2012 AFC U-16 Championship

Host Selection

The Organising Committee for AFC Youth Competitions for the 2011–2015 term announced that Iran and Palestine were interested in hosting the 2012 AFC U-16 Championship Finals.

Per decision of the AFC Competitions Committee, the host nation should qualify for the final tournament. The decision on the hosts was taken in the committee's meeting on 21 November 2011 based on the results of the qualifiers.

Qualification

Main article: 2012 AFC U-16 Championship qualification

The qualification draw was held on 30 March 2011.

Qualifiers

Venues

Draw

The draw for the competition was held on 10 May 2012 in Tehran, Iran.

Group stage

In the group stage the tie-breaking criteria are direct matches before goal difference.

Group A

Hosseini

Kettavong Noyvong Keola Alajmi

Ezzatollahi Jafari Karamolachaab

Shojaei

Kettavong

Group B

Iraq and Australia played a penalty shootout after their final group match to determine the group winner, in which Iraq won that 3–2.

MacDonald

Majed

M. Lateef

Baldacchino

Mubarak Al-Rushadi Thongma

Group C

Sugimoto

Choi Ju-Yong Ko Min-hyuk

Ri Kwang-Song

Sugimoto Ogawa

Group D

Abdullaev Abdiganiyev

Zhang Yuning Mendes

Knockout stage

Knockout Map

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Quarterfinals

Salman Majed

Hwang Hee-Chan Lee Gun Lim Eun-Su Abdullaev Shukurov Mirzaev Abbasov}}

Karamolachaab Bazaj Rigi

Sugimoto

Semifinals

Mazloum Abdullaev Shukurov

Kitagawa Watanabe Sasaki

Final

Shukurov Mirzaev Sugimoto Sugimori Kitagawa

Winners

Countries to participate in 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup

The four semi-finalists qualified for 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Goalscorers

• KOR Hwang Hee-Chan

• IRN Reza Karamolachaab

• IRN Majid Hosseini

• IRN Amir Mohammad Mazloum

• JPN Taro Sugimoto

• OMA Hatem Al-Rushadi

• YEM Mohammed Al-Dahi

• AUS Josh Macdonald

• CHN Zhang Yuning

• IRN Ali Rigi

• IRN Saeid Ezzatollahi

• IND Uttam Rai

• JPN Koya Kitagawa

• JPN Hiroki Ogawa

• JPN Wataru Sasaki

• KUW Bader Thekr Allah

• KUW Nawaf Marzouq

• IRQ Samer Al-Mahdawi

• LAO Anousay Noyvong

• LAO Armisay Kettavong

• SYR Khaled Kurdaghli

• UZB Akobir Turaev

• AUS Bai Antoniou

• AUS James Baldacchino

• AUS Taylor Tombides

• CHN Hu Jinghang

• CHN Wang Jinxian

• IRN Ali Shojaei

• IRN Mohammad Reza Bazaj

• IRN Sasan Jafari

• IND Daniel Lalhlimpuia

• IND Myron Mendes

• LAO Thanin Phanthavong

• IRQ Ali Essam Kadhim

• IRQ Mahdi Abdul-Zahra

• IRQ Mohammed Lateef

• IRQ Salman Ali Salman

• IRQ Sherko Karim

• IRQ Yasir Ammar Sami

• JPN Fumiya Nakamura

• JPN Koki Sugimori

• JPN Takuma Mizutani

• JPN Yuki Onishi

• JPN Ryoma Watanabe

• KOR Choi Ju-Yong

• KOR Jeong Hun-U

• KOR Ko Min-hyuk

• KUW Abdullah Alasfour

• KUW Naji Alajmi

• KSA Abdull-Kareem Al-Qahtani

• OMA Marwan Mubarak

• OMA Samir Al Alawi

• PRK Ri Ryong

• PRK Ri Kwang-Song

• SYR Subie Alhusni

• THA Saran Puangbut

• THA Peeranat Thongma

• UZB Abdullaev Izzatilla

• UZB Jamshid Boltaboev

• UZB Ibrokhim Abdullaev

• UZB Ilhomjon Abdiganiyev

• UZB Mukhiddin Odilov

• UZB Otabek Shukurov

• UZB Dostonbek Khamdamov

• LAO Anoukone Keola (playing against Kuwait)

• YEM Ala Addin Mahdi (playing against Laos)

References

References

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