Dates 21 May – 9 June 2013 Goals scored 151 (6.29 per match) | Matches played 24 Top scorer(s) Zebo Juraeva
(9 goals) | |
Teams 16 (from 1 confederation) | ||
The 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification saw 16 nations attempt to qualify for the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup football competition. The four winners from all groups joined the four automatic qualifiers in the final tournament.
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This tournament also served as the first stage of qualification for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup for the Asian zone.
Participants
Participants from the qualification round were as follows (numbers denote the seeding order):
Groups
Total sixteen teams were divided into four groups of four, and each group played a single round-robin tournament. The winners of each group qualified for the final tournament. The draw was held on 19 October 2012 in Malacca, Malaysia. The first matches were played on 21 May 2013.
In the round-robin tournaments, teams tied in the points were ranked by the following criteria:
- Greater number of points between the teams concerned,
- Goal differences between the teams concerned,
- Number of goals between the teams concerned,
- Goal differences between in all round-robin matches,
- Number of goals between in all round-robin matches,
- Penalty shoot-out (in case just two teams playing the final match tied in the all conditions above),
- Fewer yellow and red card points in all group matches (1 point for each yellow card, 3 points for each red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for each direct red card, 4 points for each yellow card followed by a direct red card), and
- Drawing of lots.
Group A
All matches were played in Jordan (all times UTC+2).
Group B
All matches were played in Bangladesh (all times UTC+6).
Group C
All matches were played in Bahrain (all times UTC+3).
Group D
All matches were played in Palestine (all times UTC+3).