2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification

2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification
Tournament details
Host countries	China (Group A); Tajikistan (Group B); Myanmar (Group C); Vietnam (Group D)
Dates	27 October – 24 December 2016
Teams	18 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	93 (5.17 per match)
Attendance	6,813 (379 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Remy Siemsen (10 goals)
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The 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification was a women's under-19 football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship.

A total of 18 teams entered the qualification tournament, which decided four of the eight participating teams in the final tournament held in China.

Draw

Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 22 teams entered the competition, with Japan, North Korea, South Korea and the host nation China PR automatically qualified for the final tournament by their position as the top four teams of the 2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship and thus did not participate in the qualifying competition.

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 19 May 2016, 16:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[1]^[2] The 18 teams were drawn into four groups: two groups of five teams and two groups of four teams.

The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification. The following restrictions were also applied:^[3]

The three teams which indicated their intention to serve as qualification group hosts prior to the draw were drawn into separate groups.

Automatically qualified for final tournament and not participating in qualification
Japan North Korea South Korea China
Participating in qualification
Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5 (unranked)
Australia Thailand (H) Uzbekistan Iran	Vietnam (H) Jordan Myanmar Chinese Taipei	Palestine India Hong Kong Lebanon (W)	Singapore (W)	Kyrgyzstan Northern Mariana Islands Pakistan (W) Philippines (W) Tajikistan (H)

Notes

Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
(H): Qualification group hosts (remaining group hosted at neutral venue)
(W): Withdrew after draw

Did not enter

Player eligibility

Players born between 1 January 1998 and 31 December 2001 were eligible to compete in the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship.^[4]

Format

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

Tiebreakers

Teams were 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 were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 11.5):^[4]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
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;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
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);
Drawing of lots.

Groups

The matches were scheduled for 27 October – 6 November 2016.^[5] Group C was postponed to 20–24 December 2016 due to the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Group A

All matches were held in China (neutral venue host).
Times listed were UTC+8.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	2	2	0	23	1	+22	6	Final tournament
2	Jordan	2	1	1	5	7	−2	3
3	Northern Mariana Islands	2	0	2	0	20	−20	0
4	Lebanon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew
5	Singapore	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

2 November 2016

16:00

Northern Mariana Islands	0–16	Australia
	Report	Vine 3' Chidiac 5', 23', 35', 47' Plessas 17' Siemsen 19', 27', 30', 33', 42', 79', 90+4' Sayer 25' Ibini 81', 82'

Jiangsu Training Base Stadium, Nanjing

Attendance: 40

Referee: Shiva Yari (Iran)

4 November 2016

16:00

Jordan	4–0	Northern Mariana Islands
Feras 12' Abu-Rob 28' (pen.) Zabian 42' Fakoury 69'	Report

Jiangsu Training Base Stadium, Nanjing

Attendance: 40

Referee: Edita Mirabidova (Uzbekistan)

6 November 2016

16:00

Australia	7–1	Jordan
Vine 30' Siemsen 41', 43', 67' Chidiac 50' Ibini 64' Sayer 85'	Report	Zabian 30'

Jiangsu Training Base Stadium, Nanjing

Attendance: 50

Referee: Cong Thi Dung (Vietnam)

Group B

All matches were held in Tajikistan.
Times listed were UTC+5.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uzbekistan	3	3	0	7	0	+7	9	Final tournament
2	Chinese Taipei	3	2	1	8	3	+5	6
3	Hong Kong	3	1	2	1	6	−5	3
4	Tajikistan (H)	3	0	3	2	9	−7	0
5	Pakistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

27 October 2016