Group A 03.10.1981 Brisbane Qatar 1-0 Poland [Beleal 37] 03.10.1981 Brisbane Uruguay 3-0 United States [López Báez 5, Aguilera 60, Da Silva 67] 06.10.1981 Brisbane Qatar 1-1 United States [Beleal 56; Devey 43] 06.10.1981 Brisbane Uruguay 1-0 Poland [Da Silva 58] 08.10.1981 Brisbane Poland 4-0 United States [Rzepka 17, Kowalik 18, Dziekanowsky 65, 67] 08.10.1981 Brisbane Qatar 0-1 Uruguay [Villazán 52] 1.URUGUAY 3 3 0 0 5- 0 6 2.QATAR 3 1 1 1 2- 2 3 3.Poland 3 1 0 2 4- 2 2 4.United States 3 0 1 2 1- 8 1 Group B 03.10.1981 Melbourne South Korea 4-1 Italy [Kwak Sung-Ho 7, Choi Soon-Ho 12, 29, Lee Kyung-Nam 88] 03.10.1981 Melbourne Brazil 1-1 Romania [Leomir 67; Zamfir 82] 06.10.1981 Melbourne Brazil 1-0 Italy [Djalma Baia 56] 06.10.1981 Melbourne Romania 1-0 South Korea [Sertov 5] 08.10.1981 Melbourne Romania 1-0 Italy [Gabor 56p] 08.10.1981 Melbourne Brazil 3-0 South Korea [Paulo Roberto 48, Ronaldão 61, Jun Jong-Son 79og] 1.BRAZIL 3 2 1 0 5- 1 5 2.ROMANIA 3 2 1 0 3- 1 5 3.South Korea 3 1 0 2 4- 5 2 4.Italy 3 0 0 3 1- 6 0 Group C 03.10.1981 Adelaide Egypt 2-2 Spain [Taher Amer 6, 78; S.López 65, Nadal 74] 03.10.1981 Adelaide West Germany 1-0 Mexico [Loose 2] 06.10.1981 Adelaide Egypt 2-1 West Germany [Helmi 31, Taher Amer 54p; Loose 35] 06.10.1981 Adelaide Mexico 1-1 Spain [Coss 75; S.López 45p] 08.10.1981 Canberra West Germany 4-2 Spain [Trieb 29, Wihlfarth 47, 85, Anthes 55; F.López 72, Fabregat 78] 08.10.1981 Canberra Egypt 3-3 Mexico [Guillén 33og, Saleh 64, 71; Vaca 18, Farfán 28, Ríos 69] 1.WEST GERMANY 3 2 0 1 6- 4 4 2.EGYPT 3 1 2 0 7- 6 4 3.Mexico 3 0 2 1 4- 5 2 4.Spain 3 0 2 1 5- 7 2 Group D 03.10.1981 Sydney England 2-0 Cameroon [Finnigan 57, Dey 78] 03.10.1981 Sydney Australia 2-1 Argentina [Koussas 79, Hunter 89; Morresi 66] 05.10.1981 Sydney England 1-1 Argentina [Small 79; Urruti 57] 05.10.1981 Newcastle Australia 3-3 Cameroon [Mitchell 9, Koussas 53, 78p; Olle Olle 17, Djonkep 35, 52] 08.10.1981 Sydney England 1-1 Australia [Small 82; Koussas 7] 08.10.1981 Sydney Argentina 1-0 Cameroon [Cecchi 6] 1.ENGLAND 3 1 2 0 4- 2 4 2.AUSTRALIA 3 1 2 0 6- 5 4 3.Argentina 3 1 1 1 3- 3 3 4.Cameroon 3 0 1 2 3- 6 1 Quarterfinals 11.10.1981 Melbourne Romania 2-1 Uruguay [Eduard 25, Fisic 84; Berruetta 60] 11.10.1981 Newcastle Qatar 3-2 Brazil [Al-Muhannadi 10, 54, 87; Ronaldão 27, 78] 11.10.1981 Canberra West Germany 1-0 Australia [Wohlfarth 69] 11.10.1981 Sydney England 4-2 Egypt [Webb 41, 64, 82, Cooke 60; Taher Amer 28p, Saleh 40] Semifinals 14.10.1981 Sydney Qatar 2-1 England [Beleal 12, Alsada 62; Small 70] 14.10.1981 Melbourne West Germany 1-0 Romania [aet] [Schön 103] Third Place Match 17.10.1981 Adelaide Romania 1-0 England [Gabor 36] Final (in Sydney, att 19.000) 18.10.1981 Sydney West Germany 4-0 Qatar [Loose 28 65pen, Wohlfarth 43, Anthes 86] NB: West Germany had finished only 9th in the European U-18 championship in spring 1980, which had served as European qualifying tournament for this World Youth Cup, and from which 6 teams (England, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Romania) had qualified. However, the Dutch FA declined to participate and West Germany were invited to enter instead. As an aside, bronze medalists Romania had only qualified for this World Youth Cup after winning a draw against Portugal who had finished with an equal record at the European U-18 championship.
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