✨Vòng loại Giải vô địch bóng đá U-16 châu Á 2016

Vòng loại Giải vô địch bóng đá U-16 châu Á 2016

The 2016 AFC U-16 Championship qualification decided the participating teams of the 2016 AFC U-16 Championship. The tournament is the 17th edition of the AFC U-16 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-16 national teams of Asia.

A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including India who qualified automatically as hosts but also competed in the qualifying stage.

Same as previous editions, the tournament acts as the AFC qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The top four teams of the final tournament will qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India as the AFC representatives, besides India who qualified automatically as hosts. If India are among the top four teams, the fifth-placed team (i.e., the losing quarter-finalist with the best record in the tournament) will also qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Draw

The draw for the qualifiers was held on ngày 5 tháng 6 năm 2015 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. A total of 45 teams entered the qualifying stage and were drawn into eleven groups. West Zone, with 24 entrants from Central Asia, South Asia và West Asia, had six groups of four teams. East Zone, with 21 entrants from ASEAN và East Asia, had one group of five teams and four groups of four teams.

The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2014.

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¹ Non-FIFA member, ineligible for U-17 World Cup.

Player eligibility

Players born on or after ngày 1 tháng 1 năm 2000 were eligible to compete in the 2016 AFC U-16 Championship.

Format

In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue. The eleven group winners and the four best runners-up from all groups qualified for the final tournament. If India were one of the group winners or best runners-up, the fifth-best runner-up also qualified for the final tournament.