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2012 AFC U-16 Championship

مسابقات فوتبال زیر ۱۶ سال آسیا ۲۰۱۲
Tournament details
Host country	Iran
Dates	22 September – 6 October
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Uzbekistan (1st title)
Runners-up	Japan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	97 (3.13 per match)
Attendance	12,853 (415 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Hwang Hee-Chan (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Taro Sugimoto
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The 2012 AFC U-16 Championship was the 15th edition of the tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation. The AFC approved Iran as hosts of the championship on 23 November 2011. The top 4 teams qualified for the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup, hosted by the United Arab Emirates. Qualification for the tournament started in 2011.

Host Selection

The Organising Committee for AFC Youth Competitions for the 2011–2015 term announced that Iran and Palestine were interested in hosting the 2012 AFC U-16 Championship Finals.

Per decision of the AFC Competitions Committee, the host nation should qualify for the final tournament. The decision on the hosts was taken in the committee's meeting on 21 November 2011 based on the results of the qualifiers.

Qualification

The qualification draw was held on 30 March 2011.

Qualifiers

•  Iran
•  Yemen
•  Laos
•  Australia
•  Iraq
•  Japan
•  Kuwait
•  China
•  North Korea
•  Oman
•  Saudi Arabia
•  South Korea
•  Syria
•  Thailand
•  Uzbekistan
•  India

Venues

Tehran	Tehran	Tehran
Shahid Dastgerdi Stadium		Ekbatan Stadium
Capacity: 8,250		Capacity: 12,000

Draw

The draw for the competition was held on 10 May 2012 in Tehran, Iran.

Group stage

In the group stage the tie-breaking criteria are direct matches before goal difference.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iran	3	3	0	0	9	3	+6	9
Kuwait	3	1	1	1	6	6	+0	4
Laos	3	1	0	2	6	8	−2	3
Yemen	3	0	1	2	3	7	−4	1

Kuwait	1–1	Yemen
Thekr Allah 19'	Report	Al-Dahi 71' (pen.)

Iran	3–1	Laos
Mazloum 17', 48' Hosseini 19' (pen.)	Report	Noyvong 2'

Laos	3–4	Kuwait
Phanthavong 24' Kettavong 28' Noyvong 37' (pen.)	Report	Marzouq 26', 90+1' Keola 32' (o.g.) Alajmi 90+2'

Yemen	1–4	Iran
Al-Dahi 3'	Report	Rigi 54' Ezzatollahi 61' Jafari 65' Karamolachaab 81'

Iran	2–1	Kuwait
Hosseini 40' Shojaei 62'	Report	Thekr Allah 27'

Yemen	1–2	Laos
Al-Dahi 45'	Report	Mahdi 12' (o.g.) Kettavong 70'

Group B

Iraq and Australia played a penalty shootout after their final group match to determine their ranking. Iraq won that 3–2.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iraq	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
Australia	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
Oman	3	1	0	2	5	6	−1	3
Thailand	3	0	0	3	2	7	−5	0

Australia	2–0	Thailand
Tombides 14' MacDonald 29'	Report

Iraq	2–1	Oman
Abdul-Zahra 5' Majed 35'	Report	Al-Rushadi 61'

Thailand	0–2	Iraq
	Report	Karim 63' M. Lateef 65'

Oman	1–2	Australia
Al-Rushadi 52' (pen.)	Report	MacDonald 16' Baldacchino 87'

Australia	0–0	Iraq
	Report
Penalties
	2–3

Oman	3–2	Thailand
Al-Alawi 40' Mubarak 55' Al-Rushadi 72'	Report	Puangbut 8' Thongma 17'

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
South Korea	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9
Japan	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
North Korea	3	1	0	2	2	7	−5	3
Saudi Arabia	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

North Korea	0–3	South Korea
	Report	Hwang Hee-Chan 18', 58', 67'

Japan	2–0	Saudi Arabia
Sasaki 44' Sugimoto 56'	Report

South Korea	3–1	Japan
Hwang Hee-Chan 13' Choi Ju-Yong 42' Ko Min-hyuk 89'	Report	Ogawa 23'

Saudi Arabia	1–2	North Korea
Al-Qahtani 54'	Report	Ri Ryong 48' Ri Kwang-Song 82'

North Korea	0–3	Japan
	Report	Nakamura 14' Sugimoto 49' Ogawa 82'

Saudi Arabia	0–1	South Korea
	Report	Jeong Hun-U 62'

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Syria	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5
Uzbekistan	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
China	3	0	3	0	4	4	0	3
India	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2

Uzbekistan	3–2	India
Odilov 8' Abdullaev 53' (pen.) Abdiganiyev 79'	Report	Rai 47', 71'

Syria	1–1	China
Kurdaghli 90+4'	Report	Zhang Yuning 48'

India	0–0	Syria
	Report

China	1–1	Uzbekistan
Hu Jinghang 43'	Report	Boltaboev 16'

Uzbekistan	0–1	Syria
	Report	Alhusni 33'

China	2–2	India
Wang Jinxian 21' Zhang Yuning 33'	Report	Lalhlimpuia 19' Mendes 90+4' (pen.)

Knockout stage

Knockout Map

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	30 September
	Iran	5
					3 October
	Australia	1
					Iran	2
	30 September
					Uzbekistan	3
	South Korea	1(3)
									6 October
	Uzbekistan	1(5)
									Uzbekistan	1(3)
	30 September
									Japan	1(1)
	Iraq	3
					3 October
	Kuwait	1
					Iraq	1
	30 September
					Japan	5
	Syria	1
	Japan	2

Quarterfinals

Iraq	3–1	Kuwait
Kadhim 59' Salman 74' Majed 80'	Report	Alasfour 68'

South Korea	1–1	Uzbekistan
Hwang Hee-Chan 90+4'	Report	Turaev 64'
Penalties
Yoo Won-Jong Hwang Hee-Chan Lee Gun Lim Eun-Su	3–5	Komilov Abdullaev Shukurov Mirzaev Abbasov

Iran	5–1	Australia
Ezzatollahi 31' (pen.) Karamolachaab 35', 90+3' Bazaj 61' Rigi 81'	Report	Antoniou 88'

Syria	1–2	Japan
Kurdaghli 87'	Report	Sugimori 80' Sugimoto 82'

Semifinals

Iran	2–3	Uzbekistan
Hosseini 4' Mazloum 88'	Report	Khamdamov 13' Abdullaev 35' Shukurov 42'

Iraq	1–5	Japan
Sami 59'	Report	Onishi 9' Kitagawa 18', 88' Watanabe 67' Sasaki 68'

Final

Uzbekistan	1–1	Japan
Turaev 52'	Report	Mizutani 6'
Penalties
Komilov Shukurov Mirzaev	3–1	Miyoshi Sugimoto Sugimori Kitagawa

Winners

AFC U-16 Championship 2012 winners
Uzbekistan First title

Countries to participate in 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup

The four semi-finalists qualified for 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

•  Uzbekistan
•  Japan
•  Iran
•  Iraq

Goalscorers

There were 97 goals scored in 31 matches, for an average of 3.13 goals per match.

5 goals

• Hwang Hee-Chan

3 goals

• Reza Karamolachaab
• Majid Hosseini
• Amir Mohammad Mazloum
• Taro Sugimoto
• Hatem Al-Rushadi
• Mohammed Al-Dahi

2 goals

• Josh Macdonald
• Zhang Yuning
• Ali Rigi
• Saeid Ezzatollahi
• Uttam Rai
• Koya Kitagawa
• Hiroki Ogawa
• Wataru Sasaki
• Bader Thekr Allah
• Nawaf Marzouq
• Samer Al-Mahdawi
• Anousay Noyvong
• Armisay Kettavong
• Khaled Kurdaghli
• Akobir Turaev

1 goal

• Bai Antoniou
• James Baldacchino
• Taylor Tombides
• Hu Jinghang
• Wang Jinxian
• Ali Shojaei
• Mohammad Reza Bazaj
• Sasan Jafari
• Daniel Lalhlimpuia
• Myron Mendes
• Thanin Phanthavong
• Ali Essam Kadhim
• Mahdi Abdul-Zahra
• Mohammed Lateef
• Salman Ali Salman
• Sherko Karim
• Yasir Ammar Sami
• Fumiya Nakamura
• Koki Sugimori
• Takuma Mizutani
• Yuki Onishi
• Ryoma Watanabe
• Choi Ju-Yong
• Jeong Hun-U
• Ko Min-hyuk
• Abdullah Alasfour
• Naji Alajmi
• Abdull-Kareem Al-Qahtani
• Marwan Mubarak
• Samir Al Alawi
• Ri Ryong
• Ri Kwang-Song
• Subie Alhusni
• Saran Puangbut
• Peeranat Thongma
• Abdullaev Izzatilla
• Jamshid Boltaboev
• Ibrokhim Abdullaev
• Ilhomjon Abdiganiyev
• Mukhiddin Odilov
• Otabek Shukurov
• Dostonbek Khamdamov

1 own goal

• Anoukone Keola (playing against Kuwait)
• Ala Addin Mahdi (playing against Laos)

Tournament team rankings

As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Uzbekistan	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	9	Champion
2	Japan	6	4	1	1	14	6	+8	13	Runner-up
3	Iran (H)	5	4	0	1	16	7	+9	12	Third place
4	Iraq	5	3	1	1	8	7	+1	10	Fourth place
5	South Korea	4	3	1	0	8	2	+6	10	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	Australia	4	2	1	1	5	6	−1	7
7	Syria	4	1	2	1	3	3	0	5
8	Kuwait	4	1	1	2	7	9	−2	4
9	China	3	0	3	0	4	4	0	3	Eliminated in group stage
10	Oman	3	1	0	2	5	6	−1	3
11	Laos	3	1	0	2	6	8	−2	3
12	North Korea	3	1	0	2	2	7	−5	3
13	India	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
14	Yemen	3	0	1	2	3	7	−4	1
15	Saudi Arabia	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0
16	Thailand	3	0	0	3	2	7	−5	0

References

1. "Sugimoto scoops MVP Award". The-AFC.com. Asian Football Confederation. 7 October 2012. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
2. ^ AFC to put best foot forward The AFC. 23 November 2011. Retrieved on 2011-11-23.
3. "U16, U19, Olym, WC q'fiers draw on Mar 30". The-AFC.com. Asian Football Confederation. 2 March 2011. Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
4. "U-16 Draw procedures confirmed". The-AFC.com. Asian Football Confederation. 10 April 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
5. "2012 Regulations". AFC. Archived from the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
6. "Australia 0–0 Iraq (2–3 pens)". the-afc.com. 26 September 2012.

External links

• AFC U-16 Championship (in English)

• 2012 AFC U-16 Championship
• 2012 in Asian football
• International association football competitions hosted by Iran
• 2012 in youth association football
• September 2012 sports events in Asia
• October 2012 sports events in Asia