# 2008 AFC U-16 Championship

The 2008 AFC U-16 Championship was the 13th competition of the AFC U-17 Championship organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), which was held between 4 and 19 October 2008 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The Qualifiers was held in 2007 from 17–28 October.
Iran won their first title after beating South Korea 2–1 in the final.

## Qualification competition

| Australia  Bahrain  China  India | Indonesia  Iran  Japan  South Korea | Malaysia  Saudi Arabia  Singapore  Syria | Turkmenistan  United Arab Emirates  Yemen  Uzbekistan (host country) |

## Stadiums

Tashkent :
| Pakhtakor Stadium | MHSK Stadium |
| Capacity: 35,000 | Capacity: 15,000 |

## Group stage

All times local (UTC+5)

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Iran | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Uzbekistan (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Bahrain | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Singapore | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | −13 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | South Korea | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 3 | +12 | 7 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Syria | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 7 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | India | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 3 | |
| 4 | Indonesia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | −11 | 0 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | +9 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | China | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| 4 | Turkmenistan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | −11 | 0 | |

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Japan | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | +12 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 3 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Malaysia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | −2 | 3 | |
| 4 | Yemen | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 | |
* 1 2 Head-to-head result: United Arab Emirates 3–2 Malaysia.
* ↑ Yemen were ejected from the tournament for fielding an overage player, Wesam Saleh Al-Worafi.

## Knockout stages
### Bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 12 October – Pakhtakor | 12 October – Pakhtakor | | | |
| Iran | 2 | | | |
| Iran | 2 | 15 October – Pakhtakor | 15 October – Pakhtakor | | |
| Syria | 0 | 15 October – Pakhtakor | 15 October – Pakhtakor | |
| Syria | 0 | Iran | 3 | |
| 12 October – MHSK | 12 October – MHSK | | Iran | 3 | |
| 12 October – MHSK | 12 October – MHSK | United Arab Emirates | 0 | |
| Australia | 2 | United Arab Emirates | 0 | |
| Australia | 2 | | | | 19 October – Pakhtakor | 19 October – Pakhtakor |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | | | | 19 October – Pakhtakor | 19 October – Pakhtakor |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | | | | Iran | 2 |
| 12 October – Pakhtakor | 12 October – Pakhtakor | | | | | Iran | 2 |
| 12 October – Pakhtakor | 12 October – Pakhtakor | | | | South Korea | 1 |
| South Korea | 3 | | | | South Korea | 1 |
| South Korea | 3 | 15 October – Pakhtakor | 15 October – Pakhtakor | | | |
| Uzbekistan | 0 | 15 October – Pakhtakor | 15 October – Pakhtakor | | | |
| Uzbekistan | 0 | South Korea | 2 | | | |
| 12 October – MHSK | 12 October – MHSK | | South Korea | 2 | | | |
| 12 October – MHSK | 12 October – MHSK | Japan | 1 | |
| Japan | 2 | Japan | 1 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 0 | | | |

### Final
## Winners

* 2008 AFC U-16 Championship
* Iran First title

## Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
| Most Valuable Player | Top Scorer | Fair Play Award |
| Lee Jong-ho | Kaveh Rezaei | South Korea |

## Goalscorers

There were 113 goals scored in 31 matches, for an average of 3.65 goals per match.
6 goals
* Kaveh Rezaei
4 goals
* Takumi Miyayoshi
* Lee Chang
* Son Heung-min
* Fahad Hadeed
3 goals
* Kenyu Sugimoto
* Tatsuya Uchida
* Lee Jong-ho
* Kim Dong-jin
* Rim Chang-woo
2 goals
* Stephen Domenici
* Danai Gapare
* Ben Kantarovski
* Lalrindika Ralte
* Takashi Usami
* Muhamad Bukhari
* Ahmed Al-Aoufi
* Lee Dong-nyck
* Mohamad Ali Rammal
* Abdumutallib Abdullaev
* Aleksandr Galeev
* Oyatullahon Muhiddinov
* Maksim Utkin
* Mohamed Hussein Al-Shamsi
1 goal
* Brendan Hamill
* Kamal Ibrahim
* Jared Lum
* Dimitrios Petratos
* Marc Warren
* Trent Sainsbury
* Tedros Yabio
* Salman Al-Dakheel
* Sayed Dhiya Saeed
* Dheya Salman Yusuf
* Guo Yi
* Jin Jingdao
* Nan Yunqi
* Yu Baobao
* Manandeep Singh
* Vava Mario Yagalo
* Bahram Dabbagh
* Ali Darvishi
* Farhad Gholizadeh
* Mehrgan Golbarg
* Akbar Imani
* Payam Sadeghian
* Mohsen Talebat
* Mehrdad Yeghaneh
* Gaku Shibasaki
* Fandi Othman
* Mohammed Al-Asiri
* Nawaf Al-Ghamdi
* Abdulrahim Al-Khamis
* Yasser Al-Shahrani
* Al-Qaasimy Rahman
* Kim Dong-min
* Kim Jin-su
* Rabie Jmhaa
* Asaad Al-Khadr
* Didar Durdyýew
* Bobur Abdurakhmonov
* Ayubhon Gapparov
* Haddaf Al-Ameri
* Mohamed Al-Khoori
* Abdulla Mohammad
* Marwan Al-Saffar
* Ahmed Al-Baidhani
* Mohammed Muhsen
1 own goal
* Ashish Chettri (against Syria)
* Deepak Devrani (against Syria)
* Abdullah Otayf (against Japan)
* Kenneth Chang (against Iran)

## Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following four teams from AFC qualified for the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| United Arab Emirates | 12 October 2008 | 1 (1991) |
| Iran | 12 October 2008 | 1 (2001) |
| Japan | 12 October 2008 | 4 (1993, 1995, 2001, 2007) |
| South Korea | 12 October 2008 | 3 (1987, 2003, 2007) |
    $^1$ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.