The AFC U-22 Championship is a football tournament to be held by Asian Football Confederation

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 (AFC). The first tournament will be held in 2013 and its qualification matches in 2012.

The tournament is planned to be held every two years. The 2015 tournament will double the Asian qualification of the men's Olympic football tournament

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 in 2016 Summer Olympics

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Format

The overview of the competition format in the 2013 tournament is as follows:

• Sixteen teams will compete in the final tournament, including the hosts which will be automatically qualified.
• Teams are seeded by the result of 2010 AFC U-19 Championship.
• The tournament will be held in 16 days.
• Three or four stadiums in at most two cities will be needed to host the tournament.

The host country will be rotated by regions: the region for the first tournament will be decided by draw.

In addition, players participated in a higher age group competition (this tournament and/or AFC U-19 Championship) are to be ineligible for participating in AFC U-16 Championship.

Results

Year	Host	Final			Third place match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd place	Score	4th place
2013 Details			–			–