2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:	AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification
Year:	2015
Country:	Jordan
Country2:	Sri Lanka
Country3:	Vietnam
Country4:	Thailand
Dates:	5–11 November 2014
Num Teams:	14
Confederations:	1
Matches:	18
Goals:	85
Top Scorer:	Sunny Franco Lê Hoài Lương Nilufar Kudratova
Prevseason:	2013
Nextseason:	2017

The 2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification was a women's under-19 football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship. Players born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 2000 were eligible to compete in the tournament.^[1]

A total of eight teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including South Korea, North Korea, China PR (hosts), and Japan, who qualified directly as the top four finishers of the 2013 AFC U-19 Women's Championship.

The top three teams of the final tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea.^[2]

Draw

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 17 June 2014 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.^[3] A total of 14 AFC member national teams entered the qualifying stage and were drawn into four groups.

West Zone had 7 entrants from Central Asia, South Asia and West Asia, where they were drawn into one group of four teams and one group of three teams.
East Zone had 7 entrants from ASEAN and East Asia (excluding direct qualifiers South Korea, North Korea, China, and Japan), where they were drawn into 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.

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East Zone	valign=top		valign=top		valign=top		valign=top

Did not enter
West Zone
East Zone	¹

Notes

¹ Non-FIFA member, ineligible for World Cup.

Format

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

Tiebreakers

The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:^[1]

Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
Goal difference in all the group matches;
Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
Fewer score calculated according to the number of yellow and red cards received in the group matches (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card);
Drawing of lots.

Groups

The matches were played between 5–9 November 2014 for Groups A, C and D; 7–11 November 2014 for Group B.

Group A

All matches were held in Jordan.
Times listed were UTC+2.

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Group B

All matches were initially to be held in Palestine, but were relocated to Sri Lanka due to Iranian passport rules about banning of traveling to Palestine
Times listed were UTC+5:30.

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Group C

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

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Group D

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

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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament²
			(2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
			(2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
			(2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
			(2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
			(2002, 2004)
			(debut)
			(2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
			(2002, 2004, 2007, 2009)