2016 AFC U-16 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:AFC U-16 Championship qualification
Year:2016
Dates:2–20 September 2015
Num Teams:45
Confederations:1
Matches:61
Goals:341
Top Scorer: Park Jeong-in
Rasul Yuldoshov
(6 goals each)
Prevseason:2014
Nextseason:2018

The 2016 AFC U-16 Championship qualification decided the participating teams of the 2016 AFC U-16 Championship. The tournament is the 17th edition of the AFC U-16 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-16 national teams of Asia.

A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including India who qualified automatically as hosts but also competed in the qualifying stage.[1]

Same as previous editions, the tournament acts as the AFC qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The top four teams of the final tournament will qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India as the AFC representatives, besides India who qualified automatically as hosts. If India are among the top four teams, the fifth-placed team (i.e., the losing quarter-finalist with the best record in the tournament) will also qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Draw

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 5 June 2015 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.[2] A total of 45 teams entered the qualifying stage and were drawn into eleven groups.

The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2014.

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1 Non-FIFA member, ineligible for U-17 World Cup.

Player eligibility

Players born on or after 1 January 2000 were eligible to compete in the 2016 AFC U-16 Championship.[4]

Format

In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue. The eleven group winners and the four best runners-up from all groups qualified for the final tournament. If India were one of the group winners or best runners-up, the fifth-best runner-up also qualified for the final tournament.[1]

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:[4]

  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. If, after applying criteria 1 to 3, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 apply;
  5. Goal difference in all the group matches;
  6. Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
  8. 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);
  9. Drawing of lots.

Groups

The matches were played between 2–6 September 2015 for Group H; 12–20 September 2015 for Group G (five-team group); 16–20 September 2015 for all other groups.[5]

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and best four runners-up, and India as hosts, qualify for the finals.
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Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Group E

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Group F

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Group G

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Group H

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Group I

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Group J

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Group K

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Ranking of second-placed teams

The ranking among the runner-up team of all groups are determined as follows:

  1. Greater number of points obtained in the group matches;
  2. Greater goal difference resulting from the group matches;
  3. Greater number of goals scored in group matches;
  4. Greater number of wins in the group matches;
  5. 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);
  6. Drawing of lots.

In order to ensure equality when comparing the runner-up team of all groups, the results of the matches against the fourth-placed and fifth-placed teams in the groups having four or five teams are ignored due to Groups D, F and K having only three teams after one of the teams in the group withdrew.

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.[6]

TeamQualified asQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament2
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2 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: India to host AFC U-16 Championship 2016 . AFC . 3 June 2015.
  2. Web site: AFC U-16 Championship 2016 qualifying draw concluded . AFC . 5 June 2015.
  3. Web site: Impact of Football Association of Indonesia suspension . AFC . 3 June 2015.
  4. Web site: Regulations AFC U-16 Championship 2016 . AFC.
  5. Web site: AFC Calendar of Competitions 2015 . AFC . PDF.
  6. Web site: AFC U-16 Championship finalists confirmed . the-AFC.com . 21 September 2015.
  7. Web site: Kyrgyzstan to compete at AFC U-16 C'ship after Nepal exclusion. AFC. 27 October 2015.
  8. Web site: AFC U-16 Championship India 2016: The Groups. AFC. 28 May 2016.

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