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2018 AFC U-23 Championship
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The 2018 AFC U-23 Championship (also known as the 2018 AFC U-23 Asian Cup) was the third edition of the AFC U-23 Championship, the biennial international age-restricted football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-23 national teams of Asia. A total of 16 teams competed in the tournament. It took place between 9–27 January 2018,[1] and was hosted by China.[2]
Uzbekistan defeated Vietnam in the final to win their first title. Japan were the defending champions, but failed to defend the title after losing to Uzbekistan in the quarter-finals.
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Qualification
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The qualifiers were held from 15 to 23 July 2017.[4] China also participated in the qualifiers, even though they had already qualified automatically as hosts.[2]
Qualified teams
The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.[5]
Notes:
- As China (Group J winners) had already automatically qualified for the final tournament as hosts, the six best runners-up qualified for the final tournament.
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Venues
The competition was played in four venues in four cities, all in the province of Jiangsu.[6]
Draw
The draw of the final tournament was held on 24 October 2017, 16:00 CST (UTC+8), at the Traders Fudu Hotel in Changzhou.[7] The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams.[6] The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship final tournament and qualification, with the hosts China automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.[8]
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Match officials
The following referees were chosen for the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship. Additional assistant referees were used in this tournament.[9]
- Referees
Chris Beath- Peter Green
Nawaf Shukralla
Fu Ming- Ma Ning
Liu Kwok Man
Alireza Faghani
Ali Sabah- Mohanad Qasim Eesee Sarray
Ryuji Sato- Jumpei Iida
Adham Makhadmeh
Kim Dong-jin- Ko Hyung-jin
Ahmed Al-Kaf
Abdulrahman Al-Jassim- Khamis Al-Marri
Fahad Al-Mirdasi- Turki Al-Khudhayr
Muhammad Taqi
Hettikamkanamge Perera
Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed
Ravshan Irmatov- Valentin Kovalenko
- Assistant referees
- Matthew Cream
- Ebrahim Saleh
- Yaser Tulefat
- Cao Yi
- Huo Weiming
- Mohammadreza Mansouri
- Reza Sokhandan
- Yagi Akane
- Toru Sagara
- Ahmad Al-Roalle
- Yoon Kwang-yeol
Sergei Grishchenko
Mohd Yusri Mohamad- Abu Bakar Al-Amri
- Saud Al-Maqaleh
- Taleb Al-Marri
- Mohammed Al-Abakry
- Abdullah Al-Shalawi
- Ronnie Koh Min Kiat
- Palitha Hemathunga
- Mohamed Al-Hammadi
- Hasan Al-Mahri
- Abdukhamidullo Rasulov
- Jakhongir Saidov
- Support referees
- Minoru Tōjō
- Ilgiz Tantashev
- Support assistant referees
Ahmad Ali
Nguyễn Trung Hậu
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Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 1995 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team must register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 24.1 and 24.2).[10]
Group stage
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The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals.
- Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 9.3):[10]
- Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
- Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
- Drawing of lots.
All times are local, CST (UTC+8).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Attendance: 380
Group D
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Knockout stage
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In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Articles 12.1 and 12.2).[10]
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 19 January – Changzhou | ||||||||||
 Qatar | 3 | |||||||||
| 23 January – Changzhou | ||||||||||
 Palestine | 2 | |||||||||
| Qatar | 2 (3) | |||||||||
| 20 January – Changshu | ||||||||||
 Vietnam (p) | 2 (4) | |||||||||
 Iraq | 3 (3) | |||||||||
| 27 January – Changzhou | ||||||||||
| Vietnam (p) | 3 (5) | |||||||||
| Vietnam | 1 | |||||||||
| 19 January – Jiangyin | ||||||||||
 Uzbekistan (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||||||
 Japan | 0 | |||||||||
| 23 January – Kunshan | ||||||||||
| Uzbekistan | 4 | |||||||||
| Uzbekistan (a.e.t.) | 4 | |||||||||
| 20 January – Kunshan | ||||||||||
 South Korea | 1 | Third place match | ||||||||
| South Korea | 2 | |||||||||
| 26 January – Kunshan | ||||||||||
 Malaysia | 1 | |||||||||
| Qatar | 1 | |||||||||
| South Korea | 0 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
Attendance: 226
Referee: Hettikamkanamge Perera (Sri Lanka)
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
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Winners
| 2018 AFC U-23 Championship |
|---|
 Uzbekistan First title |
Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
Statistics
Goalscorers
There were 82 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 2.56 goals per match.
6 goals
5 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
- Trent Buhagiar
- Nick Cowburn
- Bruce Kamau
- Li Xiaoming
- Wei Shihao
- Yang Liyu
- Yao Junsheng
- Hussein Ali
- Amjad Attwan
- Mohammed Jaffal
- Bashar Resan
- Koji Miyoshi
- Takahiro Yanagi
- Ward Al-Barri
- Danial Amier Norhisham
- Thanabalan Nadarajah
Kim Yu-song- Ri Hun
Mohanad Fannoun- Shehab Qumbor
- Mahmoud Yousef
- Hashim Ali
- Abdulelah Al-Amri
- Rakan Al-Shamlan
- Cho Jae-wan[a]
- Cho Young-wook
- Hwang Hyun-soo
Chenrop Samphaodi- Khojiakbar Alijonov
- Rustam Ashurmatov
- Azizjon Ganiev
- Dostonbek Khamdamov
- Akramjon Komilov
- Javokhir Sidikov
- Andrey Sidorov
- Dostonbek Tursunov
- Zabikhillo Urinboev
- Hà Đức Chinh
- Nguyễn Công Phượng
- Phan Văn Đức
1 own goal
- Thomas Deng (against Syria)
- Kang Ju-hyok (against Japan)
- Mohammed Rashid (against North Korea)
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Broadcasting rights
Arab League: beIN Sports (MENA), Alkaas Sports Channels- Australia: Fox Sports Australia[14]
- China: CCTV,[15][16] PPTV,[17] Guangdong Sports[18]
ASEAN: Fox Sports Asia[19]- South Korea: JTBC3 Fox Sports[20][21]
- Vietnam: VTV[22] (shared by Fox Sports Asia)
Notes
- Fastest goal in the tournament
References
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