1980 AFC Youth Championship

1980 AFC Youth Championship
Tournament details
Host countryThailand
Dates21 February – 1 March
Teams5 (from 1 confederation)
Venue1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions South Korea (5th title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Goals scored24 (2.4 per match)
Top scorerSouth Korea Choi Soon-ho (4 goals)[1]
Best playerSouth Korea Choi Soon-ho[2]
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The 1980 AFC Youth Championship was held from 21 February to 1 March 1981 in Bangkok, Thailand. The tournament was won by for the fifth time by South Korea.

Qualification

The finals will consist of five teams from the qualification phase. Qualification consisted of two groups with the top two of Group 1 and the top three of Group 2 qualifying for the final tournament.

Qualified teams

  •  Qatar (Qualification Group 1 winners)
  •  Bangladesh (Qualification Group 1 runners-up)
  •  South Korea (Qualification Group 2 winners)
  •  Japan (Qualification Group 2 runners-up)
  •  Thailand (Qualification Group 2 third place)

Final tournament

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 South Korea 431093+67
 Qatar 42114405
 Japan 420245−14
 Thailand 410365+12
 Bangladesh 402217−62
Thailand 5 – 0 Bangladesh
Qatar 1 – 4 South Korea
Thailand 0 – 2 Qatar
South Korea 3 – 1 Japan
Bangladesh 0 – 0 Qatar
Thailand 1 – 2 Japan
Japan 0 – 1 Qatar
South Korea 1 – 1 Bangladesh
Thailand 0 – 1 South Korea
Japan 1 – 0 Bangladesh

Winner

 AFC Youth Championship 1980 winners 

South Korea
Fifth title

Qualification to World Youth Championship

The following teams qualified for the 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship.

References

  1. ↑ 崔淳鎬 4게임서 4골 最多득점┈守備補完이 課題. Naver.com (in Korean). Kyunghyang. 2 March 1981.
  2. ↑ 韓國, 21年만에단독優勝 金錫垣절묘한어시스트…崔淳鎬헤 딩. Naver.com (in Korean). Dong-A Ilbo. 2 March 1981.
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