The 2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup was originally to be held as the 9th edition of the

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(including previous editions of the AFC U-17 Women's Championship and AFC U-16 Women's Championship), the biennial international youth

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championship organised by the

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(AFC) for the women's under-17 national teams of Asia, before being cancelled due to the

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. Starting from the 2022 edition, the AFC agreed to the proposal for switching the tournament from under-16 to under-17. Moreover, the tournament was also rebranded from the "AFC U-16 Women's Championship" to the "AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup". It was scheduled to be held in

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between 9–22 May 2022. A total of eight teams were to compete in the tournament. The AFC announced the cancellation of the tournament on 5 July 2021, leaving the hosting rights for the 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup also to Indonesia.

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were to be the defending champions. In addition to

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(as hosts), the top two teams of the tournament were to qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in India, prior to that tournament's own cancellation. These same three teams -

(as hosts),

and

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- qualified for the

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. However, the AFC subsequently announced that

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would replace North Korea as one of the AFC's representatives.

Qualification

The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in

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qualified automatically, while the other four teams were to be decided by qualification. There would have been two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round scheduled to be played between 18 and 26 September 2021, and the second round scheduled to be played between 8–12 December 2021.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

The following three teams from AFC qualified for the

, including

who qualified automatically as host. On 16 March 2022, the AFC announced that China PR would replace North Korea as one of the AFC's representatives. On 16 August 2022, it was announced that the

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, or AIFF, was suspended by FIFA due to undue influence from third parties. As a result, the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was stripped from India, as FIFA planned to assess the next steps when it came to hosting the tournament. On 27 August, FIFA lifted the suspension, thus giving back the hosting rights to India. :

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

References

External links

*, the-AFC.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Afc U-17 Women's Asian Cup 2022

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