Players born between 1 January 1999 and 31 December 2001 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

[1] A total of eight teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including Japan, North Korea, China PR (hosts), and Thailand, who qualified directly as the top four finishers of the 2013 AFC U-16 Women's Championship.

[2] The draw for the qualifiers was held on 17 June 2014 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.

[3] A total of 21 AFC member national teams entered the qualifying stage and were drawn into four groups.

Bangladesh Sri Lanka Iran Uzbekistan Bahrain Jordan India Palestine Kyrgyzstan United Arab Emirates Qatar Tajikistan Australia Chinese Taipei South Korea Myanmar Hong Kong Philippines Cambodia Northern Mariana1 Vietnam Afghanistan Bhutan Iraq Kuwait Lebanon Maldives Nepal Oman Pakistan Saudi Arabia Syria Turkmenistan Yemen Brunei Guam Indonesia Laos Macau Malaysia Mongolia Singapore Timor-Leste In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue.