2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup will be the seventh edition of the youth tournament for women under the age of 17. It was held in India from 11 to 30 October.
Qualified teams
A total of 16 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to the hosts, 15 teams qualify from six continental competitions.
^ On 16 March 2022, the AFC announced that China PR would replace North Korea as the AFC’s representatives at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup due to the withdrawal of the DPR Korea Football Association.[3]
Venues
On 13 April 2022, FIFA confirmed 3 host cities in 3 Indian states:[5]
The official draw took place on 24 June 2022, 12:00 local time CEST (UTC+2) at the FIFA headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland.[6] The teams were allocated based on their performances in the 5 previous U-17 Women's World Cups, five bonus points are added to each of the confederation's current champions that won the respective qualifying tournament (for this cycle).
The original hosts India were automatically assigned to position A1. Teams of the same confederation could not meet in the group stage.[7]
In the knockout stages, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (no extra time was played).[9]