Venue(s) TBC (in 1 host city) | Dates 14–28 October 2017 Date August 2017 Teams 8 | |
The 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship will be the 9th edition of the AFC U-19 Women's Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-19 national teams of Asia. The tournament will be held in China in August 2017, with a total of eight teams competing.
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China will host the tournament for the third year running.
Same as in previous editions, the tournament will act as AFC qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in France as AFC representatives.
Qualification
The draw for the qualifiers was held on 19 May 2016. Four teams qualified directly for the final tournament by their 2015 performance, while the other entrants competed in the qualifying stage for the remaining four spots. The qualifiers were held from 27 October to 6 November 2016, with Group C postponed to 20–24 December 2016 due to the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Qualified teams
The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.
Venues
The tournament will be held in Nanjing.
Draw
The eight teams will be drawn into two groups of four teams. The seeding is not yet announced, but as per previous editions likely to be according to their performance in the previous edition in 2015.
Squads
Players born between 1 January 1998 and 31 December 2001 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team can register a maximum of 23 players (minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers).