The 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup was the 9th edition of the

AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup 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 tournament for youth teams organis ...

(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. It was held in

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between 6–19 May 2024. A total of eight teams competed in the tournament. This was the first continental women's football tournament hosted by Indonesia. The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the

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in the

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as the AFC representatives.

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were the defending champions. They were defeated in the final by

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, equaling Japan's record of four titles.

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 decided by qualification. There were two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round played between 22–30 April 2023, and the second round played between 16–24 September 2023.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Venues

The matches were played at two venues, both at

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Draw

The draw was held on 7 March 2024 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship final tournament and

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, with the hosts Indonesia automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.

Match officials

The following referees and assistant referees were appointed for the tournament. ;Referees * Rebecca Durcau * Yu Hong * Yang Shu-Ting * Mahsa Ghorbani * Azusa Sugino * Cha Min-ji * Veronika Bernatskaia *

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* Supiree Testhomya * Bùi Thị Thu Trang ;Assistant referees * Bao Mengxiao * Wu Qiaoli * Riiohlang Dhar * Saki Nakamoto * Islam Al-Abadi * Sabreen Ala'badi * Park Mi-suk * Phutsavan Chanthavong * Phyu May Thet * Dilshoda Rahmanova * Suwida Wongkraisorn * Amal Badhafari

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2009 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team must register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 22.1 and 26.3).

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals. ;Tiebreakers Teams were ranked according to

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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and should they tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 7.3): #Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #

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in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #Should more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; #Goal difference in all group matches; #Goals scored in all group matches; #

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if only two teams are tied and they meet in the last round of the group; #Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points); # Drawing of lots. All times are local,

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Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

The winners qualified for the

Third place match

The winner of this match qualified for the

Final

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

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

The following three teams from AFC qualified for the