2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup

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2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup
AFC U-20 ayollar Osiyo kubogi 2024
File:AFC U20 Women's Asian Cup 2024.png
Tournament details
Host countryUzbekistan
Dates3–16 March 2024
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
ChampionsFile:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea (2nd title)
Runners-upFile:Flag of Japan.svg Japan
Third placeFile:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
Fourth placeFile:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored70 (4.38 per match)
Attendance902 (56 per match)
Top scorer(s)Japan Maya Hijikata
(4 goals)
Best player(s)North Korea Chae Un-yong
Best goalkeeperNorth Korea Chae Un-gyong
Fair play awardFile:Flag of Japan.svg Japan
2026

The 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup was the 11th edition of the AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC U-20 Women's Championship and 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. It was held in Uzbekistan between 3–16 March 2024.[1][2] A total of eight teams competed in the tournament, with he top four teams of the tournament qualifying for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia as the AFC representatives. Japan were the defending champions. They were beaten 1–2 in the final by North Korea.

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 4–12 March 2023, and the second round played between 3–11 June 2023.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Team Qualified as Appearance Previous best performance
File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan Hosts 5th Group stage (2002, 2004, 2015, 2017)
File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan 2019 champions 11th Champions (2002, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019)
File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea 2019 runners-up 11th Champions (2007)
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea 2019 third place 11th Champions (2004, 2013)
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Second round Group A winners 9th Third place (2006)
File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam Second round Group A runners-up 6th Quarter-finalists (2004)
File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Second round Group B winners 11th Champions (2006)
File:Flag of Chinese Taipei (Olympics; 1986–2010).svg Chinese Taipei Second round Group B runners-up 5th Runners-up (2002)

Venues

The matches are being played on two venues at Tashkent.

Tashkent
JAR Stadium Do'stlik Stadium
Capacity: 8,500 Capacity: 10,000
File:Стадион "Джар".jpg File:No image available.svg

Draw

The draw was held on 15 December 2023 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[3] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification, with the hosts Uzbekistan automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2008 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team has to register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers (regulation articles 21.2 and 26.3).[4]

Group stage

All times are local, UZT (UTC+5).[4]

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 tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:[4]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. 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;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams were tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. 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);
  9. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 3 3 0 0 7 1 +6 9 Knockout stage and
2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2 File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea 3 2 0 1 20 2 +18 6
3 File:Flag of Chinese Taipei (Olympics; 1986–2010).svg Chinese Taipei 3 1 0 2 2 9 −7 3
4 File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan (H) 3 0 0 3 0 17 −17 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
South Korea File:Flag of South Korea.svg1–2File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
Jeon Yu-gyeong File:Soccerball shade.svg 25' Report
Attendance: 40
Referee: Asaka Koizumi (Japan)


Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea 3 2 1 0 8 1 +7 7 Knockout stage and
2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2 File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan 3 2 0 1 12 1 +11 6
3 File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China 3 1 1 1 7 4 +3 4
4 File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam 3 0 0 3 1 22 −21 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
North Korea File:Flag of North Korea.svg1–1File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China
Kim Song-gyong File:Soccerball shade.svg 84' Report Huo Yuexin File:Soccerball shade.svg 88'
Do'stlik Stadium, Tashkent
Attendance: 120
Referee: Pansa Chaisanit (Thailand)

Vietnam File:Flag of Vietnam.svg0–6File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea
Report
Do'stlik Stadium, Tashkent
Attendance: 44
Referee: Sunita Thongthawin (Thailand)

Japan File:Flag of Japan.svg0–1File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea
Report
Attendance: 70
Referee: Om Choki (Bhutan)
China File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg6–1File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam
Report
Do'stlik Stadium, Tashkent
Attendance: 65
Referee: Park Se-jin (South Korea)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time (excluding the third place match) and a penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.[4] All four teams that reached the knockout stage qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
13 March
 
 
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia1
 
16 March
 
File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan5
 
File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan1
 
13 March
 
File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea2
 
File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea3
 
 
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea0
 
Third place match
 
 
16 March
 
 
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia1
 
 
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea0

Semi-finals


Third place match

Final

Goalscorers

There were 70 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 4.38 goals per match.

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The following four teams from AFC qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup1
File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan 7 March 2024 7 (2002, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2022)
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 9 March 2024 4 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2022)
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea 9 March 2024 6 (2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2022)
File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea 10 March 2024 7 (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

See also

References

  1. "Latest update on the AFC National Team Competitions in 2021 and 2022". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 5 July 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  2. "AFC Women's Football Committee approves AFC's world-class competitions' roster". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 5 February 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  3. "#U20WAC draw to set stage for eagerly anticipated Uzbekistan 2024". the-afc. Asian Football Confederation. 12 December 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "AFC U20 Women's Asian Cup 2024 Competition Regulations". Asian Football Confederation. Retrieved 14 February 2024.

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