2020 AFC U-23 Championship final

2020 AFC U-23 Championship Final
Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok hosted the final.
Event2020 AFC U-23 Championship
After extra time
Date26 January 2020
VenueRajamangala Stadium, Bangkok
RefereeChris Beath (Australia)
WeatherPartly cloudy
28 °C (82 °F)

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]

South Korea beat Saudi Arabia after extra time and took their first trophy in the contest.

Route to the final

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

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


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.

References

  1. ^ "The AFC". the-AFC.

See also