2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

The 2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was the 4th edition of the AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine which women's national teams from Asia qualify for the Olympic football tournament.

The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Brazil as the AFC representatives.^[1]

On 7 March 2016, with one round of matches remaining to be played, Australia and China were confirmed qualification to the Olympics.^[2]

Teams

A total of 18 AFC member national teams entered the qualifying stage. The format is as follows:^[3]

• First round: The highest-ranked seven teams based on the FIFA Women's World Rankings at the time of the draw received byes. Teams ranked in the top five – Japan, Australia, North Korea, China PR, and South Korea – received byes to the final round, while teams ranked sixth and seventh – Thailand and Vietnam – received byes to the second round. The remaining 11 teams were drawn into two groups of four teams and one group of three teams, with the teams seeded according to their FIFA Rankings. In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue. The three group winners advanced to the second round.
• Second round: The five teams (two teams who entered this round and the three winners from the first round) played each other once at a centralised venue. The winner advanced to the final round.
• Final round: The six teams (five teams who entered this round and the winner from the second round) played each other once at a centralised venue. The top two teams qualified for the Olympic football tournament.

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 4 December 2014 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[3]

Teams entering final round	Teams entering second round	Teams entering first round
		Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Australia  China  Japan  North Korea  South Korea	Thailand  Vietnam	Chinese Taipei  Myanmar  Uzbekistan	India  Iran  Jordan	Bahrain  Hong Kong  Laos	Palestine  Sri Lanka

Did not enter
Afghanistan  Bangladesh  Bhutan  Brunei  Cambodia  Guam  Indonesia  Iraq  Kyrgyzstan  Kuwait  Lebanon  Macau1  Malaysia  Maldives  Mongolia    Nepal  Northern Mariana Islands1  Oman  Pakistan  Philippines  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  Singapore  Syria  Tajikistan  Timor-Leste  Turkmenistan  United Arab Emirates  Yemen

Notes

¹ Non-IOC member, ineligible for Olympics.

Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying stage was as follows.^[4][5]

Round	Date
First round	11–15 March 2015 (Groups A and B) 20–24 March 2015 (Group C)
Second round	14–22 September 2015
Final round	29 February – 9 March 2016

First round

Group A

• All matches were held in Myanmar.
• Times listed were UTC+6:30.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Myanmar (H)	2	2	0	0	23	0	+23	6	Second round
2	India	2	1	0	1	4	7	−3	3
3	Sri Lanka	2	0	0	2	0	20	−20	0
4	Bahrain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

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Group B

• All matches were held in Jordan.
• Times listed were UTC+2.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Jordan (H)	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	9	Second round
2	Uzbekistan	3	2	0	1	7	2	+5	6
3	Hong Kong	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1
4	Palestine	3	0	1	2	2	14	−12	1

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Group C

• All matches were held in Taiwan.
• Times listed were UTC+8.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Chinese Taipei (H)	2	2	0	0	5	0	+5	6	Second round
2	Iran	2	1	0	1	5	2	+3	3
3	Laos	2	0	0	2	1	9	−8	0

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Second round

• All matches were held in Myanmar.
• Times listed were UTC+6:30.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vietnam	4	3	0	1	8	4	+4	9	Final round
2	Chinese Taipei	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	7
3	Thailand	4	2	1	1	3	3	0	7
4	Myanmar (H)	4	2	0	2	8	7	+1	6
5	Jordan	4	0	0	4	1	8	−7	0

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Final round

• All matches were held in Japan.^[6][7]
• Times listed were UTC+9.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	5	4	1	0	17	3	+14	13	2016 Summer Olympics
2	China	5	3	2	0	7	3	+4	11
3	Japan (H)	5	2	1	2	10	7	+3	7
4	South Korea	5	1	2	2	6	5	+1	5
5	North Korea	5	1	2	2	4	5	−1	5
6	Vietnam	5	0	0	5	1	22	−21	0

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Qualified teams for Olympics

The following two teams from AFC qualified for the Olympic football tournament.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament1
Australia	7 March 2016	2 (20002, 20042)
China	7 March 2016	4 (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008)

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

² Australia qualified as a member of the OFC in 2000 and 2004.

Goalscorers

9 goals

• Khin Moe Wai

6 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

Source: the-afc.com

References

External links

• Olympic Games, the-AFC.com
• Women's Olympic Football Tournament 2016, stats.the-AFC.com