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{{Infobox international football competition
| tourney_name = AFC Youth Championship
| year = 2002
| other_titles = 
| image =
| size = 
| caption =
| country = Qatar
| dates = 15–31 October 
| num_teams = 12
| confederations = 1
| venues = 2
| cities = 1
| champion = South Korea
| count = 10
| second = Japan
| third = Saudi Arabia
| fourth = Uzbekistan
| matches = 26
| goals = 94
| attendance = 
| top_scorer = 
| player = {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Kim Dong-hyun (footballer, born 1984)|Kim Dong-hyun]]<ref name="02T">{{cite news |url=https://www.donga.com/news/article/all/20021101/7878164/1 |script-title=ko:[축구]김동현-정조국 ‘희망 쌍두마차’…亞청소년축구 정상 |publisher=Dong-A Ilbo |lang=ko |date=2002-11-01 |access-date=2022-12-22}}</ref>
| fair_play = {{fbu|20|KOR}}<ref name="02T"/>
| update =
| prevseason = [[2000 AFC Youth Championship|2000]]
| nextseason = [[2004 AFC Youth Championship|2004]]
}}

The '''2002 AFC Youth Championship''' was the 32nd edition of the [[AFC Youth Championship]], the biennial international youth [[Association football|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 national under-20 football team|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 national under-20 football team|South Korea]] would go on to claim their tenth continental youth title with a 1–0 win over [[Japan national under-20 football team|Japan]]. [[Saudi Arabia national under-20 football team|Saudi Arabia]] and Uzbekistan also qualified for the 2003 World Youth Championship after they made it to the semi-finals defeating [[Syria national under-20 football team|Syria]] and [[China national under-20 football team|China]] in the quarter-finals.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/as-u20-02.html|title=Asian U-20 Championship 2002|date=28 July 2003|first1=Julián|last1=Díaz Rubio|first2=Sturmius|last2=Burkert|website=[[RSSSF]]|access-date=9 September 2020}}</ref>

==Venues==
The tournament was held in two stadiums located in the city of [[Doha]].
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|-
! colspan="2" |[[Doha]]
! rowspan="4" |{{location map+|Qatar|float=center|width=300|caption=Location of the host city of the 2002 AFC Youth Championship.|places={{location map~ |Qatar |lat=25.289715 |long=51.523476 |label=[[Doha]] |position=right}}}}
|-
| [[Grand Hamad Stadium]]
|[[Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium]]
|-
| Capacity: '''13,000'''
|Capacity: '''12,000'''
|-
| [[File:Grand_Hamad_stadioni.jpg|192x192px]]
|[[File:Flag of None.svg|180x180px]]
|}

==Qualification competition==
{{main|2002 AFC Youth Championship qualification}}
40 teams entered qualifying for the 2002 edition of the youth championship with the qualifying phase being played from the 13 March to 23 July 2002 with the teams being separated into the east and west zone. Before the draw was announced, [[Afghanistan national under-20 football team|Afghanistan]] withdrew with [[Lebanon national under-20 football team|Lebanon]] and [[North Korea national under-20 football team|North Korea]] withdrawing after the draw was announced which meant that their groups only had three teams competing.

The first qualifying match was played on the 13 March in Group 11 when [[Singapore national under-20 football team|Singapore]] took on [[Myanmar national under-20 football team|Myanmar]] in Singapore with Myanmar winning the match 1–0. Four teams who competed in the previous edition didn't qualify for the 2002 edition with them being replaced by [[Syria national under-20 football team|Syria]], [[Saudi Arabia national under-20 football team|Saudi Arabia]], [[Bangladesh national under-20 football team|Bangladesh]] and [[India national under-20 football team|India]]. With the tournament expanding to 12 teams for the 2002 edition, [[Vietnam national under-20 football team|Vietnam]] made their first appearance in the Asian competition since [[1974 AFC Youth Championship|1974]] while Uzbekistan was making their debut in the tournament after finishing top of their group ahead of [[Turkmenistan national under-20 football team|Turkmenistan]] and [[Nepal national under-20 football team|Nepal]].

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==Group stage==

=== Group A===
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|-
!width=165|Team
!width=20|Pts
!width=20|Pld
!width=20|W
!width=20|D
!width=20|L
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|GD
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|'''7'''||3||2||1||0||3||0||+3
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|'''6'''||3||2||0||1||9||6||+3
|- align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;"
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|'''3'''||3||1||0||2||7||8||-1
|- align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fbu|20|THA}}
|'''1'''||3||0||1||2||2||7||-5
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October 15 – [[Grand Hamad Stadium]], [[Doha]]
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October 18 – [[Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium]], [[Doha]]
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|- bgcolor=#e0e0ff
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!2 - 0
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|}

October 21 – [[Grand Hamad Stadium]], [[Doha]]
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|- bgcolor=#e0e0ff
|align=right width=40%|{{fbu-rt|20|THA}}
!0 - 0
| align=left width=40%|{{fbu|20|KOR}}
|}

===Group B===
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|-
!width=165|Team
!width=20|Pts
!width=20|Pld
!width=20|W
!width=20|D
!width=20|L
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|GD
|- align=center style="background:#ccffcc;"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fb|JPN}}
|'''9'''||3||3||0||0||7||2||+5
|- align=center style="background:#ccffcc;"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fb|KSA}}
|'''6'''||3||2||0||1||9||2||+7
|- align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fb|IND}}
|'''3'''||3||1||0||2||7||6||+1
|- align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fb|BAN}}
|'''0'''||3||0||0||3||0||13||-13
|}

October 16 – [[Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium]], [[Doha]]
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|- bgcolor=#e0e0ff
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!6 - 0
| align=left width=40%|{{fb|BAN}}
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October 19 – [[Grand Hamad Stadium]], [[Doha]]
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|- bgcolor=#e0e0ff
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!4 - 0
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{| border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style=font-size:90% width=100%
|- bgcolor=#e0e0ff
|align=right width=40%|{{fb-rt|IND}}
!1 - 2
| align=left width=40%|{{fb|JPN}}
|}

October 22 – [[Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium]], [[Doha]]
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|align=right width=40%|{{fb-rt|BAN}}
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| align=left width=40%|{{fb|JPN}}
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|- bgcolor=#e0e0ff
|align=right width=40%|{{fb-rt|KSA}}
!4 - 0
| align=left width=40%|{{fb|IND}}
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===Group C===
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|-
!width=165|Team
!width=20|Pts
!width=20|Pld
!width=20|W
!width=20|D
!width=20|L
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|GD
|- align=center style="background:#ccffcc;"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fb|SYR|1980}}
|'''7'''||3||2||1||0||9||4||+5
|- align=center style="background:#ccffcc;"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fb|CHN}}
|'''4'''||3||1||1||1||6||6||0
|- align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fb|UAE}}
|'''4'''||3||1||1||1||3||3||0
|- align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{fb|VIE}}
|'''1'''||3||0||1||2||3||8||-5
|}

October 17 – [[Grand Hamad Stadium]], [[Doha]]
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|- bgcolor=#e0e0ff
|align=right width=40%|{{fb-rt|UAE}}
!2 - 0
| align=left width=40%|{{fb|VIE}}
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{| border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style=font-size:90% width=100%
|- bgcolor=#e0e0ff
|align=right width=40%|{{fb-rt|CHN}}
!2 - 4
| align=left width=40%|{{fb|SYR|1980}}
|}

October 20 – [[Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium]], [[Doha]]
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|- bgcolor=#e0e0ff
|align=right width=40%|{{fb-rt|UAE}}
!1 - 1
| align=left width=40%|{{fb|SYR|1980}}
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{| border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style=font-size:90% width=100%
|- bgcolor=#e0e0ff
|align=right width=40%|{{fb-rt|VIE}}
!2 - 2
| align=left width=40%|{{fb|CHN}}
|}

October 23 – [[Grand Hamad Stadium]], [[Doha]]
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|align=right width=40%|{{fb-rt|UAE}}
!0 - 2
| align=left width=40%|{{fb|CHN}}
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|- bgcolor=#e0e0ff
|align=right width=40%|{{fb-rt|SYR|1980}}
!4 - 1
| align=left width=40%|{{fb|VIE}}
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===Third-placed qualifiers===
At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third placed teams of each group. The two best third-placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals.
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!width=20|GD
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|'''4'''||3||1||1||1||3||3||0
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|'''3'''||3||1||0||2||7||8||-1
|}

[[United Arab Emirates national football team|UAE]] (best third-place) and [[India national football team|India]] (second best third-place) qualified for the quarter-finals.

==Knockout stages==
===Bracket===
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|RD1=[[#Quarter-finals|Quarter-finals]]
|RD2=[[#Semi-finals|Semi-finals]]
|RD3=[[#Final|Final]]
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|25 October – [[Grand Hamad Stadium|Doha (GHS)]]|'''{{fbu|20|KOR|2004}}'''|'''7'''|{{fbu|20|IND}}|0
|26 October – [[Grand Hamad Stadium|Doha (GHS)]]|'''{{fbu|20|KSA}}'''|'''4'''|{{fbu|20|CHN}}|1
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===Quarter-finals===
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===Semi finals===
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===Third-place match===
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===Final===
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==Winners==
{{winners|fb|2002 AFC Youth Championship winners|South Korea|10th}}

== Qualified teams for the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship==

The following four teams from AFC qualified for the [[2003 FIFA World Youth Championship]] in [[United Arab Emirates]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Team
! Qualified on
! data-sort-type="number"|Previous [[National team appearances in the FIFA U-20 World Cup|appearances]] in [[FIFA U-20 World Cup]]<sup>'''[[#1|1]]'''</sup>
|-
| {{fbu|20|JPN}} || {{dts|2002|10|25|addkey=2|format=dmy}} || 5 (''[[1979 FIFA World Youth Championship|1979]]'', [[1995 FIFA World Youth Championship|1995]], [[1997 FIFA World Youth Championship|1997]], [[1999 FIFA World Youth Championship|1999]], [[2001 FIFA World Youth Championship|2001]])
|-
| {{fbu|20|KOR}} || {{dts|2002|10|25|addkey=1|format=dmy}}
|| 7 ([[1979 FIFA World Youth Championship|1979]], [[1981 FIFA World Youth Championship|1981]], [[1983 FIFA World Youth Championship|1983]], [[1991 FIFA World Youth Championship|1991]], [[1993 FIFA World Youth Championship|1993]], [[1997 FIFA World Youth Championship|1997]], [[1999 FIFA World Youth Championship|1999]])
|-
| {{fbu|20|KSA}} || {{dts|2002|10|26|addkey=2|format=dmy}}
|| 5 ([[1985 FIFA World Youth Championship|1985]], [[1987 FIFA World Youth Championship|1987]], ''[[1989 FIFA World Youth Championship|1989]]'', [[1993 FIFA World Youth Championship|1993]], [[1999 FIFA World Youth Championship|1999]])
|-
| {{fbu|20|UZB}} || {{dts|2002|10|26|addkey=1|format=dmy}}
|| Debut
|}
:<div id="1"><sup>1</sup> '''Bold''' indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.</div>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{AFC Youth Championship}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:AFC Youth Championship 2002}}
[[Category:2002 AFC Youth Championship| ]]
[[Category:AFC U-20 Asian Cup tournaments|2002]]
[[Category:2002–03 in AFC football|Youth Championship]]
[[Category:2002–03 in Asian youth football|Championship]]
[[Category:2002–03 in Qatari football]]
[[Category:International association football competitions hosted by Qatar]]
[[Category:October 2002 sports events in Asia]]