2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification

The 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification is a women's under-19 football competition which decides the participating teams of the 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship.

A total of eight teams qualify to play in the final tournament held in Thailand,^[1] four of which are decided by qualification.

Teams

Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 30 teams entered the competition, with Japan, North Korea, and China PR, automatically qualified for the final tournament by their position as the top three teams of the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship and thus not participating in qualification. The final tournament hosts Thailand, despite having automatically qualified for the final tournament, entered to participate in qualification. As a result, a total of 27 teams entered qualification. Due to the increased number of teams, two qualification rounds were scheduled for the first time.^[2]

The draw for the first round of the qualifiers was held on 30 May 2018, 16:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[3] For the first round, the 27 teams were drawn into six groups: three groups of five teams and three groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification. The following restrictions were also applied:^[4]

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

Qualified Teams: Top 3 of the 2017 edition

Japan  North Korea  China

Participating in qualification first round

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4 (unranked)
Australia  South Korea  Uzbekistan  Thailand (H, Q)  Vietnam (H)*  Myanmar (H)	Chinese Taipei  Jordan  Iran  India  Hong Kong  Kyrgyzstan (H)	Northern Mariana Islands (W)  Tajikistan (H)  Palestine (W)	Afghanistan (W)  Bangladesh  Guam  Laos  Lebanon (H)*  Malaysia  Maldives  Mongolia    Nepal  Pakistan  Singapore  United Arab Emirates

Notes

• Teams in bold automatically qualified for the final tournament.
• Teams in italics advanced to second round.
• (H): Qualification first round group hosts (* Lebanon and Vietnam chosen as group hosts after the draw)
• (Q): Automatically qualified for final tournament as host regardless of first round qualification results, and did not advance to second round
• (W): Withdrew after draw

Did not enter

Re-draw

Due to the withdrawal of Afghanistan and Northern Mariana Islands after the draw, there were only three teams left in Group E, but still five teams in Groups B and C. As a result, AFC decided to hold a re-draw for the qualification first round to maintain the balance of number of teams across all groups (one group of five teams and five groups of four teams). The re-draw was held at the AFC House on 30 August 2018. In the re-draw, unranked teams from Group B (Pakistan, Nepal, Singapore) and Group C (United Arab Emirates, Guam, Maldives) were placed in a pot and the first ball drawn would be moved to Group E. Singapore was drawn and as a result moved from Group B to Group E.^[5][6]

Player eligibility

Players born between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2004 are eligible to compete in the tournament.^[7]

Format

In each group, teams play each other once at a centralised venue.

• In the first round, the six group winners and the two best runners-up advance to the second round. However, the final tournament hosts Thailand do not advance to the second round. If they win their group, the runner-up of their group advances to the second round, or if they are among the two best runners-up, the third best runner-up advances to the second round.
• In the second round, the two group winners and the two group runners-up qualify for the final tournament to join the four automatically qualified teams.

Tiebreakers

Teams are 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 9.3):^[7]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. 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;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
8. 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);
9. Drawing of lots.

First round

The first round was played between 20 and 28 October 2018.^[8]

Group A

• All matches were held in Lebanon.
• Times listed are UTC+3 on 24 and 26 October, UTC+2 on 28 October 2018.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	3	0	0	23	0	+23	9	Second round
2	Lebanon (H)	3	2	0	1	10	2	+8	6
3	Mongolia	3	1	0	2	1	22	−21	3
4	Hong Kong	3	0	0	3	0	10	−10	0
5	Afghanistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

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Group B

• All matches were held in Thailand.
• Times listed are UTC+7.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Thailand[a] (H)	3	2	0	1	21	1	+20	6[b]
2	Nepal	3	2	0	1	11	3	+8	6[b]	Second round
3	India	3	2	0	1	19	2	+17	6[b]
4	Pakistan	3	0	0	3	0	45	−45	0
5	Singapore	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Re-drew to Group E

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Group C

• All matches were held in Kyrgyzstan.
• Times listed are UTC+6.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uzbekistan	4	4	0	0	34	2	+32	12	Second round
2	Kyrgyzstan (H)	4	3	0	1	18	6	+12	9
3	United Arab Emirates	4	2	0	2	22	5	+17	6
4	Guam	4	1	0	3	14	15	−1	3
5	Maldives	4	0	0	4	0	60	−60	0

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Group D

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	3	3	0	0	14	0	+14	9	Second round
2	Chinese Taipei	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	6
3	Bangladesh	3	1	0	2	5	10	−5	3
4	Tajikistan (H)	3	0	0	3	1	15	−14	0

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Group E

• All matches were held in Vietnam.
• Times listed are UTC+7.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vietnam (H)	3	3	0	0	17	1	+16	9	Second round
2	Jordan	3	2	0	1	10	5	+5	6
3	Malaysia	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1
4	Singapore	3	0	1	2	0	19	−19	1
5	Northern Mariana Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew, replaced by Singapore

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Group F

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	2	1	0	1	4	2	+2	3	Second round
2	Myanmar (H)	2	1	0	1	4	4	0	3
3	Laos	2	1	0	1	5	7	−2	3
4	Palestine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

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Ranking of second-placed teams

Due to groups having different number of teams after withdrawals, the results against the fourth-placed and fifth-placed teams in four-team and five-team groups are not considered for this ranking.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A	Lebanon	2	1	0	1	4	2	+2	3	Second round
2	F	Myanmar	2	1	0	1	4	4	0	3
3	C	Kyrgyzstan	2	1	0	1	3	4	−1	3
4	B	Nepal[a]	2	1	0	1	2	3	−1	3	Second round
5	D	Chinese Taipei	2	1	0	1	2	4	−2	3
6	E	Jordan	2	1	0	1	2	5	−3	3

Second round

The draw for the second round of the qualifiers was held on 13 February 2019, 15:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[9][10] For the second round, the eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification. The following restrictions were also applied:^[11]

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

Participating in qualification second round

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4 (unranked)
Australia  South Korea	Uzbekistan  Vietnam (H)	Myanmar (H)  Iran	Lebanon    Nepal

Notes

• Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
• (H): Qualification second round group hosts

The second round was played between 26 and 30 April 2019.^[12]

Group A

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	3	0	0	18	3	+15	9	Final tournament
2	Myanmar (H)	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
3	Uzbekistan	3	1	0	2	5	5	0	3
4	Nepal	3	0	0	3	2	17	−15	0

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Group B

• All matches were held in Vietnam.
• Times listed are UTC+7.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	3	3	0	0	13	1	+12	9	Final tournament
2	Vietnam (H)	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2	4[a]
3	Iran	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2	4[a]
4	Lebanon	3	0	0	3	2	18	−16	0

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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in AFC U-19 Women's Championship1
Thailand	Hosts	20 April 2018[1]	6 (2002, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2015, 2017)
Japan	2017 champions	30 May 2018[3]	9 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)
North Korea	2017 runners-up	30 May 2018[3]	9 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)
China	2017 third place	30 May 2018[3]	9 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)
Australia	Second round Group A winners	30 April 2019	7 (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)
Myanmar	Second round Group A runners-up	30 April 2019	3 (2002, 2007, 2013)
South Korea	Second round Group B winners	28 April 2019	9 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)
Vietnam	Second round Group B runners-up	30 April 2019	4 (2004, 2009, 2011, 2017)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

• First round: there were 244 goals scored in 37 matches, for an average of 6.59 goals per match.

• Second round: there were 56 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 4.67 goals per match.

In total, there were 310 goals scored in 49 matches, for an average of 6.33 goals per match.

10 goals

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

2 own goals

References

External links

• AFC U-19 Women's Championship, the-AFC.com
• AFC U-19 Women's Championship 2019, stats.the-AFC.com