The 2017 AFC U-16 Women's Championship was the 7th edition of the AFC U-16 Women's Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-16 national teams of Asia. The tournament was held in Thailand between 10 and 23 September 2017, with a total of eight teams competing.

The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup 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.

Team Qualified asAppearance Previous best performance 6th (2007, 2015) 7th (2005, 2011, 2013) 7th (2005) 7th (2005) 1st Debut 7th (2009) 2nd (2005) 5th (2009)

Venues The tournament was held in Chonburi, Chonburi Province, at the Chonburi Stadium and the IPE Chonburi Stadium.

Chonburi Chonburi Stadium IPE Chonburi Stadium Capacity: 8,680 Capacity: 11,000

Draw The draw was held on 28 April 2017, 15:00 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-16 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification, with the hosts Thailand automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.

Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

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 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, ICT (UTC+7).

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out (no extra time) is used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

Semi-finals Winners qualified for 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Third place match Winner qualified for 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Final

Winners

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup The following three teams from AFC qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup1 5 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016) 2 (2008, 2010) 5 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016) 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 Kim Kyong-yong Kim Kyong-yong

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 Sofia Sakalis 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 Ploychompoo Somnuek

1 own goal

Wararat Nanongtum (against China)

References

External links , the-AFC.com AFC U-16 Women's Championship 2017, stats.the-AFC.com