2018 AFC U-16 Championship qualification

2018 AFC U-16 Championship qualification

Tournament details
Host country	TBD
Dates	16–24 September 2017.[1]
Teams	Maximum 47 (from 1 confederation)

The 2018 AFC U-16 Championship qualification will decide the participating teams of the 2018 AFC U-16 Championship. The tournament is the 18th 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 will qualify to play in the final tournament, including a team to be announced who qualified automatically as hosts.

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 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup as the AFC representatives.

Draw

Entrants to be confirmed.

	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
West Zone (Groups A–F)	Iraq  Iran  Qatar  Uzbekistan  Saudi Arabia  Syria	Bahrain  Kuwait  Oman  Tajikistan  United Arab Emirates  Yemen	Afghanistan  India    Nepal  Kyrgyzstan  Pakistan  Palestine	Bangladesh  Bhutan  Jordan  Lebanon  Sri Lanka  Turkmenistan
East Zone (Groups G–K)	Japan  North Korea  Vietnam  South Korea  Thailand	Malaysia  Australia  China PR  Hong Kong  Laos	Chinese Taipei  Myanmar  Timor-Leste  Mongolia  Singapore	Brunei  Cambodia  Guam  Macau  Philippines

Did not enter
West Zone	Maldives
East Zone	Northern Mariana^1

References

1. "AFC Competitions Calendar 2017" (PDF). AFC. 12 April 2016.

External links

• AFC U-16 Championship, the-AFC.com