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competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine which women's national teams from Asia qualify for the

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. The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Brazil as the AFC representatives. On 7 March 2016, with one round of matches remaining to be played,

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and

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were confirmed qualification to the Olympics.

Teams

A total of 18 AFC member national teams entered the qualifying stage. The format is as follows: *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 –

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, 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. ;Notes :

¹ Non-IOC member, ineligible for Olympics.

Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying stage was as follows.

First round

Group A

*All matches were held in

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Group B

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

Group C

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Second round

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Final round

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Qualified teams for Olympics

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

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 *

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;6 goals *

Win Theingi Tun Win Theingi Tun (; born 1 February 1995) is a Burmese international footballer who last played as a forward for Thailand Women's League club BG Bundit Asia and the Myanmar national team. Besides Myanmar, she has played in Thailand and India. ...

* Nguyễn Thị Minh Nguyệt ;4 goals * Kyah Simon * Maysa Jbarah *

Naw Ar Lo Wer Phaw Naw Ar Lo Wer Phaw ( my, နော်အားလိုဝါးဖော်) is a footballer from Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in Britis ...

* Yee Yee Oo ;3 goals *

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* Lee Hsiu-chin *

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Stephanie Al-Naber Stephanie Mazen Yousef Al-Naber ( ar, ستيفاني مازن يوسف النبر; born 27 October 1988) is a Jordanian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Jordan Women's Football League club Shabab Al-Ordon and captains the Jordan national ...

* Anootsara Maijarern *

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;2 goals * Katrina Gorry *

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* Chan Wing Sze * Shabnam Behesht *

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* Kumi Yokoyama *

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* Wai Wai Aung * Jung Seol-bin * Lim Seon-joo * Kamola Riskieva ;1 goal * Lisa De Vanna *

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* Ashleigh Sykes *

Ma Xiaoxu Ma Xiaoxu (; born 5 June 1988) is a Chinese footballer who has played for Dalian Quanjian and Beijing BG Phoenix of the Chinese Women's Super League. She also spent a short time with Umeå IK of the Swedish Damallsvenskan in 2007. Club career ...

Wang Shanshan Wang Shanshan (; born 27 January 1990) is a Chinese association football player who plays for Chinese Women's Super League club Tianjin Tengde. International career Wang played at the 2011 Summer Universiade. She made her senior team debut i ...

* Wang Shuang *

Chan Pi-han Chan Pi-han ( zh, 詹筆涵; born 27 April 1992) is a Taiwanese footballer who plays as a midfielder. She has been a member of the Chinese Taipei women's national team. International career Chan Pi-han capped for Chinese Taipei at senior level d ...

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* Lin Chiung-ying *

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* Loitongbam Ashalata Devi *

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* Fatemeh Arjangi *

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* Emi Nakajima *

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* Souphavanh Phayvanh *

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* Kim Su-gyong *

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* Ra Un-sim * Kiloudi Salama *

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* Lee Geum-min * Nargiza Abdurasulova *

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* Zumratjon Nazarova * Makhliyo Sarikova * Feruza Turdiboeva ;Own goal * Yasmeen Khair (playing against

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) * Nisansala Sewwandi (playing against

) * Imesha Madushani (playing against India) * Lin Kai-ling (playing against

) :

References

External links

*, the-AFC.com
Women's Olympic Football Tournament 2016
stats.the-AFC.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Afc Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2016

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