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.
India was recommended as the host of the tournament by AFC Women's Football Committee and selected as the host in June 2020. It will be the second time that the country hosts the competition, the first being in 1979.
For the first time in the competition, the group stage was expanded from 8 teams to 12. It will serve as the final stage of Asian qualification for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, in which Australia already qualified automatically as a co-host.
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.
India had previously hosted the 1980 AFC Women's Championship, originally scheduled for 1979, and Chinese Taipei had hosted the 1977 and 2001 editions of the tournament. 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. In June 2020, India was awarded the hosting rights.

Qualification

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

Qualified teams

The following twelve teams qualified for the tournament:

Qualified teams for FIFA Women's World Cup

The number of teams from the AFC which will qualify for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, apart from co-hosts Australia which qualify automatically, is yet to be determined. If necessary, World Cup play-off matches between teams eliminated from the tournament will also be played in India to determine the qualifiers.
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