2013 AFC U-22 Championship

The 2013 AFC U-22 Championship (also known as the 2013 AFC U-22 Asian Cup) was the first edition of the AFC U-22 Championship. The hosting rights for the tournament was awarded to Oman. It was set to take place between 23 June and 7 July 2013 but was postponed to be held between 11 and 26 January 2014 due to the 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup.

Host selection
The AFC Competitions Committee awarded the hosting rights of the 2013 finals to Oman on 18 July 2012. Oman and Thailand were the only nations that came forward wanting to host.

Qualification
The draw for the group stage of qualifying took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 14 February 2012. 41 national teams are taking part in qualifying. All group matches were set to be held from 23 June to 3 July 2012 but were later changed to June 2–10, 2012 due to Nepal's request.

Qualified teams
For the draw, teams were seeded based on their performance in the 2010 AFC U-19 Championship.

Squads
Only players born on or after 1 January 1991 were eligible to compete in the 2013 AFC U-22 Asian Cup.

Group stage
The draw for the tournament was conducted on 24 August 2013 in Muscat.

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings.
 * 1) Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
 * 2) Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
 * 3) Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
 * 4) Goal difference in all the group matches;
 * 5) Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
 * 6) Kicks from the penalty mark if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
 * 7) Fewer score calculated according to the number of yellow and red cards received in the group matches;
 * 8) Drawing of lots.

All times are local (UTC+4).

Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.

Awards
The following awards were presented.

Goalscorers

 * 5 goals


 * 🇮🇷 Kaveh Rezaei


 * 4 goals


 * 🇮🇶 Marwan Hussein
 * 🇯🇴 Hamza Al-Dardour


 * 3 goals


 * 🇯🇵 Shoya Nakajima
 * Abdulfattah Assiri


 * 2 goals


 * 🇦🇺 Peter Skapetis
 * 🇮🇶 Mustafa Nadhim
 * 🇰🇵 Jo Kwang
 * 🇰🇷 Baek Sung-Dong
 * 🇰🇷 Yun Il-Lok
 * Hatem Al-Hamhami
 * 🇸🇾 Nasouh Nakdali
 * Abdullah Khalid Al Ammar
 * Mohammed Majrashi


 * 1 goal


 * 🇦🇺 Ryan Kitto
 * 🇨🇳 Luo Senwen
 * 🇨🇳 Yang Chaosheng
 * 🇮🇷 Behnam Barzay
 * 🇮🇶 Mohannad Abdul-Raheem
 * 🇮🇶 Dhurgham Ismail
 * 🇮🇶 Amjad Kalaf
 * 🇯🇵 Takuma Asano
 * 🇯🇵 Riki Harakawa
 * 🇯🇵 Shinya Yajima
 * 🇯🇴 Ibrahim Daldoum
 * 🇯🇴 Odai Khadr
 * 🇯🇴 Bilal Qwaider
 * 🇯🇴 Ahmed Samir
 * 🇯🇴 Mahmoud Za'tara
 * 🇰🇵 Pak Kwang-Ryong
 * 🇰🇷 Hwang Ui-Jo
 * 🇰🇷 Kim Kyung-Jung
 * 🇰🇷 Lim Chang-Woo
 * 🇰🇷 Moon Chang-Jin
 * Faisal Edhms Alenezi
 * Maung Maung Soe
 * Sami Al Hasani
 * Raed Saleh
 * Zakaria Sami Al Sudani
 * Motaz Ali Hassan Hawsawi
 * 🇸🇾 Mardik Mardikian
 * 🇸🇾 Hamid Mido
 * Yousif Saeed
 * Salim Khalfan Saif
 * 🇺🇿 Jamshid Iskanderov
 * 🇺🇿 Egor Krimets
 * 🇺🇿 Igor Sergeev
 * 🇾🇪 Sadam Hussein


 * 1 own goal
 * 🇦🇺 Corey Brown (playing against Japan)
 * 🇰🇷 Lim Chang-Woo (playing against Jordan)

Tournament team rankings
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.