The 2024 U17 Women's Asian Cup continues to be played in Indonesia, with two matches in the third round of Group A being played at the same time, with the North Korean women's football team beating Indonesia 9-0, winning all three games in the group stage, with a net win of 24 goals, and advancing as the group leader. In the same group, the South Korean women's football team drew 1-1 with the Philippine women's football team, and the two teams were tied with 4 points, and the South Korean women's football team beat the Philippine women's football team to advance to the semifinals with a goal difference. The two matches in Group B will be played simultaneously at 16 pm Beijing time on May 13, and the Chinese women's football team will compete with the Japanese women's football team for the top spot in the group.
The U17 Women's Asian Cup consists of 8 teams, the top three of the last U17 Women's Asian Cup, Japan Women's Football Team, North Korea Women's Football Team and China Women's Football Team directly qualified, Australia Women's Football Team, South Korea Women's Football Team, Thailand Women's Football Team and Philippines Women's Football Team qualified through the qualification round, plus the host Indonesia Women's Football Team, a total of 8 teams participated. Group A consists of Indonesia, North Korea, South Korea and the Philippines, while Group B consists of China, Japan, Australia and Thailand.
Due to the uneven level of women's football in Asian countries, the strength and weakness are clear, so in the first two rounds of the U17 Women's Asian Cup, there were many big scores, North Korea women's football team, South Korea women's football team, and Philippine women's football team have created a number of tragedies, and the host Indonesian women's football team lost all three games, scoring only 1 goal and conceding 27 goals, with a goal difference of 26 goals, becoming the worst team in this U17 Women's Asian Cup. In the third round of the group stage, the Indonesian women's football team's opponent was the last Asian North Korean women's football team.
Although the Indonesian women's football team has the advantage of the host, but the North Korean women's football team does not give the host face at all, just one minute after the opening, Choi Yishan scored, in the half time, the North Korean women's football team scored 8 goals with a head kick, Zhang Quanyi scored a hat trick of assists, Zhang Yishan staged a senior happiness, Jiang Liumei, Lu Eunxiang scored two goals respectively. In the second half, Choi Il-sun scored another goal and scored 5 goals single-handedly, becoming the player with the most goals in a single game in this U17 Women's Asian Cup.
The South Korean women's football team and the Philippine women's football team in the same group were both one win and one loss in the first two rounds, and the South Korean women's football team lost 0-7 in the first round, but beat Indonesia 12-0 in the second round and got enough clean sheet. The Philippine women's football team defeated the Indonesian women's football team 6-1 in the first round, and lost to the North Korean women's football team 0-6 in the second round. The two teams battled for a place in the group, and in the first half of the game, the Philippine women's football team broke the deadlock first, with Ariana Markey scoring a goal to give the Philippine women's team the lead. In the second half, Fair assisted Fan Yizhu to equalize, and finally the South Korean women's football team drew 1-1 with the Philippine women's football team, with a goal difference of 6 more than the Philippine women's football team, and finally won the second place in the group.
The two matches in the third round of Group B are: China Women's Football Team VS Japan Women's Football Team, Australia Women's Football Team VS Thailand Women's Football Team. The Japanese women's football team defeated the Thai women's football team 4-0 and swept the Australian women's football team 4-1, while the Chinese women's football team defeated the Australian women's football team and the Thai women's football team with two scores of 3-0. The Japanese women's football team has a goal difference of 1 point more than the Chinese women's football team, so the Japanese women's football team is ranked first in the group, and the Chinese women's football team is ranked second in the group.
The Chinese women's football team must defeat the Japanese women's football team to finish second in the group, so as to avoid the North Korean women's football team, which is in the limelight, if it does not win, the Chinese women's football team will only be ranked second in the group to advance, then in the semifinals, the Chinese women's football team will play against the North Korean women's football team. The top three finishers in this year's U17 Women's Asian Cup will qualify for the 2024 U17 Women's World Cup, and the bottom line for the Chinese women's football team is to get a place in the U17 Women's Asian Cup.