AFC U-20 Asian Cup

The AFC U-20 Asian Cup, formerly known as the AFC Youth Championship and AFC U-19 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 tournament was held annually, since 1980 it has been held every two years.

Results

Edition	Year	Host	Final
			Champions	Score	Runners-up
1	1959	Malaya	South Korea	3	Malaya
2	1960	Malaya	South Korea	4–0	Malaya
3	1962	Thailand	Thailand	2–1	South Korea
4	1965	Japan	Israel	5–0	Myanmar
5	1967	Thailand	Israel	3–0	Indonesia
6	1968	South Korea	Myanmar	4–0	Malaysia
7	1970	Philippines	Myanmar	3–0	Indonesia
8	1971	Japan	Israel	1–0	South Korea
9	1972	Thailand	Israel	1–0	South Korea
10	1973	Iran	Iran	2–0	Japan
11	1977	Iran	Iraq	4–3	Iran
12	1980	Thailand	South Korea	3	Qatar
13	1982	Thailand	South Korea	3	China
14	1985	United Arab Emirates	China	3	Saudi Arabia
15	1986	Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia	2–0	Bahrain
16	1988	Qatar	Iraq	1–1 (5–4 p)	Syria
17	1990	Indonesia	South Korea	0–0 (4–3 p)	North Korea
18	1992	United Arab Emirates	Saudi Arabia	2–0	South Korea
19	1994	Indonesia	Syria	2–1	Japan
20	1996	South Korea	South Korea	3–0	China
21	1998	Thailand	South Korea	2–1	Japan
22	2000	Iran	Iraq	2–1 (aet)	Japan
23	2002	Qatar	South Korea	1–0 (aet)	Japan
24	2004	Malaysia	South Korea	2–0	China
25	2006	India	North Korea	1–1 (aet) (5–3 p)	Japan
26	2008	Saudi Arabia	United Arab Emirates	2–1	Uzbekistan
27	2010	China	North Korea	3–2	Australia
28	2012	United Arab Emirates	South Korea	1–1 (4–1 p)	Iraq
29	2014	Myanmar	Qatar	1–0	North Korea
30	2016	Bahrain	Japan	0–0 (aet) (5–3 p)	Saudi Arabia
31	2018	Indonesia	Saudi Arabia	2–1	South Korea
32	2023	Uzbekistan	TBD	TBD	TBD

Notes

¹ Title shared.

² Third place shared.

³ Final tournaments in round-robin format.

⁴ No third place match played since 2008; losing semi-finalists are listed in alphabetical order.

⁵ Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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