The 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup (Spanish: Copa Mundial Femenina Sub-17 de la FIFA República Dominicana 2024) will be the 8th edition of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It will be hosted by the Dominican Republic, the first FIFA tournament hosted by the country.[1] This will be the final edition to feature 16 teams before expanding to 24 teams in 2025.[2] It will also be the final edition to be held biannually.
Dominican Republic was announced as the 2024 Women's U-17 World Cup hosts following the FIFA Council meeting on 23 June 2023 in Zürich, Switzerland.[1]
Qualified teams
A total of 16 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Dominican Republic who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 15 teams qualify from six separate continental competitions.
The official draw took place on 22 June 2024 at the Monument to Fray Anton de Montesinos in Santo Domingo.[4] The teams were allocated based on their performances in the 5 previous U-17 Women's World Cups, five bonus points added to the qualifying tournament winners (for this cycle).[5]
The hosts team, Dominican Republic, was automatically seeded and assigned to position A1. Teams of the same confederation were drawn so as to not meet in the group stage.
In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time shall be played (two periods of five minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner. However, for the third place match, if it is played directly before the final, no extra time shall be played and the winner shall be determined by a penalty shoot-out.