2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup will be the seventh edition of the youth tournament for women under the age of 17. It was held in India from 11 to 30 October.

Qualified teams
A total of 16 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to the hosts, 15 teams qualify from six continental competitions.

ConfederationQualifying tournamentTeamAppearanceLast appearancePrevious best performanceAFC Host nation1stNoneDebutTeams were nominated by AFC based on results of 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship (qualification cancelled)3rd2014 (2012, 2014)7th2018 (2014)CAF 2022 African U-17 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament1stNoneDebut6th2016Quarter-finals (2010, 2012, 2014)1stNoneDebutCONCACAF 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship7th2018 (2018)6th2018 (2018)5th2018 (2008)CONMEBOL 2022 South American U-17 Women's Championship6th2018 (2010, 2012)2nd2010 (2010)5th2018 (2008, 2012, 2014, 2018)OFC Team was nominated by OFC(qualification cancelled)7th2018 (2018)UEFA 2022 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship3rd2012 (2012)7th2018 (2008)5th2018 (2018)
Notes

 Venues 
On 13 April 2022, FIFA confirmed 3 host cities in 3 Indian states:
 Bhubaneswar, Odisha
 Margao, Goa
 Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra

  Bhubaneswar Margao Navi Mumbai Kalinga Stadium Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium DY Patil Stadium Capacity: 15,000 Capacity: 19,000 Capacity: 	55,000 240px 200px 200px

Draw
The official draw  took place on 24 June 2022, 12:00 local time CEST (UTC+2) at the FIFA headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland. The teams were allocated based on their performances in the 5 previous U-17 Women's World Cups, five bonus points are added to each of the confederation's current champions that won the respective qualifying tournament (for this cycle).
The original hosts India were automatically assigned to position A1. Teams of the same confederation could not meet in the group stage.

Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4 

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2007 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Group stage
The draw for the group stage took place on 24 June 2022.

 Tiebreakers 
The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals. The format for tiebreakers are determined as follows:

If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are determined as follows:

All times are local, IST (UTC+5:30).

 Group A 

 Group B 

 Group C 

 Group D 

Knockout stage
In the knockout stages, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (no extra time was played).

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Third place match

Final

References

Category:FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
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Category:2022 in India
Category:Football in India
Category:October 2022 events