The 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification will be the qualification tournament for the 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup. The qualification tournament will decide eight of the twelve participating teams in the final tournament to be held in Australia. Along with the host nation, the top three teams in the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup final tournament also secured automatic qualification:

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and

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. A total of 34 teams submitted entries to participate in the qualifiers. This tournament will also serve as the first stage of Asian

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for the

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and the 2028 Olympic football tournament. The teams will be divided into eight groups, with group winners qualifying to the final tournament.

Qualified teams

The following 12 teams qualified for the final tournament:

Draw

The draw took place on 27 March 2025, 15:00 MST (

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), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. For the first time in the tournament's history, the seeding for both qualifiers and final draws is based on the latest FIFA Women's World Ranking at the time of the draw. Previously, the teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous final tournament and qualification rankings. On 26 February 2025, the AFC confirmed the eight associations that had expressed their intent to host qualification groups ahead of the draw. The qualifying tournament originally was to feature eight groups, with one group comprising five teams, while the remaining seven groups would each consist of four teams. On 2 March 2025, FIFA lifted the suspension of the

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, clearing the way for

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to enter qualification. As a result, 34 teams will enter qualification. Two groups will have five teams each, and the remaining six groups will each have four teams. ;Notes *Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament. *(H): Qualification group hosts determined before the draw. These teams were taken from their respective pots and placed in a separate Host Pot, and could not be drawn in the same group. ;Did not enter * (161) * (175) * (NR) * (NR) * (H) (NR) * (N/A) * * *

Groups

Group A

*All matches will be held in

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, instead of

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

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Group B

*All matches will be held in

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

. *Times listed are

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Group C

*All matches will be held in

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

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Group D

*All matches will be held in

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

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Group E

*All matches will be held in

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

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Group F

*All matches will be held in

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. *Times listed are

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Group G

*All matches will be held in

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Group H

*All matches will be held in

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Goalscorers

Notes

References

External links

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Qualified teams

Draw

Groups

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Goalscorers

Notes

See also

References

External links