2016 AFC U-16 Championship qualification

The 2016 AFC U-16 Championship qualification decided the participating teams of the 2016 AFC U-16 Championship.  The tournament is the 17th edition of the AFC U-16 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-16 national teams of Asia. 

A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including India who qualified automatically as hosts but also competed in the qualifying stage. 

Same as previous editions, the tournament acts as the AFC qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup.  The top four teams of the final tournament will qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India as the AFC representatives, besides India who qualified automatically as hosts.  If India are among the top four teams, the fifth-placed team (i.e., the losing quarter-finalist with the best record in the tournament) will also qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup. 

Draw
The draw for the qualifiers was held on 5 June 2015 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.  A total of 45 teams entered the qualifying stage and were drawn into eleven groups. 
West Zone, with 24 entrants from Central Asia, South Asia and West Asia, had six groups of four teams. 
East Zone, with 21 entrants from ASEAN and East Asia, had one group of five teams and four groups of four teams. 

The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2014. 

Note:
1 Non-FIFA member, ineligible for U-17 World Cup. 

Player eligibility
Players born on or after 1 January 2000 were eligible to compete in the 2016 AFC U-16 Championship. 

Format
In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue.  The eleven group winners and the four best runners-up from all groups qualified for the final tournament.  If India were one of the group winners or best runners-up, the fifth-best runner-up also qualified for the final tournament. 

Tiebreakers
The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss).  If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:
Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
If, after applying criteria 1 to 3, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings.  If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 apply;
Goal difference in all the group matches;
Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
Fewer score calculated according to the number of yellow and red cards received in the group matches (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card);
Drawing of lots. 

Groups
The matches were played between 2–6 September 2015 for Group H; 12–20 September 2015 for Group G (five-team group); 16–20 September 2015 for all other groups. 

Group A
All matches were held in Palestine. 
Times listed were UTC+3. 

Group B
All matches were held in Kyrgyzstan. 
Times listed were UTC+6. 

Group C
All matches were held in Qatar. 
Times listed were UTC+3. 

Group D
All matches were held in Bangladesh. 
Times listed were UTC+6. 

Group E
All matches were held in Iran. 
Times listed were UTC+4:30. 

Group F
All matches were held in Kuwait. 
Times listed were UTC+3. 

Group G
All matches were held in Laos. 
Times listed were UTC+7. 

Group H
All matches were held in Singapore. 
Times listed were UTC+8. 

Group I
All matches were held in China. 
Times listed were UTC+8. 

Group J
All matches were held in Vietnam. 
Times listed were UTC+7. 

Group K
All matches were held in Mongolia. 
Times listed were UTC+9. 

Ranking of second-placed teams
The ranking among the runner-up team of all groups are determined as follows:
Greater number of points obtained in the group matches;
Greater goal difference resulting from the group matches;
Greater number of goals scored in group matches;
Greater number of wins in the group matches;
Fewer score calculated according to the number of yellow and red cards received in the group matches (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card);
Drawing of lots. 

In order to ensure equality when comparing the runner-up team of all groups, the results of the matches against the fourth-placed and fifth-placed teams in the groups having four or five teams are ignored due to Groups D, F and K having only three teams after one of the teams in the group withdrew. 

Qualified teams
The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. 

2 Bold indicates champion for that year.  Italic indicates host for that year. 

Goalscorers
6 goals

 Park Jung-in
 Rasul Yuldoshov

5 goals

 Alaa Adnan Jabbar
 Takefusa Kubo
 Izreen Izwandy
 Shin Sang-whi
 João Pedro
 Trần Văn Đạt

4 goals

 Suresh Singh Wangjam
 Rei Hirakawa
 Iqbal Hakem
 Alif Safwan
 Kyaw Kyaw Htet
 Fidel Tacardon
 Hamad Al-Abdan
 Lee Dong-ryul
 Korawich Tasa
 Danilson Araújo
 Majed Rashed
 Abubakir Muydinov
 Bùi Anh Đức

3 goals

 Mirza Muratovic
 Ahmed Sweedan
 Wu Zewei
 Mohammad Sharifi
 Taisei Miyashiro
 Keito Nakamura
 Akito Tanahashi
 Xayyaphon Sengsavang
 Arif Shaqirin
 Htun Sai
 Rejin Subba
 Kung Jin-song
 Mariano Suba
 Dom Lucas
 Abdunozir Abdurakhmonov
 Mạch Ngọc Hà
 Nguyễn Duy Khiêm

2 goals

 Rahmat Akbari
 Jaidon Selden
 Khaled Abdulrahim
 Chen Rong
 Zhou Junchen
 Ethan Yeung Yat Yung
 Aman Chetri
 Mohammad Reza Ghobeishavi
 Ayumu Seko
 Yukinari Sugawara
 Muhannad Abu Awad
 Emir Shigaibaev
 Boualapha Chaleunsouk
 Nilanh Inthapanya
 Nilan
 Hein Htet Aung
 Dinesh Hemjan
 Kim Chung-jin
 Kye Tam
 Mohammed Al-Khamisi
 Ahmed Eleyan
 Hisham Ali
 Naif Almas
 Kim Dong-bum
 Ko Jun-hee
 Park Chan-bin
 Yong Dong-hyun
 Ziyovuddin Fuzaylov
 Jinnawat Russamee
 Jelito
 Nguyễn Khắc Khiêm
 Vũ Đình Hai
 Waleed Aswad
 Murad Murshed
 Abdulmajeed Sabarah

1 goal

 Amir Ali
 Omid Haidar Saneh
 Lachlan Brook
 Antonis Martis
 Mersim Memeti
 Mark Moric
 Ramy Najjarine
 Andrew Visciglio
 Ryan Yates
 Sarwar Zaman Nipu
 Mohammad Shawon
 Sieng Chanthea
 Chen Quanjiang
 Geng Taili
 Sun Qinhan
 Zhu Chenjie
 Chen Wei-tze
 Tsai Cheng-ju
 Chan Ka Shing
 Jonathan Linux Cheung
 Erik Anders Whilborn
 Gaston D’Silva
 Amarjit Singh Kiyam
 Boris Singh Thangjam
 Komal Thatal
 Mohammad Reza Davari
 Mohammad Ghaderi
 Mohsen Godarzi
 Amir Khodamoradi
 Vahid Namdari
 Erfan Sadeghi
 Mohammad Sardari
 Muntadher Abdulsada
 Mohammed Ridha Jalil
 Ahmed Sartip Omar
 Saleh Mahdi Saleh
 Toichi Suzuki
 Hiroto Yamada
 Laith Hbowal
 Khaled Radi Kourdi
 Jasem Rashed
 Gulzhigit Alykulov
 Gulzhigit Boubaev
 Maksat Dzhakybaliev
 Timur Uulu Orzobek
 Bounphachan Bounkong
 Saya Monlangsy
 Thatthaya Phoutthavong
 Jawad Abdullah
 Mahmoud Kaawar
 Leung Chi Seng
 Aliff Haiqal
 Azrin Azahari
 Mohamad Najmi
 Nor Amirul
 Zainul Arifin
 Aung Chit Oo Ko Ko
 Bo Bo Aung
 Thet Paing Htoo
 Khosbayar Bayarkhuu
 Bat-Erdene Erdenechimeg
 Manish Bahadur Karki
 Prezen Tamang
 Kim Kyong-sok
 Kwon Nam-hyok
 Paek Kwang-min
 Ri Song-jin
 Yun Min
 Anthony Fruit
 Sunjoon Tenorio
 Mutassim Al-Bakri
 Mohammed Al-Qaidi
 Thamer Al-Zaabi
 Ahmed Aburdaha
 Jelani Borbon
 Kier Napolitano
 Kyle Ronquillo
 Ahmed Al-Ganehi
 Mohammad Bahramen
 Saleh Saeed
 Dhari Al-Anazi
 Ali Al-Shaikhi
 Mohammed Mansour Mali
 Abdulaziz Al-Dhuwayhi
 Firas Al-Buraikan
 Khairie Abdul Hamid
 Irfan Jeferee
 Glenn Kweh
 Cheon Seong-hoon
 Kim Tae-hwan
 Son Jae-hyeok
 Yu Je-ho
 Mohammad Fares Kanaan
 Mohammad Malta
 Vahdat Hanonov
 Mubindzhon Muminov
 Faridun Nematov
 Avaz Qamchinov
 Yafet Belima
 Filomeno Junior da Costa
 Armindo Vieira
 Orcelio
 Kerim Karabekov
 Abdulla Al-Naqbi
 Ali Saleh Amro
 Sultan Saeed
 Abdulkhay Ismoilov
 Islom Karimov
 Ikhtiyor Kholdorov
 Shukhrat Nematov
 Bakhromjon Soatov
 Oston Urunov
 Nguyễn Hữu Thắng
 Nguyễn Huỳnh Sang
 Nguyễn Trọng Long
 Uông Ngọc Tiến
 Mohammed Al-Hamdani
 Mukhtar Al-Khalil
 Ahmed Hamed Saeed

1 own goal

 Xavier Naputi (against Australia)
 Habib Antoine Baladi (against India)
 Mohamed Azhan Hamid (against Yemen)
 Prichi James (against Malaysia)
 Abdulaziz Al-Malki (against United Arab Emirates)
 Salvador Varela (against Laos)
 Agajan Jumayev (against Tajikistan)

References

External links
, the-AFC.com

Qualification
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U-16 Championship qualification