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The competition was held in Bangkok in the Rajamangala Stadium and the Nakhon Sawan Stadium . The tournament was won by the defending champions Korea DPR Women's National Football Team (Korea DRP). As the championship was alo used for qualifying for the FIFA Women's World Cup , North Korea qualified as champions, with China qualifying as runners-up. South Korea as the third-placed team faced another match for qualification.


PARTICIPATING TEAMS AND STRUCTURE

Fourteen teams took part in the competition. This included the hosts Thailand and the defending champions North Korea . The teams were split into 3 groups, with the each team playing all the others in the group in a Round Robin format. At the end of the group stage the four teams with the best results from all the groups who qualified in the 1st 2 spaces in each group qualify to the knockout stage. This is played in the format of a semi-final, a 3rd/4th place match, as well as a final.

The winners and runners-up of the competition automatically qualify for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2003 . The 3rd place team has to compete against a CONCACAF team over home and away matches for a final place in the FIFA Women's World Cup .


RESULTS


Group Stage


Group A


  date June 8 , 2003
  score 0–3


  date June 8 , 2003
  score 8–0


  date June 10 , 2003
  score 6–0


  date June 10 , 2003
  score 13–0


  date June 12 , 2003
  score 4–0


  date June 12 , 2003
  score 14–0


  date June 14 , 2003
  score 1–3


  date June 14 , 2003
  score 16–0


  date June 16 , 2003
  score 2–2


  date June 16 , 2003
  score 1–0


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  date June 9 , 2003
  score 15–0


  date June 9 , 2003
  score 1–2


  date June 11 , 2003
  score 0–6


  date June 11 , 2003
  score 7–0


  date June 13 , 2003
  score 0–4


  date June 13 , 2003
  score 7–0


  date June 15 , 2003
  score 0–4


  date June 15 , 2003
  score 5–0


  date June 17 , 2003
  score 1–1


  date June 17 , 2003
  score 2–1


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  date June 9 , 2003
  score 6–0


  date June 9 , 2003
  score 6–0


  date June 11 , 2003
  score 4–2


  date June 11 , 2003
  score 12–0


  date June 13 , 2003
  score 2–1


  date June 13 , 2003
  score 11–0


  date June 19 , 2003
  score 3–0
  stadium Rajamangala Stadium


  date June 19 , 2003
  score 3–1
  stadium Rajamangala Stadium


  date June 21 , 2003
  score 0–1
  stadium Rajamangala Stadium


  date June 21 , 2003
  score 2–1 ( AET )
  stadium Rajamangala Stadium


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