2004 AFC Youth Championship

The 2004 AFC Youth Championship was the 33rd instance of the AFC Youth Championship. It was held from 25 September to 9 October 2004 in Malaysia. The tournament was won by for the eleventh time by South Korea in the final against China PR.

Venues

The matches were played in the following five venues in four cities.

Johor Bahru
Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium	Johor Bahru Kuala Lumpur Petaling Jaya Ipoh2004 AFC Youth Championship (Malaysia)	Pasir Gudang Corporation Stadium
Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 15,000

Kuala Lumpur	Petaling Jaya	Ipoh
Kuala Lumpur Stadium	Petaling Jaya Stadium	Perak Stadium
Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 25,000	Capacity: 42,500

Qualification

Squads

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	3	3	0	7	0	+7	9	Quarter-final
2	Malaysia (H)	3	2	1	4	3	+1	6
3	Nepal	3	1	2	1	6	−5	3
4	Vietnam	3	0	3	0	3	−3	0

Japan	3–0	Nepal
Takuya Kokeguchi 15' Sota Hirayama 33' Hiroki Nakayama 59'

Vietnam	0–1	Malaysia
		Krishnan Linggam 62'

Nepal	1–0	Vietnam
Pradeep Mahajan 61' (pen.)

Malaysia	0–3	Japan
		Takuya Kokeguchi 2' Yojiro Takahagi 42' Takayuki Morimoto 68'

Japan	1–0	Vietnam
Takayuki Morimoto 66'

Nepal	0–3	Malaysia
		Norshahrul Idlan Talaha 43' Ahmad Azlan Zainal 68' Pralay Rajbhandari 90+3' (o.g.)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7	Quarter-final
2	Qatar	3	2	0	1	3	2	+1	6
3	Iran	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
4	Indonesia	3	0	0	3	3	12	−9	0

China	0–0	Iran

Qatar	1–0	Indonesia
Emad Al-Dahri 10'

Iran	1–2	Qatar
Adel Kolahkaj 45+2'		Waleed Abdulla 2' (pen.) Khalid Al-Hajari 54'

Indonesia	1–5	China
Boaz Solossa 57'		Hao Junmin 11' Tan Wangsong 14' Zhou Haibin 20' Zhu Ting 39' Shen Longyuan 90+2'

China	1–0	Qatar
Dong Fangzhuo 56'

Iran	6–2	Indonesia
Milad Midavoodi 39' Mehrdad Oladi 43', 57', 61', 71' Hamed Rasouli 79'		Aditya Prananda 65' Boaz Solossa 82'

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uzbekistan	3	2	1	0	8	4	+4	7	Quarter-final
2	Syria	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7
3	Laos	3	1	0	2	4	9	−5	3
4	India	3	0	0	3	2	5	−3	0

Uzbekistan	5–2	Laos
Nodirbek Kuziboyev 54', 71', 74' Marat Bikmoev 84' Sadriddin Abdullayev 89'		Sengaloun Souvanh 57' Visay Phaphouvanin 82'

Syria	2–1	India
Safir Al-Atasi 55' Abdul Razak Al-Housain 77'		Vimal Pariyar 30'

Laos	1–4	Syria
Bounmy Insysiangmay 34'		Abdul Fattah Alaga 10' Abdul Alrazak Al-Housain 32' Mesalaz Kailouni 35' Majed Al-Haj 73'

India	1–2	Uzbekistan
Manjit Singh 67'		Aleksandr Kletskov 28' Sadriddin Abdullayev 90+'

Uzbekistan	1–1	Syria
Daut Djatdoyev 3' (pen.)		Aatef Jenyat 79'

Laos	1–0	India
Soulikhan Phanthaya 77'

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iraq	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9	Quarter-final
2	South Korea	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
3	Thailand	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
4	Yemen	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

South Korea	0–3	Iraq
		Mubarak 42', 84' Majeed 90+1'

Thailand	2–1	Yemen
Teeratep Winothai 3', 39' (pen.)		Abdo Al–Edresi 37'

Iraq	2–0	Thailand
Zaki 7' Sabah 32'

Yemen	0–4	South Korea
		Kim Seung-yong 9' Kim Jin-kyu 13' Park Chu-young 37', 79'

South Korea	1–1	Thailand
Park Chu-young 41'		Kim Tae-won 7' (o.g.)

Iraq	2–0	Yemen
Kadhim 33' Yousif 87'

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals	Final

3 October – Johor Bahru

Japan (p)	0 (5)
6 October – Kuala Lumpur
Qatar	0 (3)
Japan	2 (1)
3 October – Kuala Lumpur
	South Korea (p)	2 (3)
Uzbekistan	1
	9 October – Kuala Lumpur
South Korea (a.e.t.)	2
South Korea	2
3 October – Kuala Lumpur
	China	0
China	3
6 October – Ipoh
Malaysia	0
China	1
3 October – Ipoh
	Syria	0	Third place
Iraq	0
	9 October – Kuala Lumpur
Syria	1
Japan (p)	1 (4)

Syria	1 (3)

Quarterfinals

Japan	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Qatar

Penalties
	5–3

China	3–0	Malaysia
Chen Tao 46' Zou You 51' Zhou Haibin 64'

Uzbekistan	1–2 (a.e.t.)	South Korea
Nodirbek Kuziboyev 78'		Kim Seung-yong 39' Shin Young-rok 105'

Iraq	0–1	Syria
		Majed Al–Haj 75'

Semifinals

Japan	2–2 (a.e.t.)	South Korea
Kazuma Watanabe 90+2' Sota Hirayama 120'		Baek Ji-hoon 33' Park Chu-young 113'
Penalties
	1–3

China	1–0	Syria
Zhu Ting 54'

Third place playoff

Japan	1–1	Syria
Keisuke Funatani 32'		Tatsuya Masushima 40' (o.g.)
Penalties
	4–3

Final

South Korea	2–0	China
Park Chu-young 37', 44'

Winners

AFC Youth Championship 2004 winners
South Korea Eleventh title

Goalscorers

There were 82 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 2.56 goals per match.

6 goals

South Korea Park Chu-young

4 goals

Iran Mehrdad Oladi
Uzbekistan Nodirbek Kuziboyev

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Japan Tatsuya Masushima (against Syria)
South Korea Kim Tae-won (against Thailand)
Nepal Janak Singh (against Malaysia)

Countries to participate in 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship

External links

. www.footballasia.com. Asian Football Confederation. Archived from on 24 October 2004.