The 2015 WAFF U-23 Championship took place in Doha, Qatar for the first time. Ten nations took part. The competition was held in Qatar from 30 September to 14 October with the draw for the tournament on 6 September 2015. 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
Squads
Each team had to register a squad of up to 23 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers.
Venues Doha Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium(Lekhwiya SC stadium) Capacity: 12,000
Group stage Legend Advanced to the semifinals All times listed are (UTC+3)
Group A
Group B
Group C
Ranking of second-placed teams 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.
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Third place
Final
Winners
Final standing
RankTeam45678910
Player awards Best Player: Amir Arsalan Motahari Top Scorer: Akram Afif Best Goalkeeper: Mohammadreza Akhbari
Goalscorers 4 goals
Akram Afif
3 goals
Amir Arsalan Motahari Ahmed Hisham Nasouh Al Nakdali Waleed Al-Hubaishi
2 goals
Islam Batran Hamza Sanhaji Abdulla Madou Abdulmajeed Al-Sulayhem
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
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