2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship

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.

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) Kang Ji-woo (7 goals)
Best player(s) Oto Kanno
Fair play award Japan

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
 ThailandHosts7thFourth place (2004)
 Japan2017 champions10thChampions (2002, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017)
 North Korea2017 runners-up10thChampions (2007)
 China PR2017 third place10thChampions (2006)
 AustraliaSecond round Group A winners8thThird place (2006)
 MyanmarSecond round Group A runners-up4thGroup stage (2002, 2007, 2013)
 South KoreaSecond round Group B winners10thChampions (2004, 2013)
 VietnamSecond round Group B runners-up5thQuarter-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
  1.  Thailand (hosts)
  2.  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

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) Host.
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
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
  • Yun Ji-hwa  47'
  • Kim Kyong-yong  61'
  • Ryu Sol-song  70'
Attendance: 50
Referee: Fusako Kajiyama (Japan)
Australia 3–1 Thailand
Report
  • Pattaranan  63'
Attendance: 280
Referee: Mahsa Ghorbani (Iran)

Thailand 1–3 North Korea
Report
  • Kim Kyong-yong  5'
  • Ri Chong-gyong  27'
  • Ri Su-gyong  47'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Mahsa Ghorbani (Iran)
Australia 1–0 Vietnam
Report
Attendance: 90
Referee: Oh Hyeon-jeong (South Korea)

Group B

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 PR 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
  • Yamamoto  36', 49'
  • Ōsawa  39'
  • Hirosawa  66'
  • Itō  67'
Report
Attendance: 120
Referee: Pansa Chaisanit (Thailand)
China PR 1–2 South Korea
  • Han Xuan  34'
Report
  • Kang Ji-woo  1', 72'
Attendance: 100
Referee: Abirami Naidu (Singapore)

Myanmar 1–5 China PR
Report
  • Yao Mengjia  5'
  • Yang Qian  52', 62'
  • Wang Linlin  70' (pen.)
  • Han Xuan  90+1'
Attendance: 80
Referee: Pak Un-jong (North Korea)
South Korea 0–2 Japan
Report
  • Kanno  16'
  • Yamamoto  84'
Attendance: 150
Referee: Ranjita Devi Tekcham (India)

Japan 2–1 China PR
  • Kato  10'
  • Morita  70'
Report
  • Sun Pingwei  72'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Edita Mirabidova (Uzbekistan)
South Korea 1–0 Myanmar
  • Lee Jeong-min  79'
Report
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-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

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

North Korea 3–1 South Korea
  • Kim Kyong-yong  3', 9'
  • Pak Il-gyong  53'
Report
  • Kang Ji-woo  59' (pen.)
Attendance: 100
Referee: Abirami Naidu (Singapore)

Japan 7–0 Australia
  • Kanno  21' (pen.)
  • Ōsawa  23', 48'
  • Yamamoto  50'
  • Itō  52'
  • Hirosawa  80', 86'
Report
Attendance: 120
Referee: Ranjita Devi Tekcham (India)

Third place match

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

South Korea 9–1 Australia
  • Noh Jin-young  14'
  • Choo Hyo-joo  24', 88'
  • Kang Ji-woo  36', 75', 84', 90' (pen.)
  • Hyun Seul-gi  39'
  • Cho Mi-jin  90+2'
Report
Attendance: 150
Referee: Pansa Chaisanit (Thailand)

Final

North Korea 1–2 Japan
  • Kim Yun-ok  82' (pen.)
Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Edita Mirabidova (Uzbekistan)

Winners

 Winner 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship 

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]
Kang Ji-woo Oto Kanno  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.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup1
 North Korea6 November 2019[14]7 (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
 Japan6 November 2019[14]6 (2002, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018)
 South Korea9 November 2019[14]5 (2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016)
1 Bold 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

  • Kang Ji-woo

5 goals

  • Yuzuki Yamamoto

4 goals

3 goals

  • Maho Hirosawa
  • Haruka Ōsawa

2 goals

  • Han Xuan
  • Yang Qian
  • Sara Itō
  • Oto Kanno
  • Kim Yun-ok
  • Pak Il-gyong
  • Yun Ji-hwa
  • Choo Hyo-joo

1 goal

References

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