2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup

2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup
Tournament details
Host countryUzbekistan
DatesCancelled (originally 4–17 April 2022)
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
← 2019
2024 →

The 2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup was originally to be held as the 11th edition of the AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup (including previous editions of the 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, 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-19 to under-20.[2][3] Moreover, the tournament was also rebranded from the "AFC U-19 Women's Championship" to the "AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup".[4] It was scheduled to be held in Uzbekistan between 4–17 April 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-20 Women's Asian Cup with Uzbekistan.[1]

The top three teams of the tournament were to qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Costa Rica as the AFC representatives. These same three teams - Japan, South Korea and North Korea - qualified for the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.[8] However, the AFC subsequently announced that Australia would replace North Korea as one of the AFC's representatives.[9]

Qualification

Main article: 2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification

The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in 2019 qualified automatically, while the other four teams would have been decided by qualification. There were to be two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round scheduled to be played between 14 and 22 August 2021, and the second round also scheduled to be played between 3–7 November 2021.[10][11]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Team Qualified as Appearance Previous best performance
 Uzbekistan Hosts 5th Group stage (2002, 2004, 2015, 2017)
 Japan 2019 champions 11th Champions (2002, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019)
 North Korea 2019 runners-up 11th Champions (2007)
 South Korea 2019 third place 11th Champions (2004, 2013)

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

The following three teams from AFC qualified for the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.[8]

All three teams qualified for the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.[8] On 16 March 2022, the AFC announced that Australia would replace North Korea as the AFC's representatives at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.[9]

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup1
 Japan 6 November 2019[12] 6 (2002, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018)
 South Korea 9 November 2019[12] 5 (2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016)
 Australia 16 March 2022 3 (2002, 2004, 2006)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

  1. ^ a b "Latest update on the AFC National Team Competitions in 2021 and 2022". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 5 July 2021.
  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 U20 Women's Asian Cup 2022 Competition Regulations". AFC.
  8. ^ a b c "AFC Women's Football Committee hails the successful restart of the Asian women's game". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 14 October 2021.
  9. ^ a b "Asia's representatives at FIFA women's competitions confirmed". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 16 March 2022.
  10. ^ "AFC Competitions Calendar 2021". AFC. Archived from the original on 16 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Latest update on AFC Competitions in 2021". AFC. 25 January 2021.
  12. ^ a b "Korea DPR, Japan & Korea Republic advance to global finals". FIFA.com. 6 November 2019.