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{{Infobox international football competition
| tourney_name = AFC Youth Championship
| year = 2000
| other_titles = 
| image =
| size = 
| caption =
| country = Iran
| dates = 12–26 November
| num_teams = 10
| confederations = 1
| venues = 1
| cities = 1
| champion = Iraq
| champion-flagvar = 1991
| count = 5
| second = Japan
| third = China
| fourth = Iran
| matches = 24
| goals = 79
| attendance = 
| top_scorer = {{flagicon|IRQ}} [[Emad Mohammed]] (4 goals)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://agcff.com/11357/ |title=عماد محمد.. نجم أسود الرافدين هداف كأس آسيا للشباب |lang=ar |publisher=Arab Gulf Cup Football Federation |date=2023-10-23 |access-date=2025-02-15}}</ref>
| player = 
| update =
| prevseason = [[1998 AFC Youth Championship|1998]]
| nextseason = [[2002 AFC Youth Championship|2002]]
}}

The '''2000 [[AFC Youth Championship]]''' was held between November 12 and 26 in Iran. It was won by Iraq 2–1 over Japan.

==Participants==
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
*{{flagicon|Iran}} [[Iran national under-20 football team|Iran]] (qualified as hosts)
*{{fbu|20|CHN}}
*{{fbu|20|IRQ|1991}}
*{{fbu|20|JPN}}
*{{fbu|20|KOR}}
*{{fbu|20|KUW}}
*{{fbu|20|OMA}}
*{{fbu|20|PAK}}
*{{fbu|20|THA}}
*{{fbu|20|UAE}}
{{div col end}}

The teams that reached the semi-final qualified for the [[2001 FIFA World Youth Championship]] in [[Argentina]].

== Venues ==
All Matches in Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! [[Tehran]]
|-
| [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]]
|-
| Capacity: 30,000
|-
| [[File:Amjadieh Stadium.jpg|200px]]
|-
|}

==Group stage==
The original draw had Kuwait in the same group as Iraq. Kuwait protested that they did not want to be in Iraq's group due to political tensions, so the AFC did a re-draw to separate Iraq and Kuwait.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010127234100/http://www.iraqsport.net/articles/html/281000-4.html Asian Youth Under 19 Championship re-drawn to “maintain peace”]</ref>

===Group A===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!width=175|Team
!width=20 abbr="Points"|Pts
!width=20 abbr="Played"|Pld
!width=20 abbr="Won"|W
!width=20 abbr="Drawn"|D
!width=20 abbr="Lost"|L
!width=20 abbr="Goals for"|GF
!width=20 abbr="Goals against"|GA
!width=20 abbr="Goal difference"|GD
|- align=center style="background:#ccffcc;"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Iran}} [[Iran national under-20 football team|Iran]]
|'''12'''||4||4||0||0||11||4||+7
|- align=center style="background:#ccffcc;"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fb|JPN}}
|'''7'''||4||2||1||1||12||6||+6
|- align=center
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fb|KUW}}
|'''6'''||4||2||0||2||8||8||±0
|- align=center
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fb|OMA}}
|'''2'''||4||0||2||2||2||6||&minus;4
|- align=center
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fb|THA}}
|'''1'''||4||0||1||3||4||13||&minus;9
|}

{{footballbox|
date = 12 November 2000|
team1 = [[Iran national under-20 football team|Iran]] {{flagicon|Iran}}|
score = 2 &ndash; 1|
team2 = {{fb|THA}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 12 November 2000|
team1 = {{fb-rt|OMN}}|
score = 0 &ndash; 1|
team2 = {{fb|KUW}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 14 November 2000|
team1 = {{fb-rt|KUW}}|
score = 2 &ndash; 3|
team2 = {{flagicon|Iran}} [[Iran national under-20 football team|Iran]]|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 14 November 2000|
team1 = {{fb-rt|JPN}}|
score = 6 &ndash; 1|
team2 = {{fb|THA}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 16 November 2000|
team1 = {{fb-rt|JPN}}|
score = 2 &ndash; 2|
team2 = {{fb|OMA}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 16 November 2000|
team1 = {{fb-rt|THA}}|
score = 2 &ndash; 5|
team2 = {{fb|KUW}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 18 November 2000|
team1 = {{fb-rt|KUW}}|
score = 0 &ndash; 3|
team2 = {{fb|JPN}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 18 November 2000|
team1 = {{fb-rt|OMA}}|
score = 0 &ndash; 3|
team2 = {{flagicon|Iran}} [[Iran national under-20 football team|Iran]]|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 20 November 2000|
team1 = {{fb-rt|THA}}|
score = 0 &ndash; 0|
team2 = {{fb|OMA}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 20 November 2000|
team1 = [[Iran national under-20 football team|Iran]] {{flagicon|Iran}}|
score = 3 &ndash; 1|
team2 = {{fb|JPN}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

===Group B===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!width=175|Team
!width=20 abbr="Points"|Pts
!width=20 abbr="Played"|Pld
!width=20 abbr="Won"|W
!width=20 abbr="Drawn"|D
!width=20 abbr="Lost"|L
!width=20 abbr="Goals for"|GF
!width=20 abbr="Goals against"|GA
!width=20 abbr="Goal difference"|GD
|- align=center style="background:#ccffcc;"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|20|CHN}}
|'''10'''||4||3||1||0||5||1||+4
|- align=center style="background:#ccffcc;"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|20|IRQ|1991}}
|'''8'''||4||2||2||0||9||2||+7
|- align=center
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|20|KOR}}
|'''7'''||4||2||1||1||11||3||+8
|- align=center
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fb|PAK}}
|'''3'''||4||1||0||3||2||15||&minus;13
|- align=center
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|20|UAE}}
|'''0'''||4||0||0||4||6||12||&minus;6
|}

{{footballbox|
date = 13 November 2000|
team1 = {{fbu-rt|20|KOR}}|
score = 0 &ndash; 1|
team2 = {{fbu|20|CHN}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 13 November 2000|
team1 = {{fbu-rt|20|UAE}}|
score = 1 &ndash; 2|
team2 = {{fbu|20|PAK}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 15 November 2000|
team1 = {{fbu-rt|20|PAK}}|
score = 0 &ndash; 7|
team2 = {{fbu|20|KOR}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 15 November 2000|
team1 = {{fbu-rt|20|IRQ|1991}}|
score = 0 &ndash; 0|
team2 = {{fbu|20|CHN}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 17 November 2000|
team1 = {{fbu-rt|20|IRQ|1991}}|
score = 3 &ndash; 2|
team2 = {{fbu|20|UAE}}|
goals1= [[Hassan Turki|Turki]] {{goal|}} <br/> [[Ammar Ahmad Hantoush|Ahmad]] {{goal}} {{goal}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 17 November 2000|
team1 = {{fbu-rt|20|CHN}}|
score = 1 &ndash; 0|
team2 = {{fbu|20|PAK}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 19 November 2000|
team1 = {{fbu-rt|20|PAK}}|
score = 0 &ndash; 6|
team2 = {{fbu|20|IRQ|1991}}|
goals2= [[Ammar Ahmad Hantoush|Ahmad]] {{goal|}} <br/> [[Munaim Yousif|Yousif]] {{goal}}<br/> [[Emad Mohammed|Mohammed]] {{goal}} {{goal}}<br/> [[Ahmed Ibrahim (footballer)|Ibrahim]] {{goal}} {{goal}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 19 November 2000|
team1 = {{fbu-rt|20|UAE}}|
score = 2 &ndash; 4|
team2 = {{fbu|20|KOR}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 21 November 2000|
team1 = {{fbu-rt|20|KOR}}|
score = 0 &ndash; 0|
team2 = {{fbu|20|IRQ|1991}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

{{footballbox|
date = 21 November 2000|
team1 = {{fbu-rt|20|CHN}}|
score = 3 &ndash; 1|
team2 = {{fbu|20|UAE}}|
stadium= [[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

==Knockout stage==

{{Round4-with third
<!--Date-Place|Team 1|Score 1|Team 2|Score 2 -->
<!--semi finals  -->
|November 24|{{flagicon|Iran}} [[Iran national under-20 football team|Iran]]|0 (6)|'''{{fb|IRQ|1991}}''' ([[Penalty shootout (association football)|pen]])|'''0 (7)'''
|November 24|{{fb|CHN}}|0|'''{{fb|JPN}}'''|'''2'''
<!--final  -->
|November 26|'''{{fb|IRQ|1991}}''' ([[golden goal|GG]])|'''2'''|{{fb|JPN}}|1
<!--third place -->
|November 26|'''{{fb|CHN}}''' ([[Penalty shootout (association football)|pen]])|'''2 (6)'''|{{flagicon|Iran}} [[Iran national under-20 football team|Iran]]|2 (5)
}}

===Semi-finals===

{{footballbox
|date=24 November 2000  
|team1={{fb-rt|IRN}} 
|score=0 &ndash; 0 ([[Extra time|a.e.t.]])
|team2={{fb|IRQ|1991}} 
|goals1= 
|goals2= 
|stadium=[[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]
|penalties1 =
|penaltyscore = 6 &ndash; 7
|penalties2 =
|attendance=30,000
}}

{{footballbox
|date=24 November 2000  
|team1={{fb-rt|CHN}} 
|score=0 &ndash; 2 
|team2={{fb|JPN}} 
|goals1= 
|goals2= 
|stadium=[[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]
|penalties1 =
|penalties2 =
|attendance=30,000
}}

===Third place match===

{{footballbox
|date=26 November 2000  
|team1={{fb-rt|CHN}} 
|score=2 &ndash; 2 ([[Extra time|a.e.t.]])
|team2={{fb|IRN}} 
|goals1= [[Qu Bo (footballer)|Qu Bo]] {{goal|}} {{goal|}}
|goals2= [[Javad Kazemian]] {{goal|pen}} <br/> [[Eman Mobali]] {{goal}}
|stadium=[[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]
|penalties1 =
|penaltyscore = 6 &ndash; 5
|penalties2 =
|attendance=30,000
}}

===Final===

{{footballbox
|date=26 November 2000  
|team1={{fb-rt|IRQ|1991}}
|score=2 &ndash; 1 ([[Extra time|a.e.t.]])
|team2={{fb|JPN}}
|goals1= [[Emad Mohammed]] {{goal|16}}, {{golden goal|104}}
|goals2= [[Yutaka Tahara]] {{goal|61}}
|stadium=[[Shahid Shiroudi Stadium]], [[Tehran]]}}

==Winners==
{{winners|fb|AFC Youth Championship 2000 winners|Iraq|Fifth|1991}}

==Qualification to World Youth Championship==
The following teams qualified for the [[2001 FIFA World Youth Championship]].

* {{fbu|20|IRQ|1991}} 
* {{fbu|20|JPN}}
* {{fbu|20|CHN}}
* {{fbu|20|IRN}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/as-u19-00.html Details on RSSF]

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