The 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup was 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 was held in Indonesia between 6âÂÂ19 May 2024. A total of eight teams competed in the tournament. This was the first continental women's football tournament hosted by Indonesia.
The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic as the AFC representatives. Japan were the defending champions. They were defeated in the final by North Korea, equaling Japan's record of four titles.
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 22âÂÂ30 April 2023, and the second round played between 16âÂÂ24 September 2023.
The following teams qualified for the tournament.
The matches were played at two venues, both at Gianyar Regency in Bali.
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.
The following referees and assistant referees were appointed for the tournament.
Players born between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2009 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team must register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 22.1 and 26.3).
The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals.
Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and should they tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 7.3):
All times are local, WITA ()
The winners qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
The winner of this match qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
The following three teams from AFC qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic.