AFC officially organizes a AFC Women’s Champions League
On March 15, in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), the Women’s Football Committee of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) had its first meeting of 2024. Ms. Nguyen Thanh Ha – Deputy General Secretary of the Vietnam Football Federation attended as committee member.
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At the meeting, the AFC Women’s Football Committee unanimously decided to organize the AFC Women’s Champions League for women’s football clubs starting from the 2024/25 season. Accordingly, the AFC Women’s Champions League will be held at a centralized location with the participation of 12 representatives who are the teams that won the highest position in the national women’s football championship of the member federations (according to the FIFA Ranking).
Thus, with the 6th ranking according to the FIFA Ranking in the first quarter of 2024, Vietnam will be entitled to send a representative to attend the tournament from now until the 2026/27 season. Starting from the 2027/2028 season, at the request of the AFC, women’s football clubs in Vietnam will have to apply for a license to participate in this tournament. Women’s football clubs will have 3 years to develop a roadmap and prepare conditions to meet AFC licensing criteria.
Football Australia and the Uzbekistan Football Association (UFA) have been recommended as the Host Associations of the 2026 and 2029 editions of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup™ respectively by the AFC Women’s Football Committee today at its second meeting held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. While certain formalities of the bidding process are in the midst of being finalised, the Committee has mandated the AFC Administration to confirm the award of the Hosting Rights once all requirements are met.
The Committee was also updated on all matters related to women’s football across the domains of Competitions, Referees, and Technical since the last meeting, including the decision to reschedule the AFC U17 Women’s Asian Cup™ Indonesia 2024, which will be held from May 6 to 19.
