Year Venue Champion Second Place Result Third Place 1977 Tunis Soviet Union Mexico 2-2 (7-6 pen) Brazil 1979 Japan Argentina Soviet Union 3-1 Uruguay 1981 Australia West Germany Qatar 4-0 Romania 1983 Mexico Brazil Argentina 1-0 Poland 1985 USSR Brazil Spain 1-0 Nigeria 1987 Chile Yugoslavia West Germany 1-1 (5-4 pen) East Germany 1989 Saudi Arabia Portugal Nigeria 2-0 Brazil 1991 Portugal Portugal Brazil 0-0 (4-2 pen) Soviet Union 1993 Australia Brazil Ghana 2-1 England 1995 Qatar Argentina Brazil 2-0 Portugal 1997 Malaysia Argentina Uruguay 2-1 Ireland 1999 Nigeria Spain Japan 4-0 Mali 2001 Argentina Argentina Ghana 3-0 Egypt 2003 UAE Brazil Spain 1-0 Colombia 2005 Netherlands Argentina Nigeria 2-1 Brazil 2007 Canada Argentina Czech Republic 2-1 Chile 2009 Egypt Ghana Brazil 0-0 (4-3 pen) Hungary 2011 Colombia Brazil Portugal 3-2 Mexico 2013 Turkey France Uruguay 0-0 (4-1 pen) Ghana 2015 New Zealand Serbia Brazil 2-1 Mali 2017 South Korea England Venezuela 1-0 Italy 2019 Poland Ukraine South Korea 3-1 Ecuador 2021 cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic 2023 Argentina Uruguay Italy 1-0 Israel
Argentina 6 Brazil 5 Portugal 2 England 1 France 1 Ghana 1 Serbia 1 Soviet Union 1 Spain 1 Ukraine 1 Uruguay 1 West Germany 1 Yugoslavia 1
1st 2nd 3rd 4th wins finals semis
Argentina 6 1 1 6 7 8
Brazil 5 4 3 5 9 12
Portugal 2 1 1 2 3 4
Uruguay 1 2 1 3 1 3 7
Ghana 1 2 1 1 1 3 5
Spain 1 2 1 1 3 4
Soviet Union 1 1 1 1 1 2 4
West Germany 1 1 1 2 2
England 1 1 1 1 1 3
France 1 1 1 1 2
Serbia 1 1 1 1
Ukraine 1 1 1 1
Yugoslavia 1 1 1 1
Nigeria 2 1 2 3
Italy 1 1 1 1 3
Mexico 1 1 1 2
South Korea 1 2 1 3
Czech Republic 1 1 1
Japan 1 1 1
Qatar 1 1 1
Venezuela 1 1 1
Mali 2 2
Chile 1 1 2
Poland 1 1 2
Colombia 1 1
Ecuador 1 1
Egypt 1 1
East Germany 1 1
Hungary 1 1
Ireland 1 1
Israel 1 1
Romania 1 1
Australia 2 2
Austria 1 1
Costa Rica 1 1
Iraq 1 1
Morocco 1 1
Paraguay 1 1
Senegal 1 1
USA 1 1
total 23 23 23 23 23 46 92
All-Time Table World Youth Cup
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