2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup

The 2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup was originally to be held as 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, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup
Piala Asia Putri U-17 2022
Tournament details
Host country Indonesia
DatesCancelled (originally 9–22 May 2022)
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)

Starting from the 2022 edition, the AFC agreed to the proposal for switching the tournament from under-16 to under-17.[2][3] Moreover, the tournament was also rebranded from the "AFC U-16 Women's Championship" to the "AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup".[4] It was scheduled to be held in Indonesia between 9–22 May 2022.[5][6] A total of eight teams were to compete in the tournament.[7]

The AFC announced the cancellation of the tournament on 5 July 2021, leaving the hosting rights for the 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup also to Indonesia.[1]

The top two teams of the tournament were to qualify for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in India as the AFC representatives, besides India who automatically qualified as hosts. Japan were to be the defending champions.

Qualification
Main article: 2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup qualification

The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in 2019 qualified automatically, while the other four teams were to be decided by qualification. There would have been two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round scheduled to be played between 18–26 September 2021, and the second round scheduled to be played between 8–12 December 2021.[8][9]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Team Qualified as Appearance Previous best performance
 IndonesiaHosts2ndGroup stage (2005)
 Japan2019 champions9thChampions (2005, 2011, 2013, 2019)
 North Korea2019 runners-up8thChampions (2007, 2015, 2017)
 China PR2019 third place9thRunners-up (2005)
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2007 were to be eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team would have registered a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must have been goalkeepers (Regulations Article 26.3).[7]

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

The following three teams from AFC were to qualify for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, including India who qualified automatically as host.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup1
 India17 November 2020[10]0 (debut)
TBDMay 2022
TBDMay 2022
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References
  1. "Latest update on the AFC National Team Competitions in 2021 and 2022". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 5 July 2021.
  2. "AFC Women's Football Committee approves AFC Women's Club Championship". AFC. 27 September 2019.
  3. "Junior, Young Matildas Championships to change". thewomensgame.com. 1 October 2019.
  4. "AFC rebrands age group championships to AFC Asian Cups". AFC. 2 October 2020.
  5. "AFC Executive Committee reiterates commitment to deliver 2021 competitions". AFC. 7 April 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  6. "AFC Competitions Calendar 2022". AFC.
  7. "AFC U17 Women's Asian Cup 2022 Competition Regulations". AFC.
  8. "AFC Competitions Calendar 2021". AFC.
  9. "Latest update on AFC Competitions in 2021". AFC. 25 January 2021.
  10. "Update on FIFA Club World Cup 2020 and women's youth tournaments". FIFA.com. 17 November 2020.
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