2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification

2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification

Tournament details
Host countries	Bahrain Bangladesh Malaysia
Dates	4 October – 25 December 2014
Teams	21 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	154 (6.42 per match)
Attendance	7,250 (302 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Liang Kai-jou (10 goals)

The 2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualifying stage decided the participating teams of the 2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship, a youth football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-16 national teams of their member associations.

A total of eight teams will play in the final tournament, to be hosted by China. As the top four finishers of the 2013 AFC U-16 Women's Championship, Japan, North Korea, China PR, and Thailand qualified directly for the final tournament.

The final tournament also acts as the AFC qualifier for the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Jordan, with the top two teams qualifying (together with the host team Jordan who automatically qualified).^[1]

Draw

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 17 June 2014 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.^[2] A total of 21 teams entered the qualification tournament and were drawn into four groups of six, five or four teams. West Zone, containing teams from West Asia and South/Central Asia, had two groups of six teams, while East zone, containing teams from East Asia and ASEAN, had one group of five teams and one group of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2013.

	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5	Pot 6
West Zone (Groups A–B)	Bangladesh  Sri Lanka	Iran  Uzbekistan	Bahrain  Jordan	India  Palestine	Kyrgyzstan  United Arab Emirates	Qatar  Tajikistan
East Zone (Groups C–D)	Australia  Chinese Taipei	South Korea  Myanmar	Hong Kong  Philippines	Cambodia  Northern Mariana Islands1	Vietnam

Did not enter
Afghanistan  Bhutan  Brunei  Guam  Indonesia  Iraq  Kuwait  Laos  Lebanon  Macau  Malaysia  Maldives  Mongolia    Nepal  Oman  Pakistan  Saudi Arabia  Singapore  Syria  Timor-Leste  Turkmenistan  Yemen

Notes

¹ Non-FIFA member, ineligible for World Cup.

Player eligibility

Players born between 1 January 1999 and 31 December 2001 were eligible to compete in the qualification tournament.^[3]

Format

In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue. The four group winners qualified for final tournament.

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings.^[3]

1. Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
2. Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
3. Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
4. Goal difference in all the group matches;
5. Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
6. Kicks from the penalty mark if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
7. Fewer score calculated according to the number of yellow and red cards received in the group matches;
8. Drawing of lots.

Groups

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners qualify for the final tournament

Group A

• All matches were initially to be held in Palestine, but were postponed.
• After the withdrawal of four teams, the two remaining teams played two matches against each other, both held in Bahrain.
• Times listed are UTC+3.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uzbekistan	2	2	0	0	22	0	+22	6	Final tournament
2	Bahrain (H)	2	0	0	2	0	22	−22	0
3	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew
3	Palestine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Tajikistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group B

• All matches were held in Bangladesh.
• Times listed are UTC+6.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	4	4	0	0	19	3	+16	12	Final tournament
2	India	4	3	0	1	21	6	+15	9
3	Bangladesh (H)	4	2	0	2	9	4	+5	6
4	Jordan	4	1	0	3	12	14	−2	3
5	United Arab Emirates	4	0	0	4	1	35	−34	0
6	Qatar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

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Group C

• All matches were held in Malaysia.
• Times listed are UTC+8.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	3	3	0	0	15	0	+15	9	Final tournament
2	Australia	3	2	0	1	16	1	+15	6
3	Vietnam	3	1	0	2	7	9	−2	3
4	Hong Kong	3	0	0	3	0	28	−28	0
5	Northern Mariana Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

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Group D

• All matches were held in Malaysia.
• Times listed are UTC+8.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Chinese Taipei	3	3	0	0	14	2	+12	9	Final tournament
2	Myanmar	3	2	0	1	10	2	+8	6
3	Philippines	3	1	0	2	6	13	−7	3
4	Cambodia	3	0	0	3	2	15	−13	0

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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament1
Japan	2013 champion	02014-06-17-000017 June 2014	5 (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
North Korea	2013 runner-up	02014-06-17-000017 June 2014	4 (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
China PR	2013 third place	02014-06-17-000017 June 2014	5 (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
Thailand	2013 fourth place	02014-06-17-000017 June 2014	5 (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
Uzbekistan	Group A winner	02014-12-25-000025 December 2014	1 (2013)
Iran	Group B winner	02014-10-23-000023 October 2014	1 (2013)
South Korea	Group C winner	02014-10-08-00008 October 2014	5 (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
Chinese Taipei	Group D winner	02014-10-09-00009 October 2014	3 (2005, 2009, 2013)

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italics indicate host.

Goalscorers

10 goals

• Liang Kai-jou

8 goals

7 goals

• Roja Devi

6 goals

• Anushka Samuel

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own gal

• Amna Fahad (playing against Jordan)

References

External links

• AFC U-16 Women's Championship, the-AFC.com

AFC U-16 Women's Championship Tournaments 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 Qualification 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015