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2003 AFC Women's Championship

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The 2003 AFC Women's Championship was a women's football tournament held in Thailand from 8 to 21 June 2003. It was the 14th edition of the AFC Women's Championship, a tournament for women's national teams from countries affiliated with the Asian Football Confederation.

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The competition was held in Bangkok in the Rajamangala Stadium and in Nakhon Sawan in the Nakhon Sawan Stadium. The tournament was won by the defending champions North Korea women's national football team (Korea DPR). As the championship was also used for qualifying for the FIFA Women's World Cup, North Korea qualified as champions, China qualifying as runners-up, and South Korea qualifying as the third-placed team. Japan as the fourth-placed team faced another match for qualification.

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Participating teams and structure

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Fourteen teams took part in the competition. This included the hosts Thailand and the defending champions North Korea. The teams were split into 3 groups, with the each team playing all the others in the group in a round robin format. At the end of the group stage the four teams with the best results from all the groups who qualified in the 1st 2 spaces in each group qualify to the knockout stage. This is played in the format of a semi-final, a 3rd/4th place match, as well as a final.

The winners and runners-up of the competition automatically qualify for the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup. The 3rd place team has to compete against a CONCACAF team over home and away matches for a final place in the FIFA Women's World Cup. The runners-up and the 3rd place team were re-berthed to 3rd and 4th place respectively as China, as original host of the World Cup and would automatically qualified to final rounds, got 2nd place.

This was the last tournament to still issue invitation. From 2006, a separate qualification round was introduced to find out teams to qualify for the Women's Asian Cup.

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Venues

More information Bangkok, Nakhon Sawan ...

Group stage

Group A

More information Team, Pld ...
Source: RSSSF
More information Singapore, 0–3 ...
Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok
(Opening ceremony and match)
More information South Korea, 8–0 ...

More information South Korea, 6–0 ...
More information North Korea, 13–0 ...

More information South Korea, 4–0 ...
More information North Korea, 14–0 ...

More information Hong Kong, 1–3 ...
More information North Korea, 16–0 ...

More information North Korea, 2–2 ...
More information Hong Kong, 1–0 ...

Group B

More information Team, Pld ...
Source: RSSSF
More information Japan, 15–0 ...
Attendance: 2000
Referee: Deng Junxia (China)
More information Guam, 1–2 ...
Attendance: 100
Referee: Sin Hwa Youen (South Korea)

More information Philippines, 0–6 ...
More information Japan, 7–0 ...
Attendance: 200
Referee: Zhang Dongqing (China)

More information Philippines, 0–4 ...
Attendance: 200
Referee: Zhang Dongqing (China)
More information Japan, 7–0 ...
Attendance: 200
Referee: Ri Hong Sil (North Korea)

More information Guam, 0–4 ...
Attendance: 500
Referee: Deng Junxia (China)
More information Japan, 5–0 ...
Attendance: 700
Referee: Im Eun Ju (South Korea)

More information Chinese Taipei, 1–1 ...
Attendance: 100
Referee: Ri Hong Sil (North Korea)
More information Philippines, 2–1 ...
Attendance: 200
Referee: Deng Junxia (China)

Group C

More information Team, Pld ...
Source: RSSSF
More information China, 6–0 ...
Attendance: 3000
Referee: Im Eun Ju (South Korea)
More information India, 6–0 ...
Attendance: 1000
Referee: Ri Hong Sil (North Korea)

More information Vietnam, 4–2 ...
Attendance: 1500
Referee: Sin Hwa Youen (South Korea)
More information China, 12–0 ...

More information Vietnam, 2–1 ...
Attendance: 1000
Referee: Im Eun Ju (South Korea)
More information China, 11–0 ...
Attendance: 1000
Referee: Sin Hwa Youen (South Korea)
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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup

More information North Korea, 3–0 ...
More information China, 3–1 ...

Third place match

Since the host China PR reached the final, the winner qualified for 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup while the loser entered CONCACAF–AFC play-off.

More information Japan, 0–1 ...

Final

More information North Korea, 2–1 (a.e.t./g.g.) ...
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Awards

 2003 AFC Women's Championship winners 

North Korea
Second title

Goalscorers

There were 184 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 6.13 goals per match.

15 goals

9 goals

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

2 own goals

  • Chinese Taipei Huang Feng-chiu (against Japan and Myanmar)
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