2003 AFC Women's Championship

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 holding of the AFC Women's Championship, a tournament for women's national teams from countries affiliated to the Asian Football Confederation.

2003 AFC Women's Championship
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Tournament details
Host countryThailand
Dates8–21 June
Teams14 (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 played30
Goals scored184 (6.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)North Korea Ri Kum-suk
(15 goals)

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

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.

Stadium

Group stage

Group A
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
Singapore 0–3 Thailand
Report
  • Kitiya 17'
  • Saranya 20'
  • Anootsara 63'
Rajamangala Stadium
(Opening ceremony and match)
South Korea 8–0 Hong Kong
 Report
South Korea 6–0 Thailand
 Report
North Korea 13–0 Hong Kong
 Report
South Korea 4–0 Singapore
 Report
North Korea 14–0 Thailand
 Report
Hong Kong 1–3 Thailand
  • Yau Ka Wai 54'
 Report
  • Chownee 80'
  • Pranee 90'
  • Hathairat 90+1'
North Korea 16–0 Singapore
 Report
North Korea 2–2 South Korea
 Report
Hong Kong 1–0 Singapore
 Report

Group B
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
Source: RSSSF
Japan 15–0 Philippines
 Report
Attendance: 2000
Referee: Deng Junxia (China)
Guam 1–2 Chinese Taipei
  • Flores 7'
 Report
  • Chen Shu-chiung 43'
  • Ho Meng-ting 69'
Attendance: 100
Referee: Sin Hwa Youen (South Korea)
Philippines 0–6 Myanmar
Report
  • San San Kyu 8', 46'
  • Aye Nandar Hlaing 34', 47'
  • Moe Moe War 78'
  • Callejas 86' (o.g.)
Attendance: 100
Referee: Bentla D'Coth (India)
Japan 7–0 Guam
 Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Zhang Dongqing (China)
Philippines 0–4 Chinese Taipei
Report
  • Wu Hsin-jung 4'
  • Lin Yu-hui 23', 36'
  • Huang Chun-lan 41'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Zhang Dongqing (China)
Japan 7–0 Myanmar
 Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Ri Hong Sil (North Korea)
Guam 0–4 Myanmar
Report
  • Aye Nandar Hlaing 39'
  • Zin Mar Wann 46'
  • Thu Zar Htwe 77'
  • Hla Hla Thant 79'
Attendance: 500
Referee: Deng Junxia (China)
Japan 5–0 Chinese Taipei
 Report
Attendance: 700
Referee: Im Eun Ju (South Korea)
Chinese Taipei 1–1 Myanmar
  • Cheng Yu-hsin 17'
 Report
  • Huang Feng-chiu 31' (o.g.)
Attendance: 100
Referee: Ri Hong Sil (North Korea)
Philippines 2–1 Guam
  • Loren 32'
  • Penales 70'
 Report
  • Santos 24'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Deng Junxia (China)

Group C
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 China 3 3 0 0 29 0 +29 9
 Vietnam 3 2 0 1 6 9 −3 6
 India 3 1 0 2 7 14 −7 3
 Uzbekistan 3 0 0 3 2 21 −19 0
Source: RSSSF
China 6–0 Vietnam
 Report
Attendance: 3000
Referee: Im Eun Ju (South Korea)
India 6–0 Uzbekistan
  • Rani Chanu 15'
  • Maichon Khundrakpam 20'
  • Robita Wangkhem 40'
  • Sujata Kaur 47'
  • Tababi Devi 72', 76'
 Report
Attendance: 1000
Referee: Ri Hong Sil (North Korea)
Vietnam 4–2 Uzbekistan
 Report
Attendance: 1500
Referee: Sin Hwa Youen (South Korea)
China 12–0 India
 Report
Attendance: 800
Referee: Mayumi Oiwa (Japan)
Vietnam 2–1 India
 Report Sujata Kaur 60'
Attendance: 1000
Referee: Im Eun Ju (South Korea)
China 11–0 Uzbekistan
 Report
Attendance: 1000
Referee: Sin Hwa Youen (South Korea)

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup

North Korea 3–0 Japan
China 3–1 South Korea

Third place match

Winner qualified for 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup. Loser entered CONCACAF–AFC play-off.

Japan 0–1 South Korea
Hwang In-sun 18'

Final
North Korea 2–1 (a.e.t.) China
Ri Kum-suk 41', 112' (pen.) Gao Hongxia 61'

Awards
 2003 AFC Women's Championship winners 

North Korea
Second title

Goalscorers

There were 184 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 6.13 goals per match.

15 goals

9 goals

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

2 own goals

  • Chinese Taipei Huang Feng-chiu (against Japan and Myanmar)
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