Academy Fantasia (season 9)

Similar to the 8th season, season 9 consisted three channels for audition, Live, Online and Academic institutions audition. However, in this season the audition participants from the Academic Institutions audition who pass the audition would not be automatically became the finalists, instead they had to competed again with the contestants from the Live and Online audition for the spot as a finalist.

Season 9 finished the audition with 24 contestants got a chance to get into the house similar to season 8, but in this season, the 24 contestants would not yet received their V number for the competition. Instead, they had to compete in the "Minor House" in the first three weeks of the season for the spot as the final 12 in the "Main House", and the eight judges would selected six contestants from the twenty-four to joined their "team", two judges per team, with two teams of men and two teams of women. By each weeks, each team's judges would selected one contestants who performed the weakest and eliminated them out of the competition, which made two male and two female contestants be eliminated in each concert, similar to season 8, until each team had three remaining contestants, the remaining contestant will become the 12 main finalists of season 9 and received their V number.

However, in the third concert, after each team's judges selected their first two contestants to be the season 9's finalists, leaving four spots in the final 12, the remaining eight contestants who not yet be selected were joined by eight eliminated contestants from the first two concerts, and all eight judges had to decide to pick four out of sixteen them to be the 12 finalists. The full list of the 12 main finalists of season 9 was revealed on the first day of the Main House competition, at the beginning of the fourth week of the season, which consisting of five female contestants and seven male contestants.

There were three channel for auditions, Live, Online and Academic institutions audition. The contestants were required to between the ages of 15 and 25 years old who are not embedded with music recording contracts.

The Live Auditions were held in the following cities:

• The South district, Surat Thani
• The Northeast district, Nakhon Ratchasima
• The North district, Chiangmai
• The Center district, Bangkok