2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship


The 2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship was the 6th edition of the AFC U-16 Women's Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation for the women's under-16 national teams of Asia. The tournament was held in China between 4–15 November 2015. A total of eight teams played in the tournament.
Same as previous editions, the tournament acted as the AFC qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Jordan as the AFC representatives, besides Jordan who qualified automatically as hosts.
North Korea won their second title with a 1–0 final victory over Japan. Both finalists qualified for the World Cup.

Qualification

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 17 June 2014. Four teams qualified directly for the final tournament by their 2013 performance, while the other entrants competed in the qualifying stage for the remaining four spots.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.
TeamQualified asAppearancePrevious best performance

Venues

hosted the tournament, with two venues: Xinhua Road Sports Center and Hankou Cultural Sports Centre.

Draw

The draw for the final tournament was held on 13 May 2015 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous edition in 2013.
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  • Squads

    Players born between 1 January 1999 and 31 December 2001 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team can register a maximum of 23 players.

    Group stage

    The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals.
    ;Tiebreakers
    The teams were ranked according to points. If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
    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 ;
    8. Drawing of lots.
    All times were local, CST.

    Group A

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    Group B

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    Knockout stage

    In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary.

    Bracket

    Semi-finals

    Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
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    Third place match

    Final

    Winners

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

    The following three teams from AFC qualified for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Jordan qualified as hosts.
    TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament1

    Awards

    The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.
    Most Valuable PlayerTop ScorerFair Play Award
    Ri Hae-yon Wang Yanwen

    Goalscorers

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