2018 AFC Women’s Asian Cup
كأس آسيا لكرة القدم للسيدات 2018
2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup logo.svg
Tournament details
Host country Jordan
City Amman
Dates 6–20 April
Teams 8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  Japan ( 2nd deed )
Runners-up  Australia
Third place  China PR
Fourth place  Thailand
Tournament statistics
Matches played 17
Goals scored 66 (3.88 per match)
Attendance 31,537 (1,855 per match)
Top scorer(s) ChinaLi Ying ( 7 goals )
Best player(s) JapanMana Iwabuchi
Fair play award  Japan
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International football rival

The 2018 AFC Women’s Asian Cup was the 19th edition of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament in Asia competed by the women ‘s national teams in the Asian Football Confederation ( AFC ). It was primitively scheduled to be held in Jordan between 7 and 22 April 2018, but late was changed to 6 to 20 April 2018. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The tournament served as the concluding stage of asian reservation for the 2019 FIFA Women ‘s World Cup, with the top five teams qualifying for the World Cup in France. [ 4 ] Japan defeated Australia 1–0 in the final to win their second consecutive entitle. In the third-place match the like sidereal day, China defeated Thailand 3–1. [ 5 ]

qualification [edit ]

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 21 January 2017. [ 6 ] The crown three finishers of the last AFC Women ‘s Cup qualified mechanically and did not have to enter qualifying, while Jordan besides qualified mechanically as hosts but decided to besides participate in the qualify competition. [ 7 ] The matches were played from 3 to 12 April 2017. [ 8 ]

Qualified teams [edit ]

The be eight teams qualified for the tournament. [ 9 ]
Notes :

  1. ^[11] Since the Group A winners Jordan already mechanically qualified for the final tournament as hosts, Philippines besides qualified for the final examination tournament as runner-up .

Venues [edit ]

The competition was played in two venues in the city of Amman .

describe [edit ]

The final examination draw was held on 9 December 2017, 13:00 EET ( UTC+2 ), at the King Hussein bin Talal Convention Center on the eastern shores of the Dead Sea. [ 12 ] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. [ 13 ] The teams were seeded according to their operation in the 2014 AFC Women ‘s asian Cup final tournament and reservation, with the hosts Jordan automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw. [ 14 ]

Squads [edit ]

Each team must register a squad of minimal 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers ( Regulations Articles 31.4 and 31.5 ). [ 15 ]

match officials [edit ]

A full of 10 referees and 12 assistant referees were appointed for the final examination tournament .

Referees
Assistant referees

Group stagecoach [edit ]

The lead two teams of each group qualified for the 2019 FIFA Women ‘s World Cup a well as the semi-finals. The third-placed team of each group entered the fifth-placed match .

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points ( 3 points for a gain, 1 point for a pull, 0 points for a loss ), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the rate given, to determine the rankings ( Regulations Article 11.5 ) : [ 15 ]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
  9. Drawing of lots.

All times are local, EEST ( UTC+3 ). [ 16 ]

Schedule
Matchday Dates Matches
Matchday 1 6–7 April 2018 1 v 4, 2 v 3
Matchday 2 9–10 April 2018 4 v 2, 3 v 1
Matchday 3 12–13 April 2018 1 v 2, 3 v 4

Group A [edit ]

Group B [edit ]

  1. a b c
    • Australia: 2 pts, 0 GD, 1 GF
    • Japan: 2 pts, 0 GD, 1 GF
    • South Korea: 2 pts, 0 GD, 0 GF

    South Korea are ranked third on head-to-head goals scored. Australia and Japan are tied on their own head-to-head result, and are ranked on total goal difference. neck and neck results : Australia 0–0 South Korea, South Korea 0–0 Japan, Japan 1–1 Australia. tete-a-tete standings : South Korea are ranked third base on tete-a-tete goals scored. Australia and Japan are tied on their own neck and neck leave, and are ranked on full goal difference .

Knockout stage [edit ]

In the knockout stage, extra meter and punishment shoot-out are used to decide the achiever if necessary, except for the third place equal where penalty shoot-out ( no extra time ) is used to decide the achiever if necessary. [ 15 ]

bracket [edit ]

one-fifth rate match [edit ]

Winner qualified for 2019 FIFA Women ‘s World Cup .

third set pit [edit ]

concluding [edit ]

Awards [edit ]

The follow awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament :

Goalscorers [edit ]

There were 66 goals scored in 17 matches, for an median of 3.88 goals per match. 7 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
2 own goals

  • JordanYasmeen Khair (against China PR and Philippines)

Qualified teams for FIFA Women ‘s World Cup [edit ]

The following five teams from AFC qualified for the 2019 FIFA Women ‘s World Cup .

1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year .
2 Australia qualified as a member of the OFC in 1995, 1999 and 2003.

Le Sports acquired the all-media broadcast medium and signal product rights in China in 2015, [ 24 ] but they collapsed due to fiscal problems frankincense giving in all the rights they ‘ve acquired and transferred them to China Central Television and PP Sports in 2017. Tire manufacturer Continental announced they would be official patron. [ 25 ]

References [edit ]