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	Qatar (1st title)
Most successful team(s)	South Korea (12 titles)
	2016 AFC U-19 Championship

The AFC U-19 Championship, formerly known as the AFC Youth Championship, is a biennial international association football competition organised by the sport's Asian governing body, the 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 Myanmar.

Results

1959, 1960, 1963, 2004

1964

2006

1966, 1970,

1965, 1971

1990, 1994

1961, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1998

1973, 1977, 2000

1968, 1996

2010

1988, 2002

1975

1978

1985, 1992, 2012

1986, 2008

2014

2016

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Host countries of the games through 2016

Coordinate is based on the capital of the nation.

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	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	Myanmar 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 Myanmar	2–2 ²		Thailand	2–0	Hong Kong
1964 Details	South Vietnam	Myanmar Israel	0–0 ²		South Vietnam	2–0	Indonesia
1965 Details	Japan	Israel	5–0	Myanmar	Malaysia	4–1	Hong Kong
1966 Details	Philippines	Israel Myanmar	1–1 ²		Republic of China^[1] Thailand	³
1967 Details	Thailand	Israel	3–0	Indonesia	Myanmar	4–0	Singapore
1968 Details	South Korea	Myanmar	4–0	Malaysia	South Korea Israel	³
1969 Details	Thailand	Myanmar Thailand	2–2 ²		Iran	2–1	Israel
1970 Details	Philippines	Myanmar	3–0	Indonesia^[2]	South Korea	5–0	Japan
1971 Details	Japan	Israel	1–0	South Korea	Myanmar	2–0	Japan
1972 Details	Thailand	Israel	1–0	South Korea	Iran	3–0	Thailand
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
Year	Host	Final			Losing semi-finalists ⁵
Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Losing semi-finalists ⁵
2008 Details	Saudi Arabia	United Arab Emirates	2–1	Uzbekistan	Australia and South Korea
2010 Details	China	North Korea	3–2	Australia	South Korea and Saudi Arabia
2012 Details	United Arab Emirates	South Korea	1–1 (4–1) on penalties	Iraq	Australia and Uzbekistan
2014 Details	Myanmar	Qatar	1–0	North Korea	Myanmar and Uzbekistan
2016 Details	Bahrain	TBA		TBA	TBA

Notes

¹ No third place off.

² Title shared.

³ Third place shared.

⁴ Final tournaments in round-robin format.

⁵ No third place match has been played since 2008; losing semi-finalists are listed in alphabetical order.

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)	-	1 (2014*)
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*)	2 (1969, 1972)	1 (2000*)	-
North Korea	3 (1976, 2006, 2010)	2 (1990, 2014)	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)	-
Qatar	1 (2014)	1 (1980)	1 (1988*)	2 (1986, 1990)	-
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)	-
Uzbekistan	-	1 (2008)	-	3 (2002, 2012, 2014)	3 (2002, 2012, 2014)
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)	-	-
Vietnam & South Vietnam (before 1975)	-	-	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															GS		QF		3rd	QF
Bangladesh																	GS		GS	GS
Bhutan
Brunei												GS		GS		GS	GS
Cambodia					GS									GS		GS
China																	QF	QF		GS
Chinese Taipei			GS					3rd	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS		GS
Guam
Hong Kong	4th			GS	3rd		4th	QF	GS	GS	GS	QF	GS	GS	GS	QF	QF	GS	GS
India					GS	GS	GS	QF	QF	GS			QF	GS	GS	1st	GS	GS	QF	GS
Indonesia		4th	1st	3rd					2nd		GS	2nd	GS	QF	GS		GS	QF		QF
Iran											3rd	QF	QF	3rd	1st	1st	1st	1st	2nd	QF
Iraq																	1st	QF	1st	1st
Israel						1st	1st	1st	1st	3rd	4th	QF	1st	1st
Japan	3rd	3rd	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	QF	4th	4th	QF	2nd	QF	GS	GS	4th	GS
Jordan																			GS	GS
Kazakhstan
Kuwait													QF				3rd	GS		3rd
Kyrgyzstan
Laos											GS	QF		GS		GS
Lebanon															QF
Macau
Malaysia	2nd	2nd	GS	4th	GS	3rd	3rd	QF	GS	2nd	QF	GS	QF	GS	GS	QF	GS	GS	GS	GS
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar	6th	GS	1st	GS	1st	1st	2nd	1st	3rd	1st	1st	1st	3rd	QF	QF	GS	GS	QF
Nepal													GS	GS		GS
Oman
North Korea																	3rd	1st		3rd
Pakistan				GS											GS
Palestine
Philippines	9th	GS			GS		GS	GS	GS	R2	GS	GS	GS	GS		GS	GS
Qatar
Saudi Arabia															4th				QF	QF
Singapore	7th	GS	GS	GS	GS			GS	4th	GS	GS	GS	GS	QF	QF	QF	GS	GS	GS	GS
South Korea	1st	1st	4th	2nd	1st	4th	GS	QF	GS	3rd	QF	3rd	2nd	2nd	3rd	3rd		3rd	QF	1st
Sri Lanka	8th		GS		GS			GS	QF		GS	GS						GS		GS
Syria																	GS
Tajikistan
Thailand	5th	GS	3rd	1st	3rd	GS	GS	3rd	QF	R2	1st	GS	GS	4th	QF	4th		4th
East Timor
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam & South Vietnam (Before 1975)			GS	GS	GS	GS	GS		QF	GS	QF	GS	GS			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	2016	Total
Afghanistan																				3
Australia														QF	SF	2nd	SF	GS	Q	6
Bahrain				2nd		GS		GS								GS			Q	9
Bangladesh	5th								GS			GS								6
Bhutan																				0
Brunei																				4
Cambodia																				3
China		2nd	1st		GS				2nd	GS	3rd	QF	2nd	QF	QF	QF	GS	QF	Q	17
Chinese Taipei																				9
Guam																				0
Hong Kong																				16
India				GS		GS	GS		GS	GS		QF	GS	GS						22
Indonesia				GS		GS		GS					GS					GS		16
Iran							GS		GS		4th		GS	GS	GS	GS	QF	GS	Q	20
Iraq		3rd			1st			4th		GS	1st		QF	QF	GS	GS	2nd	GS	Q	16
Israel																				9
Japan	3rd				GS	GS	3rd	2nd	4th	2nd	2nd	2nd	3rd	2nd	QF	QF	QF	QF	Q	36
Jordan														4th	GS	GS	QF			6
Kazakhstan								GS		4th										2
Kuwait								GS		GS	GS						GS			8
Kyrgyzstan														GS						1
Laos													GS							5
Lebanon															GS					2
Macau																				0
Malaysia													QF	GS						22
Maldives																				0
Mongolia																				0
Myanmar																		SF		19
Nepal													GS							4
Oman											GS							GS		2
North Korea				3rd	GS	2nd								1st	QF	1st	GS	2nd	Q	12
Pakistan											GS									3
Palestine																				0
Philippines																				13
Qatar	2nd			4th	3rd	4th	GS	GS	GS	GS		GS	QF				GS	1st	Q	13
Saudi Arabia			2nd	1st			1st			3rd		3rd		QF	QF	SF	GS		Q	13
Singapore																				18
South Korea	1st	1st		GS	GS	1st	2nd	GS	1st	1st	GS	1st	1st	3rd	SF	SF	1st	GS	Q	37
Sri Lanka				GS																10
Syria					2nd	3rd		1st	GS			QF	4th		GS	GS	QF			10
Tajikistan														GS	GS				Q	3
Thailand	4th		4th				GS	3rd	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	QF	Q	32
East Timor																				0
Turkmenistan																				0
United Arab Emirates		4th	3rd		4th		4th		3rd		GS	QF		GS	1st	QF	GS	QF	Q	13
Uzbekistan												4th	QF		2nd	QF	SF	SF	Q	7
Vietnam & South Vietnam (Before 1975)												GS	GS	GS		GS	GS	GS	Q	18
South Yemen																				1
Yemen													GS		GS	GS		GS	Q	6

References

^ "The Straits Times, 16 May 1966, Page 22". Retrieved 7 June 2013.
^ "Newspapers - The Straits Times, 3 May 1970, Page 22, Myanmar rout Indons 3-0 in final". Retrieved 6 June 2013.

External links

[1] "The Straits Times, 16 May 1966, Page 22". Retrieved 7 June 2013.

[2] "Newspapers - The Straits Times, 3 May 1970, Page 22, Myanmar rout Indons 3-0 in final". Retrieved 6 June 2013.

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