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 Kolkata, West Bengal Salt Lake Stadium Howrah Municipal Corporation Stadium Capacity: 120,000 Capacity: 5,000Bangalore, Karnataka Sree Kanteerava Stadium Bangalore Football Stadium Capacity: 30,000 Capacity: 15,000
Squads
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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 Top GoalscorersMost Valuable PlayerFair Play Trophy Shim Young-sung Kim Kum-il
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 Seyed 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)