2002 AFC Youth Championship

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2002 AFC Youth Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Qatar
Dates	15–31 October
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	South Korea (10th title)
Runners-up	Japan
Third place	Saudi Arabia
Fourth place	Uzbekistan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	94 (3.62 per match)
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The 2002 AFC Youth Championship was the 32nd edition of the AFC Youth Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-19 national teams of Asia. The tournament took place in Qatar, between 15 and 31 October 2002. A total of 12 teams played in the championship which included Uzbekistan who was competing in their first AFC tournament.

The 12 teams were separated into three groups of four teams with the top two teams and the best two of the third place teams qualifying through to the knockout-stage with the winners of the quarter-finals qualifying through to the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in United Arab Emirates. After they finished top of Group A with seven points, South Korea would go on to claim their tenth continental youth title with a 1–0 win over Japan. Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan also qualified for the 2003 World Youth Championship after they made it to the semi-finals defeating Syria and China in the quarter-finals.^[1]