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Tournament details | |
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Host country | Qatar |
Dates | 30 September – 14 October |
Teams | 10 (from 1 confederation) |
Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Third place | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 16 |
Goals scored | 49 (3.06 per match) |
Attendance | 7,550 (472 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() |
Best player(s) | ![]() |
The 2015 WAFF U-23 Championship took place in Doha, Qatar for the first time. Ten nations took part. The competition was held in Doha from 30 September 30 to 14 October with the draw for the tournament on 6 September 2015.[1] Iran won the title after they defeated Syria in the final. This was Iran's last WAFF competition before joining the Central Asian Football Association.
The competition was used as a warm up for the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship which is also to be held in Qatar. This competition in turn is used as qualification for the Olympics football tournament of which these sides participating in the WAFF championship were eligible for.
Teams
[edit]Squads
[edit]Each team had to register a squad of up to 23 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers.
Group stage
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Advanced to the semifinals |
- All times listed are (UTC+3)
Group A
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 7 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 3 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
Group B
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 |
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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
Iran ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
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Cheshmi ![]() Fazeli ![]() |
Report |
Iran ![]() | 2–2 | ![]() |
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Motahari ![]() |
Report | Madou ![]() Al-Sulayhem ![]() |
Saudi Arabia ![]() | 3–2 | ![]() |
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Al-Ghamdi ![]() Al-Sulayhem ![]() Madou ![]() |
Report | Abdulrasool ![]() Hasan ![]() |
Group C
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 6 |
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 0 |
United Arab Emirates ![]() | 4–3 | ![]() |
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Khameis ![]() Khalfan ![]() Saif ![]() Rabee ![]() |
Report | Saleem ![]() Al Hamdani ![]() Taaib ![]() |
Ranking of second-placed teams
[edit]The best runner-up across all groups advance to semifinal. The results against the fourth-placed team are not counted when determining the ranking of the runner-up team.
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 4 |
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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 |
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
Knockout stage
[edit]Semi-finals
[edit]Third place
[edit]Final
[edit]Syria ![]() | 0–2 | ![]() |
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Report | Naghizadeh ![]() Motahari ![]() |
Champion
[edit]2015 WAFF U-23 Championship champion |
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![]() Iran First title |
Final standing
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Player awards
[edit]- Best Player:
Amir Arsalan Motahari
- Top Scorer:
Akram Afif
- Best Goalkeeper:
Mohammadreza Akhbari
Goalscorers
[edit]- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Abdula Ali Hasan
Ali Abdulrasool
Hossein Fazeli
Mehrdad Mohammadi
Roozbeh Cheshmi
Alireza Naghizadeh
Mohammad Daneshgar
Baha' Faisal
Marwan Taaib
Khalid Al Hamdani
Jameel Saleem
Ahmed Al Siyabi
Almoez Ali
Ahmed Alaaeldin
Raed Al-Ghamdi
Mahmoud Al Bahr
Abdullah Al Shami
Khaled Mobayed
Khalifa Mubarak
Ebraheim Khameis
Saif Khalfan
Ahmed Rabee
Sultan Saif
Ahmed Abdullah
Abdulmuain Al-Jarshi
References
[edit]- ^ "Doha to conduct WAFF Olympic Championship draw in September". QFA. 11 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.