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2026 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup
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Tournament details
Host country	Thailand
Dates	1–18 April 2026
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue	3 (in 2 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	22
Goals scored	87 (3.95 per match)
Attendance	2,167 (99 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Pak Ok-i ; (7 goals)
	← 2024 2028 → All statistics correct as of 12 April 2026.

2026 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup

Last updated April 13, 2026

The 2026 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup is the 12th edition of the AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC U-20 Women's Championship and AFC U-19 Women's Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-20 national teams of Asia.

The tournament is held in Thailand from 1 to 18 April 2026.^[1]^[2] For the first time, the tournament is contested by twelve teams^[3] and there will be no third place playoff.^[4] The top four teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Poland as the AFC representatives. North Korea are the defending champions, having won their second title in 2024.

Qualification

The host country qualified automatically. Eleven teams were decided by a single round of qualifying taking place between 2–10 August 2025.^[3]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Date of qualification	App.	Last	Previous best performance
Thailand	Hosts	14 April 2025	8th	2019	Fourth place (2004)
North Korea	Group A winners	10 August 2025	12th	2024	Champions (2007, 2024)
Vietnam	Group B winners		7th	2024	Quarter-finalists (2004)
Australia	Group C winners		10th	2024	Third place (2006, 2024)
India	Group D winners		4th	2006	Quarter-finalists (2004)
China	Group E winners		12th	2024	Champions (2006)
Japan	Group F winners		12th	2024	Champions (2002, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019)
Uzbekistan	Group G winners		6th	2024	Group stage (2002, 2004, 2015, 2017, 2024)
South Korea	Group H winners		12th	2024	Champions (2004, 2013)
Jordan	Best runners-up		2nd	2006	Group stage (2006)
Bangladesh	2nd best runners-up		1st	Debut
Chinese Taipei	3rd best runners-up		6th	2024	Runners-up (2002)

Draw

The draw was held on 10 November 2025 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[5] The twelve teams will be drawn into three groups of four teams. The teams will be seeded according to a points system derived from their final rankings across the previous three editions, with the hosts Thailand automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Thailand (hosts) North Korea Japan	Australia South Korea China	Chinese Taipei Vietnam Uzbekistan	Jordan India Bangladesh

Venues

The competition is played in three venues across two provinces.

Pathum Thani		Nonthaburi
Thammasat Stadium	Pathum Thani Stadium	Nonthaburi Province Stadium
Capacity: 25,000	Capacity: 15,114	Capacity: 10,000

Nonthaburi Pathum Thani

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2010 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team has to register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, at least three of whom must be goalkeepers (regulation articles 21.2 and 26.3).

Match officials

The following match officials were appointed for the tournament.

Referees

Mu Mingxin
Yang Shu-ting
Ranjita Devi Tekcham
Azusa Sugino
Cha Min-ji
Esra'a Al-Mbaidin
Keomany Phengmeuangkhoun
Nurul Ain Izatty Zainal
Khin Nyein Chan
Pak Un Jong
Alissar Baddour
Rawdha Al-Mansoori
Gulshoda Saidqulova
Bùi Thị Thu Trang

Assistant referees

Tshering Choden
Wen Lili
Wu Qiaoli
Saki Nakamoto
Miu Sone
Islam Al-Abadi
Munirah Ha Ali
Battsetseg Unurjargal
May Thet Phyu
Merlo Albano
Yoon Eun-hee
Malika Hathlahawatta Muhandiramalage
Suwida Wongkraisorn
Dilshoda Rahmanova
Nguyen Thi Hang Nga

Group stage

The top two teams of each group and the two best third-placed teams qualified for the quarter-finals.

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 9.3):^[4]

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;
If more than two teams are 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 met 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, ICT (UTC+7).^[4]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	3	0	6	0	+6	9	Knockout stage
2	Thailand (H)	3	2	1	7	4	+3	6
3	Vietnam	3	1	2	2	7	−5	3
4	Bangladesh	3	0	3	2	6	−4	0

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

1 April 2026

16:00

China	3–0	Vietnam
Zheng Lu 39', 44' Zeng Yujia 77'	Report

Nonthaburi Province Stadium , Nonthaburi

Attendance: 51

Referee: Alissar Baddour (Syria)

1 April 2026