2015 AFF U-16 Youth Championship


The 2015 AFF U-16 Youth Championship is the 10th edition of the AFF U-16 Youth Championship, organised by the ASEAN Football Federation. It will be hosted by Cambodia for the second time after the 2007 AFF U-17 Youth Championship. It will be played between 27 July to 9 August 2015. It was set to be hosted by Indonesia but they were suspended by FIFA in May 2015.

Participant teams

All twelve member associations of the ASEAN Football Federation were set to take part in the tournament featuring three groups of four teams, but with Indonesia's suspension, they were omitted and the AFF reverted to two groups featuring six and five teams.
The following groups were drawn at the 15th AFF Council meeting in Singapore on 16 June 2015.
TeamAppearancePrevious performancePrevious best performance
6thGroup stage Group stage
4thThird place Champion
4thGroup stage Group stage
8thFourth Place Second Place
7thChampion Champion
7thGroup stage Champion
4thGroup stage Group stage
7thGroup stage Fourth place
5thFourth place Champion
3rdGroup stage Third place
8thFourth place Champion

Venues

The two venues to host matches are Olympic Stadium and Army Stadium in Phnom Penh. The matches of [|Group A] will be held in Olympic Stadium and Army Stadium; the matches of [|Group B] will be held in Olympic Stadium and the matches of [|Knockout stage] will be held in Olympic Stadium.

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 1999 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team can register a maximum of 23 players.

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.
;Tiebreakers
The teams are ranked according to points. If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
  1. Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  2. Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
  3. Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  4. 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;
  5. Goal difference in all the group matches;
  6. Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
  8. Lower score calculated according to the number of yellow and red cards received in the group matches ;
  9. Drawing of lots.

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Group B


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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

Semi-finals

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Third place match

Final

Winners

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
Top Goalscorer
Marc Moric
John Roberts

Final ranking

As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Goalscorers

;8 goals
;7 goals
;5 goals
;4 goals
;3 goals
;2 goals
;1 goal
;Own goals