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2002 AFC Youth Championship

Field	Value
tourney_name	AFC Youth Championship
year	2002
country	Qatar
dates	15–31 October
num_teams	12
confederations	1
venues	2
cities	1
champion	South Korea
count	10
second	Japan
third	Saudi Arabia
fourth	Uzbekistan
matches	26
goals	94
player	KOR Kim Dong-hyun
fair_play
prevseason	[2000](2000-afc-youth-championship)
nextseason	[2004](2004-afc-youth-championship)

The 2002 AFC Youth Championship was the 32nd edition of the AFC Youth Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-19 national teams of Asia. The tournament took place in Qatar, between 15 and 31 October 2002. A total of 12 teams played in the championship which included Uzbekistan who was competing in their first AFC tournament.

The 12 teams were separated into three groups of four teams with the top two teams and the best two of the third place teams qualifying through to the knockout-stage with the winners of the quarter-finals qualifying through to the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in United Arab Emirates. After they finished top of Group A with seven points, South Korea would go on to claim their tenth continental youth title with a 1–0 win over Japan. Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan also qualified for the 2003 World Youth Championship after they made it to the semi-finals defeating Syria and China in the quarter-finals.

Venues

The tournament was held in two stadiums located in the city of Doha.

Doha
Grand Hamad Stadium
Capacity: 13,000
[[File:Grand_Hamad_stadioni.jpg	192x192px]]

Qualification competition

Main article: 2002 AFC Youth Championship qualification

40 teams entered qualifying for the 2002 edition of the youth championship with the qualifying phase being played from the 13 March to 23 July 2002 with the teams being separated into the east and west zone. Before the draw was announced, Afghanistan withdrew with Lebanon and North Korea withdrawing after the draw was announced which meant that their groups only had three teams competing.

The first qualifying match was played on the 13 March in Group 11 when Singapore took on Myanmar in Singapore with Myanmar winning the match 1–0. Four teams who competed in the previous edition didn't qualify for the 2002 edition with them being replaced by Syria, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh and India. With the tournament expanding to 12 teams for the 2002 edition, Vietnam made their first appearance in the Asian competition since 1974 while Uzbekistan was making their debut in the tournament after finishing top of their group ahead of Turkmenistan and Nepal.

Group stage

Group A

Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
7	3	2	1	0	3	0	+3
6	3	2	0	1	9	6	+3
3	3	1	0	2	7	8	-1
1	3	0	1	2	2	7	-5

October 15 – Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha

0 - 1

4 - 0

October 18 – Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha

3 - 2

2 - 0

October 21 – Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha

4 - 5

0 - 0

Group B

Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
9	3	3	0	7	2	+5
6	3	2	1	9	2	+7
3	3	1	2	7	6	+1
0	3	0	3	0	13	-13

October 16 – Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha

2 - 1

6 - 0

October 19 – Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha

4 - 0

1 - 2

October 22 – Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha

0 - 3

4 - 0

Group C

Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
7	3	2	1	0	9	4	+5
4	3	1	1	1	6	6	0
4	3	1	1	1	3	3	0
1	3	0	1	2	3	8	-5

October 17 – Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha

2 - 0

2 - 4

October 20 – Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha

1 - 1

2 - 2

October 23 – Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha

0 - 2

4 - 1

Third-placed qualifiers

At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third placed teams of each group. The two best third-placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals.

Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
4	3	1	1	1	3	3	0
3	3	1	0	2	7	6	+1
3	3	1	0	2	7	8	-1

UAE (best third-place) and India (second best third-place) qualified for the quarter-finals.

Knockout stages

Bracket

|25 October – Doha (GHS)|**** |3||0 |26 October – Doha (GHS)||0||4 |25 October – Doha (GHS)||7||0 |26 October – Doha (GHS)||4||1 |29 October – Doha (GHS)| |1 (4)||1 (2) |29 October – Doha (GHS)||2||1 |31 October – Doha (GHS)||0| (a.e.t.)|1 |31 October – Doha (GHS)||0|****|4

Quarter-finals

Semi finals

Third-place match

Final

Winners

Qualified teams for the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship

The following four teams from AFC qualified for the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in United Arab Emirates.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup[1](1)
		5 ([1979](1979-fifa-world-youth-championship), [1995](1995-fifa-world-youth-championship), [1997](1997-fifa-world-youth-championship), [1999](1999-fifa-world-youth-championship), [2001](2001-fifa-world-youth-championship))
			7 ([1979](1979-fifa-world-youth-championship), [1981](1981-fifa-world-youth-championship), [1983](1983-fifa-world-youth-championship), [1991](1991-fifa-world-youth-championship), [1993](1993-fifa-world-youth-championship), [1997](1997-fifa-world-youth-championship), [1999](1999-fifa-world-youth-championship))
			5 ([1985](1985-fifa-world-youth-championship), [1987](1987-fifa-world-youth-championship), [1989](1989-fifa-world-youth-championship), [1993](1993-fifa-world-youth-championship), [1999](1999-fifa-world-youth-championship))
			Debut

:1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

link. Dong-A Ilbo. (2002-11-01)
(28 July 2003). "Asian U-20 Championship 2002".

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