2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup

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.

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

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
Main article: 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup 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 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

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.
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