# 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup

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. 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.
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).

## Group stage

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

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

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | North Korea | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 7 | Knockout stage and 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup |
| 2 | Japan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 1 | +11 | 6 | Knockout stage and 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup |
| 3 | China | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 4 | |
| 4 | Vietnam | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 22 | −21 | 0 | |

## 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.
All four teams that reached the knockout stage qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| 13 March | 13 March |
| Australia | 1 |
| Australia | 1 | 16 March | 16 March |
| Japan | 5 | 16 March | 16 March |
| Japan | 5 | Japan | 1 |
| 13 March | 13 March | | Japan | 1 |
| 13 March | 13 March | North Korea | 2 |
| North Korea | 3 | North Korea | 2 |
| South Korea | 0 | | |
| South Korea | 0 | Third place match | Third place match |
| | | 16 March | 16 March |
| | | Australia | 1 |
| | | South Korea | 0 |

### Final
## Goalscorers

There were 70 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 4.38 goals per match.
4 goals
* Maya Hijikata
* Jeon Yu-gyeong
3 goals
* Peta Trimis
* Manaka Matsukubo
* Hong Chae-bin
* Yang Eun-seo
2 goals
* Huo Yuexin
* Yu Jiaqi
* Lu Jiayu
* Hiromi Yoneda
* Chinari Sasai
* Ai Tsujisawa
* Chae Un-yong
* Pak Mi-ryong
* Jon Ryong-jong
* Won Chae-eun
* Hwang Da-yeong
1 goal
* Naomi Chinnama
* Claudia Cicco
* Daniela Galić
* Jessika Nash
* Zara Kruger
* Lara Gooch
* Xia Lejiao
* Chen Yu-chin
* He Jia-chuan
* Rio Sasaki
* Chinari Sasai
* Yuri Shirisawa
* Hiromi Yoneda
* Suzu Amano
* Uno Shiragaki
* Kim Song-gyong
* Hyon Ji-hyang
* Min Kyong-jin
* Choe Il-son
* Jong Kum
* Hwang Yu-yong
* Bae Ye-bin
* Kim Shin-ji
* Nam Seung-eun
* Kang Eun-young
* Eom Min-kyoung
* Kim Ji-hyeon
* Ngọc Minh Chuyên
1 own goal
* Naomi Chinnama (against Japan)
* Lê Thị Bảo Trâm (against North Korea)

## 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 Cup |
| Japan | 7 March 2024 | 7 (2002, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2022) |
| Australia | 9 March 2024 | 4 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2022) |
| South Korea | 9 March 2024 | 6 (2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2022) |
| 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.