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
ChampionsFlag of Japan.svg  Japan (6th title)
Runners-upFlag of North Korea.svg  North Korea
Third placeFlag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Fourth placeFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored64 (4 per match)
Attendance2,282 (143 per match)
Top scorer(s) Flag of South Korea.svg Kang Ji-woo (7 goals)
Best player(s) Flag of Japan.svg Oto Kanno
Fair play awardFlag of Japan.svg  Japan
2017
2022
2024

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.

Contents

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

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

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

TeamQualified asAppearancePrevious best performance
Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand Hosts7thFourth place (2004)
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2017 champions10thChampions (2002, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017)
Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea 2017 runners-up10thChampions (2007)
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2017 third place10thChampions (2006)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Second round Group A winners8thThird place (2006)
Flag of Myanmar.svg  Myanmar Second round Group A runners-up4thGroup stage (2002, 2007, 2013)
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea Second round Group B winners10thChampions (2004, 2013)
Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam Second round Group B runners-up5thQuarter-finals (2004)

Venues

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

Chonburi
Chonburi Stadium IPE Chonburi Stadium
Capacity: 8,680Capacity: 11,000
Chonburi Stadium.jpg IPE Chonburi Stadium.JPG

Draw

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 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4
  1. Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand (hosts)
  2. Flag of Japan.svg  Japan

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

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

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea 3300112+99 Knockout stage
2Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 32015616
3Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 31022423
4Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand (H)30032860
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
North Korea  Flag of North Korea.svg5–1Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Report
IPE Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 170
Referee: Edita Mirabidova (Uzbekistan)
Thailand  Flag of Thailand.svg0–2Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam
Report
Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 200
Referee: Oh Hyeon-jeong (South Korea)

Vietnam  Flag of Vietnam.svg0–3Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea
Report
IPE Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 50
Referee: Fusako Kajiyama (Japan)
Australia  Flag of Australia (converted).svg3–1Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand
Report
Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 280
Referee: Mahsa Ghorbani (Iran)

Thailand  Flag of Thailand.svg1–3Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea
Report
Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 200
Referee: Mahsa Ghorbani (Iran)
Australia  Flag of Australia (converted).svg1–0Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam
Report
IPE Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 90
Referee: Oh Hyeon-jeong (South Korea)

Group B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 330091+89 Knockout stage
2Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 32013306
3Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 310275+23
4Flag of Myanmar.svg  Myanmar 3003111100
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Japan  Flag of Japan.svg5–0Flag of Myanmar.svg  Myanmar
Report
IPE Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 120
Referee: Pansa Chaisanit (Thailand)
China  Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg1–2Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Report
Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 100
Referee: Abirami Naidu (Singapore)

Myanmar  Flag of Myanmar.svg1–5Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Report
IPE Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 80
Referee: Pak Un-jong (North Korea)
South Korea  Flag of South Korea.svg0–2Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Report
Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 150
Referee: Ranjita Devi Tekcham (India)

Japan  Flag of Japan.svg2–1Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Report
Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 200
Referee: Edita Mirabidova (Uzbekistan)
South Korea  Flag of South Korea.svg1–0Flag of Myanmar.svg  Myanmar
Report
IPE Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 72
Referee: Abirami Naidu (Singapore)

Knockout stage

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

 
Semi-finals Final
 
      
 
6 November – Chonburi
 
 
Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea 3
 
9 November – Chonburi
 
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 1
 
Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea 1
 
6 November – Chonburi
 
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2
 
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 7
 
 
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 0
 
Third place match
 
 
9 November – Chonburi
 
 
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 9
 
 
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 1

Semi-finals

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

North Korea  Flag of North Korea.svg3–1Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Report
Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 100
Referee: Abirami Naidu (Singapore)

Japan  Flag of Japan.svg7–0Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Report
Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 120
Referee: Ranjita Devi Tekcham (India)

Third place match

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

South Korea  Flag of South Korea.svg9–1Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Report
Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 150
Referee: Pansa Chaisanit (Thailand)

Final

North Korea  Flag of North Korea.svg1–2Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Report
Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi
Attendance: 200
Referee: Edita Mirabidova (Uzbekistan)

Winners

 Winner 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship 
Flag of Japan.svg
Japan
Sixth title

Awards

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

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

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

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]

TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup 1
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 6 November 2019 [16] 6 (2002, 2008, 2010, 2012 , 2016, 2018 )
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 9 November 2019 [16] 5 (2004, 2010, 2012, 2014 , 2016)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 16 March 20223 (2002, 2004, 2006)
1Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

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

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  2. "Thailand 2019 semi-finals line-up confirmed". AFC. 3 November 2019.
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  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. 1 2 3 "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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 "Korea DPR, Japan & Korea Republic advance to global finals". FIFA.com. 6 November 2019.