| Tourney Name: | GCC U-23 Championship |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Other Titles: | البطولة الخليجية للمنتخبات تحت 23 سنة لكرة القدم |
| Size: | 100px |
| Dates: | 6–17 January |
| Num Teams: | 5 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Count: | 1 |
| Matches: | 10 |
| Goals: | 28 |
| Top Scorer: |  Mousa Al Allaq Hamid IsmailYousef Al-Salem (3 goals each) |
| Player: | Hamid Ismail[1] |
| Goalkeeper: | Waleed Abdullah |
| Nextseason: | 2010 |
The 2008 GCC U-23 Championship took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the first time. Five nations took part. The competition was held in Riyadh from 6 to 17 January.[2] Saudi Arabia won the title after defeating Bahrain 1–0 on the final matchday.[3]
| Riyadh | |
|---|---|
| Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium | |
| Capacity: 22,500 | |
| Team | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in tournament |
|---|---|---|
| 0 (debut) | ||
| 0 (debut) | ||
| 0 (debut) | ||
| 0 (debut) | ||
| (host) | 0 (debut) |
The teams played a single round-robin style competition. The team achieving first place in the overall standings was the tournament winner.
All times are local, AST (UTC+3).
| width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="Goals for" | GF | width=20 abbr="Goals against" | GA | width=20 abbr="Goal difference" | GD | width=20 abbr="Points" | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 10 | ||||||||||
| 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | –3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | –7 | 3 |
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