Matches played 24 Attendance 7,250 (302 per match) | Goals scored 154 (6.42 per match) | |
Host countries Bahrain (Group A)
Bangladesh (Group B)
Malaysia (Groups C and D) Dates 4 October – 25 December 2014 Teams 21 (from 1 confederation) | ||
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.
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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).
Draw
The draw for the qualifiers was held on 17 June 2014 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. A total of 21 AFC member national teams entered the qualifying stage and were drawn into four groups.
The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2013.
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:
- 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
Group B
Group C
Group D
Qualified teams
The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.
Goalscorers
Source: the-AFC.com