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.
Notes
Venues
On 13 April 2022, FIFA confirmed 3 host cities in 3 Indian states:
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Margao, Goa
Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
Draw
The official draw took place on 24 June 2022, 12:00 local time CEST (UTC+2) at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, 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.
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
FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
2022 in association football
2022 in India
Football in India