2004 AFC Youth Championship

The 2004 AFC Youth Championship was the 33rd instance of the AFC Youth Championship. It was held from 25 September to 9 October 2004 in Malaysia. The tournament was won by for the eleventh time by South Korea in the final against China PR.

2004 AFC Youth Championship

Kejohanan Remaja AFC 2004
Tournament details
Host country	Malaysia
Dates	25 September – 9 October
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	5 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	South Korea (11th title)
Runners-up	China
Third place	Japan
Fourth place	Syria
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	82 (2.56 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Park Chu-young (6 goals)[1]
Best player(s)	Park Chu-young[1]
← 2002 2006 →

Venues

The matches were played in the following five venues in four cities.

Johor Bahru
Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium	Johor Bahru Kuala Lumpur Petaling Jaya Ipoh 2004 AFC Youth Championship (Malaysia)	Pasir Gudang Corporation Stadium
Capacity: 30,000		Capacity: 15,000
Kuala Lumpur	Petaling Jaya	Ipoh
Kuala Lumpur Stadium	Petaling Jaya Stadium	Perak Stadium
Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 25,000	Capacity: 42,500

Qualification

Main article: AFC Youth Championship 2004 qualification

China  Indonesia  India (withdrew  Turkmenistan) Iran

Iraq  South Korea  Japan  Laos

Malaysia    Nepal  Qatar  Syria

Thailand  Uzbekistan  Vietnam  Yemen

Squads

Main article: 2004 AFC Youth Championship squads

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9	Quarter-final
2	Malaysia (H)	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6
3	Nepal	3	1	0	2	1	6	−5	3
4	Vietnam	3	0	0	3	0	3	−3	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(H) Hosts

September 25, 2004 (2004-09-25)

Japan	3–0	Nepal
Takuya Kokeguchi 15' Sota Hirayama 33' Hiroki Nakayama 59'

Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium, Johor Bahru

September 25, 2004 (2004-09-25)

Vietnam	0–1	Malaysia
		Krishnan Linggam 62'

Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium, Johor Bahru

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September 27, 2004 (2004-09-27)

Nepal	1–0	Vietnam
Pradeep Mahajan 61' (pen.)

Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium, Johor Bahru

September 27, 2004 (2004-09-27)

Malaysia	0–3	Japan
		Takuya Kokeguchi 2' Yojiro Takahagi 42' Takayuki Morimoto 68'

Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium, Johor Bahru

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September 29, 2004 (2004-09-29)

Japan	1–0	Vietnam
Takayuki Morimoto 66'

Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium, Johor Bahru

September 29, 2004 (2004-09-29)

Nepal	0–3	Malaysia
		Norshahrul Idlan Talaha 43' Ahmad Azlan Zainal 68' Pralay Rajbhandari 90+3' (o.g.)

Pasir Gudang Corporation Stadium, Johor Bahru

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7	Quarter-final
2	Qatar	3	2	0	1	3	2	+1	6
3	Iran	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
4	Indonesia	3	0	0	3	3	12	−9	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

September 25, 2004 (2004-09-25)

China	0–0	Iran

Kuala Lumpur Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

September 25, 2004 (2004-09-25)

Qatar	1–0	Indonesia
Emad Al-Dahri 10'

Kuala Lumpur Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

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September 27, 2004 (2004-09-27)

Iran	1–2	Qatar
Adel Kolahkaj 45+2'		Waleed Abdulla 2' (pen.) Khalid Al-Hajari 54'

Kuala Lumpur Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

September 27, 2004 (2004-09-27)

Indonesia	1–5	China
Boaz Solossa 57'		Hao Junmin 11' Tan Wangsong 14' Zhou Haibin 20' Zhu Ting 39' Shen Longyuan 90+2'

Kuala Lumpur Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

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September 29, 2004 (2004-09-29)

China	1–0	Qatar
Dong Fangzhuo 56'

Kuala Lumpur Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

September 29, 2004 (2004-09-29)

Iran	6–2	Indonesia
Milad Midavoodi 39' Mehrdad Oladi 43', 57', 61', 71' Hamed Rasouli 79'		Aditya Prananda 65' Boaz Solossa 82'

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Petaling Jaya

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uzbekistan	3	2	1	0	8	4	+4	7	Quarter-final
2	Syria	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7
3	Laos	3	1	0	2	4	9	−5	3
4	India	3	0	0	3	2	5	−3	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

September 26, 2004 (2004-09-26)

Uzbekistan	5–2	Laos
Nodirbek Kuziboyev 54', 71', 74' Marat Bikmoev 84' Sadriddin Abdullayev 89'		Sengaloun Souvanh 57' Visay Phaphouvanin 82'

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Petaling Jaya

September 26, 2004 (2004-09-26)

Syria	2–1	India
Safir Al-Atasi 55' Abdul Razak Al-Housain 77'		Vimal Pariyar 30'

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Petaling Jaya

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September 28, 2004 (2004-09-28)

Laos	1–4	Syria
Bounmy Insysiangmay 34'		Abdul Fattah Alaga 10' Abdul Alrazak Al-Housain 32' Mesalaz Kailouni 35' Majed Al-Haj 73'

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Petaling Jaya

September 28, 2004 (2004-09-28)

India	1–2	Uzbekistan
Manjit Singh 67'		Aleksandr Kletskov 28' Sadriddin Abdullayev 90+'

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Petaling Jaya

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September 30, 2004 (2004-09-30)

Uzbekistan	1–1	Syria
Daut Djatdoyev 3' (pen.)		Aatef Jenyat 79'

Kuala Lumpur Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

September 30, 2004 (2004-09-30)

Laos	1–0	India
Soulikhan Phanthaya 77'

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Petaling Jaya

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iraq	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9	Quarter-final
2	South Korea	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
3	Thailand	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
4	Yemen	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

September 26, 2004 (2004-09-26)

South Korea	0–3	Iraq
		Mubarak 42', 84' Majeed 90+1'

Perak Stadium, Ipoh

September 26, 2004 (2004-09-26)

Thailand	2–1	Yemen
Teeratep Winothai 3', 39' (pen.)		Abdo Al–Edresi 37'

Perak Stadium, Ipoh

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September 28, 2004 (2004-09-28)

Iraq	2–0	Thailand
Zaki 7' Sabah 32'

Perak Stadium, Ipoh

September 28, 2004 (2004-09-28)

Yemen	0–4	South Korea
		Kim Seung-yong 9' Kim Jin-kyu 13' Park Chu-young 37', 79'

Perak Stadium, Ipoh

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September 30, 2004 (2004-09-30)

South Korea	1–1	Thailand
Park Chu-young 41'		Kim Tae-won 7' (o.g.)

Perak Stadium, Ipoh

September 30, 2004 (2004-09-30)

Iraq	2–0	Yemen
Kadhim 33' Yousif 87'

Kuala Lumpur Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	3 October – Johor Bahru
	Japan (p)	0 (5)
					6 October – Kuala Lumpur
	Qatar	0 (3)
					Japan	2 (1)
	3 October – Kuala Lumpur
					South Korea (p)	2 (3)
	Uzbekistan	1
									9 October – Kuala Lumpur
	South Korea (a.e.t.)	2
									South Korea	2
	3 October – Kuala Lumpur
									China	0
	China	3
					6 October – Ipoh
	Malaysia	0
					China	1
	3 October – Ipoh
					Syria	0			Third place
	Iraq	0
									9 October – Kuala Lumpur
	Syria	1
									Japan (p)	1 (4)
									Syria	1 (3)

Quarterfinals

October 3, 2004 (2004-10-03)

Japan	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Qatar
Penalties
	5–3

Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium, Johor Bahru

October 3, 2004 (2004-10-03)

China	3–0	Malaysia
Chen Tao 46' Zou You 51' Zhou Haibin 64'

Kuala Lumpur Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

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October 3, 2004 (2004-10-03)

Uzbekistan	1–2 (a.e.t.)	South Korea
Nordibek Kuziboyev 78'		Kim Seung-yong 39' Shin Young-rok 105'

Kuala Lumpur Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

October 3, 2004 (2004-10-03)

Iraq	0–1	Syria
		Majed Al–Haj 75'

Perak Stadium, Ipoh

Semifinals

October 6, 2004 (2004-10-06)

Japan	2–2 (a.e.t.)	South Korea
Kazuma Watanabe 90+2' Sota Hirayama 120'		Baek Ji-hoon 33' Park Chu-young 113'
Penalties
	1–3

Kuala Lumpur Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

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October 6, 2004 (2004-10-06)

China	1–0	Syria
Zhu Ting 54'

Perak Stadium, Ipoh

Third place playoff

October 9, 2004 (2004-10-09)

Japan	1–1	Syria
Keisuke Funatani 32'		Tatsuya Masushima 40' (o.g.)
Penalties
	4–3

Kuala Lumpur Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

Final

October 9, 2004 (2004-10-09)

South Korea	2–0	China
Park Chu-young 37', 44'

Kuala Lumpur Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

Winners

AFC Youth Championship 2004 winners
South Korea Eleventh title

Goalscorers

There were 82 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 2.56 goals per match.

6 goals

• Park Chu-young

4 goals

• Mehrdad Oladi
• Nodirbek Kuziboyev

2 goals

• Zhu Ting
• Boaz Solossa
• Muslim Mubarak
• Takuya Kokeguchi
• Takayuki Morimoto
• Sota Hirayama
• Abdul Razak Al-Housain
• Majed Al-Haj
• Teeratep Winothai

1 goal

• Hao Junmin
• Tan Wangsong
• Zhou Haibin
• Shen Longyuan
• Dong Fangzhuo
• Chen Tao
• Zou You
• Zhou Haibin
• Aditya Prananda
• Vimal Pariyar
• Manjit Singh
• Adel Kolahkaj
• Milad Midavoodi
• Hamed Rasouli
• Fareed Majeed
• Wissam Zaki
• Haidar Sabah
• Omer Kadhim
• Ali Yousif
• Hiroki Nakayama
• Yojiro Takahagi
• Kazuma Watanabe
• Keisuke Funatani
• Kim Seung-yong
• Kim Jin-kyu
• Kim Seung-yong
• Shin Young-rok
• Baek Ji-hoon
• Sengaloun Souvanh
• Visay Phaphouvanin
• Bounmy Insysiangmay
• Soulikhan Phanthaya
• Krishnan Linggam
• Norshahrul Idlan Talaha
• Ahmad Azlan Zainal
• Pradeep Mahajan
• Emad Al-Dahri
• Waleed Abdulla
• Khalid Al-Hajari
• Safir Al-Atasi
• Aatef Jenyat
• Abdul Fattah Alaga
• Mesalaz Kailouni
• Marat Bikmoev
• Sadriddin Abdullayev
• Daut Djatdoyev
• Abdo Al–Edresi

1 own goal

• Tatsuya Masushima (against Syria)
• Kim Tae-won (against Thailand)
• Janak Singh (against Malaysia)

Countries to participate in 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship

•  South Korea
•  China
•  Japan
•  Syria