2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup

The 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup will be the 20th edition of the AFC Women's Asian Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament in Asia competed by the women's national teams in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup
Tournament details
Host countryIndia
DatesOctober–November 2022
Teams12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (proposed) (in 2 host cities)

India was recommended as the host of the tournament by AFC Women's Football Committee and selected as the host in June 2020.[1][2] It will be the second time that the country hosts the competition, the first being in 1979.[3]

For the first time in the competition, the group stage was expanded from 8 teams to 12.[4] It will serve as the final stage of Asian qualification for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, in which Australia already qualified automatically as a co-host.[5]

Japan are the defending champions.

Host selection

The following three football associations submitted their interest to host the tournament by the 31 May 2019 deadline.[6]

India had previously hosted the 1980 AFC Women's Championship, originally scheduled for 1979, and Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) had hosted the 1977 and 2001 editions of the tournament.[7] India was recommended as the host for the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup by the AFC Women's Football Committee on 19 February 2020.[1] In June 2020, India was awarded the hosting rights.[2][8]

Qualification

Australia, who automatically qualified for the Women's World Cup as co-hosts,[5] will participate in the qualifiers only for the Women's Asian Cup.

Qualified teams

The following twelve teams qualified for the tournament:

Team Method of
qualification		 Date of
qualification		 Finals
appearance		 Last
appearance		 Previous best
performance		 March 2020
FIFA ranking[9]
 IndiaHosts5 June 20209th2003Runners-up (1979, 1983)55

Qualified teams for FIFA Women's World Cup
Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA Women's World Cup1
 Australia25 June 2020[5]7 (19951, 19991, 20031, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)
1 Australia qualified as a member of the OFC in 1995, 1999 and 2003.

References
  1. "India recommended as host for AFC Women's Asian Cup 2022". AFC. 19 February 2020.
  2. "India to host AFC Women's Asian Cup 2022 finals". All India Football Federation. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  3. "India to host 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup for the first time since 1979". Business Standard. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  4. "AFC to invest in new era of national team and club competitions". AFC. 26 October 2019.
  5. "Australia and New Zealand selected as hosts of FIFA Women's World Cup 2023". FIFA. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  6. "Chinese Taipei, India and Uzbekistan express interest in hosting 2022 edition". AFC.com. 1 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  7. "India among three countries interested in hosting the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup". FOX Sports Asia. 1 June 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  8. "India to host 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup". ESPN. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  9. "Women's Ranking". FIFA. 27 March 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
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