The 2018 AFC U-16 Championship qualification was an international men's under-16

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competition which decides the participating teams of the 2018 AFC U-16 Championship. A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including

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who qualified automatically as hosts.

Draw

Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 45 teams entered the competition. The final tournament hosts Malaysia also entered in qualification despite having automatically qualified for the final tournament (they had not been confirmed as hosts at the time of the qualification draw). The draw was held on 21 April 2017, 15:00 MYT (

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), at the AFC House in

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. The 45 teams were drawn into ten groups: five groups of five teams and five groups of four teams. For the draw, teams were divided into two zones: *West: 23 teams from

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and

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, to be drawn into five groups: three groups of five teams and two groups of four teams (Groups A–E). *East: 22 teams from

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and

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, to be drawn into five groups: two groups of five teams and three groups of four teams (Groups F–J). The teams were seeded in each zone according to their performance in the

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final tournament and

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(overall ranking shown in parentheses; NR stands for non-ranked teams). The following restrictions were also applied: *The seven teams which indicated their intention to serve as qualification group hosts prior to the draw were drawn into separate groups. ;Notes *Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament. *(H): Qualification group hosts (* Chinese Taipei and Myanmar chosen as group hosts after the draw, remaining group hosted at neutral venue) *(Q): Final tournament hosts, automatically qualified regardless of qualification results *(W): Withdrew after draw

Player eligibility

Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Format

In each group, teams play each other once at a centralised venue. The ten group winners and the five best runners-up qualify for the final tournament. If the final tournament hosts Malaysia win their group or are among the five best runners-up, the sixth best runner-up also qualifies for the final tournament.

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): #Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; # Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #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; #Goal difference in all group matches; #Goals scored in all group matches; #

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if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group; #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); #Drawing of lots.

Groups

The matches were played between 16 and 29 September 2017.

Group A

*All matches were held in

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Group B

*All matches were held in

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Group C

*All matches were held in

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Group D

*All matches were held in

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Group E

*All matches were held in

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Group F

*All matches were held in Chinese Taipei. *Times listed are

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Group G

*All matches were held in

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Group H

*All matches were held in

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Group I

*All matches were held in

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Group J

*All matches were held in

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Ranking of second-placed teams

Due to groups having different number of teams and the withdrawal of United Arab Emirates from Group E, the results against the fifth and fourth-placed teams in five and four-team groups are not considered for this ranking.

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. :

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

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Farhan Zulkifli Muhammad Farhan bin Zulkifli (born 10 November 2002), commonly known as Farhan Zulkifli or just Farhan, is a Singaporean professional footballer who plays as a full-back or winger for Singapore Premier League club Young Lions, on loan from ...

*{{flagicon, SIN Fathullah Rahmat *{{flagicon, KOR Choi Min-seo *{{flagicon, KOR Hong Yun-sang *{{flagicon, KOR Kim Dong-hyeon *{{flagicon, KOR Lee Jun-suk *{{flagicon, KOR Lee Tae-seok *{{flagicon, KOR Paik Sang-hoon *{{flagicon, KOR Yoon Suk-ju *{{flagicon, SYR Abdal Rahman Al-Khatib *{{flagicon, SYR Ahmad Amara *{{flagicon, SYR Ahmad Hatem *{{flagicon, SYR Mohammad Maatouk *{{flagicon, SYR Omar Naghnugh *{{flagicon, SYR Yasin Abo Karsh *{{flagicon, TJK Azizbek Khasanov *{{flagicon, TJK Isroil Kholov *{{flagicon, TJK Shohrukh Sangov *{{flagicon, THA Arthit Bua-ngam *{{flagicon, THA Jakkapong Sanmahung *{{flagicon, THA Thakdanai Jaihan *{{flagicon, TLS

Elias Elias is the Greek equivalent of Elijah ( he, אֵלִיָּהוּ‎ ''ʾĒlīyyāhū''; Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ ''Eliyā''; Arabic: الیاس Ilyās/Elyās), a prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th century BC, mentioned in several h ...

*{{flagicon, TLS Ejivanio *{{flagicon, UZB Daniyar Sabirov *{{flagicon, UZB Mirjalol Kosimov *{{flagicon, UZB Ruslan Roziev *{{flagicon, VIE Đậu Ngọc Thành *{{flagicon, VIE

Đinh Thanh Trung Đinh Thanh Trung (born 24 January 1988 in Hà Tĩnh, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese midfielder who currently plays for Hồng Lĩnh Hà Tĩnh and former Vietnam national football team. Professional career Hanoi ACB In January 2012, Trung was rel ...

*{{flagicon, VIE

Nguyễn Thế Hùng Nguyễn () is the most common Vietnamese surname. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. Nguyên (元）is a different word and surname. By some estimates 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this s ...

*{{flagicon, VIE Võ Minh Đan *{{flagicon, YEM

Hamzah Sabah Hamza ( ar, همزة ') () is a letter in the Arabic alphabet, representing the glottal stop . Hamza is not one of the 28 "full" letters and owes its existence to historical inconsistencies in the standard writing system. It is derived from ...

*{{flagicon, YEM

Tamer Senan Tamer is a Turkish given name and surname. It means ''Competent soldier'' in Turkish. In Arabic (written as تامر), the name is more closely related to Tamr (as in dates). Persons Given name * Tamer Abdel Hamid, Egyptian football player * Tamer ...

*{{flagicon, YEM Yahya Al-Baleet , 2 own goals= *{{flagicon, GUM Robert Niu (against Japan, Singapore) , 1 own goal= *{{flagicon, LAO Anoulack Vannalath (against Thailand) *{{flagicon, MAC

Xiao Rongrui Xiao may refer to: * Filial piety (), or "being good to parents", a virtue in Chinese culture * Xiao (flute) (), a Chinese end-blown flute * Xiao (rank) (), a rank used for field officers in the Chinese military * Xiao County (), in Anhui, China ...

(against North Korea) *{{flagicon, MDV

Ahmed Nahil Ibrahim Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...

(against Tajikistan) *{{flagicon, NMI Joshua Mendez (against Timor Leste) *{{flagicon, SRI Arichandran Thanujan (against Saudi Arabia) *{{flagicon, TLS Luis Conceição (against Laos)

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Qualification Qualification is either the process of qualifying for an achievement, or a credential attesting to that achievement, and may refer to: * Professional qualification, attributes developed by obtaining academic degrees or through professional exper ...

AFC U-16 Championship qualification U-16 Championship qualification

AFC U-16 Championship qualification AFC may stand for: Organizations * Action for Children, a UK children's charity * AFC Enterprises, the franchisor of Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits * Africa Finance Corporation, a pan-African multilateral development finance institution * A ...

September 2017 sports events in Asia