2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup qualification

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2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup qualification
Tournament details
Host countryFirst round:
Australia
Bangladesh
Jordan
Kyrgyzstan
Mongolia
Myanmar
Tajikistan
Vietnam
DatesCancelled (Originally, First round: 18–26 September 2021
Second round: 8–12 December 2021)
TeamsTBC (from 1 confederation)
2019
2024

The 2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup qualification will be a women's under-17 football competition which decides the participating teams of the 2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup. Players born between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2007 are eligible to compete in the tournament. [1]

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A total of eight teams will qualify to play in the final tournament to be held in Indonesia. The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in 2019 will qualify automatically, while the other four teams will be decided by qualification. [2]

There will be two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round originally scheduled to be played between 3–11 April 2021, and the second round originally scheduled to be played between 22–26 September 2021. On 25 January 2021, the AFC announced that the qualifying rounds had been postponed to 18–26 September and 8–12 December 2021 respectively due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] [4] Eight countries will host the first round matches. [2]

Teams

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

TeamQualified asQualified onPrevious appearances in AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup 1
Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia Hosts7 April 20211 (2005)
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2019 champions2 October 20208 ( 2005 , 2007, 2009, 2011 , 2013 , 2015, 2017, 2019 )
Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea 2019 runners-up2 October 20207 ( 2007 , 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 , 2017 , 2019)
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China PR 2019 third place2 October 20208 (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 , 2013 , 2015 , 2017, 2019)
TBDDecember 2021
TBDDecember 2021
TBDDecember 2021
TBDDecember 2021
1Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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References

  1. "AFC U17 Women's Asian Cup 2022 Competition Regulations". AFC.
  2. 1 2 "AFC rebrands age group championships to AFC Asian Cups". AFC. 2 October 2020.
  3. "AFC Competitions Calendar 2021". AFC.
  4. "Latest update on AFC Competitions in 2021". AFC. 25 January 2021.