2020 AFC U-16 Championship qualification
The 2020 AFC U-16 Championship qualification was an international men's under-16 football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2020 AFC U-16 Championship.
A total of 16 teams qualified for the final tournament, including Bahrain who had qualified automatically as hosts.
Draw
All 47 AFC member associations teams entered the competition.The draw was held on 9 May 2019 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- West: 25 teams from West Asia, Central Asia and South Asia, were drawn into six groups: one group of five teams and five groups of four teams.
- East: 22 teams from ASEAN and East Asia, were drawn into five groups: two groups of five teams and three groups of four teams.
- The eleven teams which indicated their intention to serve as qualification group hosts prior to the draw were drawn into separate groups.
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- Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
- ': Qualification group hosts
- ': Final tournament hosts, automatically qualified regardless of qualification results
Player eligibility
Format
In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue. The eleven group winners and the four best runners-up qualified for the final tournament. If the final tournament hosts won their group or were among the four best runners-up, the fifth best runner-up would have also qualified for the final tournament.Tiebreakers
Teams were ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings :- 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 ;
- Drawing of lots.
Schedule
Groups
Group A
- All matches were held in Jordan.
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Group B
- All matches were held in Uzbekistan.
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Group C
- All matches were held in Iran.
- Times listed are on 18–20 September, on 22 September 2019.
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Group D
- All matches were held in Saudi Arabia.
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Group E
- All matches were held in Qatar.
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Group F
- All matches were held in Kyrgyzstan.
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Group G
- All matches were held in Indonesia.
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Group H
- All matches were held in Vietnam.
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Group I
- All matches were held in Singapore.
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Group J
- All matches were held in Laos.
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Group K
- All matches were held in Myanmar.
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Ranking of second-placed teams
Due to groups having different number of teams, the results against the fifth-placed teams in five-team groups were not considered for this ranking.Qualified teams
The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.| Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances in AFC U-16 Championship1 |
| 17 9 2019 | 7 | ||
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