AFC U-20 Asian Cup

AFC U-20 Asian Cup

File:AFC U-19 Championship.png
Founded	1959
Region	AFC (Asia)
Number of teams	16
Current champions	South Korea (2012)
Most successful team(s)	South Korea (12 titles)
2014 AFC U-19 Championship

The AFC U-19 Championship, formerly known as 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. The last tournament was held in UAE.

Results

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Winner	Score	Runner-up		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1959 Details	Malaya		South Korea	4	Malaya		Japan	4	Hong Kong
1960 Details	Malaya		South Korea	4–0	Malaya		Hong Kong	2–1	Indonesia
1961 Details	Thailand		Burma Indonesia	0–0 2			Thailand	2–1	South Korea
1962 Details	Thailand		Thailand	2–1	South Korea		Indonesia	3–0	Malaya
1963 Details	Malaya		South Korea Burma	2–2 2			Thailand	2–0	Hong Kong
1964 Details	South Vietnam		Burma Israel	0–0 2			South Vietnam	2–0	Indonesia
1965 Details	Japan		Israel	5–0	Burma		Malaysia	4–1	Hong Kong
1966 Details	Philippines		Israel Burma	1–1 2			Republic of China Thailand	3
1967 Details	Thailand		Israel	3–0	Indonesia		Burma	4–0	Singapore
1968 Details	South Korea		Burma	4–0	Malaysia		South Korea Israel	3
1969 Details	Thailand		Burma Thailand	2–2 2			Iran	2–1	Israel
1970 Details	Philippines		Burma	3–0	Indonesia		South Korea	5–0	Japan
1971 Details	Japan		Israel	1–0	South Korea		Burma	2–0	Japan
1972 Details	Thailand		Israel	1–0	South Korea			1
1973 Details	Iran		Iran	2–0	Japan			1
1974 Details	Thailand		India Iran	2–2 2				1
1975 Details	Kuwait		Iraq Iran	0–0 2			Kuwait North Korea	2–2 3
1976 Details	Thailand		Iran North Korea	0–0 2			South Korea	2–1	Thailand
1977 Details	Iran		Iraq	4–3	Iran		Bahrain	3–1	Japan
1978 Details	Bangladesh		Iraq South Korea	1–1 2			North Korea Kuwait	1–1 3
1980 Details	Thailand		South Korea	4	Qatar		Japan	4	Thailand
1982 Details	Thailand		South Korea	4	China		Iraq	4	United Arab Emirates
1985 Details	United Arab Emirates		China	4	Saudi Arabia		United Arab Emirates	4	Thailand
1986 Details	Saudi Arabia		Saudi Arabia	2–0	Bahrain		North Korea	1–0	Qatar
1988 Details	Qatar		Iraq	1–1 (5–4) on penalties	Syria		Qatar	2–0	United Arab Emirates
1990 Details	Indonesia		South Korea	0–0 (4–3) on penalties	North Korea		Syria	1–0	Qatar
1992 Details	United Arab Emirates		Saudi Arabia	2–0	South Korea		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		South Korea	3–0	China		United Arab Emirates	2–2 (4–3) on penalties	Japan
1998 Details	Thailand		South Korea	2–1	Japan		Saudi Arabia	3–1	Kazakhstan
2000 Details	Iran		Iraq	2–1	Japan		China	2–2	Iran
2002 Details	Qatar		South Korea	1–0	Japan		Saudi Arabia	4–0	Uzbekistan
2004 Details	Malaysia		South Korea	2–0	China		Japan	1–1 (4–3) on penalties	Syria
2006 Details	India		North Korea	1–1 (5–3) on penalties	Japan		South Korea	2–0	Jordan
2008 Details	Saudi Arabia		United Arab Emirates	2–1	Uzbekistan		South Korea	1	Australia
2010 Details	China		North Korea	3–2	Australia		South Korea	1	Saudi Arabia
2012 Details	United Arab Emirates		South Korea	1–1 (4–1) on penalties	Iraq		Uzbekistan	1	Australia
2014 Details	Myanmar

¹ No third place playoff.

² Title shared.

³ Third place shared.

⁴ Final tournaments in round-robin format.

Successful national teams

Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth-place	Semi-finalists
South Korea	12 (1959, 1960, 1963, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1990, 1996*, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2012)	4 (1962, 1971, 1972, 1992 )	4 (1968*, 1970, 1976, 2006)	1 (1961)	2 (2008, 2010)
Myanmar	7 (1961, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970)	1 (1965)	2 (1967, 1971)	-	-
Israel	6 (1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1972)	-	1 (1968)	1 (1969)	-
Iraq	5 (1975, 1977, 1978, 1988, 2000)	1 (2012)	1 (1982)	1 (1994)	-
Iran	4 (1973*, 1974, 1975, 1976)	1 (1977*)	1 (1969)	1 (2000*)	-
North Korea	3 (1976, 2006, 2010)	1 (1990)	3 (1975, 1978, 1986)	-	-
Saudi Arabia	2 (1986*, 1992)	1 (1985)	2 (1998, 2002)	-	1 (2010)
Thailand	2 (1962*, 1969*)	-	4 (1961*, 1963, 1966, 1994)	3 (1976*, 1980*, 1985)	-
China	1 (1985)	3 (1982, 1996, 2004)	1 (2000)	-	-
Indonesia	1 (1961)	2 (1967, 1970)	1 (1962)	2 (1960, 1964)	-
Syria	1 (1994)	1 (1988)	1 (1990)	1 (2004)	-
United Arab Emirates	1 (2008)	-	2 (1985*, 1996)	3 (1982, 1988, 1992*)	-
India	1 (1974)	-	-	-	-
Japan	-	6 (1973, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006)	4 (1959, 1980, 1992, 2004)	4 (1970, 1971*, 1977, 1996)	-
Malaysia	-	3 (1959*, 1960*, 1968)	1 (1965)	1 (1962)	-
Qatar	-	1 (1980)	1 (1988*)	2 (1986, 1990)	-
Uzbekistan	-	1 (2008)	-	1 (2002)	1 (2012)
Australia	-	1 (2010)	-	-	2 (2008, 2012)
Bahrain	-	1 (1986)	1 (1977)	-	-
Kuwait	-	-	2 (1975*, 1978)	-	-
Hong Kong	-	-	1 (1960)	3 (1959, 1963, 1965)	-
Chinese Taipei	-	-	1 (1966)	-	-
South Vietnam	-	-	1 (1964*)	-	-
Singapore	-	-	-	1 (1967)	-
Kazakhstan	-	-	-	1 (1998)	-
Jordan	-	-	-	1 (2006)	-

* = as hosts

Participating nations

Nation	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978
Afghanistan																	GS		QF	GS
Australia
Bahrain																	QF		3rd	QF
Bangladesh																	GS		GS	GS
Bhutan
Brunei																	GS
Cambodia					GS
China																	QF	QF		GS
Chinese Taipei			GS					3rd	GS	GS	GS		GS
Guam
Hong Kong	4th			GS	3rd		4th	QF	GS	GS	GS		GS				QF	GS	GS
India					GS		GS	QF	QF	GS			QF			1st	GS	GS	QF	GS
Indonesia		4th	1st	3rd		4th			2nd		GS	2nd	GS				GS	QF		QF
Iran											3rd		QF		1st	1st	1st	1st	2nd	QF
Iraq																	1st	QF	1st	1st |
Israel						1st	1st	1st	1st	3rd	4th		1st	1st
Japan	3rd	3rd	GS	GS	GS		GS	GS	GS	GS	QF	4th	4th		2nd		GS	GS	4th
Jordan																			GS	GS
Kuwait													QF				3rd	GS		3rd |
Kyrgyzstan
Laos											GS
Lebanon
Macau
Malaysia	2nd	2nd	GS	4th	GS		3rd	QF	GS	2nd	QF		QF				GS	GS	GS	GS
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar	6th	GS	1st	GS	1st	1st	2nd	1st	3rd	1st	1st	1st	3rd				GS	QF
Nepal													GS
North Korea																	3rd	1st		3rd |
Pakistan				GS
Palestine
Philippines	9th	GS			GS		GS	GS	GS	AA	GS		GS				GS
Qatar
Saudi Arabia																			QF	QF
Singapore	7th	GS	GS	GS	GS			GS	4th	GS	GS		GS				GS	GS	GS	GS
South Korea	1st	1st	4th	2nd	1st		GS	QF	GS	3rd	QF	3rd	2nd	2nd				3rd	QF	1st |
Sri Lanka	8th		GS		GS			GS	QF		GS							GS		GS
Syria																	GS
Tajikistan
Thailand	5th	GS	3rd	1st	3rd		GS	3rd	QF	AA	1st		GS					4th
Timor-Leste
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam &South Vietnam (before 1975)			GS	GS	GS	3rd	GS		QF	GS	QF		GS
South Yemen																	QF
Yemen																				GS

Nation	1980	1982	1985	1986	1988	1990	1992	1994	1996	1998	2000	2002	2004	2006	2008	2010	2012	2014
Afghanistan
Australia
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia
China
Chinese Taipei
Guam
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Japan
Jordan
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Macau
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
North Korea
Pakistan
Palestine
Philippines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Syria
Tajikistan
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam &South Vietnam (before 1975)
South Yemen
Yemen

Total hosts

10 times

• Thailand—1961, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1998

4 times

• Malaysia—1959, 1960, 1963, 2004

3 times

• Iran—1973, 1977, 2000
• United Arab Emirates—1985, 1992, 2012

2 times

• Indonesia—1990, 1994
• Japan—1965, 1971
• Philippines—1966, 1970
• Qatar—1988, 2002
• Korea Republic—1968, 1996
• Saudi Arabia—1986, 2008

1 time

• Myanmar—2014
• China—2010
• India—2006
• Bangladesh—1978
• Kuwait—1975
• South Vietnam—1964

See also

• FIFA U-20 World Cup

External links

• RSSSF Page on AFC Youth Championship