2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification
Year:2019
Country:First round:
Sri Lanka (Group A)
Mongolia (Group B)
Tajikistan (Group C)
Kyrgyzstan (Group D)
Nepal (Group E)
Bangladesh (Group F)
Country2:Second round:
Laos (Group A)
Myanmar (Group B)
Dates:First round:
15–23 September 2018
Second round:
Num Teams:30
Confederations:1
Venues:8
Cities:8
Prevseason:2017
Nextseason:2022
2024

The 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification is a women's under-16 football competition which decides the participating teams of the 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship.

A total of eight teams qualify to play in the final tournament held in Thailand,[1] four of which are decided by qualification.

Teams

Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 33 teams entered the competition, with North Korea, South Korea, and Japan, automatically qualified for the final tournament by their position as the top three teams of the 2017 AFC U-16 Women's Championship and thus not participating in qualification. The final tournament hosts Thailand, despite having automatically qualified for the final tournament, entered to participate in qualification. As a result, a total of 30 teams entered qualification. Due to the increased number of teams, two qualification rounds were scheduled for the first time.[2]

The draw for the first round of the qualifiers was held on 30 May 2018, 15:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[3] For the first round, the 30 teams were drawn into six groups of five teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2017 AFC U-16 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification. The following restrictions were also applied:[4]

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Notes
Did not enter

Player eligibility

Players born between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2005 are eligible to compete in the tournament.[5]

Format

In each group, teams play each other once at a centralised venue.

Tiebreakers

Teams are 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 9.3):[5]

  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.

First round

The first round was played between 15 and 23 September 2018.[6]

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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Ranking of second-placed teams

Due to groups having different number of teams (after the withdrawal of Syria from Group E), the results against the fifth-placed teams in five-team groups are not considered for this ranking.

Second round

The draw for the second round of the qualifiers was held on 7 November 2018, 11:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[7] For the second round, the eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2017 AFC U-16 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification. The following restrictions were also applied:[8]

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Notes

The second round was played between 27 February – 7 March 2019.[9]

Group A

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Group B

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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

TeamQualified asQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in AFC U-16 Women's Championship1
7 (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)
6 (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)
7 (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)
7 (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)
5 (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017)
0 (debut)
7 (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)
2 (2005, 2017)

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

Goalscorers

In total

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AFC Women’s Football Committee recommends women’s club competition. AFC. 20 April 2018.
  2. Web site: 30 teams set to feature in Qualifiers. AFC. 29 May 2018.
  3. Web site: Journey for 2019 edition begins. AFC. 30 May 2018.
  4. Web site: AFC U-16 Women's Championship 2019 Qualifiers Draw. YouTube. 30 May 2018.
  5. Web site: AFC U-16 Women's Championship 2019 Competition Regulations. AFC.
  6. Web site: AFC Competitions Calendar 2018. AFC. 11 January 2018.
  7. Web site: Qualifiers Round 2 groups revealed. AFC. 7 November 2018.
  8. Web site: AFC U-16 Women's Championship Thailand 2019 Qualifiers Round 2 - Draw. YouTube. 7 November 2018.
  9. Web site: AFC Competitions Calendar 2019. AFC. 28 February 2018.

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