2005 East Asian Football Championship Explained

Year:2005
Country:South Korea
Dates:5–13 March, 2005 (Preliminary)
31 July – 7 August, 2005 (Finals)
Num Teams:9
Confederations:1
Venues:4
Cities:4
Champion:CHN
Count:1
Second:JPN
Third:PRK
Fourth:KOR
Matches:16
Goals:81
Player: Ji Mingyi
Goalkeeper: Lee Woon-jae
Prevseason:2003
Nextseason:2008

The 2005 EAFF East Asian Football Championship was a football competition between teams from East Asian countries and territories held from 31 July to 7 August 2005 in South Korea, with the qualifiers held in Taiwan in March 2005.

China PR, South Korea, and Japan were the automatic finalists. The fourth finalist spot was competed among North Korea, Guam, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei, and Mongolia. North Korea was the winner in the qualifiers.

Participating teams

Finals

Venues

Preliminary competition

Taipei
Zhongshan Soccer Stadium
Capacity: 20,000

Final Tournament

DaejeonJeonjuDaegu
Daejeon World Cup StadiumJeonju World Cup StadiumDaegu World Cup Stadium
Capacity: 40,535Capacity: 42,477Capacity: 66,422

Preliminary competition

Matches

Macau was suspended by FIFA from entering the competition during the match period.[1] [2] Each countries played against the other 4 countries on a round robin basis.

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4400310+3112
4301262+249
4 11297+24
4112413–94
4004149–480

All times are local time, National Standard Time

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Personal Awards

Final tournament

Squads

See main article: 2005 East Asian Football Championship Finals Squads.

Matches

The final tournament started on 31 July 2005. China won their first ever international title. The next tournament was scheduled for 2008.

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Personal awards

Final standings

RankTeam
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Macau suspended by FIFA due to political interference . 15 February 2005 . ESPN . 21 July 2014.
  2. Web site: FIFA suspends the Macau Football Association. 15 February 2005. FIFA. 21 July 2014. 17 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140717131852/http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/organisation/news/newsid=96287/index.html. dead.