The 2006 AFC Youth Championship was the 34th instance of the AFC Youth Championship. It was held from 29 October to 12 November 2006 in India. It was the first time for India to host this tournament. Sixteen teams from the AFC qualified to the finals.
The tournament was won by North Korea, their second championship after sharing the trophy with Iran in 1976, defeating Japan 5–3 in a penalty shootout after extra time finished in a 1–1 draw. South Korea defeated Jordan 2–0 to finish third.
The tournament also served as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, with a place for the 4 semi-finalists of the tournament.
Qualification
33 Teams entered the Qualification, the teams were drawn into 14 groups. 11 groups with each three teams and 3 groups with two teams. The Qualification took part from November 2005 to December 2005 (except Group D which was scheduled to play in November 2005 but was postponed after the 2005 Amman bombings and played in February 2006). The Group-Winners qualified for the tournament, a Play-Off Game between the best second-placed teams from ASEAN (Myanmar) and East Asia (North Korea) was scheduled to in Kuala Lumpur on 15 February 2006. But after the withdrawal of Myanmar, the North Koreans qualified automatically. Hosts India were exempt from the qualification.
Final tournament
Participants
Venues
Squads
Group stage
Group A
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Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter finals
Semi finals
Third Place Play Off
Finals
Winners
Qualification to World Youth Championship
The following teams qualified for the 2007 FIFA World Youth Championship.
Awards
Goalscorers
5 goals
Shim Young-sung
4 goals
Alaa Abdul-Zahra
Kim Kum-il
Shin Young-rok
3 goals
Wang Yongpo
Yasuhito Morishima
Yosuke Kashiwagi
Lee Sang-ho
Song Jin-hyung
2 goals
David Williams
Nathan Burns
Mostafa Chatrabgoon
Kazuhisa Kawahara
Kota Aoki
Ahmed Nofal
Jong Chol-min
Mohammad Al-Sahlawi
Jufain Al-Bishi
1 goal
Chris Grossman
Dario Vidosic
Xu De'en
Yang Xu
Branco Vincent Cardozo
Lal Kamal Bhowmick
Paresh Matondkar
Farhad Ale-Khamis
Kamaleddin Kamyabinia
Shahram Goudarzi
Aqeel Hussein
Halkurd Mulla Mohammed
Mohamed Khalaf
Osama Ali
Ildar Amirov
Masato Morishige
Tsukasa Umesaki
Abdullah Deeb
Badr Abu Salim
Lo'ay Omran
Mohd Khyril Muhymeen Zambri
Pak Chol-min
Ri Chol-myong
Ri Hung-ryong
Yun Yong-il
Ahmad Kabee
Ali Ataif
Mohamed Al-Bishi
Kim Dong-suk
Lee Chung-yong
Park Hyun-beom
Akhtam Khamrakulov
Phonlawut Donchui
Suttinun Phukhom
Teerasil Dangda
Ibrahim Ali
Mubarak Mesmari
Nguyễn Quang Tình
Nguyễn Văn Khải
Own goals
Stepan Miagkih (playing against South Korea) Baddrol Bakhtiar (playing against Vietnam)
Top scoring teams
19 goals
12 goals
10 goals
8 goals
7 goals
6 goals
Australia
5 goals
3 goals
2 goal
1 goal
References
External links
AFC Youth Championship 2006 Official Site – the-AFC.com (archived)