2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup

The 2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup was originally to be held as the 11th edition of the AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC U-19 Women's Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-20 national teams of Asia, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup
Tournament details
Host countryUzbekistan
DatesCancelled (originally 4–17 April 2022)
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)

Starting from the 2022 edition, the AFC agreed to the proposal for switching the tournament from under-19 to under-20.[2][3] Moreover, the tournament was also rebranded from the "AFC U-19 Women's Championship" to the "AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup".[4] It was scheduled to be held in Uzbekistan between 4–17 April 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-20 Women's Asian Cup with Uzbekistan.[1]

The top three teams of the tournament were to qualify for the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Costa Rica as the AFC representatives. Japan were to be the defending champions.

Qualification
Main article: 2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification

The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in 2019 qualifed automatically, while the other four teams would have been decided by qualification. There were to be two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round scheduled to be played between 14–22 August 2021, and the second round also scheduled to be played between 3–7 November 2021.[8][9]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Team Qualified as Appearance Previous best performance
 UzbekistanHosts5thGroup stage (2002, 2004, 2015, 2017)
 Japan2019 champions11thChampions (2002, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019)
 North Korea2019 runners-up11thChampions (2007)
 South Korea2019 third place11thChampions (2004, 2013)
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2006 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-20 Women's World Cup

The following three teams from AFC were to qualify for the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup1
TBDApril 2022
TBDApril 2022
TBDApril 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 U20 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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.