2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification

2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification

Tournament details
Host countries	China (Group A)  Tajikistan (Group B)  Myanmar (Group C)  Vietnam (Group D)
Dates	27 October – 24 December 2016
Teams	18 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	93 (5.17 per match)
Attendance	6,813 (379 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Remy Siemsen (10 goals)

The 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification was a women's under-19 football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship.

A total of 18 teams entered the qualification tournament, which decided four of the eight participating teams in the final tournament held in China.

Draw

A total of 22 teams entered AFC member national teams entered the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship, with Japan, North Korea, South Korea and the host nation China PR automatically qualified for the final tournament by their position as the top four teams of the 2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship and thus did not participate in the qualifying competition.

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 19 May 2016, 16:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[1][2] The 18 teams were drawn into four groups: two groups of five teams and two groups of four teams.

The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification. The following restrictions were also applied:^[3]

• The three teams which indicated their intention to serve as qualification group hosts prior to the draw were drawn into separate groups.

Automatically qualified for final tournament and not participating in qualification
Japan  North Korea  South Korea  China PR
Participating in qualification
Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5 (unranked)
Australia  Thailand (H)  Uzbekistan  Iran	Vietnam (H)  Jordan  Myanmar  Chinese Taipei	Palestine  India  Hong Kong  Lebanon (W)	Singapore (W)	Kyrgyzstan  Northern Mariana Islands  Pakistan (W)  Philippines (W)  Tajikistan (H)

Did not enter

Afghanistan  Bahrain  Bangladesh  Bhutan  Brunei  Cambodia  Guam  Indonesia  Iraq  Kuwait (suspended)  Laos  Macau  Malaysia  Maldives  Mongolia    Nepal  Oman  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  Sri Lanka  Syria  Timor-Leste  Turkmenistan  United Arab Emirates  Yemen

Notes

• Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament
• (H): Qualification group hosts
• (W): Withdrew after draw

Player eligibility

Players born between 1 January 1998 and 31 December 2001 were eligible to compete in the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship.^[4]

Format

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

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 11.5):^[4]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
8. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
9. Drawing of lots.

Groups

The matches were scheduled for 27 October – 6 November 2016.^[5] Group C was postponed to 20–24 December 2016 due to the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Group A

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	2	2	0	0	23	1	+22	6	Final tournament
2	Jordan	2	1	0	1	5	7	−2	3
3	Northern Mariana Islands	2	0	0	2	0	20	−20	0
4	Lebanon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew
5	Singapore	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group B

• All matches were held in Tajikistan.
• Times listed were UTC+5.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uzbekistan	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9	Final tournament
2	Chinese Taipei	3	2	0	1	8	3	+5	6
3	Hong Kong	3	1	0	2	1	6	−5	3
4	Tajikistan (H)	3	0	0	3	2	9	−7	0
5	Pakistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

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Group C

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Thailand	3	3	0	0	18	1	+17	9	Final tournament
2	Myanmar (H)	3	2	0	1	15	2	+13	6
3	Kyrgyzstan	3	1	0	2	6	11	−5	3
4	Palestine	3	0	0	3	0	25	−25	0

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Group D

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

Philippines withdrew because of conflicts with college schedules.^[6]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vietnam (H)	2	2	0	0	6	0	+6	6	Final tournament
2	Iran	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1
3	India	2	0	1	1	1	5	−4	1
4	Philippines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

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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	1 !2015 champions	000000002016-05-19-000119 May 2016	8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015)
North Korea	2 !2015 champions	000000002016-05-19-000219 May 2016	8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015)
South Korea	3 !2015 third place	000000002016-05-19-000319 May 2016	8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015)
China PR	4 !2015 fourth place	000000002016-05-19-000419 May 2016	8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015)
Australia	A !Group A winners	000000002016-11-06-00016 November 2016	6 (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015)
Uzbekistan	B !Group B winners	000000002016-10-31-000031 October 2016	3 (2002, 2004, 2015)
Thailand	C !Group C winners	000000002016-12-24-000024 December 2016	5 (2002, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2015)
Vietnam	D !Group D winners	000000002016-11-06-00026 November 2016	3 (2004, 2009, 2011)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

10 goals

9 goals

8 goals

7 goals

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

Source: the-afc.com

References

External links

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