AFC U-19 Championship 2018

ashindia

Kuala Lumpur: The AFC U-19 Championship 2018 qualifiers official draw will be held at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday.

The AFC U-19 Championship 2018 Qualifiers draw starts at 4pm, local time.

A total of 43 Member Associations (MAs) from across Asia will participate in the 2018 AFC U-19 Championship qualifiers, with ten (10) group winners and five (5) best second placed teams advancing to the finals along with the hosts. The AFC U-19 Championship qualifying stage is scheduled to take place from October 31 to November 8.

The 43 MAs will be separated into two zones, WEST (West, South and Central) with 22 teams and EAST (East and ASEAN) with 21 teams. Seeding for the draw is based on the rankings of last year’s AFC U-19 Championship in Bahrain. Teams that did not participate in the competition’s 2016 edition have been included but as the lowest-ranked sides. The host MA for the qualifiers will be drawn into separate groups.

The teams will then be drawn into three (3) groups of five (5) teams and seven (7) groups of four (4) teams.

WEST Zone:
Pot 1: Saudi Arabia (Host for Qualifiers), Islamic Republic of Iran (Host for Qualifiers), Iraq, Bahrain, Uzbekistan

Pot 2: Tajikistan (Host for Qualifiers), UAE, Qatar (Host for Qualifiers), Yemen, Palestine

Pot 3: Oman, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkmenistan

Pot 4: Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal, Syria, India

Pot 5: Kyrgyz Republic (Host for Qualifiers), Maldives

EAST Zone:
Pot 1: Japan, Vietnam, Korea Republic (Host for Qualifiers), Australia, China PR

Pot 2: Thailand, DPR Korea, Myanmar, Laos, Malaysia

Pot 3: Timor-Leste, Singapore, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei, Philippines

Pot 4: Macau, Brunei Darussalam, Northern Mariana Islands

Pot 5: Cambodia (Host for Qualifiers), Indonesia, Mongolia (Host for Qualifiers)
*The remaining two (2) balls that are not drawn will be moved to Pot 4

harry55

can anybody tell which are some good players for our u19 indian squad. as our previous u19 record is not so good,can we expect some positive hopes from this batch.

Carbon_14

See Minerva squad. DSK squad and Chinnaiyan squad.

they have some 18 year olds

Ronny

qualifiers are just after the U-17 WC.. will the same team play the qualifiers?

souravindia

that would be good and continuity for them @Ronny

DX

It would be great irrespective of the performance in the World Cup the u-17 team plays in this added with the best u-19 players as a core to the future u-23 team

Ronny

In U-19 qualifiers, only 16 or 17 year olds play so that they are max 18 by the time of U-19 finals and close to 19 for U-20 WC

shubham_northeastern

Group DSaudi ArabiaYemenTurkmenistanINDIA

ashindia

Tough group but not impossible. Need to defeat Yemen and Turkmenistan. 

mohammed_87hassan

I think Bodo,Bedashwor can play U-18 alongside India U-17 team 

mohammed_87hassan

http://www.indianfootballnetwork.com/blog/2017/04/21/draw-for-afc-u-16-and-u-19-championship-2018-qualifiers-out/