AFC U-19 Women’s Championship (Qualification) will be held from November 4-18, 2006. Entries have been received from 13 teams so far while Vietnam’s participation is still not final after receiving a later request for inclusion. Japan and Korea Republic qualifying straight for the finals. Two groups of four teams and one group of three teams (will be four if Vietnam’s request is granted) will play the qualifiers in one centralized, round-robin league. The top teams will qualify for the finals. The teams: West, South & Central: Bahrain, Jordan, IR Iran, Kyrgyzstan ASEAN, South & Central: Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, India East: Chinese Taipei, Guam, Hong Kong AFC U-19 Women’s Championship 2007 (finals) will be played from November 7-18 2007. Eight teams split into two groups of four will play one centralised, round-robin league. The top two teams will qualify for the semifinals. Draw will be held in November 2006 in host country (not decided yet).

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