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2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup qualification

The 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup qualification was the qualification process organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup, the 9th edition of the international women's under-17 football championship of Asia. Therefore, players born on or after 1 January 2007 were eligible to participate.

A total of eight teams qualified to play in the final tournament in Indonesia. The host country Indonesia and the top three teams of the previous tournament (Japan, North Korea and China) qualified automatically, while the other four teams were decided by qualification, with the matches played between 22 and 30 April 2023 (first round) and 19–24 September 2023 (second round) in centralised venues.

This tournament also served as the first stage of Asian qualification for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, where three teams from the U-17 Women's Asian Cup qualify directly for the World Cup.

Teams

The 42 AFC member associations were eligible to enter the qualification after Indonesia plus the top three teams of the previous tournament (Japan, North Korea and China) automatically qualified for the final tournament and Sri Lanka was barred from participating in international competitions due to FIFA suspension after the draw. The Northern Mariana Islands, whose association are not FIFA members, were not be eligible to qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Only 24 teams including Turkmenistan who did not participate in the previous edition, entered the competition. The final host Indonesia initially decided to also participate in the qualifying competition but withdrew after the draw. 18 teams including Bahrain, Bhutan, Iraq and United Arab Emirates who withdrew after the draw plus Laos, Pakistan and Syria who did participate in the previous edition, did not enter to the qualification and were listed below. The following teams with asterisks are the teams never entered the qualification.

  • (withdrew after the draw)
  • (withdrew after the draw)
  • (withdrew after the draw)
  • (suspended after the draw)
  • (withdrew after the draw)

First draw

The draw for the first round was held on 3 November 2022 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

29 teams including Bahrain, Bhutan, Iraq plus United Arab Emirates who withdrew after the draw and Indonesia who automatically qualified as hosts but withdrew from participation after the draw, were seeded into four pots based on their performance at the qualification and the final tournament of the previous edition. The eight hosts of the qualification were placed into the host pots.

Seeding

Teams who participated in the final tournament of the previous edition were ranked from the 1st to the 8th by their performance at that tournament and other teams who participated in the qualification of the previous edition were ranked from the 9th to 28th by their performance at that tournament. Bahrain, Bhutan, Indonesia, Iraq, Turkmenistan and United Arab Emirates who did not participate in the previous edition, were unranked.

Final rankings
Qualification rankings

Pots

The 29 teams including Bahrain, Bhutan, Iraq plus United Arab Emirates who withdrew after the draw and Indonesia who automatically qualified as hosts but withdrew from participation after the draw, were drawn into five groups of four teams and three groups of three teams.

Notes
  • Teams in bold advanced to the qualification second round.
  • (H): Qualification first round group hosts.
  • (Q): Final tournament hosts, automatically qualified for the final tournament regardless of qualification results.
  • (W): Withdrew after the draw.

Player eligibility

Players born between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2009 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Format

In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue.

  • In the first round, the eight group winners advanced to the second round. However, the final tournament hosts Indonesia did not advance to the second round. Their matches were not taken into account when calculating the group ranking.
  • In the second round, the two group winners and the two group runners-up qualified for the final tournament to join the four automatically qualified teams.

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied: (Regulations Article 7.3):

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
  9. Drawing of lots.

First round

The first round was played from 22 to 30 April 2023.

Group A

  • All matches were held in Thailand.
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Group B

  • All matches were held in Mongolia.
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Group C

  • All matches were held in Vietnam.
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Group D

  • All matches were held in Singapore.
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Group E

  • All matches were held in Tajikistan.
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Group F

  • All matches were held in Kyrgyzstan.
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Group G

  • All matches were held in Guam.
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Group H

  • All matches were held in Jordan.
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Second round

The draw for the second round of the qualifiers was held on 18 May 2023. Eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams, seeded according to their performance in the 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification.

Notes
  • Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
  • (H): Qualification second round group hosts

The second round was played between 19 and 24 September 2023.

Group A

  • All matches were held in Thailand.
  • Times listed are .

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Group B

  • All matches were held in Vietnam.
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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

<div id="1"><sup>1</sup> Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.</div>

Goalscorers

Notes

See also

References

External links

  • , the-AFC.com