2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup

2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup
Piala Asia Putri U-17 2024
	File:AFC U17 Women's Asian Cup 2024.png
Tournament details
Host country	Indonesia
City	Gianyar Regency
Dates	6–19 May
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea (4th title)
Runners-up	File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan
Third place	File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
Fourth place	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	74 (4.63 per match)
Top scorer(s)	North Korea Jon Il-chong; (6 goals)
Best player(s)	Japan Miharu Shinjo
Best goalkeeper	North Korea Pak Ju-gyong
Fair play award	File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan
	← 2019; 2022 2025 →

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.^[1]^[2] 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 as	Appearance	Previous best performance
File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia	Hosts	2nd	Group stage (2005)
File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan	2019 champions	9th	Champions (2005, 2011, 2013, 2019)
File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea	2019 runners-up	8th	Champions (2007, 2015, 2017)
File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China	2019 third place	9th	Runners-up (2005)
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea	Second round Group A winners	9th	Champions (2009)
File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand	Second round Group A runners-up	9th	Third place (2005)
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia	Second round Group B winners	7th	Fourth place (2009, 2019)
File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines	Second round Group B runners-up	1st	Debut

Venues

The matches were played at two venues, both at Gianyar Regency in Bali.

Gianyar
Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium	Bali United Training Center
Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 600
File:Stadion Dipta.jpg	File:No image available.svg
2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup is located in Bali Gianyar Gianyar

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.^[3]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia (hosts) File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan	File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China	File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea	File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines

Match officials

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

Referees

Australia Rebecca Durcau
China Yu Hong
Chinese Taipei Yang Shu-Ting
Iran Mahsa Ghorbani
Japan Azusa Sugino
South Korea Cha Min-ji
Kyrgyzstan Veronika Bernatskaia
Lebanon Doumouh Al Bakkar
Thailand Supiree Testhomya
Vietnam Bùi Thị Thu Trang

Assistant referees

China Bao Mengxiao
China Wu Qiaoli
India Riiohlang Dhar
Japan Saki Nakamoto
Jordan Islam Al-Abadi
Jordan Sabreen Ala'badi
South Korea Park Mi-suk
Laos Phutsavan Chanthavong
Myanmar Phyu May Thet
Tajikistan Dilshoda Rahmanova
Thailand Suwida Wongkraisorn
United Arab Emirates 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).^[4]

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):^[4]

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)^[5]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea	3	3	0	0	22	0	+22	9	Knockout stage
2	File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea	3	1	1	1	13	8	+5	4	Knockout stage
3	File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines	3	1	1	1	7	8	−1	4
4	File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia (H)	3	0	0	3	1	27	−26	0

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

6 May 2024