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2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
Tournament details
Host country	India
Dates	11–30 October
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (2nd title)
Runners-up	Colombia
Third place	Nigeria
Fourth place	Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	95 (2.97 per match)
Attendance	185,781 (5,806 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Linda Caicedo; Loreen Bender; Momoko Tanikawa; (4 goals each)
Best player(s)	Vicky López
Best goalkeeper	Sofía Fuente
Fair play award	Japan
	← 2018 2024 →

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.

Confederation	Qualifying tournament	Team	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
AFC (Asia) (Hosts + 2 teams)	Host nation	India	1st	None	Debut
	Teams were nominated by AFC based on results of 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship (qualification cancelled)^[1]^[2]^[3]	China^{[^]}	3rd	2014	Group stage (2012, 2014)
		Japan	7th	2018	Champions (2014)
CAF (Africa) (3 teams)	2022 African U-17 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament	Morocco	1st	None	Debut
		Nigeria	6th	2016	Quarter-finals (2010, 2012, 2014)
		Tanzania	1st	None	Debut
CONCACAF (Central, North America and Caribbean) (3 teams)	2022 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship	Canada	7th	2018	Fourth place (2018)
		Mexico	6th	2018	Runners-up (2018)
		United States	5th	2018	Runners-up (2008)
CONMEBOL (South America) (3 teams)	2022 South American U-17 Women's Championship	Brazil	6th	2018	Quarter-finals (2010, 2012)
		Chile	2nd	2010	Group stage (2010)
		Colombia	5th	2018	Group stage (2008, 2012, 2014, 2018)
OFC (Oceania) (1 team)	Team was nominated by OFC (qualification cancelled)^[4]	New Zealand	7th	2018	Third place (2018)
UEFA (Europe) (3 teams)	2022 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship	France	3rd	2012	Champions (2012)
		Germany	7th	2018	Third place (2008)
		Spain	5th	2018	Champions (2018)

Notes

^ 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]

Bhubaneswar	Margao	Navi Mumbai
Kalinga Stadium	Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	DY Patil Stadium
Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 19,000	Capacity: 55,000

Draw

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]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
India ^H Japan Spain Germany	Mexico Canada Brazil New Zealand	United States Nigeria France China	Colombia Chile Morocco Tanzania

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2007 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Group stage

The draw for the group stage took place on 24 June 2022.^[8]

Tiebreakers

The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals. The format for tiebreakers are determined as follows:^[9]

points obtained in all group matches;
goal difference in all group matches;
number of goals scored in all group matches;

If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are determined as follows:

points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;
number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
fair play points in all group matches:
- first yellow card: minus 1 point;
- indirect red card (second yellow card): minus 3 points;
- direct red card: minus 4 points;
- yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points;
drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

All times are local, IST (UTC+5:30).^[10]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	2	1	0	13	1	+12	7	Knockout stage
2	Brazil	3	2	1	0	7	1	+6	7	Knockout stage
3	Morocco	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3
4	India (H)	3	0	0	3	0	16	−16	0

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host

11 October 2022

16:30

Morocco	0–1	Brazil
	Report	Jhonson 5'

Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar

Attendance: 4,243

Referee: Edita Mirabidova (Uzbekistan)

11 October 2022