The 1985
FIFA U-16 World Championship, the first edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of
Beijing
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,
Shanghai
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,
Tianjin
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, and
Dalian
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in
People's Republic of China
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from July 31, 1985, to August 11, 1985. Players born after August 1, 1968, can participate in this tournament. The total attendance for the tournament was a record 1,230,976 but in 2017 India U-17 World cup surpassed this with a record attendance of 1,347,133.
Venues
Qualified Teams
Squads
For full squad lists for the 1985 U-16 World Championship see ''
''.
Referees
Asia
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Fallaj Al-Shanar
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Chen Shengcai
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Cui Baoyin
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Zhang Daqiao
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Hassan Abdullah Al Mullah
Africa
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Simon Bantsimba
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Karim Camara
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Alhati Salahudeen
CONCACAF
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Carlos Alfaro
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Angelo Bratsis
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Joaquin Urrea Reyes
South America
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Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
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Carlos Espósito
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Juan Ortube
Europe
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Miklós Nagy
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Claudio Pieri
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Karl-Heinz Tritschler
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Associazione Calcio M ...
Oceania
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Chris Bambridge
Group stages
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Knockout stages
Quarterfinals
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Semifinals
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Third place play-off
Final
Result
Goalscorers
Marcel Witeczek of West Germany won the
Golden Shoe award for scoring eight goals. In total, 91 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
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Marcel Witeczek
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;4 goals
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Billa Momoh
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Bismarck Barreto Faria
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Guo Zhuang
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Victor Igbinoba
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Abdulaziz Al Razgan
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Hugo Maradona
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Paul Trimboli
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Mauricio
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Xie Yuxin
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Herve Kakou
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Mohamed Soumah
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Mohamed Sylla
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Salifou Koita
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László Marik
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Zoltán Kanál
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Giorgio Bresciani
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Elias Ledesma
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Boushal Al Boushal
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Curtis Pride
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;1 goal
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Diego Álvarez
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Fernando Cáceres
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Lorenzo Frutos
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Stan Thodis
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Erwin Sánchez
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Marco Etcheverry
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Andre Cruz
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Marques
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Natalino Rodrigues Antunes
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Cao Xiandong
Cao Xiandong (Chinese:曹限东 born 19 August 1968) is a Chinese football coach and a former international midfielder. In his career, he represented Beijing Guoan where he won two Chinese FA Cups along with Qingdao Etsong Hainiu and Beijing Kua ...
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Sun Bowei
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Tu Shengqiao
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Eric Mantot
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Etienne Salles
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Hernán Medford
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Lamine Toure
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Zsolt Huszák
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Andrea Caverzan
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Francisco Cortes
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Fatai Atere
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Jonathan Akpoborie
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Club career
Akpoborie started his professional career at Julius Berger, ...
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Joseph Babatunde
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Adel Al Abdulla
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Saleh Al Mohannadi
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Adel Al Dosary
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Nasser Al Fahad
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Saadoun Al Suraiti
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Larry McPhail
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Detlev Dammeier
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Career Career as a player
Dammeier was born in Stadthage ...
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Dirk Konerding
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Helmut Gabriel
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Klaus Mirwald
;Own goal
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Bi Sheng
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(playing against West Germany)
Final ranking
References
External links
FIFA U-16 World Championship China PR 1985 FIFA.com
FIFA Technical Report (Part 1)an
(Part 2)
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