The 2017 AFC U-16 Women's Championship was the 7th edition of the

AFC U-16 Women's Championship The AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup, founded as the AFC U-17 Women's Championship and later the AFC U-16 Women's Championship, before changing to its current name after the 2019 edition, is a biennial women's football tournament for youth teams organis ...

, the biennial international youth

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championship organised by the

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(AFC) for the women's under-16 national teams of Asia. The tournament was held in

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between 10 and 23 September 2017, with a total of eight teams competing. The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the

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in Uruguay as the AFC representatives.

Qualification

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 19 May 2016. Four teams qualified directly for the final tournament by their 2015 performance, while the other entrants competed in the qualifying stage for the remaining four spots (Thailand also participated in qualifying despite already qualified as hosts). The qualifiers were held from 25 August to 5 September 2016.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Venues

The tournament was held in

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, Chonburi Province, at the

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and the IPE Chonburi Stadium.

Draw

The draw was held on 28 April 2017, 15:00 MYT (

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), at the AFC House in

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. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship final tournament and

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, with the hosts Thailand automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2003 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team must register a squad of minimum 16 players and maximum 23 players, minimum two of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 29.4 and 29.5).

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals. ;Tiebreakers Teams are ranked according to

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(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 11.5): #Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #

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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. All times are local, ICT (

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Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage,

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(no

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) is used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for

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Third place match

Winner qualified for

Final

Winners

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

The following three teams from AFC qualified for the

. :

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

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.

Goalscorers

;9 goals * Kim Kyong-yong ;5 goals * Ri Su-gyong * Cho Mi-jin ;4 goals * Tang Han * Zhang Linyan * Tomoko Tanaka ;3 goals * Ko Min-jung ;2 goals * Momoka Kinoshita * Yuzuki Yamamoto * Yun Ji-hwa * Pluemjai Sontisawat ;1 goal * Kyra Cooney-Cross * Laura Hughes *

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* Monika Chakma * Shamsunnahar * Han Huimin * Jin Jing * Li Yinghua * Ou Yiyao * Wang Yumeng * Yang Qian * Moe Nakae * Momo Nakao * Haruka Osawa * Chihiro Tomioka * Kim Yun-ok * Ko Kyong-hui * Pak Hye-gyong * Ri Su-jong * An Se-bin * Chang Eun-hyun * Hwang Ah-hyeon * Kim Bit-na * Lee Su-in * Panittha Jeeratanapavibul *

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;1 own goal * Wararat Nanongtum (against China) :

References

External links

*, the-AFC.com
AFC U-16 Women's Championship 2017
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