Women's Asian Football Championship

This article describes the women's soccer Asian Cup. For the men's competition, see the Asian Football Championship .

Women's Asian Football Championship
Full name	AFC Women's Asian Cup
abbreviation	Women Asia Cup
Association	AFC
First edition	1975
Teams	8th
Game mode	Round tournament (2 groups of 4 teams each) / knockout system (from semi-finals)
Title holder	Japan (2nd win)
Record winner	China (8 wins)
Record player	?
Record scorer	?
Website	www.afc.com
Qualification for	Women's soccer World Cup

The AFC Asian Cup Women ( English AFC Women's Asian Cup ) is the Asian Continental Championship in women's football and is played since 1975th This makes the Asian Cup the oldest continental championship in women's football. The host of the tournament is the Asian Football Confederation . The tournaments were organized from 1975 to 1983 by the Asian Ladies' Football Confederation, an organization independent of the Asian Football Confederation, which was only accepted by the AFC in 1986. The tournaments during this period are therefore not taken into account by the AFC and FIFA.

The tournament took place at irregular intervals every two or three years. Until 2003 there were no qualifying rounds, all registered teams took part directly in the final tournament. As of 2006, the competition will be called the AFC Women's Asian Cup and will be held every two years. The competition was previously called the AFC Women's Championship . The record winner is the PR China , which has won the tournament eight times so far.

Every four years the tournament also serves as an Asian qualification for the women's soccer world championship. Asia is currently entitled to five starting places there.

First participations

Below are all national teams that have taken part in this tournament so far.

• Teams in bold became Asian champions when they first participated.
• Teams in italics were hosts when they first participated.
• Teams in brackets participated for the first time under a different name.

year	First time participant
1975	Australia	Hong Kong	Malaysia	New Zealand
	Singapore	Thailand
1977	Japan	Taiwan
1979	( Chinese Taipei )	North India	South india	( Western Australia )
1981	( India )	Philippines
1983	no first-time participants
1986	Kingdom of Nepal	China
1989	North Korea
1991	South Korea
1993	no first-time participants
1995	Kazakhstan	Uzbekistan
1997	Guam
1999	Vietnam
2001	no first-time participants
2003	Myanmar
2006	no first-time participants
2008	no first-time participants
2010	no first-time participants
2014	Jordan
2018	no first-time participants

The tournaments at a glance

year	host	final			Game for third place
		winner	Result	Second place	third place	Result	fourth place
1975 details	Hong Kong	New Zealand	3: 1	Thailand	Australia	5-0	Malaysia
1977 details	Taiwan	Taiwan	3: 1	Thailand	Singapore	2-0	Indonesia
1979 details	India	Chinese Taipei 1	2-0	(South) India	Hong Kong	nb	Western Australia
1981 details	Hong Kong	Chinese Taipei	5-0	Thailand	India	2-0	Hong Kong
1983 details	Thailand	Thailand	3-0	India	Malaysia	0: 0 (5: 4 on note)	Singapore
1986 details	Hong Kong	China	2-0	Japan	Thailand	4: 1	Indonesia
1989 details	Hong Kong	China	1-0	Chinese Taipei	Japan	9-0	Hong Kong
1991 details	Japan	China	5-0	Japan	Chinese Taipei	0: 0 n.v. 5: 4 i. E.	North Korea
1993 details	Malaysia	China	3-0	North Korea	Japan	3-0	Chinese Taipei
1995 details	Malaysia	China	2-0	Japan	Chinese Taipei	0: 0 n v. 3: 0 i. E.	South Korea
1997 details	People's Republic of China	China	2-0	North Korea	Japan	2-0	Chinese Taipei
1999 details	Philippines	China	3-0	Chinese Taipei	North Korea	3: 2	Japan
2001 details	Chinese Taipei	North Korea	2-0	Japan	China	8-0	South Korea
2003 details	Thailand	North Korea	2: 1 n.GG	China	South Korea	1-0	Japan
2006 details	Australia	China	2: 2 n.v. 4: 2 i. E.	Australia	North Korea	3: 2	Japan
2008 details	Vietnam	North Korea	2: 1	China	Japan	3-0	Australia
2010 details	People's Republic of China	Australia	1: 1 n.v. 5: 4 i. E.	North Korea	Japan	2-0	China
2014 details	Vietnam	Japan	1-0	Australia	China	2: 1	South Korea
2018 details	Jordan	Japan	1-0	Australia	China	3: 1	Thailand
2022 details	India

¹ The Taiwanese team has competed as Chinese Taipei since the 1980s .

Ranking list

rank	country	winner	Year (s)	2nd place	3rd place	4th Place
1	China	8th	1986, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2006	2	3	1
2	North Korea	3	2001, 2003, 2008	3	2	1
3	Taiwan / Chinese Taipei	3	1977, 1979, 1981	2	2	2
4th	Japan	2	2014, 2018	4th	5	4th
5	/ Australia	1	2010	3	1	2
6th	Thailand	1	1983	3	1	1
7th	New Zealand	1	1975	0	0	0
8th	India			2	1	0
9	South Korea			0	1	3
10	Hong Kong			0	1	1
	Singapore			0	1	1
	Malaysia			0	1	1
13	Indonesia			0	0	2

Varia

competition	places	Stages	Messages 1	Teams	Games		/Game	spectator	Z / game		/Game		/Game		/Game
1975	1	1	6th	6th	10	35	3.50	58,146	5,815
1977	1	1	6th	6th	10	30th	3.30
1979	1	1	6th	6th	11	22nd	1.69
1981	1	2	8th	8th	16	50	3.13
1983	1	1	6th	6th	17th	57	3.80
1986	1	3	7th	7th	13	61	4.69
1989	1	2	8th	8th	16	80	5.00
1991	1	1	9	9	20th	98	4.90
1993	1	1	8th	8th	16	91	5.69
1995	1	1	11	11	19th	102	5.37
1997	3	3	11	11	19th	132	6.95
1999	3	3	15th	15th	34	218	6.14
2001	?	?	14th	14th	30th	197	6.57
2003	2	2	14th	14th	30th	184	6.13
2006	1	2	25th	9	20th	77	3.85	28,850	1,443
2008	1	2	16	8th	26th	57	3.56	21,950	1,372
2010	1	2	16	8th	16	45	2.61	59,910	3,744
2014	2	2	21st	8th	17th	67	3.94	45,250	2,662	30th	1.76	1	0.06	/	/
2018	1	2	24	8th	16	661	3.88	31,537	1,855	18th	1.06	2	0.12	1	0.06
Respective record

¹The reports submitted on time are counted regardless of whether they were withdrawn or not started before the start of the qualification; including defending champions and hosts.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rsssf.com: Asian Women's Championship
2. ↑ http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Page/straitstimes19830418.1.43.aspx

Web links

• Women's Asian Championship at rsssf.com