2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup
Tournament details
Host countryUzbekistan
Dates3–16 March 2024
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)

The 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup will be the 11th edition of the AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC U-20 Women's Championship and AFC U-19 Women's Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-20 national teams of Asia.

It will be held in Uzbekistan between 3–16 March 2024.[1][2] A total of eight teams will compete in the tournament.

The top four teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia 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 4–12 March 2023, and the second round played between 3–11 June 2023.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Team Qualified as Appearance Previous best performance
 UzbekistanHosts5thGroup stage (2002, 2004, 2015, 2017)
 Japan2019 champions11thChampions (2002, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019)
 North Korea2019 runners-up11thChampions (2007)
 South Korea2019 third place11thChampions (2004, 2013)
 AustraliaSecond round Group A winners9thThird place (2006)
 VietnamSecond round Group A runners-up6thQuarter-finals (2004)
 ChinaSecond round Group B winners11thChampions (2006)
 Chinese TaipeiSecond round Group B runners-up5thRunners-up (2002)

Draw

The draw was held on 15 December 2023 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[3]

The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification, with the hosts Uzbekistan automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
  1.  Uzbekistan (hosts)
  2.  Japan
  1.  Vietnam
  2.  Chinese Taipei

Group stage

All times are local, UZT (UTC+5).[4]

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Uzbekistan (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage and
2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2  South Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Uzbekistan v Chinese Taipei
South Korea v Australia
Do'stlik Stadium, Tashkent
Australia v Uzbekistan
Chinese Taipei v South Korea
Do'stlik Stadium, Tashkent
Uzbekistan v South Korea
Australia v Chinese Taipei
Do'stlik Stadium, Tashkent

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage and
2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2  North Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Vietnam 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Japan v Vietnam
North Korea v China
Do'stlik Stadium, Tashkent
China v Japan
Vietnam v North Korea
Do'stlik Stadium, Tashkent
Japan v North Korea
China v Vietnam
Do'stlik Stadium, Tashkent

Knockout stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
13 March – JAR
 
 
Winner Group A
 
16 March – JAR
 
Runner-up Group B
 
Winner SF1
 
13 March – Do'stlik
 
Winner SF2
 
Winner Group B
 
 
Runner-up Group A
 
Third place match
 
 
16 March – JAR
 
 
Loser SF1
 
 
Loser SF2

Semi-finals

Group A winnervGroup B runner-up
Group B winnervGroup A runner-up
Do'stlik Stadium, Tashkent

Third place match

Semi-final 1 loservSemi-final 2 loser

Final

Semi-final 1 winnervSemi-final 2 winner

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The following four teams from AFC qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup1
TBDMarch 2024
TBDMarch 2024
TBDMarch 2024
TBDMarch 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.
  3. ↑ "#U20WAC draw to set stage for eagerly anticipated Uzbekistan 2024". the-afc. Asian Football Confederation. 12 December 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "AFC U20 Women's Asian Cup Uzbekistan 2024 Match Schedule" (PDF). the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
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