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The 2024 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was the sixth edition of the AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international
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competition organised by the
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(AFC) to determine which women's national teams from
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qualify for the Olympic football tournament. The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in
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as AFC representatives.


Format

Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 31 AFC member national teams entered the qualifying stage. The format is as follows: *First round: The five highest-ranked teams in the
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as of 9 December 2022, which were
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,
Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
,
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,
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and
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, received byes to the second round. The remaining 26 teams were divided into five groups of four and two groups of three and compete in a one-round league format in a centralised venue. The winners of each group in this round then advanced to the second round. *Second round: The twelve teams (five teams who entered this round and seven teams from the first round) will be drawn into three groups of four teams and compete in a one-round league format in a centralised venue. The three group winners and the best-ranked runners-up in this round will then advance to the third round. *Third round: The four teams will play two pairs of home and away matches with the two eventual winners qualifying for the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament.


Teams

The draw for the first round was held on 12 January 2023, 15:00 MYT, at the AFC House in
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,
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. Five teams received a bye to the second round. ;Notes *Teams in bold qualified for the Olympics. *Numbers in parentheses indicate the December 2022
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(otherwise unranked). *(H): Qualification first round group hosts (* all chosen as group hosts after the draw, the remaining group hosted at a neutral venue) *(N): Not a member of the
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, ineligible for Olympics *(W): Withdrew after draw ;Did not enter * (85) * (86) * (89) * (94) * (114) * (120) * (157) * * * * () * () * * * *


First round

The first round was played between 1–11 April 2023. ;Tiebreakers Teams are ranked according to
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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 13.2): # Goal difference in all group matches; # Goals scored in all group matches; # Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; # Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; # Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; # Disciplinary points (yellow card = −1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = −3 points, direct red card = −4 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = −5 points); # Drawing of lots.


Group A

*All matches were held in Uzbekistan. *Times listed are
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. ---- ----


Group B

*All matches were held in Myanmar. *Times listed are UTC+6:30. ----


Group C

*All matches were held in Nepal. *Times listed are UTC+5:45. ----


Group D

*All matches were held in Thailand. *Times listed are UTC+7:00. ---- ----


Group E

*All matches were held in Tajikistan. *Times listed are UTC+5:00. ---- ----


Group F

*All matches were held in Lebanon. *Times listed are UTC+3:00. ---- ----


Group G

*All matches were held in Kyrgyzstan. *Times listed are UTC+6:00. ----


Second round

The draw for the second round of the qualifiers was held at the AFC House in
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, Malaysia on 18 May 2023. For the second round, the twelve teams were drawn into three groups of four. The teams were seeded according to the March 2023 FIFA World Rankings, with North Korea unranked due to inactivity. ;Notes *Teams in bold qualified for the
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. *(H): Qualification second round group hosts


Group A

*All matches were held in Perth, Australia. Due to strong demand, the second match day venue was moved to the larger
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. *Times listed are
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Group B

*All matches were held in Xiamen, China. *Times listed are
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Group C

*All matches were held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. *Times listed are
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. ---- ----


Ranking of group runners-up


Third round

The third round featured the three group winners (Australia, North Korea, Japan) and best group runners-up (Uzbekistan) from the second round. The third round winners, Australia and Japan, qualified for the
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as the two AFC representatives. ; Combinations of matches The specific match-ups depended on the group from which the best runners-up qualified.


Summary


Matches

''Australia won 13–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Japan won 2–1 on aggregate.''


Qualified teams for the 2024 Summer Olympics

The following two teams from AFC qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympic women's football tournament in France. ;Notes ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.


Goalscorers


See also

*
2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup The 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup was the 6th edition of the AFC U-23 Asian Cup (previously the AFC U-23 Championship before rebranding from 2021), the biennial international age-restricted football championship organised by the Asian Football Confeder ...
(AFC qualifiers for the 2024 Summer Olympics men's football tournament)


References


External links

*, the-AFC.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Afc Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2024
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