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championship organised by the

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(AFC) for the women's under-20 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-19 to under-20. Moreover, the tournament was also rebranded from the "AFC U-19 Women's Championship" to the "AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup". It was scheduled to be held in

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between 4–17 April 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

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with Uzbekistan. The top three teams of the tournament were to qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in

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as the AFC representatives. These same three teams -

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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 would have been decided by qualification. There were to be two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round scheduled to be played between 14 and 22 August 2021, and the second round also scheduled to be played between 3–7 November 2021.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The following three teams from AFC qualified for the

. All three teams qualified for the

. On 16 March 2022, the AFC announced that Australia would replace North Korea as the AFC's representatives at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. :

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

References

External links

*, the-AFC.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Afc U-20 Women's Asian Cup 2022

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