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AFC Women's Asian Cup

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Founded	1975; 48 years ago (1975)
Region	Asia
Number of teams	12 (finals) 35 (qualifiers)
Qualifier for	FIFA Women's World Cup
Current champions	China PR (9th title)
Most successful team(s)	China PR (9 titles)
2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup

The AFC Women's Asian Cup (formerly known as the AFC Women's Championship) is a quadrennial competition in women's football for national teams which belong to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It is the oldest women's international football competition and premier women's football competition in the AFC region for national teams. The competition is also known as the Asian Women's Football Championship and the Asian Women's Championship. 20 tournaments have been held, with the current champions being China PR. The competition also serves as Asian qualifying tournament for the FIFA Women's World Cup.

History

The competition was set up by the Asian Ladies Football Confederation (ALFC), a part of the AFC responsible for women's football. The first competition was held in 1975 and was held every two years after this, except for a period in the 1980s where the competition was held every three years. The ALFC was initially a separate organisation but was absorbed into the AFC in 1986.

From 1975 to 1981, matches were 60 minutes in duration.

The competition has been dominated by countries from the Pacific Rim or Eastern Asia (including East and Southeast Asia), with the China women's national football team having won 9 times, including a series of 7 consecutive victories as of 2022 edition. Countries from Central and West Asia have been rather less successful, with only Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Jordan and Iran having qualified so far. Eastern Asia has also been far more frequent in participating in the FIFA Women's World Cup, with five strongest women's teams of Asia (China, North Korea, Japan, Australia and South Korea) hail from this part.

The tournament frequency changed to every 4 years effective from 2010, after AFC had announced that the Asian Cup will additionally serve as the qualification rounds of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Until 2003, teams were invited by the AFC to compete. From 2006, a separate qualification was established and the number of teams will be decided by the merit by qualification process. The name of the tournament was also changed to as the "AFC Women's Asian Cup", to reflect the change and reforms of the competition.

The tournament was expanded from eight teams to twelve starting from the 2022 edition.

Qualification

Format

All of the 47 members of the AFC who have a women's national team are eligible to participate in the qualification tournament.

Starting from 2022 edition, a total of twelve teams participate in the final tournament including the hosts, top three finishers of the previous edition and eight teams from the qualification tournament.

Results

Edition	Year	Hosts		Final				Third place playoff or losing semi-finalists				Number of teams
				Champions	Score	Runners-up		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1	1975	Hong Kong		New Zealand	3–1	Thailand		Australia	5–0	Malaysia		6
2	1977	Republic of China		Republic of China	3–1	Thailand		Singapore	2–0	Indonesia		6
3	1980	India		Republic of China	2–0	[[File:{{{flag alias-India}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] India S		Hong Kong Western Australia	cancelled			6
4	1981	Hong Kong		Mulan Taipei	5–0	Thailand		India	2–0	Hong Kong		8
5	1983	Thailand		Thailand	3–0	India		Malaysia	0–0 (5–4 p)	Singapore		6
6	1986	Hong Kong		China PR	2–0	[[File:{{{flag alias-1947}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] Japan		Thailand	3–0	Indonesia		7
7	1989	Hong Kong		China PR	1–0	[[File:{{{flag alias-football-old}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] Chinese Taipei		[[File:{{{flag alias-1947}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] Japan	3–1	Hong Kong		8
8	1991	Japan		China PR	5–0	[[File:{{{flag alias-1947}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] Japan		[[File:{{{flag alias-football-old}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] Chinese Taipei	0–0 (aet) (5–4 p)	[[File:{{{flag alias-1948}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] Korea DPR		9
9	1993	Malaysia		China PR	3–0	Korea DPR		[[File:{{{flag alias-1947}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] Japan	3–0	[[File:{{{flag alias-football-old}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] Chinese Taipei		9
10	1995	Malaysia		China PR	2–0	[[File:{{{flag alias-1947}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] Japan		[[File:{{{flag alias-football-old}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] Chinese Taipei	0–0 (aet) (3–0 p)	Korea Republic		11
11	1997	China		China PR	2–0	Korea DPR		[[File:{{{flag alias-1947}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] Japan	2–0	[[File:{{{flag alias-football-old}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] Chinese Taipei		11
12	1999	Philippines		China PR	3–0	[[File:{{{flag alias-football-old}}}|30x27px|border |alt=|link=]] Chinese Taipei		Korea DPR	3–2	Japan		15
13	2001	Chinese Taipei		Korea DPR	2–0	Japan		China PR	8–0	Korea Republic		14
14	2003	Thailand		Korea DPR	2–1 (aet)	China PR		Korea Republic	1–0	Japan		14
15	2006	Australia		China PR	2–2 (aet) (4–2 p)	Australia		Korea DPR	3–2	Japan		9
16	2008	Vietnam		Korea DPR	2–1	China PR		Japan	3–0	Australia		8
17	2010	China		Australia	1–1 (aet) (5–4 p)	Korea DPR		Japan	2–0	China PR		8
18	2014	Vietnam		Japan	1–0	Australia		China PR	2–1	Korea Republic		8
19	2018	Jordan		Japan	1–0	Australia		China PR	3–1	Thailand		8
20	2022	India		China PR	3–2	Korea Republic		Japan and  Philippines				12
21	2026	TBD										12

Participating nations

Team	1975 (6)	1977 (6)	1980 (6)	1981 (8)	1983 (6)	1986 (7)	1989 (8)	1991 (9)	1993 (8)	1995 (11)	1997 (11)	1999 (15)	2001 (14)	2003 (14)	2006 (9)	2008 (8)	2010 (8)	2014 (8)	2018 (8)	2022 (12)	Years
Australia	3rd		3rd	Not AFC member											2nd	4th	1st	2nd	2nd	QF	8
China PR						1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	3rd	2nd	1st	2nd	4th	3rd	3rd	1st	15
Chinese Taipei		1st	1st	1st			2nd	3rd	4th	3rd	4th	2nd	GS	GS	GS	GS				QF	14
Guam											GS	GS	GS	GS							4
Hong Kong	GS	GS	3rd	4th	GS	GS	4th	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS							14
India			2nd	3rd	2nd					GS	GS	GS	GS	GS						WD	9
Indonesia		4th		GS		4th	GS													GS	5
Iran																				GS	1
Japan		GS		GS		2nd	3rd	2nd	3rd	2nd	3rd	4th	2nd	4th	4th	3rd	3rd	1st	1st	SF	17
Jordan																		GS	GS		2
Kazakhstan	Part of Soviet Union									GS	GS	GS		No longer AFC member							3
Korea DPR							GS	4th	2nd		2nd	3rd	1st	1st	3rd	1st	2nd				10
Korea Republic								GS	GS	4th	GS	GS	4th	3rd	GS	GS	GS	4th	5th	2nd	13
Malaysia	4th		GS		3rd	GS		GS	GS	GS		GS	GS								9
Myanmar														GS	GS		GS	GS		GS	5
Nepal						GS	GS					GS									3
New Zealand	1st	No longer AFC member																			1
Philippines				GS	GS				GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS					6th	SF	10
Singapore	GS	3rd		GS	4th			GS					GS	GS							7
Thailand	2nd	2nd		2nd	1st	3rd	GS	GS		GS		GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	5th	4th	QF	17
Uzbekistan	Part of Soviet Union									GS	GS	GS	GS	GS							5
Vietnam												GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	6th	GS	QF	9

Notes:

Results (1975-2022)

Rank	Team	Part	M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	China PR	15	75	61	5	9	367	38	+329	188
2	Japan	17	81	55	6	20	365	60	+305	171
3	Chinese Taipei	14	64	38	6	20	175	84	+91	120
4	Korea DPR	10	53	36	6	11	242	38	+204	114
5	Thailand	17	69	34	2	33	115	171	−56	104
6	Korea Republic	13	54	28	7	19	157	77	+80	91
7	Australia	8	40	21	6	13	88	43	+45	69
8	India	9	36	16	4	16	63	61	+2	52
9	Hong Kong	14	57	11	4	42	26	191	−165	37
10	Vietnam	9	33	11	1	21	39	92	−53	34
11	Singapore	7	27	7	1	19	21	115	−94	22
12	Uzbekistan	5	16	7	0	9	15	64	−49	21
13	Malaysia	9	34	5	3	26	20	161	−141	18
14	Philippines	10	36	5	2	29	22	187	−165	17
15	Indonesia	5	17	4	1	12	17	77	−60	13
16	New Zealand	1	4	4	0	0	11	3	+8	12
17	Kazakhstan	3	9	2	2	5	16	39	−23	8
18	Myanmar	5	17	2	2	13	16	56	−40	8
19	Guam	4	15	1	0	14	5	112	−107	3
20	Iran	1	3	0	1	2	0	12	−12	1
21	Jordan	2	6	0	0	6	5	29	−24	0
22	Nepal	3	10	0	0	10	1	67	−66	0

Awards

Year	Most Valuable Player	Top Scorer	Goals	Best goalkeeper	Fairplay Award
2006	Ma Xiaoxu	Yūki Nagasato Jung Jung-suk	7	Not awarded	China PR
2008	Homare Sawa	Ri Kum-suk	7		Japan
2010	Jo Yun-mi	Kozue Ando Homare Sawa Jo Yun-mi Yoo Young-a	3		China PR
2014	Aya Miyama	Yang Li Park Eun-sun	6		Japan
2018	Mana Iwabuchi	Li Ying	7		Japan
2022	Wang Shanshan	Sam Kerr	7	Zhu Yu	Korea Republic

Winning coaches

Year	Team	Coach
1975	New Zealand	Dave Farrington
1977	Republic of China	Liu Jun-tse
1980	Republic of China	Chang Teng-yun
1981	Mulan Taipei	Kao Yong
1983	Thailand
1986	China PR	Cong Zheyu
1989	China PR	Shang Ruihua
1991	China PR	Shang Ruihua
1993	China PR	Ma Yuanan
1995	China PR	Ma Yuanan
1997	China PR	Ma Yuanan
1999	China PR	Ma Yuanan
2001	Korea DPR	Ri Song-gun
2003	Korea DPR	Ri Song-gun
2006	China PR	Ma Liangxing
2008	Korea DPR	Kim Kwang-min
2010	Australia	Tom Sermanni
2014	Japan	Norio Sasaki
2018	Japan	Asako Takakura
2022	China PR	Shui Qingxia

See also

• In Spanish: Copa Asiática Femenina de la AFC
• AFF Women's Championship
• CAFA Women's Championship
• EAFF E-1 Football Championship (women)
• SAFF Women's Championship
• WAFF Women's Championship
• AFC Asian Cup