2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification

2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification
Tournament details
Host countries	Bahrain (Group A); Bangladesh (Group B); Malaysia (Groups C and D)
Dates	4 October – 25 December 2014
Teams	21 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	154 (6.42 per match)
Attendance	7,250 (302 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Liang Kai-jou (10 goals)

The 2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification was a women's under-16 football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship. Players born between 1 January 1999 and 31 December 2001 were eligible to compete in the tournament.[1]

A total of eight teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including Japan, North Korea, China PR (hosts), and Thailand, who qualified directly as the top four finishers of the 2013 AFC U-16 Women's Championship.

The top two teams of the final tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Jordan (besides Jordan who qualified automatically as hosts).[2]

Draw

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 17 June 2014 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.[3] A total of 21 AFC member national teams entered the qualifying stage and were drawn into four groups.

West Zone had 12 entrants from Central Asia, South Asia and West Asia, where they were drawn into two groups of six teams.
East Zone had 9 entrants from ASEAN and East Asia (excluding direct qualifiers Japan, North Korea, China, and Thailand), where they were drawn into one group of five teams and one group of four teams.

The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2013.

	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5	Pot 6
West Zone (Groups A–B)	Bangladesh Sri Lanka	Iran Uzbekistan	Bahrain Jordan	India Palestine	Kyrgyzstan United Arab Emirates	Qatar Tajikistan
East Zone (Groups C–D)	Australia Chinese Taipei	South Korea Myanmar	Hong Kong Philippines	Cambodia Northern Mariana¹	Vietnam

Did not enter
West Zone	Afghanistan Bhutan Iraq Kuwait Lebanon Maldives Nepal Oman Pakistan Saudi Arabia Syria Turkmenistan Yemen
East Zone	Brunei Guam Indonesia Laos Macau Malaysia Mongolia Singapore Timor-Leste

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 4–8 October 2014 for Group C; 5–9 October 2014 for Group D; 15–23 October 2014 for Group B; 22–25 December 2014 for Group A.

Group A

All matches were initially to be held in Palestine, but were postponed.
After the withdrawal of four teams, the two remaining teams played two matches against each other, both held in Bahrain.
Times listed were UTC+3.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uzbekistan	2	2	0	22	0	+22	6	2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship
2	Bahrain (H)	2	0	2	0	22	−22	0
3	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew
3	Palestine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Tajikistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Host.

22 December 2014

18:00

Uzbekistan	17–0	Bahrain
Ergasheva 10', 20', 23' Kurbonova 26', 29', 34', 42', 45', 48', 49' Panjieva 28', 50' Askarova 55', 68' Bobokhujaeva 59', 65' Utamova 77'	Report

Khalifa Sports City Stadium, Isa Town

Attendance: 150

Referee: Maria Piedade Rebello (India)

25 December 2014

18:00

Bahrain	0–5	Uzbekistan
	Report	Boboeva 32', 41' Panjieva 37' Ergasheva 55' Kurbonova 77'

Khalifa Sports City Stadium, Isa Town

Attendance: 50

Referee: Cong Thi Dung (Vietnam)

Group B

All matches were held in Bangladesh.
Times listed were UTC+6.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	4	4	0	19	3	+16	12	2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship
2	India	4	3	1	21	6	+15	9
3	Bangladesh (H)	4	2	2	9	4	+5	6
4	Jordan	4	1	3	12	14	−2	3
5	United Arab Emirates	4	0	4	1	35	−34	0
6	Qatar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Host.

15 October 2014