2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup

2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup
AFC U-20 ayollar Osiyo kubogi 2024
Tournament details
Host country	Uzbekistan
Dates	3–16 March 2024
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	North Korea (2nd title)
Runners-up	Japan
Third place	Australia
Fourth place	South Korea
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	70 (4.38 per match)
Attendance	902 (56 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Maya Hijikata; (4 goals)
Best player(s)	Chae Un-yong
Best goalkeeper	Chae Un-gyong
Fair play award	Japan
	← 2019; 2022 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
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)
Australia	Second round Group A winners	9th	Third place (2006)
Vietnam	Second round Group A runners-up	6th	Quarter-finalists (2004)
China	Second round Group B winners	11th	Champions (2006)
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

Tashkent

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
Uzbekistan (hosts) Japan	North Korea South Korea	Australia China	Vietnam Chinese Taipei

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]

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 were 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.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	3	0	7	1	+6	9	Knockout stage and 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2	South Korea	3	2	1	20	2	+18	6	Knockout stage and 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
3	Chinese Taipei	3	1	2	2	9	−7	3
4	Uzbekistan (H)	3	0	3	0	17	−17	0

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

3 March 2024

13:00

South Korea	1–2	Australia
Jeon Yu-gyeong 25'	Report	Trimis 73' Chinnama 90'

Do'stlik Stadium, Tashkent

Attendance: 40

Referee: Asaka Koizumi (Japan)

3 March 2024