2020 AFC U-19 Championship qualification

2020 AFC U-20 Championship qualification

Tournament details
Host countries	Oman (Group A)  Qatar (Group B)  Tajikistan (Group C)  Iran (Group D)  Bahrain (Group E)  Saudi Arabia (Group F)  Cambodia (Group G)  Chinese Taipei (Group H)  Myanmar (Group I)  Vietnam (Group J)  Indonesia (Group K)
Dates	2–6 October and 2–30 November 2019
Teams	46 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	74
Goals scored	325 (4.39 per match)
Attendance	88,413 (1,195 per match)
Top scorer	Suphanat Mueanta (9 goals)
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The 2020 AFC U-19 Championship qualification was an international men's under-19 football competition which was originally held to decide the participating teams of the 2020 AFC U-19 Championship. The AFC announced the cancellation of the final tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic on 25 January 2021.^[1]

Of the 47 AFC member associations, 46 teams entered the competition.^[2]

The draw was held on 9 May 2019 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[3]

• West: 25 teams from West Asia, Central Asia and South Asia, to be drawn into six groups: one group of five teams and five groups of four teams (Groups A–F).
• East: 21 teams from ASEAN and East Asia, to be drawn into five groups: one group of five teams and four groups of four teams (Groups G–K).

The teams were seeded in each zone according to their performance in the 2018 AFC U-19 Championship final tournament and qualification (overall ranking shown in parentheses; NR stands for non-ranked teams). The following restrictions were also applied:^[4]

• The eleven teams which indicated their intention to serve as qualification group hosts prior to the draw were drawn into separate groups.

	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
West Zone	Saudi Arabia (1) (H)  Qatar (3) (H)  Tajikistan (6) (H)  United Arab Emirates (9)  Jordan (10)  Iraq (14) (H)	Uzbekistan (18) (Q)  Iran (19) (H)  Yemen (20)  Oman (21) (H)*  Bahrain (22) (H)  Syria (23)	Bangladesh (24)  India (25)  Lebanon (27)  Kyrgyzstan (31)  Palestine (32)  Turkmenistan (34)	Maldives (37)  Sri Lanka (39)    Nepal (40)	Afghanistan (NR)  Bhutan (NR)  Kuwait (NR)  Pakistan (NR)
East Zone	South Korea (2)  Japan (4)  Thailand (5)  Australia (7)  Indonesia (8) (H)	China (11)  North Korea (12)  Malaysia (13)  Vietnam (15) (H)  Chinese Taipei (16) (H)	Cambodia (17) (H)  Myanmar (26) (H)  Macau (28)  Hong Kong (29)  Mongolia (30)	Laos (33)  Singapore (35)  Timor-Leste (36)  Brunei (38)	Guam (NR)  Northern Mariana Islands (NR)

Notes

• Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
• (H): Qualification group hosts (* Oman replaced Iraq as group hosts after the draw)
• (Q): Final tournament hosts, automatically qualified regardless of qualification results

Did not enter

West Zone	None
East Zone	Philippines

Players born on or after 1 January 2001 were eligible to compete in the tournament.^[5]

In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue. The eleven group winners and the four best runners-up qualified for the final tournament. As Uzbekistan (who were the designated final tournament hosts) were among the four best runners-up, the fifth best runner-up also qualified for the final tournament.^[3]

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 9.3):^[5]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
8. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
9. Drawing of lots.

• All matches were held in Oman.
• Times listed are UTC+4.
• Iraq was initially announced as the hosts of the group, with the matches scheduled to be played between 2–10 November. Following the 2019 Iraqi protests, matches were postponed to a later time and venue,^[6] which was subsequently confirmed to be between 22 and 30 November 2019 in Oman.^[7]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iraq	4	2	2	0	10	5	+5	8	Final tournament
2	Kuwait	4	2	2	0	9	5	+4	8
3	Palestine	4	2	1	1	10	7	+3	7
4	Oman (H)	4	1	1	2	4	7	−3	4
5	Pakistan	4	0	0	4	2	11	−9	0

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• All matches were held in Qatar.
• Times listed are UTC+3.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Qatar (H)	3	2	1	0	10	3	+7	7	Final tournament
2	Yemen	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7
3	Turkmenistan	3	1	0	2	6	8	−2	3
4	Sri Lanka	3	0	0	3	3	12	−9	0

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• All matches were held in Tajikistan.
• Times listed are UTC+5.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tajikistan (H)	3	3	0	0	11	0	+11	9	Final tournament
2	Lebanon	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
3	Syria	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
4	Maldives	3	0	0	3	2	14	−12	0

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• All matches were held in Tehran, Iran.
• Times listed are UTC+3:30.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran (H)	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	9	Final tournament
2	Kyrgyzstan	3	1	1	1	2	3	−1	4
3	United Arab Emirates	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3
4	Nepal	3	0	1	2	0	8	−8	1

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• All matches were held in Bahrain.
• Times listed are UTC+3.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bahrain (H)	3	2	1	0	8	1	+7	7	Final tournament
2	Jordan	3	1	2	0	5	2	+3	5
3	Bhutan	3	1	0	2	2	8	−6	3
4	Bangladesh	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

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• All matches were held in Saudi Arabia.
• Times listed are UTC+3.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Saudi Arabia (H)	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7	Final tournament
2	Uzbekistan[a]	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7
3	Afghanistan	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	3
4	India	3	0	0	3	0	9	−9	0

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• All matches were held in Cambodia.
• Times listed are UTC+7.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Malaysia	4	4	0	0	27	4	+23	12	Final tournament
2	Cambodia (H)	4	3	0	1	18	6	+12	9
3	Thailand	4	2	0	2	31	3	+28	6
4	Brunei	4	1	0	3	4	26	−22	3
5	Northern Mariana Islands	4	0	0	4	3	44	−41	0

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• All matches were held in Chinese Taipei.
• Times listed are UTC+8.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	2	1	0	13	2	+11	7	Final tournament
2	Laos	3	2	1	0	10	3	+7	7
3	Chinese Taipei (H)	3	1	0	2	9	7	+2	3
4	Macau	3	0	0	3	0	20	−20	0

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• All matches were held in Myanmar.
• Times listed are UTC+6:30.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	3	3	0	0	18	1	+17	9	Final tournament
2	China	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
3	Myanmar (H)	3	1	0	2	8	5	+3	3
4	Singapore	3	0	0	3	0	21	−21	0

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• All matches were held in Vietnam.
• Times listed are UTC+7.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	3	2	1	0	19	0	+19	7	Final tournament
2	Vietnam (H)	3	2	1	0	7	1	+6	7
3	Mongolia	3	1	0	2	4	15	−11	3
4	Guam	3	0	0	3	4	18	−14	0

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• All matches were held in Indonesia.
• Times listed are UTC+7.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Indonesia (H)	3	2	1	0	8	2	+6	7	Final tournament
2	North Korea	3	1	2	0	6	2	+4	5
3	Hong Kong	3	1	1	1	3	6	−3	4
4	Timor-Leste	3	0	0	3	2	9	−7	0

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Due to groups having a different number of teams, the results against the fifth-placed teams in five-team groups were not considered for this ranking. Uzbekistan had already qualified as hosts of the final tournament.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	H	Laos	3	2	1	0	10	3	+7	7	Final tournament
2	J	Vietnam	3	2	1	0	7	1	+6	7
3	B	Yemen	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7
4	F	Uzbekistan[a]	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7
5	G	Cambodia	3	2	0	1	9	6	+3	6
6	I	China	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
7	K	North Korea	3	1	2	0	6	2	+4	5
8	A	Kuwait	3	1	2	0	7	4	+3	5
9	E	Jordan	3	1	2	0	5	2	+3	5
10	C	Lebanon	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
11	D	Kyrgyzstan	3	1	1	1	2	3	−1	4

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.^[8]

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in AFC U-19 Championship1
Uzbekistan	Hosts[9]	17 September 2019	7 (2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016)
Iraq	Group A winners	30 November 2019	17 (1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1988, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Qatar	Group B winners	10 November 2019	14 (1980, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Tajikistan	Group C winners	6 October 2019	4 (2006, 2008, 2016, 2018)
Iran	Group D winners	10 November 2019	20 (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016)
Bahrain	Group E winners	10 November 2019	9 (1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1986, 1990, 1994, 2010, 2016)
Saudi Arabia	Group F winners	10 November 2019	14 (1973, 1977, 1978, 1985, 1986, 1992, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018)
Malaysia	Group G winners	10 November 2019	23 (1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 2004, 2006, 2018)
Australia	Group H winners	10 November 2019	7 (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
South Korea	Group I winners	10 November 2019	38 (1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Japan	Group J winners	10 November 2019	37 (1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Indonesia	Group K winners	10 November 2019	17 (1960, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1986, 1990, 1994, 2004, 2014, 2018)
Laos	1st best runners-up	10 November 2019	5 (1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 2004)
Vietnam	2nd best runners-up	10 November 2019	19 (19612, 19622, 19632, 19642, 19652, 19672, 19682, 19692, 19702, 19712, 19742, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Yemen	3rd best runners-up	10 November 2019	6 (1978, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016)
Cambodia	5th best runners-up	30 November 2019	3 (1963, 1972, 1974)

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

² As South Vietnam

There were 325 goals scored in 74 matches, for an average of 4.39 goals per match.

9 goals

7 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

• AFC U-19 Championship, the-AFC.com
• AFC U-19 Championship 2020, stats.the-AFC.com