2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification

Tournament details
Host countries	Jordan (Group A) Sri Lanka (Group B) Vietnam (Group C) Thailand (Group D)
Dates	5–11 November 2014
Teams	14 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	85 (4.72 per match)
Attendance	4,050 (225 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sunny Franco Lê Hoài Lương Nilufar Kudratova (7 goals each)
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The 2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification was a women's under-19 football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship. Players born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 2000 were eligible to compete in the tournament.^[1]

A total of eight teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including South Korea, North Korea, China PR (hosts), and Japan, who qualified directly as the top four finishers of the 2013 AFC U-19 Women's Championship.

The top three teams of the final tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea.^[2]

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 17 June 2014 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.^[3] A total of 14 AFC member national teams entered the qualifying stage and were drawn into four groups.

• West Zone had 7 entrants from Central Asia, South Asia and West Asia, where they were drawn into one group of four teams and one group of three teams.
• East Zone had 7 entrants from ASEAN and East Asia (excluding direct qualifiers South Korea, North Korea, China, and Japan), where they were drawn into one group of four teams and one group of three teams.

The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2013.

	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
West Zone (Groups A–B)	Jordan  Palestine	Iran  Uzbekistan	India  Sri Lanka	Lebanon
East Zone (Groups C–D)	Australia  Myanmar	Thailand  Vietnam	Chinese Taipei  Singapore	Hong Kong

Did not enter
West Zone	Afghanistan  Bahrain  Bangladesh  Bhutan  Iraq  Kyrgyzstan  Kuwait  Maldives    Nepal  Oman  Pakistan  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  Syria  Tajikistan  Turkmenistan  United Arab Emirates  Yemen
East Zone	Brunei  Cambodia  Guam  Indonesia  Laos  Macau  Malaysia  Mongolia  Northern Mariana1  Philippines  East Timor

Notes

¹ Non-FIFA member, ineligible for World Cup.

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

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:^[1]

1. Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
2. Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
3. Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
4. Goal difference in all the group matches;
5. Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
6. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
7. 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);
8. Drawing of lots.

The matches were played between 5–9 November 2014 for Groups A, C and D; 7–11 November 2014 for 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	Uzbekistan	3	3	0	0	12	0	+12	9	2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship
2	Jordan (H)	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	6
3	India	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3
4	Lebanon	3	0	0	3	1	13	−12	0

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• All matches were initially to be held in Palestine, but were relocated to Sri Lanka due to Iranian passport rules about banning of traveling to Palestine
• Times listed were UTC+5:30.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	2	2	0	0	10	1	+9	6	2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship
2	Sri Lanka (H)	2	0	1	1	1	4	−3	1
3	Palestine	2	0	1	1	0	6	−6	1

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	3	0	0	28	0	+28	9	2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship
2	Vietnam (H)	3	2	0	1	17	3	+14	6
3	Hong Kong	3	1	0	2	2	13	−11	3
4	Singapore	3	0	0	3	1	32	−31	0

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Thailand	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	4	2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship
2	Myanmar (H)	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
3	Chinese Taipei	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1

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The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament2
South Korea	2013 champions	17 June 2014	7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
North Korea	2013 runners-up	17 June 2014	7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
China	2013 third place / Hosts	17 June 2014	7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
Japan	2013 fourth place	17 June 2014	7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
Uzbekistan	Group A winners	9 November 2014	2 (2002, 2004)
Iran	Group B winners	11 November 2014	0 (debut)
Australia	Group C winners	9 November 2014	5 (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
Thailand	Group D winners	9 November 2014	4 (2002, 2004, 2007, 2009)

² Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

7 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

• Roseamelya Binte Ros (playing against Australia)

Source: the-AFC.com^[4]

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