2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification

2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification
Tournament details
Host countries	First round:; Laos (Group A); Palestine (Group B); Kyrgyzstan (Group C); Jordan (Group D); Thailand (Group E); Vietnam (Group F); Cambodia (Group G); Bangladesh (Group H); Second round:; Vietnam (Group A); Myanmar (Group B)
Dates	First round: 6–12 March 2023; Second round: 3–11 June 2023
Teams	31[lower-alpha 1] (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	48
Goals scored	220 (4.58 per match)
Attendance	45,763 (953 per match)
Top scorer(s)	He Jia-shiuan; (13 goals)

The 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification is a women's under-20 football competition that will determine the participating teams in the 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2004 are eligible to participate.

A total of eight teams will qualify to play in the final tournament. 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. There will be two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round scheduled to be played between 4 and 12 March 2023, and the second round scheduled to be played between 3 and 11 June 2023.[1][2]

Draw

Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 31 teams entered the competition, with Japan, North Korea and South Korea automatically qualified for the final tournament by their position as the top three teams of the 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification and thus not participating in qualification.[lower-alpha 1] The draw for the first round of the qualifiers was held on 3 November 2022, 14:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[3]

The 31 teams were allocated to seven groups of four teams and one group of three teams,[lower-alpha 1][4] with teams seeded according to their performance in the 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification (overall ranking shown in parentheses; NR stands for non-ranked teams). A further restriction was also applied, with the eight teams serving as qualification group hosts drawn into separate groups.

Bye to final tournament
Uzbekistan (NR) (hosts) Japan (1) North Korea (2) South Korea (3)

**Teams entering qualifying round**[3]
	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Host Pot	Vietnam (6) (H) Thailand (7) (H)	Kyrgyzstan (12) (H) Jordan (14) (H) Laos (16) (H) Bangladesh (19) (H)		Cambodia (NR) (H) Palestine (NR) (H)
Remaining Teams	Australia (4) China (5) Myanmar (8) Iran (9) Nepal (10) Lebanon (11)	Chinese Taipei (13) India (15) Malaysia (17) United Arab Emirates (18) (W)	Mongolia (20) Singapore (21) Hong Kong (22) Guam (23) Tajikistan (24) Pakistan (25) (W)	Bhutan (NR) Indonesia (NR) Iraq (NR) (W) Northern Mariana Islands[lower-alpha 2] (NR) Philippines (NR) Turkmenistan[lower-alpha 2] (NR) Uzbekistan[lower-alpha 1] (NR) (Q)

Notes

Teams in bold automatically qualified for the final tournament.
Teams in italics advanced to second round.[5]
(H): Qualification first round group hosts
(Q): Final tournament hosts, automatically qualified, but will participate in the Qualifiers. All of their matches in the Qualifiers will be deemed as friendlies.
(W): Withdrew after the draw

Did not enter

Afghanistan
Bahrain
Brunei
Kuwait
Macau
Maldives
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Sri Lanka
Syria
Timor-Leste
Yemen

Player eligibility

Players born between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2008 are eligible to compete in the tournament.[6]

Format

In each group, teams play each other once at a centralised venue.

In the first round, the eight group winners advance to the second round. However, the final tournament hosts Uzbekistan do not advance to the second round. Their matches will also not be taken into account when calculating the group ranking.
In the second round, the two group winners and the two group runners-up qualify for the final tournament to join the four automatically qualified teams.

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 7.3):[6]

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;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are 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 met 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.

First round

The first round was played from 6 to 12 March 2023.

Group A

All matches were held in Laos.
Times listed are UTC+7.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	3	0	0	20	0	+20	9	Second round
2	Philippines	3	1	1	1	3	8	−5	4
3	Hong Kong	3	0	2	1	4	10	−6	2
4	Laos (H)	3	0	1	2	2	11	−9	1

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

8 March 2023

16:00

China	6–0	Philippines
Huo Yuexin 9', 36' Zou Mengyao 22' Lu Jiayu 69' Ouyang Yuhuan 74' Qiao Ruiqi 82'	Report

National Stadium KM16, Vientiane

Attendance: 453

Referee: Om Choki (Bhutan)

8 March 2023

19:30

Laos	2–2	Hong Kong
Chaikham 5' Sisa 87'	Report	Chan Tsz Shan 13' Luk 81' (pen.)