2003_AFC_Women's_Championship Knowpia

2003 AFC Women's Championship
ฟุตบอลหญิงชิงแชมป์เอเชีย 2546
Tournament details
Host country	Thailand
Dates	8–21 June
Teams	14 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	North Korea (2nd title)
Runners-up	China
Third place	South Korea
Fourth place	Japan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	30
Goals scored	184 (6.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ri Kum-suk ; (15 goals)
	← 2001 2006 →

The 2003 AFC Women's Championship was a women's football tournament held in Thailand from 8 to 21 June 2003. It was the 14th edition of the AFC Women's Championship, a tournament for women's national teams from countries affiliated with the Asian Football Confederation.

The competition was held in Bangkok in the Rajamangala Stadium and in Nakhon Sawan in the Nakhon Sawan Stadium. The tournament was won by the defending champions North Korea women's national football team (Korea DPR). As the championship was also used for qualifying for the FIFA Women's World Cup, North Korea qualified as champions, China qualifying as runners-up, and South Korea qualifying as the third-placed team. Japan as the fourth-placed team faced another match for qualification.

Participating teams and structure edit

Fourteen teams took part in the competition. This included the hosts Thailand and the defending champions North Korea. The teams were split into 3 groups, with the each team playing all the others in the group in a round robin format. At the end of the group stage the four teams with the best results from all the groups who qualified in the 1st 2 spaces in each group qualify to the knockout stage. This is played in the format of a semi-final, a 3rd/4th place match, as well as a final.

The winners and runners-up of the competition automatically qualify for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2003. The 3rd place team has to compete against a CONCACAF team over home and away matches for a final place in the FIFA Women's World Cup. The runners-up and the 3rd place team were re-berthed to 3rd and 4th place respectively as China, as original host of the World Cup and would automatically qualified to final rounds, got 2nd place.

This was the last tournament to still issue invitation. From 2006, a separate qualification round was introduced to find out teams to qualify for the Women's Asian Cup.

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Group A edit

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
North Korea	4	3	1	0	45	2	+43	10
South Korea	4	3	1	0	20	2	+18	10
Thailand	4	2	0	2	6	21	−15	6
Hong Kong	4	1	0	3	2	24	−22	3
Singapore	4	0	0	4	0	24	−24	0

Source: RSSSF

8 June 2003

Singapore	0–3	Thailand
	Report	Kitiya 17' Saranya 20' Anootsara 63'

Rajamangala Stadium
(Opening ceremony and match)

8 June 2003

South Korea	8–0	Hong Kong
Sung Hyun-ah 1' Lee Ji-eun 23', 46' Lee Myung-hwa 59' Park Eun-sun 62', 65', 78', 89'	Report

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Japan	4	4	0	0	34	0	+34	12
Myanmar	4	2	1	1	11	8	+3	7
Chinese Taipei	4	2	1	1	7	7	0	7
Philippines	4	1	0	3	2	26	−24	3
Guam	4	0	0	4	2	15	−13	0

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
China	3	3	0	29	0	+29	9
Vietnam	3	2	1	6	9	−3	6
India	3	1	2	7	14	−7	3
Uzbekistan	3	0	3	2	21	−19	0

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	China	5	3	1	1	7	3	+4	10	Champions
2	Australia (H)	6	4	2	0	15	2	+13	14	Runners-up
3	North Korea	6	4	1	1	16	3	+13	13	Third place
4	Japan	5	3	0	2	19	6	+13	9	Fourth place

5	South Korea	4	2	0	2	14	6	+8	6	Eliminated in group stage
6	Vietnam	3	1	0	2	1	7	−6	3
7	Thailand	4	1	0	3	2	26	−24	3
8	Myanmar	4	0	0	4	2	10	−8	0
9	Chinese Taipei	3	0	0	3	1	14	−13	0

Summary

Participating teams and structure edit

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Knockout stage edit

Semi-finals edit

Third place match edit

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Awards edit

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