2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup

The 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup will be 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.

2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup
Piala Asia Putri U-17 2024
Tournament details
Host countryIndonesia
Dates6–19 May
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
2026

It will be held in Indonesia between 6–19 May 2024.[1][2] A total of eight teams will compete in the tournament.

The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic as the AFC representatives. Japan are the defending champions.

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 are played at two venues, both at the Gianyar Regency in Bali.

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
  1.   Indonesia (hosts)
  2.   Japan

Group stage edit

All times are local (GMT+8)[4]

Group A edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Indonesia (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2   North Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3   South Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4   Philippines 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
North Korea  v  South Korea
Bali United Training Center, Bali
Indonesia  v  Philippines

Philippines  v  North Korea
Bali United Training Center, Bali
South Korea  v  Indonesia

Indonesia  v  North Korea
South Korea  v  Philippines
Bali United Training Center, Bali

Group B edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2   China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3   Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4   Thailand 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
China  v  Australia
Bali United Training Center, Bali
Japan  v  Thailand

Thailand  v  China
Bali United Training Center, Bali
Australia  v  Japan

Japan  v  China
Australia  v  Thailand
Bali United Training Center, Bali

Knockout stage edit

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
16 May
 
 
Winner Group B
 
19 May
 
Runner-up Group A
 
Winner SF1
 
16 May
 
Winner SF2
 
Winner Group A
 
 
Runner-up Group B
 
Third place match
 
 
19 May
 
 
Loser SF1
 
 
Loser SF2

Semi-finals edit

Both semi-final winners will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Winner Group BvRunner-up Group A
Winner Group AvRunner-up Group B

Third place match edit

The winner of this match will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Loser SF1vLoser SF2

Final edit

Winner SF1vWinner SF2

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup edit

The following three teams from AFC qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup1
TBD 16 May 2024
TBD 16 May 2024
TBD 19 May 2024
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "#U17WAC draw to reveal thrilling Indonesia 2024 showdowns". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 2024-02-26. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
  2. ^ "AFC Women's Football Committee approves AFC's world-class competitions' roster". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 5 February 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  3. ^ "#U17WAC draw to reveal thrilling Indonesia 2024 showdowns". Asian Football Confederation. 26 February 2024. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  4. ^ "AFC U17 Women's Asian Cup Indonesia 2024 Match Schedule" (PDF). Asian Football Confederation. Retrieved 7 March 2024.

External links edit