2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup

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2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup
Piala Asia Putri U-17 2022
Tournament details
Host countryFlag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia
DatesCancelled (originally 9–22 May 2022)
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
← 2019
2024 →

The 2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup was originally to be held as 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, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [1]

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Starting from the 2022 edition, the AFC agreed to the proposal for switching the tournament from under-16 to under-17. [2] [3] Moreover, the tournament was also rebranded from the "AFC U-16 Women's Championship" to the "AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup". [4] It was scheduled to be held in Indonesia between 9–22 May 2022. [5] [6] A total of eight teams were to compete in the tournament. [7]

The AFC announced the cancellation of the tournament on 5 July 2021, leaving the hosting rights for the 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup also to Indonesia. [1] Japan were to be the defending champions.

In addition to India (as hosts), the top two teams of the tournament were to qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in India, prior to that tournament's own cancellation. [8] These same three teams - India (as hosts), Japan and North Korea - qualified for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. [9] However, the AFC subsequently announced that China PR would replace North Korea as one of the AFC's representatives. [10]

Qualification

The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in 2019 qualified automatically, while the other four teams were to be decided by qualification. There would have been two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round scheduled to be played between 18 and 26 September 2021, and the second round scheduled to be played between 8–12 December 2021. [11] [12]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

TeamQualified asAppearancePrevious best performance
Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia Hosts2ndGroup stage (2005)
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2019 champions9thChampions (2005, 2011, 2013, 2019)
Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea 2019 runners-up8thChampions (2007, 2015, 2017)
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2019 third place9thRunners-up (2005)

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

The following three teams from AFC qualified for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, including India who qualified automatically as host. [9]

On 16 March 2022, the AFC announced that China PR would replace North Korea as one of the AFC's representatives. [10]

On 16 August 2022, it was announced that the All India Football Federation, or AIFF, was suspended by FIFA due to undue influence from third parties. As a result, the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was stripped from India, as FIFA planned to assess the next steps when it came to hosting the tournament. [13] On 27 August, FIFA lifted the suspension, thus giving back the hosting rights to India. [14]

TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup 1
Flag of India.svg  India 15 March 2019 [15] 0 (debut)
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 25 September 2019 [16] 6 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 , 2016, 2018)
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 16 March 20222 (2012, 2014)
1Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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