2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship

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2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship
ฟุตบอลหญิงชิงชนะเลิศแห่งเอเชีย รุ่นอายุไม่เกิน 19 ปี 2019
Tournament details
Host countryThailand
Dates27 October – 9 November
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Japan (6th title)
Runners-up North Korea
Third place South Korea
Fourth place Australia
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored64 (4 per match)
Attendance2,282 (143 per match)
Top scorer(s)South Korea Kang Ji-woo (7 goals)
Best player(s)Japan Oto Kanno
Fair play award Japan
← 2017

The 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship was the 10th edition of the AFC U-19 Women's Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-19 national teams of Asia. The tournament was held in Thailand between 27 October and 9 November 2019,[1] with a total of eight teams competing.

The top three teams of the tournament would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup (originally 2020 but postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic) in Costa Rica as the AFC representatives.[2][3] However, FIFA announced on 17 November 2020 that this edition of the World Cup would be cancelled.[4]

This edition was the last to be played as an under-19 tournament, as the AFC had agreed to the proposal for switching the tournament from under-19 to under-20 starting from 2022.[5]

Japan are the defending champions.

Qualification[edit]

Main article: 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification

Four teams qualified directly for the final tournament: the hosts and the top three of 2017. The other four spots were determined by the qualifying stage.

A total of 27 teams entered the qualifying stage. Due to the increased number of teams, two qualification rounds were scheduled for the first time. The first round was scheduled for 20–28 October 2018,[6] and the second round was scheduled for 22–30 April 2019.[7]

Qualified teams[edit]

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Team Qualified as Appearance Previous best performance
 Thailand Hosts 7th Fourth place (2004)
 Japan 2017 champions 10th Champions (2002, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017)
 North Korea 2017 runners-up 10th Champions (2007)
 China 2017 third place 10th Champions (2006)
 Australia Second round Group A winners 8th Third place (2006)
 Myanmar Second round Group A runners-up 4th Group stage (2002, 2007, 2013)
 South Korea Second round Group B winners 10th Champions (2004, 2013)
 Vietnam Second round Group B runners-up 5th Quarter-finals (2004)

Venues[edit]

The matches were played at two venues, both at the Mueang Chonburi District in Chonburi Province.

Draw[edit]

The draw was held on 23 May 2019, 16:30 ICT (UTC+7), at the Oakwood Hotel in Chonburi, Thailand.[8][9] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification, with the hosts Thailand automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.[10]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
  1.  Thailand (hosts)
  2.  Japan

Squads[edit]

Main article: 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship squads

Players born between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2004 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team had to register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 24.1 and 24.2).[11]

Group stage[edit]

The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers

Teams were 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 9.3):[11]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. 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;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. 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);
  9. Drawing of lots.

All times are local, ICT (UTC+7).

Group A[edit]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  North Korea 3 3 0 0 11 2 +9 9 Knockout stage
2  Australia 3 2 0 1 5 6 −1 6
3  Vietnam 3 1 0 2 2 4 −2 3
4  Thailand (H) 3 0 0 3 2 8 −6 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
North Korea 5–1 Australia
 Report
Attendance: 170
Referee: Edita Mirabidova (Uzbekistan)
Thailand 0–2 Vietnam
Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Oh Hyeon-jeong (South Korea)
Vietnam 0–3 North Korea
Report
Attendance: 50
Referee: Fusako Kajiyama (Japan)
Australia 3–1 Thailand
 Report
Attendance: 280
Referee: Mahsa Ghorbani (Iran)
Thailand 1–3 North Korea
 Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Mahsa Ghorbani (Iran)
Australia 1–0 Vietnam
 Report
Attendance: 90
Referee: Oh Hyeon-jeong (South Korea)

Group B[edit]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Japan 3 3 0 0 9 1 +8 9 Knockout stage
2  South Korea 3 2 0 1 3 3 0 6
3  China 3 1 0 2 7 5 +2 3
4  Myanmar 3 0 0 3 1 11 −10 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Japan 5–0 Myanmar
 Report
Attendance: 120
Referee: Pansa Chaisanit (Thailand)
China 1–2 South Korea
 Report
Attendance: 100
Referee: Abirami Naidu (Singapore)
Myanmar 1–5 China
 Report
Attendance: 80
Referee: Pak Un-jong (North Korea)
South Korea 0–2 Japan
Report
Attendance: 150
Referee: Ranjita Devi Tekcham (India)
Japan 2–1 China
 Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Edita Mirabidova (Uzbekistan)
South Korea 1–0 Myanmar
 Report
Attendance: 72
Referee: Abirami Naidu (Singapore)

Knockout stage[edit]

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where there was no extra time and penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Articles 12.1, 12.2 and 12.3).[11]

Bracket[edit]

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
6 November – Chonburi
 
 
 North Korea3
 
9 November – Chonburi
 
 South Korea1
 
 North Korea1
 
6 November – Chonburi
 
 Japan2
 
 Japan7
 
 
 Australia0
 
Third place match
 
 
9 November – Chonburi
 
 
 South Korea9
 
 
 Australia1

Semi-finals[edit]

Winners qualified for 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

North Korea 3–1 South Korea
 Report
Attendance: 100
Referee: Abirami Naidu (Singapore)
Japan 7–0 Australia
 Report
Attendance: 120
Referee: Ranjita Devi Tekcham (India)

Third place match[edit]

Winner qualified for 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

South Korea 9–1 Australia
 Report
Attendance: 150
Referee: Pansa Chaisanit (Thailand)

Final[edit]

North Korea 1–2 Japan
 Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Edita Mirabidova (Uzbekistan)

Winners[edit]

 Winner 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship 

Japan
Sixth title

Awards[edit]

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

Top Goalscorer[12] Most Valuable Player[13] Fair Play award[13]
South Korea Kang Ji-woo Japan Oto Kanno  Japan

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup[edit]

The following three teams from AFC would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup before the tournament was cancelled.

All three teams qualified for the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.[14] On 16 March 2022, the AFC announced that Australia would replace North Korea as the AFC’s representatives at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.[15]

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup1
 Japan 6 November 2019[16] 6 (2002, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018)
 South Korea 9 November 2019[16] 5 (2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016)
 Australia 16 March 2022 3 (2002, 2004, 2006)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers[edit]

There were 64 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 4 goals per match.

7 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

References[edit]

  1. ^ "AFC Women's Football Committee recommends women's club competition". AFC. 20 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Thailand 2019 semi-finals line-up confirmed". AFC. 3 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Bureau of the FIFA Council decisions on FIFA events". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 12 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Update on FIFA Club World Cup 2020 and women's youth tournaments". FIFA.com. 17 November 2020.
  5. ^ "AFC Women's Football Committee approves AFC Women's Club Championship". AFC. 27 September 2019.
  6. ^ "AFC Competitions Calendar 2018". AFC. 11 January 2018. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018.
  7. ^ "AFC Competitions Calendar 2019". AFC. 28 February 2018. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018.
  8. ^ "Stage set for all-important draw". AFC. 22 May 2019.
  9. ^ "Heavyweights to clash as path to glory is revealed". AFC. 23 May 2019.
  10. ^ "AFC U-19 Women's Championship Thailand 2019 Draw". YouTube. 23 May 2019.
  11. ^ a b c "AFC U-19 Women's Championship 2019 Competition Regulations". AFC. Archived from the original on 18 October 2018.
  12. ^ "Korea Republic's Kang scoops Top Scorer prize". AFC. 9 November 2019.
  13. ^ a b "Japan's Kanno wins Most Valuable Player". AFC. 9 November 2019.
  14. ^ "AFC Women's Football Committee hails the successful restart of the Asian women's game". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 14 October 2021.
  15. ^ "Asia's representatives at FIFA women's competitions confirmed". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 16 March 2022.
  16. ^ a b "Korea DPR, Japan & Korea Republic advance to global finals". FIFA.com. 6 November 2019.

External links[edit]

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