2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup

2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup

Piala Asia Putri U-17 2024
Tournament details
Host country	Indonesia
City	Gianyar Regency
Dates	6–19 May
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	12
Goals scored	66 (5.5 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Choe Il-son Jon Il-chong (5 goals each)
← 2019 2022 2026 → All statistics correct as of 13 May 2024.

The 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup is 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 is held in Indonesia between 6–19 May 2024.^[1][2] A total of eight teams compete in the tournament. This is the first continental women's football tournament hosted by Indonesia.

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
Indonesia	Hosts	2nd	Group stage (2005)
Japan	2019 champions	9th	Champions (2005, 2011, 2013, 2019)
North Korea	2019 runners-up	8th	Champions (2007, 2015, 2017)
China	2019 third place	9th	Runners-up (2005)
South Korea	Second round Group A winners	9th	Champions (2009)
Thailand	Second round Group A runners-up	9th	Third place (2005)
Australia	Second round Group B winners	7th	Fourth place (2009, 2019)
Philippines	Second round Group B runners-up	1st	Debut

Venues

The matches will be played at two venues, both at the Gianyar Regency in Bali.

Gianyar
Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium	Bali United Training Center
Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 600
Gianyar

Draw

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.^[3]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Indonesia (hosts)  Japan	North Korea  China	Australia  South Korea	Thailand  Philippines

Match officials

The following referees and assistant referees were appointed for the tournament.

Referees

Assistant referees

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2009 are 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).^[4]

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers

Teams are 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 7.3):^[4]

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 meet 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.

All times are local, WITA (UTC+8)^[5]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	North Korea	3	3	0	0	22	0	+22	9	Knockout stage
2	South Korea	3	1	1	1	13	8	+5	4
3	Philippines	3	1	1	1	7	8	−1	4
4	Indonesia (H)	3	0	0	3	1	27	−26	0

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	3	3	0	0	12	1	+11	9	Knockout stage
2	China	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	6
3	Thailand	3	1	0	2	3	8	−5	3
4	Australia	3	0	0	3	2	10	−8	0

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Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	16 May
	Japan
					19 May
	South Korea
					Winner SF1
	16 May
					Winner SF2
	North Korea
	China
					Third place match
					19 May
					Loser SF1
					Loser SF2

Semi-finals

The winners will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Third place match

The winner of this match will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Final

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
TBD	16 May 2024
TBD	16 May 2024
TBD	19 May 2024

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

Goalscorers

There have been 66 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 5.5 goals per match (as of 13 May 2024). Players highlighted in bold are still active in the competition.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

See also

• 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup

References

External links

• AFC U17 Women's Asian Cup, the-AFC.com