The AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup, founded as the AFC U-17 Women's Championship and later the AFC U-16 Women's Championship, before changing to its current name after the 2019 edition, is a biennial

women's football Women's football most often refers to: * Women's association football (hannah jones ). Women's football may also refer to: * Women's gridiron football * Women's Australian rules football * Ladies' Gaelic football * Women's rugby league * Women's ...

tournament for youth teams organised by the

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. It further serves as the qualifying competition for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The AFC have agreed to the proposal for switching the tournament from under-16 to under-17 starting from 2022. Moreover, the tournament will also be rebranded from the "AFC U-16 Women's Championship" to the "AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup". The tournament was first held in 2005 as an Under-17 edition. With only eleven teams entering in the inaugural year, there was no qualification held. In 2007 the tournament switched to the Under-16 modus, again eight teams entered the competition. In 2009 twelve teams entered and thus for a first time a qualifying round was held. The 2011 edition featured two qualification rounds. Here five seeded teams for the finals were joined by an additional 13 teams fighting for a final sixth spot.

History

Format

Results

Teams reaching the top four

Medal summary

Awards

Summary (2005-2019)

Summary results

;Legend * – Champions * – Runners-up * – Third place * – Fourth place *QF – Quarterfinals *GS – Group stage * – Did not qualify * – Did not enter / Withdrew * – Country did not exist or national team was inactive * – Hosts *q – Qualified for upcoming tournament For each tournament, the flag of the host country and the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

References

External links

* * at RSSSF.com Under-16 association football Asian Football Confederation competitions for women's national teams Youth football competitions Recurring sporting events established in 2005 {{Asia-footy-competition-stub