The 2027 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup will be the 11th edition of the AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC U-17 Women's Championship and AFC U-16 Women's Championship), the annual international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-17 national teams of Asia. The 2027 tournament were the second of three consecutive AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup to be held in China (also in Suzhou), following the 2026 tournament and preceding the 2028 tournament.

It will be held in China between 31 March–17 April 2027. A total of twelve teams will compete in the tournament.

The top four teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2027 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco as the AFC representatives.

Qualification

The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in 2026 will qualify automatically, while the other eight teams will be decided by qualification. There will be one round of qualification matches, which will be held between 3–11 October 2026.

Qualified teams The following twelve teams qualified for the tournament:

TeamQualification methodDate of qualificationAppearance(s)Previous best performance Host nation 2005 202611 (2005) 2026 champions 200710 (2007, 2015, 2017, 2024, 2026) 2026 runners-up 200511 (2005, 2011, 2013, 2019) 2026 fourth place5 (2009, 2019, 2026) Group A winners TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD Group B winners TBD TBD TBD TBD Group C winners TBD TBD TBD TBD Group D winners TBD TBD TBD TBD Group E winners TBD TBD TBD TBD Group F winners TBD TBD TBD TBD Group G winners TBD TBD TBD TBD Group H winners TBD TBD TBD TBD

Venues The venues have not been officially announced yet, but they are expected to be unveiled shortly.

Draw Following the conclusion of the qualifiers, a final draw will be held in December 2026 to determine the Group Stage fate of the 12 participating teams.

As the host nation, China will be automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.

Match officials The match officials will be announced closer to the start of the tournament. Referees TBD

Assistant referees TBD

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2012 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team must register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 22.1 and 26.3).

Group stage The top two teams of each group and two best third-placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals.

Tiebreakers Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and should they be tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 7.3): Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Should more than two teams be tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they meet in the last round of the group; Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points); Drawing of lots.

All times are local, CST (UTC+8). Group A TBD

Group B TBD

Group C TBD

Ranking of third-placed teams

Knockout stage In the knockout stage, extra time and a penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winners if necessary.

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals The winners qualify for the 2027 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Final

Goalscorers TBD

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup The following four teams from AFC qualify for the 2027 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup TBD April 2027 TBD April 2027 TBD April 2027 TBD April 2027

See also 2028 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup 2027 AFC U-17 Asian Cup Notes

References

External links AFC U17 Women's Asian Cup at the-AFC.com