2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup

2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup
Piala Asia Putri U-17 2022
Tournament details
Host country Indonesia
DatesCancelled (originally 9–22 May 2022)
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
← 2019
2024 →

The 2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup was originally to be held as 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, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

Starting from the 2022 edition, the AFC agreed to the proposal for switching the tournament from under-16 to under-17.[2][3] Moreover, the tournament was also rebranded from the "AFC U-16 Women's Championship" to the "AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup".[4] It was scheduled to be held in Indonesia between 9–22 May 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-17 Women's Asian Cup also to Indonesia.[1] Japan were to be the defending champions.

In addition to India (as hosts), the top two teams of the tournament were to qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in India, prior to that tournament's own cancellation.[8] These same three teams - India (as hosts), Japan and North Korea - qualified for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.[9] However, the AFC subsequently announced that China PR would replace North Korea as one of the AFC's representatives.[10]

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  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. Archived from the original on 17 July 2020.
  7. ^ "AFC U17 Women's Asian Cup 2022 Competition Regulations". AFC. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Update on FIFA Club World Cup 2020 and women's youth tournaments". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  9. ^ "AFC Women's Football Committee hails the successful restart of the Asian women's game". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 14 October 2021.
  10. ^ "Asia's representatives at FIFA women's competitions confirmed". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 16 March 2022.