2020 AFC U-23 Championship final

The 2020 AFC U-23 Championship Final was a football match that took place on 26 January 2020 at the Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, to determine the winners of the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship. The match was contested by South Korea and Saudi Arabia, the winners of the semi-finals.^[1]

2020 AFC U-23 Championship Final

Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok hosted the final.
Event	2020 AFC U-23 Championship
South Korea Saudi Arabia 1 0
After extra time
Date	26 January 2020
Venue	Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok
Referee	Chris Beath (Australia)
Weather	Partly cloudy 28 °C (82 °F)
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South Korea beat Saudi Arabia after extra time and took their first trophy in the contest.

Route to the final

Further information: 2020 AFC U-23 Championship

South Korea		Round	Saudi Arabia
Opponents	Result	Group stage	Opponents	Result
China	1–0	Match 1	Japan	2–1
Iran	2–1	Match 2	Qatar	0–0
Uzbekistan	2–1	Match 3	Syria	1–0
Group C Winner Pos Team Pld Pts 1  South Korea 3 9 2  Uzbekistan 3 4 3  Iran 3 4 4  China 3 0 Source: AFC		Final standings	Group B Winner Pos Team Pld Pts 1  Saudi Arabia 3 7 2  Syria 3 4 3  Qatar 3 3 4  Japan 3 1 Source: AFC
Opponents	Result	Knockout stage	Opponents	Result
Jordan	2–1	Quarter-finals	Thailand	1–0
Australia	2–0	Semi-finals	Uzbekistan	1–0

Match

26 January 2020 (2020-01-26)

19:30

South Korea	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Saudi Arabia
Jeong Tae-wook 113'

Rajamangala Stadium Bangkok

Attendance: 2,879

Referee: Chris Beath (Australia)

South Korea

Saudi Arabia

GK 1 Song Bum-keun  120+3' RB 2 Lee You-hyeon  72' CB 5 Jeong Tae-wook CB 4 Lee Sang-min (c) LB 3 Kang Yoon-sung DM 20 Won Du-jae DM 6 Kim Dong-hyun CM 8 Kim Jin-gyu  53' RF 7 Jeong Woo-yeong  46' CF 18 Oh Se-hun LF 13 Kim Jin-ya Substitutions: FW 11 Lee Dong-jun  120'  46' MF 10 Lee Dong-gyeong  53' FW 14 Kim Dae-won  72'  115' DF 15 Kim Tae-hyeon  115' Manager: Kim Hak-bum

GK 22 Mohammed Al-Rubaie RB 23 Saud Abdulhamid  63' CB 3 Abdulbasit Hindi  42' CB 4 Hassan Al-Tambakti (c)  98' LB 13 Khalid Al-Dubaysh  109' RM 18 Khalid Al-Ghannam  59' CM 20 Mukhtar Ali CM 14 Ali Al-Hassan  105' LM 7 Abdulrahman Ghareeb SS 15 Hussain Al-Eisa CF 9 Abdullah Al-Hamdan  67' Substitutions: FW 12 Ayman Yahya  59' FW 19 Firas Al-Buraikan  67' DF 5 Abdulelah Al-Amri  98' MF 8 Nasser Al-Omran  105' Manager: Saad Al-Shehri

Match rules: 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of three substitutions, one substitution added if extra time.