/08/1979)

Classification

	Team	Pts	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	diff
1	Spain U-20	4	3	2	0	1	3	2	+1
2	Algeria U-20	4	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1
3	Mexico U-20	2	3	0	2	1	3	4	-1
4	Japan U-20	2	3	0	2	1	1	2	-1

Last matches

25 August 1979
09h20	Algeria U-20	1 - 1	Mexico U-20
12h00	Spain U-20	1 - 0	Japan U-20
27 August 1979
09h20	Spain U-20	2 - 1	Mexico U-20
12h05	Algeria U-20	0 - 0	Japan U-20
29 August 1979
09h20	Algeria U-20	1 - 0	Spain U-20
12h00	Mexico U-20	1 - 1	Japan U-20

Detail of the results

Group B (Japan - Omiya - 26/08/1979 - 30/08/1979)

Standing

	Team	Pts	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	diff
1	Argentina U-20	6	3	3	0	0	10	1	+9
2	Poland U-20	4	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5
3	Yugoslavia U-20	2	3	1	0	2	5	3	+2
4	Indonesia U-20	0	3	0	0	3	0	16	-16

Last matches

26 August 1979
09h20	Poland U-20	2 - 0	Yugoslavia U-20
12h00	Argentina U-20	5 - 0	Indonesia U-20
28 August 1979
09h20	Argentina U-20	1 - 0	Yugoslavia U-20
12h00	Poland U-20	6 - 0	Indonesia U-20
30 August 1979
09h20	Argentina U-20	4 - 1	Poland U-20
12h00	Yugoslavia U-20	5 - 0	Indonesia U-20

Detail of the results

Group C (Japan - Kobe - 25/08/1979 - 29/08/1979)

Standing

	Team	Pts	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	diff
1	Paraguay U-20	4	3	2	0	1	6	1	+5
2	Portugal U-20	3	3	1	1	1	2	3	-1
3	Republic of Korea U-20	3	3	1	1	1	1	3	-2
4	Canada U-20	2	3	1	0	2	3	5	-2

Last matches

25 August 1979
09h20	Canada U-20	3 - 1	Portugal U-20
12h00	Paraguay U-20	3 - 0	Republic of Korea U-20
27 August 1979
09h20	Portugal U-20	1 - 0	Paraguay U-20
12h00	Republic of Korea U-20	1 - 0	Canada U-20
29 August 1979
09h20	Paraguay U-20	3 - 0	Canada U-20
12h00	Portugal U-20	0 - 0	Republic of Korea U-20

Detail of the results

Group D (Japan - Yokohama - 26/08/1979 - 30/08/1979)

Standing

	Team	Pts	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	diff
1	Uruguay U-20	6	3	3	0	0	8	0	+8
2	U.S.S.R. U-20	4	3	2	0	1	8	2	+6
3	Hungary U-20	2	3	1	0	2	3	7	-4
4	Guinea U-20	0	3	0	0	3	0	10	-10

Last matches

26 August 1979
09h20	U.S.S.R. U-20	5 - 1	Hungary U-20
12h00	Uruguay U-20	5 - 0	Guinea U-20
28 August 1979
09h20	Uruguay U-20	2 - 0	Hungary U-20
12h00	U.S.S.R. U-20	3 - 0	Guinea U-20
30 August 1979
09h20	Uruguay U-20	1 - 0	U.S.S.R. U-20
12h00	Hungary U-20	2 - 0	Guinea U-20

Detail of the results

Final Round (Japan - 02/09/1979 - 07/09/1979)

Quarter-Finals

2 September 1979
12h00 in Omiya	Poland U-20	0 - 0 (4 pen 3)	Spain U-20
12h00 in Yokohama	Uruguay U-20	1 - 0 ot	Portugal U-20
12h00 in Kobe	U.S.S.R. U-20	2 - 2 (6 pen 5)	Paraguay U-20
12h00 in Tokyo	Argentina U-20	5 - 0	Algeria U-20

Semi-Finals

4 September 1979
12h00 in Kobe	U.S.S.R. U-20	1 - 0	Poland U-20
12h00 in Tokyo	Argentina U-20	2 - 0	Uruguay U-20

Third Place Match

6 September 1979
12h00 in Tokyo	Uruguay U-20	1 - 1 (5 pen 3)	Poland U-20

Final

7 September 1979
12h00 in Tokyo	Argentina U-20	3 - 1	U.S.S.R. U-20

Detail of the results

Statistics

• General statistics
  • Number of events : 5
  • Number of rounds : 8
  • Matches : 32
  • Home victories : 28 (88 %)
  • Away victories : 0 (0 %)
  • Drawn matches : 4 (12 %)

  • Best round in goals : 1st (74 goals)
  • Average of goals per match : 2.59
  • Goals scored average at home : 2.28
  • Goals scored average: away games : 0.31
  • Total number of goals : 83
  • Average goals per round : 10.38
• Various statistics
  
  

  Wins

  1	Argentina U-20	6
  2	Uruguay U-20	5
  3	U.S.S.R. U-20	4
  4	Poland U-20	3
  5	Paraguay U-20	2
  6	Spain U-20	2

  Drawn matches

  1	Algeria U-20	2
  2	Japan U-20	2
  3	Mexico U-20	2
  4	Portugal U-20	1
  5	Republic of Korea U-20	1
  6	Argentina U-20	0

  Losses

  1	Guinea U-20	3
  2	Indonesia U-20	3
  3	Poland U-20	3
  4	Canada U-20	2
  5	Hungary U-20	2
  6	Paraguay U-20	2

• Game/match scores
  
  

  1-0	8	25 %	5-0	4	13 %	2-0	4	13 %
  3-0	3	9 %	1-1	3	9 %	0-0	3	9 %
  3-1	2	6 %	6-0	1	3 %	5-1	1	3 %
  4-1	1	3 %	2-2	1	3 %	2-1	1	3 %

FIFA U-20 World Cup 1979 - Participating teams

Algeria U-20

Argentina U-20

Canada U-20

Guinea U-20

Hungary U-20

Indonesia U-20

Japan U-20

Mexico U-20

Paraguay U-20

Poland U-20

Portugal U-20

Republic of Korea U-20

Spain U-20

U.S.S.R. U-20

Uruguay U-20

Yugoslavia U-20

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