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Results

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Champion	Score	Second Place		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1977 Details	Tunisia		USSR	2 - 2 (7 - 6) ps	Mexico		Brazil	4 - 0	Uruguay
1979 Details	Japan		Argentina	3 - 1	USSR		Uruguay	1 - 1 (5 - 3) ps	Poland
1981 Details	Australia		West Germany	4 - 0	Qatar		Romania	1 - 0	England
1983 Details	Mexico		Brazil	1 - 0	Argentina		Poland	2 - 1 aet	South Korea
1985 Details	USSR		Brazil	1 - 0 aet	Spain		Nigeria	0 - 0 (3 - 1) ps	USSR
1987 Details	Chile		Yugoslavia	1 - 1 (5 - 4) ps	West Germany		East Germany	2 - 2 (3 - 1) ps	Chile
1989 Details	Saudi Arabia		Portugal	2 - 0	Nigeria		Brazil	2 - 0	USA
1991 Details	Portugal		Portugal	0 - 0 (4 - 2) ps	Brazil		USSR	1 - 1 (5 - 4) ps	Argentina
1993 Details	Australia		Brazil	2 - 1	Ghana		England	2 - 1	Australia
1995 Details	Qatar		Argentina	2 - 0	Brazil		Portugal	3 - 2	Spain
1997 Details	Malaysia		Argentina	2 - 1	Uruguay		Ireland	2 - 1	Ghana
1999 Details	Nigeria		Spain	4 - 0	Japan		Mali	1 - 0	Uruguay
2001 details	Argentina		Argentina	3 - 0	Ghana		Egypt	1 - 0	Paraguay
2003 details	United Arab Emirates		Brazil	1 - 0	Spain		Colombia	2 - 1	Argentina
2005 details	Netherlands		Argentina	2 - 1	Nigeria		Brazil	2 - 1	Morocco
2007 details	Canada

• Key:
  • aet - after extra time
  • ps - penalty shootout
  • asdet - after sudden death extra time

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Total Wins

1. Argentina - 1979, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005 (5 titles)
2. Brazil - 1983, 1985, 1993, 2003 (4 titles)
3. Portugal - 1989, 1991 (2 titles)
4. USSR - 1977 (1 title)
   Germany - 1981 (1 title)
   Yugoslavia - 1987 (1 title)
   Spain - 1999 (1 title)

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Awards

Top Scorers

Tournament	Winner	Goals
Tunisia 1977	Quina ( Brazil )	4
Japan 1979	Ramon Diaz ( Argentina )	8
Australia 1981	Mark Koussas ( Australia )	4
Mexico 1983	Geovani ( Brazil )	6
USSR 1985	Sebastian Losada ( Spain )	3
Chile 1987	Marcel Witeczek ( Germany )	7
Saudi Arabia 1989	Oleg Salenko ( USSR )	5
Portugal 1991	Serguei Cherbakov ( USSR )	5
Australia 1993	Henry Zambrano ( Chile )	3
Qatar 1995	Joseba ( Spain )	7
Malaysia 1997	Adailton ( Brazil )	10
Nigeria 1999	Pablo ( Spain )	5
Argentina 2001	Javier Saviola ( Argentina )	11
United Arab Emirates 2003	Eddie Johnson ( United States )	4
Argentina 2005	Lionel Messi ( Argentina )	6

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adidas Golden Ball

Tournament	Winner
Tunisia 1977	Vladimir Bessonov ( USSR )
Japan 1979	Diego Maradona ( Argentina )
Australia 1981	Romulus Gabor ( Romania )
Mexico 1983	Geovani ( Brazil )
USSR 1985	Paulo Silas ( Brazil )
Chile 1987	Robert Prosinecki ( Yugoslavia )
Saudi Arabia 1989	Bismarck ( Brazil )
Portugal 1991	Peixe ( Portugal )
Australia 1993	Adriano Silva ( Brazil )
Qatar 1995	Caio ( Brazil )
Malaysia 1997	Nicolas Olivera ( Uruguay )
Nigeria 1999	Seydou Keita ( Mali )
Argentina 2001	Javier Saviola ( Argentina )
United Arab Emirates 2003	Ismail Matar ( United Arab Emirates )
Netherlands 2005	Lionel Messi ( Argentina )

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FIFA Fair Play Award

Tournament	Winner
China 1985	West Germany
Canada 1987	USSR
Scotland 1989	Bahrain
Italy 1991	Argentina
Japan 1993	Nigeria
Ecuador 1995	Brazil
Egypt 1997	Argentina
New Zealand 1999	Mexico
Trinidad and Tobago 2001	Nigeria
Finland 2003	Costa Rica
Peru 2005	North Korea

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See also

• FIFA U-17 World Championship

International football

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