AFC Women's Asian Cup explained

Organiser:AFC
Region:Asia
Number Of Teams:12 (finals)
35 (qualifiers)
Current Champions:
(9th title)
Most Successful Team:
(9 titles)
Current:2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup

The AFC Women's Asian Cup (formerly known as the AFC Women's Championship) is a quadrennial competition in women's football for national teams which belong to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It is the oldest women's international football competition and premier women's football competition in the AFC region for national teams. The competition is also known as the Asian Women's Football Championship and the Asian Women's Championship. 20 tournaments have been held, with the current champions being China PR. The competition also serves as Asian qualifying tournament for the FIFA Women's World Cup.

History

The competition was set up by the Asian Ladies Football Confederation (ALFC), a part of the AFC responsible for women's football. The first competition was held in 1975 and was held every two years after this, except for a period in the 1980s where the competition was held every three years. The ALFC was initially a separate organisation but was absorbed into the AFC in 1986.

From 1975 to 1981, matches were 60 minutes in duration.[1]

The competition has been dominated by countries from the Pacific Rim or Eastern Asia (including East and Southeast Asia), with the China women's national football team having won 9 times, including a series of 7 consecutive victories as of 2022 edition. Countries from Central and West Asia have been rather less successful, with only Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Jordan and Iran having qualified so far. Eastern Asia has also been far more frequent in participating in the FIFA Women's World Cup, with five strongest women's teams of Asia (China, North Korea, Japan, Australia and South Korea) hail from this part.

The tournament frequency changed to every 4 years effective from 2010,[2] after AFC had announced that the Asian Cup will additionally serve as the qualification rounds of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.[3]

Until 2003, teams were invited by the AFC to compete. From 2006, a separate qualification was established and the number of teams will be decided by the merit by qualification process. The name of the tournament was also changed to as the "AFC Women's Asian Cup", to reflect the change and reforms of the competition.

The tournament was expanded from eight teams to twelve starting from the 2022 edition.[4]

On 20 August 2023, AFC has decided to shift the AFC Women’s Asian Cup to non-FIFA Women’s World Cup odd years, which will see the edition after the upcoming 2026 AFC Women’s Asian Cup takes place in 2029 instead of 2030.[5]

Qualification

See main article: AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification.

Format

All of the 47 members of the AFC who have a women's national team are eligible to participate in the qualification tournament.

Starting from 2022 edition, a total of twelve teams participate in the final tournament including the hosts, top three finishers of the previous edition and eight teams from the qualification tournament.[4]

Results

EditionYearHostsFinalThird place playoff or losing semi-finalistsTeams
ChampionsScoreRunners-upThird placeScoreFourth place
119753–15–06
219773–12–06
31980 India2–0 and Western Australia6
419815–02–08
51983 Thailand3–00–0
6
619862–03–07
719891–03–18
81991 Japan5–00–0
9
91993 Malaysia3–03–09
101995 Malaysia2–00–0
11
111997 China2–02–011
121999 Philippines3–03–215
1320012–08–014
142003 Thailand2–1 (a.e.t./g.g.)1–014
152006 Australia2–2
3–29
1620082–13–08
172010 China1–1
2–08
1820141–02–18
192018 Jordan1–03–18
202022 India3–2 and 12
212026 Australia12
222029 Uzbekistan

Performance by nation

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19231015
2332109
3322209
42453115
5132107
6131106
7100001
8021003
9011305
10001203
11001102
001102
13000202
14000011
Total 20202117280

Participating nations

width=150Team
1975
(6)
1977
(6)
1980
(6)
1981
(8)
1983
(6)
1986
(7)
1989
(8)
1991
(9)
1993
(8)
1995
(11)
1997
(11)
1999
(15)
2001
(14)
2003
(14)
2006
(9)
2008
(8)
2010
(8)
2014
(8)
2018
(8)
2022
(12)		Years
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Summary (1975–2022)

Rankwidth=200TeamPartMWDLGFGAGDPoints
11575615936738+329188
217815562036560+305171
314643862017584+91120
410533661124238+204114
5176934233115171−56104
613542871915777+8091
7840216138843+4569
8936164166361+252
914571144226191−16537
10933111213992−5334
11727711921115−9422
125167091564−4921
13934532620161−14118
141036522922187−16517
1551741121777−6013
1614400113+812
17392251639−238
1851722131656−408
1941510145112−1073
2013012012−121
2126006529−240
223100010167−660

Awards

Year Most Valuable Player Top Scorer Goals Best goalkeeper Fairplay Award
2006 Ma Xiaoxu Yūki Nagasato
Jung Jung-suk		7Not awarded
2008 Homare Sawa Ri Kum-suk7
2010 Jo Yun-mi Kozue Ando
Homare Sawa
Jo Yun-mi
Yoo Young-a		3
2014 Aya Miyama Yang Li
Park Eun-sun		6
2018 Mana Iwabuchi Li Ying7
2022 Wang Shanshan Sam Kerr7 Zhu Yu

Winning coaches

Year Team Coach
1975 Dave Farrington
1977 Liu Jun-tse
1980 Chang Teng-yun
1981 Kao Yong
1983 Fuengwit Thongpramul
1986 Cong Zheyu
1989 Shang Ruihua
1991 Shang Ruihua
1993 Ma Yuanan
1995 Ma Yuanan
1997 Ma Yuanan
1999 Ma Yuanan
2001 Ri Song-gun
2003 Ri Song-gun
2006 Ma Liangxing
2008 Kim Kwang-min
2010 Tom Sermanni
2014 Norio Sasaki
2018 Asako Takakura
2022

See also

External links

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Asian Women's Championship. live . https://web.archive.org/web/20111021192632/http://rsssf.com/tablesa/aswomen.html . 21 October 2011 .
  2. Web site: Competition Regulations AFC Women's Asian Cup 2014 Qualifiers . Asian Football Confederation . 25 July 2012 . The AFC stages the AFC Women's Asian Cup 2014 (Qualifiers) (hereafter the "Competition") for the senior women's national teams once every four (4) years. (In Section 1) .
  3. Web site: VFF Aim To Host 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup. Asean Football Federation. 5 October 2012. 18 October 2012.
  4. Web site: AFC to invest in new era of national team and club competitions. AFC. 26 October 2019.
  5. Web site: Key principles of landmark AFC Women’s Champions League approved by AFC Women’s Football Committee . Asian Football Confederation . 9 November 2023 . 20 August 2023.

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