The 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship was the ninth edition of the AFC U-19 Women's Championship, the biennial international youth football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for women's under-19 national teams in Asia. The tournament was held in China for the third consecutive edition from 15 to 28 October 2017, with a total of eight teams competing.

The top three teams qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in France 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. The qualifiers were held from 27 October to 6 November 2016, with Group C postponed to 20–24 December 2016 due to the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Qualified teams The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team Qualified asAppearance Previous best performance 9th (2002, 2009, 2011, 2015) 9th (2007) 9th (2004, 2013) 9th (2006) 7th (2006) 4th (2002, 2004, 2015) 6th (2004) 4th (2004)

Venues The tournament was held in Nanjing, at the Jiangning Sports Center and the Jiangsu Training Base Stadium.

Nanjing Jiangning Sports Center Jiangsu Training Base Stadium Capacity: 30,000 Capacity: 3,000

Draw The draw was held on 28 April 2017, 16:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2015 AFC U-19 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification, with the hosts China automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.

Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

Match officials A total of 8 referees and 10 assistant referees were appointed for the final tournament.

Referees Kate Jacewicz Qin Liang Saltanat Noroozi Kajiyama Fusako Thein Thein Aye Ri Hyang-ok Oh Hyeon-jeong Anna Sidorova

Assistant referees Renae Coghill Bao Mengxiao Fang Yan Uvena Fernandes Ensieh Khabaz Maiko Hagio Naomi Teshirogi Hong Kum-Nyo Kim Kyoung-Min Zilola Rahmatova

Squads

Players born between 1 January 1998 and 31 December 2001 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team must register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 31.4 and 31.5).

Group stage The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.

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 11.5): 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; Penalty shoot-out 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, CST (UTC+8).

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out (no extra time) is used to decide the winner.

Bracket

Semi-finals Winners qualify for 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Third place match Winner qualifies for 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Final

Winners

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The following three teams from AFC qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup1 5 (2002, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016) 6 (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016) 5 (2004, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014) 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.

Most Valuable PlayerTop ScorerFair Play Award Sung Hyang-sim Sung Hyang-sim

Goalscorers 6 goals

Sung Hyang-sim

5 goals

Saori Takarada

3 goals

Alex Chidiac Remy Siemsen Hinata Miyazawa Riko Ueki Kim Pom-ui Ri Hae-yon Kim So-eun

2 goals

Liu Jing Mizuka Sato An Song-ok Ju Hyo-sim Diyorakhon Khabibullaeva

1 goal

Princess Ibini Rachel Lowe Chen Yuanmeng He Luyao Jin Kun Xie Qiwen Jun Endo Honoka Hayashi Oto Kanno Rina Mehara Asato Miyagawa Mami Muraoka Nana Ono Kim Eun-soul Mun Eun-ju Orrapan Bungthong Kanyanat Chetthabutr Hà Thị Nhài Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Ngân

1 own goal

Chen Qiaozhu (against Japan) Tipkritta Onsamai (against China)

References

External links , the-AFC.com AFC U-19 Women's Championship 2017, stats.the-AFC.com