The 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup was 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.

It was held in Indonesia between 6–19 May 2024. A total of eight teams competed in the tournament. This was the first continental women's football tournament hosted by Indonesia.

The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic as the AFC representatives. Japan were the defending champions. They were defeated in the final by North Korea, equaling Japan's record of four titles.

Qualification

The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in 2019 qualified automatically, while the other four teams were decided by qualification. There were two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round played between 22–30 April 2023, and the second round played between 16–24 September 2023.

Qualified teams The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Team Qualified asAppearance Previous best performance 2nd (2005) 9th (2005, 2011, 2013, 2019) 8th (2007, 2015, 2017) 9th (2005) 9th (2009) 9th (2005) 7th (2009, 2019) 1st

Venues The matches were played at two venues, both at Gianyar Regency in Bali. GianyarKapten I Wayan Dipta StadiumBali United Training CenterCapacity: 18,000Capacity: 600

Draw The draw was held on 7 March 2024 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification, with the hosts Indonesia automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.

Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

Match officials The following referees and assistant referees were appointed for the tournament.

Referees

Rebecca Durcau Yu Hong Yang Shu-Ting Mahsa Ghorbani Azusa Sugino Cha Min-ji Veronika Bernatskaia Doumouh Al Bakkar Supiree Testhomya Bùi Thị Thu Trang

Assistant referees

Bao Mengxiao Wu Qiaoli Riiohlang Dhar Saki Nakamoto Islam Al-Abadi Sabreen Ala'badi Park Mi-suk Phutsavan Chanthavong Phyu May Thet Dilshoda Rahmanova Suwida Wongkraisorn Amal Badhafari

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2009 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team must register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 22.1 and 26.3).

Group stage The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and should they tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 7.3): Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Should more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they meet in the last round of the group; 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); Drawing of lots.

All times are local, WITA (UTC+8) Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Semi-finals The winners qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Third place match The winner of this match qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Final

Awards The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

AwardRecipientMost Valuable Player Miharu ShinjoTop Goalscorer Jon Il-chongBest Goalkeeper Pak Ju-gyongFuture Star (fan favorites) Miharu Shinjo Casey Phair Zhang Kecan Ariana Markey

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup The following three teams from AFC qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic.

Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup1 7 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022) 6 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018) 3 (2008, 2010, 2018) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

See also 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup

References

External links , the-AFC.com