With the selection of the new head coach of the Chinese women's football team about to enter the "interview" section, the AFC Women's Football Committee held its third working session of the year on October 14 in Kuala Lumpur. At the meeting, Chairman Mafuza Akhter Kirron revealed that the Women's Asian Cup, which was originally scheduled to be held from January 20 to February 6 next year, has not changed its venue and will still be held in India.
Due to the cancellation of the 2020 FIFA U20 Women's World Cup and U17 Women's World Cup due to the outbreak, the AFC has decided to allocate the qualification to represent Asia at the 2022 U20 Women's World Cup and U17 Women's World Cup to the top three teams or host teams of the 2019 AFC U19 Women's Championship and the 2019 AFC U16 Women's Championship, respectively.
At this working session of the AFC Women's Football Committee, President Kilorn began by congratulating the women's soccer teams of Indonesia, Iran, South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam for securing their places in the Women's Asian Cup main round during the September international tournament, where they will compete alongside Japan, Australia, China, and host India for the final of the Women's Asian Cup, which will be held from January 20 to February 6, 2022 stage.
The AFC also expressed its gratitude to Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Palestine for their active hosting of the Women's Asian Cup qualifying rounds of the tournament system competition. It is reported that the last two tickets for this year's Women's Asian Cup will be awarded in the Group A and Group D matches of the qualifying tournament organized by Bahrain and Kyrgyzstan.
The biggest concern of the member associations is actually the issue of the venue of this year's Women's Asia Cup. Previously, India had been awarded the right to host the event. However, in view of the continuing spread of the international epidemic and the seriousness of the epidemic in India, some member associations have already withdrawn from the tournament early due to the impact of the epidemic. Under such circumstances, can the tournament be held in India? The tournament can be held as scheduled, are of great concern. However, from the AFC Women's Football Committee's statement at this meeting, they have no intention of changing the original plan. The committee emphasized that they have full confidence in the ability of the hosts, India, to organize a memorable tournament.
However, the AFC Women's Football Committee did not give any specifics about the details of the preparations for the tournament. The AFC also said that they have set up a working group to deal with all kinds of extreme situations that may arise.
It was also decided that the qualifications to represent Asia at the 2022 U20 Women's World Cup and U17 Women's World Cup will be allocated to the top three teams from the 2019 AFC U19 Women's Championship and 2019 AFC U16 Women's Championship, respectively. This means that Japan, North Korea and South Korea, who finished in the top three of the 2019 AFC U19 Women's Championship, will participate in the U20 Women's World Cup to be held in Costa Rica from August 10-28, 2022; and the top three teams from the 2019 AFC U16 Women's Championship, as well as the hosts India, will participate in the U17 Women's World Cup to be held from October 11-30, 2022 in India.
