The 2019

Panda Cup The Panda Cup International Youth Football Tournament () is an annual international youth football tournament that is held in the city of Chengdu, China. The tournament was first announced in April 2014. The original logo was designed by a Los A ...

was the sixth edition of the international youth association football competition. The tournament was hosted in Chengdu between 25 and 29 May 2019, and was include an international youth football development forum as part of the event. Previously held as an under-19 event, Chengdu Football Association announced that the 2019 edition would be an under-18 event. South Korea finished top of the standings for the tournament but were later stripped of the title following prizegiving celebrations which were considered offensive and disrespectful to both the tournament hosts and the Chinese people."S Korea stripped of Panda Cup by China amid online outrage" ''Taipei Times/AFP'' (2019-05-31) http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/sport/archives/2019/05/31/2003716090

Participating teams

In May 2018, it was announced that hosts

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

had invited

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

and

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

to participate in the 2019 Panda Cup. Thailand opted to name an U-18 side in preparation for the 2019 AFF Under-18 Cup., as did China and South Korea, while New Zealand elected to send their U17 side in preparation for the

2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup The 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the 18th edition of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, the biennial international men's youth association football, football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It was ...

later in the year,

Venues

Matches

''All times are

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Goalscorers

3 goals * Hwang Jae-hwan 2 goals * Achitpol Keereerom 1 goal *

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* Cho Hyun-taek * Kim Geon-oh * Lee Jin-yong * Kwon Hyeok-kyu * An Jae-jun * Anatcha Thepsiri * Sitthinan Rungrueang * Jesse Randall * Matthew Garbett

Controversies

Following the completion of the competition, the South Korea team was criticised for disrespecting the trophy. A South Korean player was seen to place the trophy on the ground and place his foot on it. The Panda Cup organising committee issued a formal statement on the issue and demanded an apology from the players and the South Korean representatives. South Korea were subsequently stripped of the title despite the apology.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:2018 Panda Cup Anti-South Korean sentiment in China International association football competitions hosted by China 2019 in association football Sport in Chengdu 2019 in Chinese football