2024 AFF Women's Cup explained

Tourney Name:ASEAN Women's Cup
Year:2024
Num Teams:6
Sub-Confederations:1
Venues:2
Cities:1
Matches:8
Goals:12
Top Scorer:Poeurn Kunthea (3 goals)
Updated:2 December 2024

The 2024 AFF Women's Cup is the first edition of AFF Women's Cup, an lower tier international women's football tournament organised by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) for countries which are not strong in women's football. The tournament will be held in Laos.[1]

The top three teams will qualify for the AFF's highest tier tournament which is 2025 ASEAN Women’s Championship.[2] This is the first time the ASEAN Women’s Championship, formerly known as AFF Women's Championship, has a qualification tournament.

Participating nations

Six lowest ranked AFF teams from the 2022 AFF Women's Championship entered the AFF Women's Cup final tournament.[1]

TeamPrevious Women's Championship best performance
Group stage (2018, 2019)
Fourth place (2004)
Fourth place (2011, 2012)
Fourth place (2007)
Group stage (2004, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2019)
Group stage (2016, 2018, 2019)

Draw

The draw for the 2024 AFF Women's Cup was held on October 19, 2024, in Vientiane, Laos.[1] The teams were allocated into three pots based on their performances in the 2022 AFF Women's Championship. Host Laos were automaticaly placed in position A1.[3]

Venues

Vientiane
Laos National StadiumNew Laos Reserve Field
Capacity: 25,000Capacity:

Officials

The following officials were chosen for the competition.

Referee

Group stage

TiebreakersRanking in each group shall be determined as follows:
  1. Greater number of points obtained in all the group matches;
  2. Goal difference in all the group matches;
  3. Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
  4. Greater disciplinary points.

If two or more teams are equal on the basis on the above four criteria, the place shall be determined as follows:

  1. Result of the direct match between the teams concerned;
  2. Penalty shoot-out if only the teams are tied, and they met in the last round of the group;
  3. Drawing lots by the Organising Committee.

All times are local time: (ICT) UTC+7.

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Final

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Host Laos in Group A of ASEAN Women’s Cup 2024. ASEAN Football Federation. 19 October 2024.
  2. Web site: Lionesses drawn in Group A for 2024 AFF Women’s Cup. 19 October 2024. Football Association of Singapore.
  3. 19 October 2024. Official Drawing Ceremony AFF Women's Cup 2024 Laos. Livestream . en . LAOFF TV. Lao Football Federation. YouTube.