The 2026 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup will be the 10th 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 annual 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 will be the first of three consecutive

held in China (also in Suzhou), preceding the

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and

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. It will be held in China between 30 April–17 May 2026. For the first time, total of twelve teams will compete in the tournament and there will be no

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. The top four teams of the tournament will qualify for the

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as the AFC representatives. DPR Korea are the defending champions.

Qualification

The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in 2024 qualified automatically, while the other eight teams will be decided by qualification. There will be one round of qualification matches, which will be held between 9–17 October 2025.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Venues

The tournament will be held in

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

The following four teams from AFC qualify for the

. :

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

References

External links

AFC U17 Women's Asian Cup
at the-AFC.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Afc U-17 Women's Asian Cup 2026 U-17 Asian Cup

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Scheduled association football competitions