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The 2026 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup will be the 12th 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 will be held between 1–18 April 2026.^[1] For the first time, total of twelve teams will compete in the tournament,^[2] in another first there will be no third place playoff.^[3]

The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as the AFC representatives. DPR Korea are the defending champions.

The host country will qualify automatically. In a change of rules, from this edition the top three teams of the previous tournament will not qualify automatically,^[2] while the other eleven teams will be decided by qualification. In a change from previous editions, there will be only one round of qualifying which will take place between 2–10 August 2025.^[1]

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

The following three teams from AFC qualify for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Poland.

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

• AFC U20 Women's Asian Cup, the-AFC.com