2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship

2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship
ฟุตบอลหญิงชิงชนะเลิศแห่งเอเชีย รุ่นอายุไม่เกิน 19 ปี 2019
Tournament details
Host country	Thailand
Dates	27 October – 9 November
Teams	8 (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 played	16
Goals scored	64 (4 per match)
Attendance	2,282 (143 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kang Ji-woo (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Oto Kanno
Fair play award	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.

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.

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

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

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 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Thailand (hosts) Japan	North Korea China	Australia South Korea	Vietnam Myanmar

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]

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	North Korea	3	3	0	11	2	+9	9	Knockout stage
2	Australia	3	2	1	5	6	−1	6	Knockout stage
3	Vietnam	3	1	2	2	4	−2	3
4	Thailand (H)	3	0	3	2	8	−6	0

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

27 October 2019

16:00

North Korea	5–1	Australia
Kim Hyang 19' Yun Ji-hwa 30' Ri Kum-hyang 74' Pak Il-gyong 83' Kim Yun-ok 88'	Report	Cooney-Cross 16'

IPE Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi

Attendance: 170

Referee: Edita Mirabidova (Uzbekistan)

27 October 2019