AFC U-20 Asian Cup

The AFC U-20 Asian Cup, formerly known as the AFC Youth Championship and AFC U-19 Championship, is a biennial international association football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation for the men's under-20 national teams of Asia that also serves as a qualification tournament for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The competition has been held since 1959. Between 1959 and 1978, the tournament was held annually ; since 1980, it has been held every two years. The 1980 AFC Youth Championship had a qualification stage for first time.
The tournament has been played in a number of different formats during its existence. Currently, it consists of two stages, similar to the AFC's other Asian Championship competitions. The qualifying stage is open to all AFC members and the final stage is contested between 16 teams. The most recent edition, the 42nd, was held in China. The AFC switched the tournament from under-19 to under-20 starting from 2023. Moreover, the tournament was also rebranded from the "AFC U-19 Championship" to the "AFC U-20 Asian Cup".

Results

Coordinate is based on the capital of the country.

;Notes:

¹ Title shared.

² Third place shared.

³ Final tournaments in round-robin format.

⁴ No third place match played since 2008; losing semi-finalists are listed in alphabetical order.

Teams reaching the top four

Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Semi-finalists	Total
	12	5	6	1	4	28
	7	1	2	–	1	11
	6	–	1	1	–	8
	5	2	1	1	–	9
	4	1	2	1	1	9
	3	3	2	1	1	10
	3	2	3	–	–	8
	2	–	4	5	–	11
	1	6	5	4	3	19
	1	3	1	–	–	5
	1	2	1	1	–	5
	1	1	1	2	1	6
	1	1	1	1	–	4
	1	1	–	1	2	5
	1	1	–	–	2	4
	1	–	2	3	–	6
	1	–	–	–	–	1
	–	3	2	1	–	6
	–	1	1	–	–	2
	–	–	2	–	–	2
	–	–	1	2	–	3
	–	–	1	–	–	1
	–	–	–	1	1	2
	–	–	–	1	–	1
	–	–	–	1	–	1
	–	–	–	1	–	1
Total	51	33	39	29	16	168

Notes:Bold Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Total : Nine editions shared champions, five editions shared third place, and eight editions with no third place match.

Comprehensive team results by tournament

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– Champions
– Runners-up
– Third place
– Fourth place
– Semi-finalists
QF – Quarter-finals
GS – Group stage
q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
DQ – Disqualified
•• – Qualified but withdrew
• – Did not qualify
× – Did not enter
× – Withdrew / Banned / Entry not accepted by FIFA
— Country not affiliated to AFC at that time
— Country did not exist or national team was inactive
– Hosts
– Not affiliated to FIFA

Overall team records

In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. 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. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.

Rank	Team	Part	M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
1		40	195	114	49	32	386	156	+230	391
2		39	178	75	36	67	311	242	+69	261
3		19	94	60	15	19	242	84	+158	195
4		22	96	58	18	20	201	76	+125	192
5		34	141	52	25	64	230	223	+7	181
6		19	85	42	23	20	160	84	+76	149
7		16	78	46	15	17	151	82	+69	152
8	¹	9	49	37	8	4	138	14	+124	119
9		20	80	33	19	28	117	101	+16	118
10		23	88	35	13	41	159	161	−2	118
11		14	68	31	16	21	101	66	+35	109
12		16	65	29	9	27	104	104	0	96
13		19	76	27	15	34	116	129	−13	96
14		22	80	22	16	42	95	145	−50	82
15		9	44	22	13	9	70	51	+19	79
16		12	50	22	11	17	76	56	+20	77
17		9	40	21	11	8	73	42	+31	74
18	²	20	69	19	13	37	74	142	−68	70
19		14	56	18	15	23	83	80	+3	69
20		16	60	20	9	31	96	132	−36	69
21		18	67	16	7	44	79	190	−111	55
22		9	37	14	10	13	47	44	+3	52
23		8	36	12	15	9	49	44	+5	51
24		9	32	6	8	18	26	58	−32	26
25		10	35	5	6	24	30	98	−68	21
26		13	46	5	3	38	32	161	−129	18
27		5	16	4	4	8	20	29	−9	16
28		5	17	4	4	9	15	30	−15	16
29	³	8	27	4	4	19	19	52	−33	16
30		10	36	4	2	30	35	152	−117	14
31		3	11	3	1	7	14	26	−12	10
32		3	11	3	0	8	12	35	−23	9
33		2	10	2	2	6	15	25	−10	8
34		6	21	1	5	15	10	53	−43	8
35		2	7	1	3	3	5	13	−8	6
36		3	10	0	4	6	3	20	−17	4
37		3	9	0	3	6	5	27	−22	3
38		4	12	1	0	11	6	47	−41	3
39		3	10	0	2	8	4	31	−27	2
40	⁴	1	4	0	0	4	2	13	−11	0
41		4	13	0	0	13	3	94	−91	0

¹ No AFC member currently.
² Represented South Vietnam from 1959 to 1974.
³ Representing South Yemen in 1975 and North Yemen in 1978.
⁴ Not an AFC member: participated in tournament as part of intercontinental play-off to qualify for the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship.

FIFA U-20 World Cup performances

;Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
QF – Quarter-finals
R2 – Round 2
R1 – Round 1
– Hosts
– Not affiliated to AFC
q – Qualified for upcoming tournament