2020 AFC U-19 Championship


The 2020 AFC U-19 Championship will be the 41st edition of the AFC U-19 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation for the men's under-19 national teams of Asia. It will take place in Uzbekistan, which was appointed as the host by the AFC on 17 September 2019, between 14 and 31 October 2020.
A total of 16 teams will play in the tournament. The top four teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia as the AFC representatives, besides Indonesia who qualified automatically as the World Cup hosts. If Indonesia are among the top four teams, three play-off matches will be played to decide the fifth-placed team which also qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
This edition will be the last to be played as an under-19 tournament, as the AFC have proposed switching the tournament from under-19 to under-20 starting from 2023.
Saudi Arabia are the defending champions.

Qualification

Qualification matches were played in November 2019. Uzbekistan also participated in the qualifiers, even though they had already qualified automatically as hosts.

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.
TeamQualified asAppearancePrevious best performance
8th
18th
15th
5th
21st
10th
15th
24th
8th
39th
38th
18th
1st 6th
2nd 20th
3rd 7th
5th 4th

Venues

The tournament will be played in four venues:

Draw

The draw of the final tournament was held on 18 June 2020, 16:30 MYT, at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams, with the teams seeded according to their performance in the 2018 AFC U-19 Championship final tournament and qualification, with the hosts Uzbekistan automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.
Pot [|1]Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team can register a maximum of 23 players.

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals.
;Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings :
  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 ;
  9. Drawing of lots.
All times are local, UZT.
MatchdayDatesMatches
Matchday 114–16 October 20201 v 4, 2 v 3
Matchday 217–19 October 20204 v 2, 3 v 1
Matchday 320–22 October 20201 v 2, 3 v 4

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

Quarter-finals

The winners will qualify for 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
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World Cup play-offs

The World Cup play-offs will be played only if Indonesia reach the semi-finals, to determine the last AFC qualifier for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Play-off semi-finals

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Play-off final

The winner will qualify for 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Semi-finals

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Final

Winners

Awards

Goalscorers

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following five teams from AFC qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup, including Indonesia who qualified automatically as the World Cup hosts.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup1
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