India have been slotted in pot 3 for the official draw of the AFC U-16 Championship Bahrain 2020 which will be held in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
India qualified for the U-16 finals when they finished as Group B champions in Tashkent from a group which had Uzbekistan (hosts), Bahrain and Turkmenistan. The Indian colts finished with seven points from three matches scoring 10 goals, while conceding 1.
This is India's third consecutive qualification in the AFC U-16 finals, and ninth overall.
Who do you think will be in India's group at the AFC U-16 Championship 2020 finals? Join us for the draw tomorrow! ⏳ 12 Noon IST, June 18 (Thursday): @theafcdotcom Youtube Channel#BackTheBlue #AFCU16 #StarsOfTomorrow #IndianFootball ⚽ pic.twitter.com/Pe2lwSoU1Q— Indian Football Team (@IndianFootball) June 17, 2020
The current batch will head to the Championship in Bahrain on back of some amazing results last year that saw them net score a whopping 28 goals (without conceding any from five matches on their way to the SAFF U-15 Championship title. The team currently stay unbeaten in eight international matches.
In 2018, the U-16 boys stayed a win away from a direct qualification into the FIFA U-17 World Cup when they lost to Korea Republic by a solitary goal in the quarterfinals. That was India's second entry into the quarterfinals, the earlier being in 2002.
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