2012 AFC U-19 Championship
بطولة آسيا تحت 19 سنة لكرة القدم 2012

Tournament details
Host country	United Arab Emirates
Dates	3–17 November
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	South Korea (12th title)
Runners-up	Iraq
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	93 (3 per match)
Attendance	39,997 (1,290 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Igor Sergeev (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Mohannad Abdul-Raheem
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The 2012 AFC U-19 Championship is the 37th edition of the tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation. The AFC approved UAE as hosts of the 2012 AFC U-19 Championship on 23 November 2011.^[1] The top four teams will qualify directly to the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup hosted by Turkey.

Hosts

The Organising Committee announced that Bangladesh, Iran, Palestine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan had expressed an interest to host the finals.

The decision of the Committee, the member associations should qualify for the finals to be eligible to host the competition. The decision on the hosts was taken in the committee’s next meeting on 23 November 2011 based on the results of the qualifiers.^[1]

Venues

Cities	Venues	Capacity
Fujairah	Fujairah Club Stadium	5,000
Ras al-Khaimah	Emirates Club Stadium	3,000

Qualification

Main article: 2012 AFC U-19 Championship qualification

The qualification draw was held on 30 March 2011.^[2]

Qualifiers

Draw

The draw for the Final tournament was held on 13 May 2012 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.^[3]

Pot 1 (host & seeds)	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
United Arab Emirates North Korea Australia South Korea	Saudi Arabia Japan Uzbekistan China	Syria Iran Vietnam Thailand	Jordan Iraq Qatar Kuwait

Squads

Main article: 2012 AFC U-19 Championship squads

Group stage

All times are UTC+04:00.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	3	2	1	0	9	1	+8	7	Knockout stage
2	Japan	3	1	1	1	1	2	−1	4	Knockout stage
3	United Arab Emirates (H)	3	0	3	0	2	2	0	3
4	Kuwait	3	0	1	2	1	8	−7	1

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

3 November 2012

17:00

United Arab Emirates	1–1	Kuwait
Rashid 34'	Report	Al-Fahad 46'

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iraq	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7
South Korea	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7
Thailand	3	1	0	2	3	6	–3	3
China	3	0	0	3	2	5	−3	0

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Uzbekistan	3	2	1	0	8	2	+6	7
Jordan	3	1	2	0	8	5	+3	5
North Korea	3	1	1	1	6	3	+3	4
Vietnam	3	0	0	3	2	14	−12	0

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Australia	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
Syria	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
Saudi Arabia	3	1	1	1	6	8	−2	4
Qatar	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

11 November 2012 – Ras al-Khaimah

Iran	1
		14 November 2012 – Ras al-Khaimah
South Korea	4
		South Korea	3
11 November 2012 – Fujairah
		Uzbekistan	1
Uzbekistan (p.)	2 (3)
				17 November 2012 – Ras al-Khaimah
Syria	2 (0)
				South Korea (p.)	1 (4)
11 November 2012 – Ras al-Khaimah
				Iraq	1 (1)
Iraq	2
		14 November 2012 – Ras al-Khaimah
Japan	1
		Iraq	2
11 November 2012 – Fujairah
		Australia	0
Australia	3

Jordan	0

Uzbekistan	2-2	Syria
Sergeev 44' Tashpulatov 76'	Report	Mido 38' Al-Mawas 45+2' (pen.)
Penalties
Kozak Sabirkhodjaev Khakimov	3–0	Al Kaddour Mobayed Al-Mawas

South Korea	1–1	Iraq
Moon Chang-Jin 90+2'	Report	Abdul-Raheem 35'
Penalties
Kim Sun-Woo Ryu Seung-Woo Sim Sang-min Woo Joo-Sung	4–1	Hattab Abdul-Raheem Saif

Hosts

Venues

Qualification

Qualifiers

Draw

Squads

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Knockout map

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Winners

Goalscorers

Awards

Countries to participate in 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup

References

External links