The 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification was the qualification tournament for the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup. A total of 21 teams entered the qualification tournament, which decided four of the eight participating teams in the final tournament held in Jordan. This tournament also served as the first stage of Asian

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for the

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, with the top five teams of the final tournament qualifying for the World Cup.

Draw

Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 24 teams entered the competition, with

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, and China PR automatically qualified for the final tournament by their position as the top three teams of the

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and thus did not participate in the qualifying competition.

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

also automatically qualified for the final tournament as hosts, but decided to also participate in the qualifying competition. The draw was held on 21 January 2017, 15:00 AST (

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), at the Grand Hyatt in

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. The 21 teams were drawn into one group of six teams and three groups of five teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the

final tournament and

. The following restrictions were also applied: *The four teams which indicated their intention to serve as qualification group hosts prior to the draw were drawn into separate groups. *As Iran and Syria had indicated they would not travel to Palestine, they would not be drawn into the group hosted by Palestine. ;Notes *Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament. *(H): Qualification group hosts *(Q): Automatically qualified for final tournament regardless of qualification results *(W): Withdrew after draw ;Did not enter * * * * * * * (suspended) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Format

In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue. The four group winners qualified for the final tournament. If Jordan won their group, the runner-up of their group also qualified for the final tournament.

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to

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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 11.5): #Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #

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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; #

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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.

Groups

The matches were played between 3–12 April 2017.

Group A

*All matches were held in

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Group B

*All matches were held in

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) an ...

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Group C

*All matches were held in

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Group D

*All matches were held in

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

. *Times listed were

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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. :

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

References

External links

*, the-AFC.com
AFC Women's Asian Cup 2018
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