2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament explained

Tourney Name:	AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
Year:	2016
Country:	(First round Group A and Second round)
Country2:	(First round Group B)
Country3:	(Taiwan) (First round Group C)
Country4:	(Final round)
Num Teams:	18
Confederations:	1
Count:	1
Matches:	37
Goals:	128
Prevseason:	2012
Nextseason:	2020

The 2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was the 4th edition of the AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine which women's national teams from Asia qualify for the Olympic football tournament.

The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Brazil as the AFC representatives.^[1]

On 7 March 2016, with one round of matches remaining to be played, Australia and China were confirmed qualification to the Olympics.^[2]

Teams

A total of 18 AFC member national teams entered the qualifying stage. The format is as follows:^[3]

• First round: The highest-ranked seven teams based on the FIFA Women's World Rankings at the time of the draw received byes. Teams ranked in the top five – Japan, Australia, North Korea, China PR, and South Korea – received byes to the final round, while teams ranked sixth and seventh – Thailand and Vietnam – received byes to the second round. The remaining 11 teams were drawn into two groups of four teams and one group of three teams, with the teams seeded according to their FIFA Rankings. In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue. The three group winners advanced to the second round.
• Second round: The five teams (two teams who entered this round and the three winners from the first round) played each other once at a centralised venue. The winner advanced to the final round.
• Final round: The six teams (five teams who entered this round and the winner from the second round) played each other once at a centralised venue. The top two teams qualified for the Olympic football tournament.

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 4 December 2014 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[3]

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Notes

¹ Non-IOC member, ineligible for Olympics.

Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying stage was as follows.^{[4] [5]}

Round	Date
First round	11–15 March 2015 (Groups A and B) 20–24 March 2015 (Group C)
Second round	14–22 September 2015
Final round	29 February – 9 March 2016

First round

Group A

• All matches were held in Myanmar.
• Times listed were UTC+6:30.

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Group B

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

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Group C

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

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Second round

• All matches were held in Myanmar.
• Times listed were UTC+6:30.

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Final round

• All matches were held in Japan.^{[6] [7]}
• Times listed were UTC+9.

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Qualified teams for Olympics

The following two teams from AFC qualified for the Olympic football tournament.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament^1
		(2000^2, 2004^2)
		(1996, 2000, 2004, 2008)

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

² Australia qualified as a member of the OFC in 2000 and 2004.

Goalscorers

9 goals

• Khin Moe Wai

6 goals

• Win Theingi Tun
• Nguyễn Thị Minh Nguyệt

4 goals

• Kyah Simon
• Maysa Jbarah
• Naw Ar Lo Wer Phaw
• Yee Yee Oo

3 goals

• Michelle Heyman
• Emily van Egmond
• Lee Hsiu-chin
• Mana Iwabuchi
• Stephanie Al-Naber
• Anootsara Maijarern
• Huỳnh Như

2 goals

• Katrina Gorry
• Gu Yasha
• Zhang Rui
• Chan Wing Sze
• Shabnam Behesht
• Yūki Ōgimi
• Kumi Yokoyama
• Khin Marlar Tun
• Wai Wai Aung
• Jung Seol-bin
• Lim Seon-joo
• Kamola Riskieva

1 goal

• Lisa De Vanna
• Emily Gielnik
• Alanna Kennedy
• Clare Polkinghorne
• Ashleigh Sykes
• Ma Xiaoxu
• Wang Shanshan
• Wang Shuang
• Chan Pi-han
• Lai Li-chin
• Lin Chiung-ying
• Lin Ya-han
• Michelle Pao
• Yu Hsiu-chin
• Loitongbam Ashalata Devi
• Gurumayum Radharani Devi
• Yumnam Kamala Devi
• Fatemeh Arjangi
• Fereshteh Karimi
• Parya Norouzi
• Nahomi Kawasumi
• Emi Nakajima
• Shinobu Ohno
• Luna Al-Masri
• Shahnaz Jebreen
• Souphavanh Phayvanh
• San San Maw
• Than Than Htwe
• Ju Hyo-sim
• Kim Su-gyong
• Kim Un-ju
• Ra Un-sim
• Kiloudi Salama
• Natali Shaheen
• Jeon Ga-eul
• Lee Geum-min
• Nargiza Abdurasulova
• Nilufar Kudratova
• Zumratjon Nazarova
• Makhliyo Sarikova
• Feruza Turdiboeva

Own goal

• Yasmeen Khair (playing against Chinese Taipei)
• Nisansala Sewwandi (playing against Myanmar)
• Imesha Madushani (playing against India)
• Lin Kai-ling (playing against Myanmar)

External links

• , the-AFC.com
• Women's Olympic Football Tournament 2016, stats.the-AFC.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: QUALIFICATION SYSTEM – GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD – RIO 2016 – Football . Rio 2016 Official Website . 22 January 2015 . 23 April 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150906102243/http://www.rio2016.com/sites/default/files/users/rio2016_files/fifa-football-en_0.pdf . 6 September 2015 .
2. Web site: Australia and China book Olympic spots. https://web.archive.org/web/20160308103228/http://www.fifa.com/womensolympic/news/y=2016/m=3/news=australia-and-china-book-olympic-spots-2769004.html. dead. March 8, 2016. FIFA.com. 7 March 2016.
3. Web site: Groups drawn for First Round of Rio 2016 Women's Qualifiers . 2014-12-04 . . 2014-12-04.
4. Web site: AFC Calendar of Competitions 2015. AFC.
5. Web site: AFC Calendar of Competitions 2016. AFC.
6. Web site: Football – Women's AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Australian Olympic Committee. 28 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150809001218/http://corporate.olympics.com.au/events/football-women-s-afc-olympic-qualifying-tournament. 9 August 2015. dead.
7. Web site: 女子サッカー アジア最終予選（リオデジャネイロ オリンピック2016. Japan Football Association. ja.