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2000 AFC Youth Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Iran
Dates	12–26 November
Teams	10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Iraq (5th title)
Runners-up	Japan
Third place	China
Fourth place	Iran
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	79 (3.29 per match)
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The 2000 AFC Youth Championship was held between November 12 and 26 in Iran. It was won by Iraq 2–1 over Japan.

Participants

• Iran (qualified as hosts)
•  China
•  Iraq
•  Japan
•  South Korea
•  Kuwait
•  Oman
•  Pakistan
•  Thailand
•  United Arab Emirates

The teams that reached the semi-final qualified for the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship in Argentina.

Venues

All Matches in Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran.

Tehran
Shahid Shiroudi Stadium
Capacity: 30,000

Group stage

The original draw had Kuwait in the same group as Iraq. Kuwait protested that they did not want to be in Iraq's group due to political tensions, so the AFC did a re-draw to separate Iraq and Kuwait.

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Iran	12	4	4	0	0	11	4	+7
Japan	7	4	2	1	1	12	6	+6
Kuwait	6	4	2	0	2	8	8	±0
Oman	2	4	0	2	2	2	6	−4
Thailand	1	4	0	1	3	4	13	−9

Iran	2 – 1	Thailand

Oman	0 – 1	Kuwait

Kuwait	2 – 3	Iran

Japan	6 – 1	Thailand

Japan	2 – 2	Oman

Thailand	2 – 5	Kuwait

Kuwait	0 – 3	Japan

Oman	0 – 3	Iran

Thailand	0 – 0	Oman

Iran	3 – 1	Japan

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
China	10	4	3	1	0	5	1	+4
Iraq	8	4	2	2	0	9	2	+7
South Korea	7	4	2	1	1	11	3	+8
Pakistan	3	4	1	0	3	2	15	−13
United Arab Emirates	0	4	0	0	4	6	12	−6

South Korea	0 – 1	China

United Arab Emirates	1 – 2	Pakistan

Pakistan	0 – 7	South Korea

Iraq	0 – 0	China

Iraq	3 – 2	United Arab Emirates
Turki Ahmad

China	1 – 0	Pakistan

Pakistan	0 – 6	Iraq
		Ahmad Yousif Mohammed Ibrahim

United Arab Emirates	2 – 4	South Korea

South Korea	0 – 0	Iraq

China	3 – 1	United Arab Emirates

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	November 24
	Iran	0 (6)
					November 26
	Iraq (pen)	0 (7)
					Iraq (GG)	2
	November 24
					Japan	1
	China	0
	Japan	2
					Third place
					November 26
					China (pen)	2 (6)
					Iran	2 (5)

Semi-finals

Iran	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Iraq
Penalties
	6 – 7

China	0 – 2	Japan

Third place match

China	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Iran
Qu Bo ,		Javad Kazemian pen' Eman Mobali
Penalties
	6 – 5

Final

Iraq	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Japan
Mohammed 16', 104'		Yutaka Tahara 61'

Winners

AFC Youth Championship 2000 winners
Iraq Fifth title

Qualification to World Youth Championship

The following teams qualified for the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship.

•  Iraq
•  Japan
•  China
•  Iran

References

1. Asian Youth Under 19 Championship re-drawn to “maintain peace”

External links

• Details on RSSF

• 2000 AFC Youth Championship
• AFC U-19 Championship
• 2000 in Asian football
• International association football competitions hosted by Iran
• 2000 in youth association football