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The 2016 AFC U-16 Championship qualification decided the participating teams of the 2016 AFC U-16 Championship. The tournament is the 17th edition of the AFC U-16 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-16 national teams of Asia. A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including India who qualified automatically as hosts but also competed in the qualifying stage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=India to host AFC U-16 Championship 2016 )〕 Same as previous editions, the tournament acts as the AFC qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The top four teams of the final tournament will qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India as the AFC representatives, besides India who qualified automatically as hosts. If India are among the top four teams, the fifth-placed team (i.e., the losing quarter-finalist with the best record in the tournament) will also qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup. ==Draw== The draw for the qualifiers was held on 5 June 2015 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AFC U-16 Championship 2016 qualifying draw concluded )〕 A total of 45 teams entered the qualifying stage and were drawn into eleven groups. *West Zone, with 24 entrants from Central Asia, South Asia and West Asia, had six groups of four teams. *East Zone, with 21 entrants from ASEAN and East Asia, had one group of five teams and four groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2014. ;Note : 1 Non-FIFA member, ineligible for U-17 World Cup. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2016 AFC U-16 Championship qualification」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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