2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification

2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification

Tournament details
Host countries	Jordan Sri Lanka Vietnam Thailand
Dates	5–11 November 2014
Teams	14 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	85 (4.72 per match)
Attendance	4,050 (225 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sunny Franco Lê Hoài Lương Nilufar Kudratova (7 goals each)

The 2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualifying stage decided the participating teams of the 2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship, a youth football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-19 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-19 Women's Championship, South Korea, North Korea, China PR, and Japan qualified directly for the final tournament.

The final tournament also acts as the AFC qualifier for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea, with the top three teams qualifying.^[1]

Draw

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 17 June 2014 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.^[2] A total of 14 teams entered the qualifying stage and were drawn into four groups of four teams. West Zone, containing teams from West Asia and South/Central Asia, had one group of four teams and one group of three teams, while East Zone, containing teams from East Asia and ASEAN, had one group of four teams and one group of three teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2013.

	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
West Zone (Groups A–B)	Jordan  Palestine	Iran  Uzbekistan	India  Sri Lanka	Lebanon
East Zone (Groups C–D)	Australia  Myanmar	Thailand  Vietnam	Chinese Taipei  Singapore	Hong Kong

Did not enter
Afghanistan  Bahrain  Bangladesh  Bhutan  Brunei  Cambodia  Guam  Indonesia  Iraq  Kyrgyzstan  Kuwait  Laos  Macau  Malaysia  Maldives  Mongolia    Nepal  Northern Mariana Islands1  Oman  Pakistan  Philippines  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  Syria  Tajikistan  Timor-Leste  Turkmenistan  United Arab Emirates  Yemen

Notes

¹ Non-FIFA member, ineligible for World Cup.

Player eligibility

Players born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 2000 were eligible to compete in the 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 held in Jordan.
• Times listed are UTC+2.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uzbekistan	3	3	0	0	12	0	+12	9	Final tournament
2	Jordan (H)	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	6
3	India	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3
4	Lebanon	3	0	0	3	1	13	−12	0

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Group B

• All matches were initially to be held in Palestine, but were relocated to Sri Lanka.
• Times listed are UTC+5:30.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	2	2	0	0	10	1	+9	6	Final tournament
2	Sri Lanka (H)	2	0	1	1	1	4	−3	1
3	Palestine	2	0	1	1	0	6	−6	1

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Group C

• All matches were held in Vietnam.
• Times listed are UTC+7.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	3	0	0	28	0	+28	9	Final tournament
2	Vietnam (H)	3	2	0	1	17	3	+14	6
3	Hong Kong	3	1	0	2	2	13	−11	3
4	Singapore	3	0	0	3	1	32	−31	0

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Group D

• All matches were held in Thailand.
• Times listed are UTC+7.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Thailand	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	4	Final tournament
2	Myanmar (H)	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
3	Chinese Taipei	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1

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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament1
South Korea	2013 champion	02014-06-17-000017 June 2014	7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
North Korea	2013 runner-up	02014-06-17-000017 June 2014	7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
China PR	2013 third place	02014-06-17-000017 June 2014	7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
Japan	2013 fourth place	02014-06-17-000017 June 2014	7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
Uzbekistan	Group A winner	02014-11-09-00009 November 2014	2 (2002, 2004)
Iran	Group B winner	02014-11-11-000011 November 2014	0 (debut)
Australia	Group C winner	02014-11-09-00009 November 2014	5 (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
Thailand	Group D winner	02014-11-09-00009 November 2014	4 (2002, 2004, 2007, 2009)

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

Goalscorers

7 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

• Roseamelya Binte Ros (playing against Australia)

References

External links

• AFC U-19 Women's Championship, the-AFC.com

AFC U-19 Women's Championship Tournaments 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 Qualification 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015