The 2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was the 4th edition of the AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine which women's national teams from Asia qualify for the Olympic football tournament.
The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Brazil as the AFC representatives.
On 7 March 2016, with one round of matches remaining to be played, Australia and China were confirmed qualification to the Olympics.
Teams A total of 18 AFC member national teams entered the qualifying stage. The format is as follows: First round: The highest-ranked seven teams based on the FIFA Women's World Rankings at the time of the draw received byes. Teams ranked in the top five – Japan, Australia, North Korea, China PR, and South Korea – received byes to the final round, while teams ranked sixth and seventh – Thailand and Vietnam – received byes to the second round. The remaining 11 teams were drawn into two groups of four teams and one group of three teams, with the teams seeded according to their FIFA Rankings. In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue. The three group winners advanced to the second round. Second round: The five teams (two teams who entered this round and the three winners from the first round) played each other once at a centralised venue. The winner advanced to the final round. Final round: The six teams (five teams who entered this round and the winner from the second round) played each other once at a centralised venue. The top two teams qualified for the Olympic football tournament.
The draw for the qualifiers was held on 4 December 2014 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Teams enteringfinal roundTeams enteringsecond roundTeams entering first roundPot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4
Did not enter1
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Notes 1 Non-IOC member, ineligible for Olympics.
Schedule The schedule of the qualifying stage was as follows.
RoundDateFirst round11–15 March 2015 (Groups A and B)20–24 March 2015 (Group C)Second round14–22 September 2015Final round29 February – 9 March 2016
First round Group A All matches were held in Myanmar. Times listed were UTC+6:30.
Group B All matches were held in Jordan. Times listed were UTC+2.
Group C All matches were held in Taiwan. Times listed were UTC+8.
Second round All matches were held in Myanmar. Times listed were UTC+6:30.
Final round All matches were held in Japan. Times listed were UTC+9.
Qualified teams for Olympics The following two teams from AFC qualified for the Olympic football tournament.
Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1 (20002, 20042) (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008) 1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year. 2 Australia qualified as a member of the OFC in 2000 and 2004.
Goalscorers 9 goals Khin Moe Wai
6 goals
Win Theingi Tun Nguyễn Thị Minh Nguyệt
4 goals
Kyah Simon Maysa Jbarah Naw Ar Lo Wer Phaw Yee Yee Oo
3 goals
Michelle Heyman Emily van Egmond Lee Hsiu-chin Mana Iwabuchi Stephanie Al-Naber Anootsara Maijarern Huỳnh Như
2 goals
Katrina Gorry Gu Yasha Zhang Rui Chan Wing Sze Shabnam Behesht Yūki Ōgimi Kumi Yokoyama Khin Marlar Tun Wai Wai Aung Jung Seol-bin Lim Seon-joo Kamola Riskieva
1 goal
Lisa De Vanna Emily Gielnik Alanna Kennedy Clare Polkinghorne Ashleigh Sykes Ma Xiaoxu Wang Shanshan Wang Shuang Chan Pi-han Lai Li-chin Lin Chiung-ying Lin Ya-han Michelle Pao Yu Hsiu-chin Loitongbam Ashalata Devi Gurumayum Radharani Devi Yumnam Kamala Devi Fatemeh Arjangi Fereshteh Karimi Parya Norouzi Nahomi Kawasumi Emi Nakajima Shinobu Ohno Luna Al-Masri Shahnaz Jebreen Souphavanh Phayvanh San San Maw Than Than Htwe Ju Hyo-sim Kim Su-gyong Kim Un-ju Ra Un-sim Kiloudi Salama Natali Shaheen Jeon Ga-eul Lee Geum-min Nargiza Abdurasulova Nilufar Kudratova Zumratjon Nazarova Makhliyo Sarikova Feruza Turdiboeva
Own goal
Yasmeen Khair (playing against Chinese Taipei) Nisansala Sewwandi (playing against Myanmar) Imesha Madushani (playing against India) Lin Kai-ling (playing against Myanmar)
References
External links , the-AFC.com Women's Olympic Football Tournament 2016, stats.the-AFC.com