2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification explained

Tourney Name:	AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification
Year:	2024
Country:	First round: Laos (Group A) Palestine (Group B) Kyrgyzstan (Group C) Jordan (Group D) Thailand (Group E) Vietnam (Group F) Cambodia (Group G) Bangladesh (Group H)
Country2:	Second round: Vietnam (Group A) Myanmar (Group B)
Dates:	First round: 6–12 March 2023
Num Teams:	31
Confederations:	1
Top Scorer:	He Jia-shiuan (13 goals)
Prevseason:	2019 2022
Nextseason:	2026

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 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 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 4 and 12 March 2023, and the second round scheduled to be played between 3 and 11 June 2023.^{[1] [2]}

Draw

Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 31 teams entered the competition, with Japan, North Korea and South Korea automatically qualified for the final tournament by their position as the top three teams of the 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification and thus not participating in qualification. The draw for the first round of the qualifiers was held on 3 November 2022, 14:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[3]

The 31 teams were allocated to seven groups of four teams and one group of three teams,^[4] with teams seeded according to their performance in the 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship 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.

Bye to final tournament

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Notes

• Teams in bold automatically qualified for the final tournament.
• Teams in italics advanced to second round.^[5]
• (H): Qualification first round group hosts
• (Q): Final tournament hosts, automatically qualified, but will participate in the Qualifiers. All of their matches in the Qualifiers will be deemed as friendlies.
• (W): Withdrew after the draw

Did not enter

Player eligibility

Players born between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2008 are eligible to compete in the tournament.^[6]

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 Uzbekistan 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 (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):^[6]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. 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;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
8. 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);
9. Drawing of lots.

First round

The first round was played from 6 to 12 March 2023.

Group A

• All matches were held in Laos.
• Times listed are UTC+7.

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Group B

• All matches were held in Palestine.
• Times listed are UTC+2.

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Group C

• All matches were held in Kyrgyzstan.
• Times listed are UTC+6.

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Group D

• All matches were held in Jordan.
• Times listed are UTC+3.

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Group E

• All matches were held in Thailand.
• Times listed are UTC+7.
• Uzbekistan will compete in the qualifiers, but their matches will not be taken into account when calculating the group ranking.

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Group F

• All matches were held in Vietnam.
• Times listed are UTC+7.

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Group G

• All matches were held in Cambodia.
• Times listed are UTC+7.

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Group H

• All matches were held in Bangladesh.
• Times listed are UTC+6.

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Second round

The draw for the second round of the qualifiers was held on 23 March 2023.^[7] The two group hosts were determined after the draw.

The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams, seeded according to their performance in the 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification.

Participating in qualification second round

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Notes

• Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
• (H): Qualification second round group hosts

The second round was played between 3 and 10 June 2023.

Group A

• All matches were held in Vietnam.
• Times listed are UTC+7:00.

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Group B

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

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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	data-sort-type="number"	Previous appearances in AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup^1
			4 (2002, 2004, 2015, 2017)
			10 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
			10 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
			10 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
			8 (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
			5 (2004, 2009, 2011, 2017, 2019)
			10 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
			4 (2002, 2004, 2007, 2009)

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

Overall ranking

The overall rankings for teams eliminated from the qualification will be used for seeding in the next tournament's qualifiers and final tournament. The results against the fourth-placed in four-team groups are not considered for this ranking.

See also

• 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup qualification
• 2024 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

External links

• , the-AFC.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: 5 July 2021 . Latest update on the AFC National Team Competitions in 2021 and 2022 . 6 February 2022 . the-afc.com . Asian Football Confederation.
2. Web site: 5 February 2022 . AFC Women's Football Committee approves AFC's world-class competitions' roster . 6 February 2022 . the-afc.com . Asian Football Confederation.
3. Web site: 31 October 2022 . AFC U20 Women's Asian Cup Uzbekistan 2024 Qualifiers to set stage for new generation of stars to be born . 31 October 2022 . the-afc.com . Asian Football Confederation.
4. Web site: AFCU20W draw unveils route to Uzbekistan 2024 . the-afc.com . 3 November 2022 . 3 November 2022.
5. Web site: Uzbekistan 2024 Qualifiers - Results & Reports . AFC . 13 March 2023.
6. Web site: AFC U20 Women's Asian Cup 2024 Competition Regulations. AFC.
7. Web site: U20WAC Qualifiers Round 2 Draw finalised . AFC . 23 March 2023.