2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup
Piala Asia Putri U-17 2024
Tournament details
Host countryIndonesia
Dates7–20 April 2024
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)

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.

It will be held in Indonesia between 7–20 April 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

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

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Team Qualified as Appearance Previous best performance
 IndonesiaHosts2ndGroup stage (2005)
 Japan2019 champions9thChampions (2005, 2011, 2013, 2019)
 North Korea2019 runners-up8thChampions (2007, 2015, 2017)
 China2019 third place9thRunners-up (2005)
 South KoreaSecond round Group A winners9thChampions (2009)
 ThailandSecond round Group A runners-up9thThird place (2005)
 AustraliaSecond round Group B winners7thFourth place (2009, 2019)
 PhilippinesSecond round Group B runners-up1stDebut

Draw

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.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
  1.  Indonesia (hosts)
  2.  Japan

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

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
TBDApril 2024
TBDApril 2024
TBDApril 2024
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

  1. "Latest update on the AFC National Team Competitions in 2021 and 2022". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 5 July 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  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.
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