The 1978

AFC Youth Championship 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 (AFC) for the men's under-20 national teams ...

was held in

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, Bangladesh from 5 October to 28 October 1978. It also served as qualification for the

1979 FIFA World Youth Championship The 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship, the second staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, was held in Japan from 26 August to 7 September 1979. It was the first FIFA tournament played in Asia. The tournament took place in four cities — K ...

Teams

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Group Stage

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

---- Note: Iran had originally won 1-0 against Kuwait, but they were found to have fielded an over-age player; the result was reversed and Iran were ejected from the competition.

Semi-finals

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Third place play-off

Final

Results

Qualification to World Youth Championship

The following teams qualified for the

. * ''(replacing Iraq)'' * ''(host)'' *

References

External links

* {{AFC Youth Championship Youth Championship, 1978 Afc Youth Championship, 1978

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

International association football competitions hosted by Bangladesh