U-16 soccer Asian championship

This article describes the Men's U-16 Asian Football Championship ; for the women's competition, see U-16 Women's Asian Cup .

U-16 soccer Asian championship
Association	AFC
First edition	1985
Teams	16
Game mode	Round-robin tournament (4 groups of 4 teams each) Knockout system from quarter-finals
Title holder	Japan (3rd title)
Record winner	Japan (3 wins)
Website	www.the-AFC.com
Qualification for	U-17 world championship

The U-16 soccer Asian championship (U-17 until 2006) is a soccer competition between the best Asian national teams for male soccer players under the age of 16. The competition is also the Asian qualification for the U-17 soccer world championship.

Logo until 2006

The championship is organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The tournament was played for the first time in 1985. The tournament has been held every two years since 1986.

Currently, 16 teams qualify for the final round in groups ( ASEAN , East Asia and West Asia as well as South and Central Asia), which are first divided into four groups. The group first and second determined in a simple league system qualify for the quarter-finals, from which it is played in a knockout round. Third place has not been played out since 2008.

The last tournament was held in Malaysia in 2018 . Japan won this against Tajikistan in the final . With this third victory, Japan is the sole record winner, followed by North Korea , South Korea , China , Saudi Arabia and Oman with two titles each.

The tournaments at a glance

year	host		final				Game for third place or semi-finalists 1
			winner	Result	Second place		third place	Result	fourth place
1985 details	Qatar		Saudi Arabia	0: 0 n.v. 4: 3 i. E.	Qatar		Iraq	1-0	Thailand
1986 details	Qatar		South Korea	0: 0 n.v. 5: 4 i. E.	Qatar		Saudi Arabia	2-0	North Korea
1988 details	Thailand		Saudi Arabia	2-0	Bahrain		China	1: 1 n.V. 4: 3 i. E.	Iraq
1990 details	Ver. Arab. Emirates		Qatar	2-0	Ver. Arab. Emirates		China	5-0	Indonesia
1992 details	Saudi Arabia		China	2: 2 n.v. 8: 7 i. E.	Qatar		Saudi Arabia	2: 1	North Korea
1994 details	Qatar		Japan	1: 0 a.d.	Qatar		Oman	3: 2	Bahrain
1996 details	Thailand		Oman	1-0	Thailand		Bahrain	0: 0 . N V. 4: 1 i. E.	Japan
1998 details	Qatar		Thailand	1: 1 n.v. 3: 2 i. E.	Qatar		Bahrain	5: 1	South Korea
2000 details	Vietnam		Oman	1-0	Iran		Japan	4: 2	Vietnam
2002 details	Ver. Arab. Emirates		South Korea	1: 1 n.v. 5: 3 i. E.	Yemen		China	1-0	Uzbekistan
2004 details	Japan		China	1-0	North Korea		Qatar	2: 1	Iran
2006 details	Singapore		Japan	4: 2 a.d.	North Korea		Tajikistan	3: 3 n.v. 5: 4 i. E.	Syria
2008 details	Uzbekistan		Iran	2: 1	South Korea		Ver. Arab. Emirates Japan
2010 details	Uzbekistan		North Korea	2-0	Uzbekistan		Japan Australia
2012 details	Iran		Uzbekistan	1: 1 n.v. 3: 1 i. E.	Japan		Iran Iraq
2014 details	Thailand		North Korea	2: 1	South Korea		Australia Syria
2016 details	India		Iraq	0: 0 n.v. 4: 3 i. E.	Iran		Japan North Korea
2018 details	Malaysia		Japan	1-0	Tajikistan		Australia South Korea
2020 details	Bahrain

¹There has been no match for 3rd place since 2008. Among the listed semi-finalists, the first named was defeated by the later U-16 Asian champions, the second named to the other finalist.

Ranking list

rank	country	title	Year (s)	2nd place		final	Semifinals
01	Japan	3	1994, 2006, 2018	1		4th	9
02	North Korea	2	2010, 2014	2		4th	7th
03	South Korea	2	1986, 2002	2		4th	6th
04th	China	2	1992, 2004			2	5
05	Saudi Arabia	2	1985, 1988			2	4th
06th	Oman	2	1996, 2000			2	3
07th	Qatar	1	1990	5		6th	7th
08th	Iran	1	2008	2		3	5
09	Thailand	1	1998	1		2	3
	Uzbekistan	1	2012	1		2	3
11	Iraq	1	2016			1	4th
12	Bahrain			1		1	4th
13	Tajikistan			1		1	2
	Ver. Arab. Emirates			1		1	2
15th	Yemen			1		1	1
16	Australia						3
17th	Syria						2
18th	Indonesia						1
	Vietnam						1
Respective record

Web links

• Details on rsssf.com (English)