The 1997 AFC Women's Championship was a women's football tournament held in the province

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

between 5 and 14 December 1997. It was the 11th staging of the AFC Women's Championship. The 1997 AFC Women's Championship, consisting of eleven teams, served as the AFC's qualifying tournament for the

1999 FIFA Women's World Cup The 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup was the third edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the world championship for List of women's national association football teams, women's national association football, soccer teams. It was hosted as well as ...

. Asia's three berths were given to the two finalists -

and Korea DPR - and the winner of the third place play-off,

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Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for

Third place match

Winner qualified for

Final

Awards

Goalscorers

External links

Tables & results
at RSSSF.com {{DEFAULTSORT:1997 Afc Women's Championship

Championship In sport, a championship is a competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion. Championship systems Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship. Title match system In this sys ...

AFC Women's Championship AFC Women's Asian Cup tournaments AFC Women's Championship International women's association football competitions hosted by China AFC Women's Championship

AFC Championship The AFC Championship Game is the annual championship game of the American Football Conference (AFC) and one of the two semifinal playoff games of the National Football League (NFL), the largest professional American football league in the wo ...