1985 FIFA World Youth Championship
The 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship, the fifth edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship, was held in the Soviet Union from 24 August to 7 September 1985. The tournament took place in ten venues within eight host cities — Baku, Yerevan, Leningrad, Minsk, Moscow, Hoktemberyan, Tbilisi and Sumqayit — where a total of 32 matches were played. The winner was Brazil, which managed to retain the title, by beating Spain by 1–0, in the final played at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium.
Venues
10 different stadiums were used during the championship in 8 host cities, divided among 5 Soviet republics: Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Georgian SSR, and Russian SFSR.Qualification
Squads
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship squadsGroup stage
Group A
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | ||
| 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | –4 |
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Group B
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | –4 |
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Group C
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | –1 | ||
| 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | –7 |
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Group D
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Status |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | Advanced to the quarter finals | |
| 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | –3 | ||
| 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | –3 |
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Knockout stage
Quarterfinals
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Semi-finals
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Third place play-off
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Result
Awards
Goalscorers
Sebastián Losada of Spain won the Golden Shoe award for scoring three goals. In total, 80 goals were scored by 55 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.;3 goals
- Balalo
- Gérson da Silva
- Müller
- Alberto García Aspe
- Odiaka Monday
- Fernando Gómez Colomer
- Sebastián Losada
- Dida
- Emil Kostadinov
- Gao Hongbo
- Gong Lei
- John Jairo Tréllez
- Attila Pintér
- Pál Fischer
- Mark Anunobi
- Oleg Kuzhlev
- Sergei Khudozhilov
- Valdas Ivanauskas
- Cris Kalantzis
- John Panagis
- Henrique Arlindo Etges
- Luciano
- Paulo Silas
- Lyuboslav Penev
- Petar Mihtarski
- Radko Kalaydjiev
- Song Lianyong
- Felipe Pérez
- John Castaño
- Wilson Rodríguez
- Philip Priest
- Robert Wakenshaw
- János Zsinka
- Brian Mooney
- Pat Kelch
- Marcus Tuite
- Francisco Javier Cruz
- Héctor Becerra
- Ignacio Ambríz
- Víctor Medina
- Augustine Igbinabaro
- Niyi Adeleye
- Samson Siasia
- Jorge Cartaman
- Luis Jara
- Trigo Mereles
- Mohaisen Al-Jam'an
- Igor Sklyarov
- Gela Ketashvili
- Soso Chedia
- Vladimir Tatarchuk
- Ion Andoni Goikoetxea
- Marcelino
- Mohamed Abdelhak
- Sami Touati
Final ranking