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 championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-17 national teams of Asia.
It will be held in Indonesia between 6–19 May 2024.[1][2] A total of eight teams will compete in the tournament.
The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic as the AFC representatives. Japan are the defending champions.
Qualification
The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in 2019 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.
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 qualification, with the hosts Indonesia automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.[3]
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