AFC Youth Championship

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The AFC Youth Championship is an annual football competition organised by the sport's Asian governing body, Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The competition has been held since 1959. Between 1959 and 1978 the contest held every year, since 1980 it has been held every two years. The tournament has been played in a number of different formats during its existence. Currently it consists of two stages, similarly to AFC's other Asian Championship competitions. The qualifying stage is open to all AFC members, and the final stage is contested between sixteen teams. In 2002 the Age group changed from U-19 to U-20. The next tournament will be held in Saudi Arabia.

[edit] Results

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Winner	Score	Runner-up		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1959 details	Malaysia		Korea Republic	2–1	Malaysia		Japan	6–2	Hong Kong
1960 details	Malaysia		Korea Republic	4–0	Malaysia			1
1961 details	Thailand		Indonesia Burma	0–0 2			Thailand	2–1	Korea Republic
1962 details	Thailand		Thailand	2–1	Korea Republic		Indonesia	3–0	Malaysia
1963 details	Malaysia		Korea Republic Burma	2–2 2			Thailand Hong Kong	2–2 3
1964 details	South Vietnam		Israel Burma	0–0 2				1
1965 details	Japan		Israel	5–0	Burma		Malaysia	4–1	Hong Kong
1966 details	Philippines		Israel Burma	1–1 2			China PR Thailand	3
1967 details	Thailand		Israel	3–0	Indonesia		Burma	4–0	Singapore
1968 details	South Korea		Burma	4–0	Malaysia		Korea Republic Israel	3
1969 details	Thailand		Burma Thailand	2–2 2			Iran	2–1	Israel
1970 details	Philippines		Burma	3–0	India			1
1971 details	Japan		Israel	1–0	Korea Republic		Burma	2–0	Japan
1972 details	Thailand		Israel	1–0	Korea Republic			1
1973 details	Iran		Iran	2–0	Japan			1
1974 details	Thailand		India Iran	2–2 2				1
1975 details	Kuwait		Iran Iraq	0–0 2			Kuwait Korea DPR	2–2 3
1976 details	Thailand		Iran Korea DPR	0–0 2				1
1977 details	Iran		Iraq	4–3	Iran		Bahrain	3–1	Japan
1978 details	Bangladesh		Iraq Korea Republic	1–1 2			Korea DPR Kuwait	1–1 3
1980 details	Thailand		Korea Republic	4	Qatar		Japan	4	Thailand
1982 details	Thailand		Korea Republic	4	China PR		Iraq	4	United Arab Emirates
1985 details	United Arab Emirates		China PR	4	Saudi Arabia		United Arab Emirates	4	Thailand
1986 details	Saudi Arabia		Saudi Arabia	2–0	Bahrain		Korea DPR	1–0	Qatar
1988 details	Qatar		Iraq	1–1 (5–4) on penalties	Syria		Qatar	2–0	United Arab Emirates
1990 details	Indonesia		Korea Republic	0–0 (4–3) on penalties	Korea DPR		Syria	1–0	Qatar
1992 details	United Arab Emirates		Saudi Arabia	2–0	Korea Republic		Japan	3–0	United Arab Emirates
1994 details	Indonesia		Syria	2–1	Japan		Thailand	1–1 (3–2) on penalties	Iraq
1996 details	South Korea		Korea Republic	3–0	China PR		United Arab Emirates	2–2 (4–3) on penalties	Japan
1998 details	Thailand		Korea Republic	2–1	Japan		Saudi Arabia	3–1	Kazakhstan
2000 details	Iran		Iraq	2–1	Japan		China PR	2–2	Iran
2002 details	Qatar		Korea Republic	1–0	Japan		Saudi Arabia	4–0	Uzbekistan
2004 details	Malaysia		Korea Republic	2–0	China PR		Japan	1–1 (4–3) on penalties	Syria
2006 details	India		Korea DPR	1–1 (5–3) on penalties	Japan		Korea Republic	2–0	Jordan
2008 details	Saudi Arabia
2010 details	China

[edit] See also

• FIFA U-20 World Cup

[edit] External links

• RSSSF Page on AFC Youth Championship

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