Tournament details | |
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Host countries | Kuwait Uzbekistan Nepal Jordan Pakistan Kyrgyzstan Hong Kong Laos China Malaysia |
Dates | 21–29 September 2013 |
Teams | 43 (from 1 confederation) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 66 |
Goals scored | 352 (5.33 per match) |
Top scorer(s) |
Jong Chang-Bom (6 goals) |
The 2014 AFC U-16 Championship qualification was the qualification round for the 2014 AFC U-16 Championship, which took place in Thailand. The draw for the qualifiers was held on 26 April 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
A total of 43 teams entered the qualification tournament and were drawn into ten groups of five or four teams. West Zone, containing teams from West Asia and South/Central Asia, had one group of five teams and five groups of four teams, while East Zone, containing teams from East Asia and ASEAN, had two groups of five teams and two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2012. After playing each other once at a centralised venue, the ten group winners and best five runners-up from all groups qualified for the final tournament.
Iran
Iraq
Kuwait
Oman
Syria
Uzbekistan