The 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup qualification is a women's under-17
football
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competition that will determine the participating teams in the
2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup
The 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup will be the 9th edition of the AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC U-17 Women's Championship and AFC U-16 Women's Championship), the biennial international youth football champion ...
final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2007 are eligible to participate.
A total of eight teams will qualify to play in the final tournament. The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in
2019
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will qualify automatically, while the other four teams will be decided by qualification.
There will be two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round scheduled to be played between 22–30 April 2023, and the second round originally scheduled to be played between 16–24 September 2023.
Teams
Of the 47
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member associations, a total of 29 teams entered the competition, with Japan, North Korea and China automatically qualified for the final tournament by their position as the top three teams of the
2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification
The 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification is a women's under-16 football competition which decides the participating teams of the 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship.
A total of eight teams qualify to play in the final tournament held ...
and thus not participating in qualification. The draw for the first round of the qualifiers was held on 3 November 2022, 16:00
MYT (
UTC+8), at the AFC House in
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.
The 29 teams were allocated to five groups of four teams and three groups of three teams, with teams seeded according to their performance in the
2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship
The 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship was the 8th edition of the AFC U-16 Women's Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-16 national teams of ...
final tournament and
qualification (overall ranking shown in parentheses; NR stands for non-ranked teams). A further restriction was also applied, with the eight teams serving as qualification group hosts drawn into separate groups.
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*Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
*Teams in ''italic'' advanced to the second round.
*(H): Qualification group hosts
*(W): Withdrew after draw
*(Q): Final tournament hosts, automatically qualified. All of their matches in the Qualifiers will be deemed as friendlies
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Player eligibility
Players born between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2009 are eligible to compete in the tournament.
Format
In each group, teams play each other once at a centralised venue.
*In the first round, the eight group winners advance to the second round. However, the final tournament hosts Indonesia do not advance to the second round. Their matches will also not be taken into account when calculating the group ranking.
*In the second round, the two group winners and the two group runners-up qualify for the final tournament to join the four automatically qualified teams.
Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to
points
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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are 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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Goal difference
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in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
#Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
#If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
#Goal difference in all group matches;
#Goals scored in all group matches;
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Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met 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.
First round
The first round will be played from 22 to 30 April 2023.
Group A
*All matches will be held in
Thailand.
*Times listed are
UTC+7.
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Group B
*All matches will be held in
Mongolia.
*Times listed are
UTC+8.
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Group C
*All matches will be held in
Vietnam.
*Times listed are
UTC+7.
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Group D
*All matches will be held in
Singapore.
*Times listed are
UTC+8.
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Group E
*All matches will be held in
Tajikistan.
*Times listed are
UTC+5.
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Group F
*All matches will be held in
Kyrgyzstan.
*Times listed are
UTC+6.
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Group G
*All matches will be held in
Guam.
*Times listed are
UTC+10.
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Group H
*All matches will be held in
Jordan.
*Times listed are
UTC+3.
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Second round
The draw for the second round of the qualifiers was held on 18 May 2023.
Eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams,
seeded according to their performance in the
2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship
The 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship was the 8th edition of the AFC U-16 Women's Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-16 national teams of ...
final tournament and
qualification.
;Notes
*Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
*(H): Qualification second round group hosts
The second round will be played between 16 and 24 September 2023.
Group A
Group B
Qualified teams
The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.
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1 Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.
Goalscorers
Notes
See also
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2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification
The 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification is a women's under-20 football competition that will determine the participating teams in the 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2004 are eligible ...
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2024 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
The 2024 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament will be the sixth edition of the AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine whic ...
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2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualification
The 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualification was an international men's under-23 football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup.
A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including Q ...
References
External links
*, the-AFC.com
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