2014 AFC U-19 Championship qualification

2014 AFC U-19 Championship qualification

Tournament details
Host countries	Qatar Jordan Iraq Iran Palestine Hong Kong Indonesia Thailand China
Dates	3–12 October 2013
Teams	40 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	59
Goals scored	204 (3.46 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Nguyễn Công Phượng (7 goals)

The 2014 AFC U-19 Championship qualification was the qualification round for the 2014 AFC U-19 Championship, which took place in Myanmar. The draw for the qualifiers was held on 26 April 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[1]

Format

A total of 36 teams entered the qualification tournament and were drawn into nine groups of five or four or three teams. West Zone, containing teams from West Asia and South/Central Asia, had two groups of five teams,one groups of four teams and two groups of three teams, while East Zone, containing teams from East Asia and ASEAN, had four groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2012. After playing each other once at a centralised venue, the nine group winners and best six runners-up from all groups qualified for the final tournament.^[1]

	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
West Zone (Groups A–E)	Iran  Iraq  Jordan  Uzbekistan	Kuwait  Oman  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  United Arab Emirates	Bahrain  India  Lebanon  Yemen	Bangladesh  Maldives  Palestine  Tajikistan  Turkmenistan	Afghanistan    Nepal
East Zone (Groups F–I)	Australia  Japan  North Korea  South Korea	China PR  Indonesia  Thailand  Vietnam	Chinese Taipei  Laos  Malaysia  Singapore	Brunei  Macau	Hong Kong  Philippines

•  Myanmar automatically qualified for the finals as hosts.
• The following teams did not enter:
  •  Bhutan
  •  Cambodia
  •  Kyrgyzstan
  •  Northern Mariana Islands
  •  Sri Lanka
  •  Timor-Leste
  •  Pakistan
  •  Syria
  •  Mongolia
  •  Guam

Player eligibility

Players born on or after 1 January 1995 were eligible to compete in the qualification tournament.^[2]

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings.^[2]

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. Kicks from the penalty mark 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.

Groups

Group A

• Matches were played in Qatar (UTC+3).

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Qatar	4	4	0	0	13	1	+12	12
Uzbekistan	4	3	0	1	10	3	+7	9
India	4	1	1	2	3	7	−4	4
Turkmenistan	4	1	1	2	4	11	−7	4
Nepal	4	0	0	4	1	10	−9	0

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Group B

• Matches were played in Jordan (UTC+3).

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United Arab Emirates	4	4	0	0	15	1	+14	12
Yemen	4	3	0	1	9	3	+6	9
Jordan	4	1	1	2	3	5	−2	4
Maldives	4	1	1	2	1	8	−7	4
Afghanistan	4	0	0	4	1	12	−11	0

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Group C

• Matches were played in Iraq (UTC+3).

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iraq	2	1	1	0	6	0	+6	4
Bangladesh	2	1	0	1	1	6	−5	3
Kuwait	2	0	1	1	0	1	−1	1

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Group D

• Matches were played in Iran (UTC+3:30).

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iran	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	9
Saudi Arabia	3	2	0	1	7	2	+5	6
Lebanon	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1
Tajikistan	3	0	1	2	0	7	−7	1

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Group E

• Matches were played in Palestine (UTC+3).

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Oman	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3	6
Palestine	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1
Bahrain	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1

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Group F

• Matches were played in Malaysia (UTC+8).

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Vietnam	3	3	0	0	16	3	+13	9
Australia	3	2	0	1	11	5	+6	6
Hong Kong	3	1	0	2	2	12	−10	3
Chinese Taipei	3	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0

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Group G

• Matches were played in Indonesia (UTC+7).

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Indonesia	3	3	0	0	9	2	+7	9
South Korea	3	2	0	1	11	4	+7	6
Philippines	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1
Laos	3	0	1	2	3	11	−8	1

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Group H

• Matches were played in Thailand (UTC+7).

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
North Korea	3	3	0	0	12	0	+12	9
Thailand	3	2	0	1	10	2	+8	6
Singapore	3	1	0	2	3	8	−5	3
Brunei	3	0	0	3	1	16	−15	0

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Group I

• Matches were played in China (UTC+8).

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Japan	3	2	1	0	12	2	+10	7
China PR	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5	7
Malaysia	3	1	0	2	7	8	−1	3
Macau	3	0	0	3	0	14	−14	0

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Ranking of second-placed teams

In order to ensure equality when comparing the runners-up team of all the groups, the results of the matches between the runner-up team and the bottom-placed team (for Groups D, F, G, H and I, which consist of four teams) or two sides from the bottom (for Groups A and B, which consist of five teams) were considered null and void due to Group C and Group E having only three teams participating in the qualifiers.

The best runner-up teams among those ranked second in the groups were determined as follows:

1. Greater number of points obtained from group matches identified by AFC
2. Goal difference resulting from group matches identified by AFC
3. Greater number of goals scored in group matches identified by AFC
4. Fewer number of points calculated according to the number of yellow and red cards received by the team in the group matches identified by AFC
5. Drawing of lots.

Group	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
I	China PR	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	4
F	Australia	2	1	0	1	8	5	+3	3
G	South Korea	2	1	0	1	6	3	+3	3
A	Uzbekistan	2	1	0	1	4	2	+2	3
H	Thailand	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1	3
B	Yemen	2	1	0	1	3	3	0	3
D	Saudi Arabia	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	3
C	Bangladesh	2	1	0	1	1	6	−5	3
E	Palestine	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1

Qualified teams

References

External links

• AFC U-19 Championship, the-AFC.com