2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification

The 2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification will be a women's under-20 football competition which decides the participating teams of the 2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup. Players born between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2006 are eligible to compete in the tournament.[1]

2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification
Tournament details
Host countryFirst round:
Australia
China
Chinese Taipei
Laos
Mongolia
Myanmar
Singapore
Tajikistan
DatesCancelled (Originally, First round: 14–22 August 2021
Second round: 3–7 November 2021)
TeamsTBC (from 1 confederation)

A total of eight teams will qualify to play in the final tournament to be held in Uzbekistan. 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.[2]

There will be two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round originally scheduled to be played between 13–21 March 2021, and the second round originally scheduled to be played between 18–22 August 2021. On 25 January 2021, the AFC announced that the qualifying rounds had been postponed to 14–22 August and 3–7 November 2021 respectively due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][4] Eight countries will host the first round matches.[2]

Draw

The draw for the first round of qualification was originally to be held on 27 May 2021, at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. However, on 21 May 2021, the AFC decided to postpone the draw for the first round of qualification.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup1
 UzbekistanHosts7 April 20214 (2002, 2004, 2015, 2017)
 Japan2019 champions2 October 202010 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
 North Korea2019 runners-up2 October 202010 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
 South Korea2019 third place2 October 202010 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
TBDNovember 2021
TBDNovember 2021
TBDNovember 2021
TBDNovember 2021
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References
  1. "AFC U20 Women's Asian Cup 2022 Competition Regulations". AFC.
  2. "AFC rebrands age group championships to AFC Asian Cups". AFC. 2 October 2020.
  3. "AFC Competitions Calendar 2021". AFC.
  4. "Latest update on AFC Competitions in 2021". AFC. 25 January 2021.
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