The 2020 AFC U-23 Championship final was a football match that took place on 26 January 2020 at the Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, to determine the winners of the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship. The match was contested by South Korea and Saudi Arabia, the winners of the semi-finals.
South Korea beat Saudi Arabia after extra time and took their first trophy in the contest.
Route to the final
South Korea Round Saudi Arabia Opponents Result Group stage Opponents Result 1–0 Match 1 2–1 2–1 Match 2 0–0 2–1 Match 3 1–0 Group C Winner Final standings Group B Winner Opponents Result Knockout stage Opponents Result 2–1 Quarter-finals 1–0 2–0 Semi-finals 1–0
Match
GK 1 Song Bum-keun RB 2 Lee You-hyeon CB 5 Jeong Tae-wookCB 4 Lee Sang-min (c)LB 3 Kang Yoon-sungDM 20 Won Du-jaeDM 6 Kim Dong-hyunCM 8 Kim Jin-gyu RF 7 Jeong Woo-yeong CF 18 Oh Se-hunLF 13 Kim Jin-yaSubstitutions:FW 11 Lee Dong-jun MF 10 Lee Dong-gyeong FW 14 Kim Dae-won DF 15 Kim Tae-hyeon Manager:Kim Hak-bum GK 22 Mohammed Al-RubaieRB 23 Saud Abdulhamid CB 3 Abdulbasit Hindi CB 4 Hassan Al-Tambakti (c) LB 13 Khalid Al-Dubaysh RM 18 Khalid Al-Ghannam CM 20 Mukhtar AliCM 14 Ali Al-Hassan LM 7 Abdulrahman GhareebSS 15 Hussain Al-EisaCF 9 Abdullah Al-Hamdan Substitutions:FW 12 Ayman Yahya FW 19 Firas Al-Buraikan DF 5 Abdulelah Al-Amri MF 8 Nasser Al-Omran Manager:Saad Al-Shehri
Match rules: 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of three substitutions, one substitution added if extra time.
References
See also 2020 AFC U-23 Championship