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				Third place match
				Champions	Score	Runners-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place
1	1959	Malaya		South Korea	3	Malaya		Japan	3	Hong Kong
2	1960	Malaya		South Korea	4–0	Malaya		Japan	3–2	Indonesia
3	1961	Thailand		Indonesia Myanmar	0–0 1			Thailand	2–1	South Korea
4	1962	Thailand		Thailand	2–1	South Korea		Indonesia	3–0	Malaya
5	1963	Malaya		South Korea Myanmar	2–2 1			Thailand Hong Kong	2–2 2
6	1964	South Vietnam		Myanmar Israel	0–0 1			Malaysia	5–1	South Korea
7	1965	Japan		Israel	5–0	Myanmar		Malaysia	4–1	Hong Kong
8	1966	Philippines		Israel Myanmar	1–1 1			Republic of China Thailand	0–0 2
9	1967	Thailand		Israel	3–0	Indonesia		Myanmar	4–0	Singapore
10	1968	South Korea		Myanmar	4–0	Malaysia		South Korea Israel	0–0 2
11	1969	Thailand		Myanmar Thailand	2–2 1			Iran	2–1	Israel
12	1970	Philippines		Myanmar	3–0	Indonesia		South Korea	5–0	Japan
13	1971	Japan		Israel	1–0	South Korea		Myanmar	2–0	Japan
14	1972	Thailand		Israel	1–0	South Korea		Iran	3–0	Thailand
15	1973	Iran		Iran	2–0	Japan		South Korea	3–0	Saudi Arabia
16	1974	Thailand		India Iran	2–2 1			South Korea	2–1	Thailand
17	1975	Kuwait		Iraq Iran	0–0 1			Kuwait North Korea	2–2 2
18	1976	Thailand		Iran North Korea	0–0 1			South Korea	2–1	Thailand
19	1977	Iran		Iraq	4–3	Iran		Bahrain	3–1	Japan
20	1978	Bangladesh		Iraq South Korea	1–1 1			North Korea Kuwait	1–1 2
21	1980	Thailand		South Korea	3	Qatar		Japan	3	Thailand
22	1982	Thailand		South Korea	3	China PR		Iraq	3	United Arab Emirates
23	1985	United Arab Emirates		China PR	3	Saudi Arabia		United Arab Emirates	3	Thailand
24	1986	Saudi Arabia		Saudi Arabia	2–0	Bahrain		North Korea	1–0	Qatar
25	1988	Qatar		Iraq	1–1 (5–4 p)	Syria		Qatar	2–0	United Arab Emirates
26	1990	Indonesia		South Korea	0–0 (4–3 p)	North Korea		Syria	1–0	Qatar
27	1992	United Arab Emirates		Saudi Arabia	2–0	South Korea		Japan	3–0	United Arab Emirates
28	1994	Indonesia		Syria	2–1	Japan		Thailand	1–1 (3–2 p)	Iraq
29	1996	South Korea		South Korea	3–0	China PR		United Arab Emirates	2–2 (4–3 p)	Japan
30	1998	Thailand		South Korea	2–1	Japan		Saudi Arabia	3–1	Kazakhstan
31	2000	Iran		Iraq	2–1 (aet)	Japan		China PR	2–2 (aet) (8–7 p)	Iran
32	2002	Qatar		South Korea	1–0 (aet)	Japan		Saudi Arabia	4–0	Uzbekistan
33	2004	Malaysia		South Korea	2–0	China PR		Japan	1–1 (4–3 p)	Syria
34	2006	India		North Korea	1–1 (aet) (5–3 p)	Japan		South Korea	2–0	Jordan
Edition	Year	Host		Final				Losing semi-finalists 4
				Champions	Score	Runners-up
35	2008	Saudi Arabia		United Arab Emirates	2–1	Uzbekistan		Australia and South Korea
36	2010	China		North Korea	3–2	Australia		South Korea and Saudi Arabia
37	2012	United Arab Emirates		South Korea	1–1 (4–1 p)	Iraq		Australia and Uzbekistan
38	2014	Myanmar		Qatar	1–0	North Korea		Myanmar and Uzbekistan
39	2016	Bahrain		Japan	0–0 (aet) (5–3 p)	Saudi Arabia		Iran and Vietnam
40	2018	Indonesia		Saudi Arabia	2–1	South Korea		Japan and Qatar
415	2020	Uzbekistan		Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic				–
42	2023	Uzbekistan		TBD	TBD	TBD		TBD and 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.