Jordan (Group A) Thailand (Group B) Myanmar (Group C) Indonesia (Group D) Vietnam (Group E) Uzbekistan (Group F) Cambodia (Group G) Tajikistan (Group H)
Dates
23 June – 5 July 2025[1][2] 7–19 July 2025 (Group A)[3]
The2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification was an association football qualification tournament for the2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup.[4]
Thequalification tournament decided eight of the twelve participating teams in the final tournament to be held in Australia.[5] Along with thehost nation, the top three teams in the2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup final tournament also secured automatic qualification:China,South Korea andJapan.[6] A total of 34 teams submitted entries to participate in the qualifiers.
For the first time in the tournament's history, the seeding for both qualifiers and final draws is based on the latestFIFA Women's World Ranking at the time of the draw. Previously, the teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous final tournament and qualification rankings.[9]
On 26 February 2025, theAFC confirmed the eight associations that had expressed their intent to host qualification groups ahead of the draw. The qualifying tournament originally was to feature eight groups, with one group comprising five teams, while the remaining seven groups would each consist of four teams.[10] On 2 March 2025,FIFA lifted the suspension of thePakistan Football Federation,[11] clearing the way forPakistan to enter qualification. As a result, 34 teams entered qualification and were drawn into two groups of five teams and six groups of four.
Automatically qualified for final tournament and not participating in qualification
(H): Qualification group hosts determined before the draw. These teams were taken from their respective pots and placed in a separate Host Pot, and could not be drawn in the same group.
Teams are ranked according topoints (3 points for awin, 1 point for adraw, 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 7.2.2):[4]
Points in head-to-head matches among participating teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among participating teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among participating 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 the matches between the participating teams,
Goal difference from all group matches;
Goals scored from 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);
^abcCountry does not field a women's national team.
^Group A's matches were originally scheduled to take place from 23 June to 5 July 2025. However, the AFC postponed the matches due to the ongoingIran–Israel war.[12][3]
^"Việt Nam chốt xong sân nhà mới cho vòng loại Asian Cup".Thethao 24/7 (in Vietnamese). 27 March 2025. Retrieved28 March 2025.Theo thông tin từ VFF, bảng E - vòng loại nữ Asian Cup 2026 của ĐT nữ Việt Nam sẽ được tổ chức trên sân Việt Trì (Phú Thọ)
Sabitra Bhandari
Kim Kyong-yong
Iran
Jordan(H)
Bhutan
Lebanon
Singapore
India
Thailand(H)
Timor-Leste
Iraq
Mongolia
Bangladesh
Myanmar(H)
Bahrain
Turkmenistan
Chinese Taipei
Pakistan
Indonesia(H)
Kyrgyzstan
Vietnam(H)
United Arab Emirates
Guam
Maldives
Uzbekistan(H)
Laos
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Hong Kong
Cambodia(H)
Saudi Arabia
Malaysia
Palestine
Tajikistan(H)
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Australia
China
South Korea
Japan
