The 44 teams are divided into ten groups, which will compete from October 1-9 this year for 15 positions in the U17 Asian Cup scheduled to take place in Bahrain next year.
Matches of Group F will be held in Vietnam, which is expected to boost the morale of Vietnamese players in the competition for a place at the final event.
According to the rules, ten winners of each group and five best-performing runners-up will be qualified, along with hosts Bahrain, which qualify automatically.
To prepare for the qualifiers, Vietnam’s U17 team had a four-week training tour in Germany and played friendly matches with the junior teams of Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt, 1. FC Koln and Borussia Monchengladbach.
The teams are scheduled to gather in August to compete at the Southeast Asian tournament and then will continue training before the Asian qualifiers.
