[6][7][8][9] Sri Lanka went on to win the Plate League, giving them a final position of ninth overall in the tournament.

[13] In the final, India defeated Australia by 8 wickets to win their fourth Under-19 World Cup title.

[14] The ten full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), as of 2016, qualified automatically for the tournament.

Namibia, which placed seventh at the 2016 World Cup, also qualified automatically as the highest ranked associate member.

Along with the seventeen umpires, Jeff Crowe, Dev Govindjee, David Jukes and Graeme Labrooy were also named as the match referees.