2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup

2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup
Piala Asia Putri U-17 2024
Tournament details
Host country	Indonesia
City	Gianyar Regency
Dates	6–19 May
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	North Korea (4th title)
Runners-up	Japan
Third place	South Korea
Fourth place	China
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	74 (4.63 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Jon Il-chong; (6 goals)
Best player(s)	Miharu Shinjo
Best goalkeeper	Pak Ju-gyong
Fair play award	Japan
	← 2019; 2022 2025 →

The 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup was the 9th edition of the AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC U-17 Women's Championship and AFC U-16 Women's Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-17 national teams of Asia.

It was held in Indonesia between 6–19 May 2024.^[1]^[2] A total of eight teams competed in the tournament. This was the first continental women's football tournament hosted by Indonesia.

The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic as the AFC representatives. Japan were the defending champions. They were defeated in the final by North Korea, equaling Japan's record of four titles.

Qualification edit

The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in 2019 qualified automatically, while the other four teams were decided by qualification. There were two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round played between 22–30 April 2023, and the second round played between 16–24 September 2023.

Qualified teams edit

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Appearance	Previous best performance
Indonesia	Hosts	2nd	Group stage (2005)
Japan	2019 champions	9th	Champions (2005, 2011, 2013, 2019)
North Korea	2019 runners-up	8th	Champions (2007, 2015, 2017)
China	2019 third place	9th	Runners-up (2005)
South Korea	Second round Group A winners	9th	Champions (2009)
Thailand	Second round Group A runners-up	9th	Third place (2005)
Australia	Second round Group B winners	7th	Fourth place (2009, 2019)
Philippines	Second round Group B runners-up	1st	Debut

Venues edit

The matches were played at two venues, both at Gianyar Regency in Bali.

Gianyar
Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium	Bali United Training Center
Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 600

Gianyar

Draw edit

The draw was held on 7 March 2024 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification, with the hosts Indonesia automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.^[3]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Indonesia (hosts) Japan	North Korea China	Australia South Korea	Thailand Philippines

Match officials edit

The following referees and assistant referees were appointed for the tournament.

Referees

Rebecca Durcau
Yu Hong
Yang Shu-Ting
Mahsa Ghorbani
Azusa Sugino
Cha Min-ji
Veronika Bernatskaia
Doumouh Al Bakkar
Supiree Testhomya
Bùi Thị Thu Trang

Assistant referees

Bao Mengxiao
Wu Qiaoli
Riiohlang Dhar
Saki Nakamoto
Islam Al-Abadi
Sabreen Ala'badi
Park Mi-suk
Phutsavan Chanthavong
Phyu May Thet
Dilshoda Rahmanova
Suwida Wongkraisorn
Amal Badhafari

Squads edit

Players born between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2009 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team must register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 22.1 and 26.3).^[4]

Group stage edit

The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and should they tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 7.3):^[4]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Should more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they meet in the last round of the group;
Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
Drawing of lots.

All times are local, WITA (UTC+8)^[5]

Group A edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	North Korea	3	3	0	0	22	0	+22	9	Knockout stage
2	South Korea	3	1	1	1	13	8	+5	4	Knockout stage
3	Philippines	3	1	1	1	7	8	−1	4
4	Indonesia (H)	3	0	0	3	1	27	−26	0

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

6 May 2024