[3] India was selected as the host nation by the AFC Women's Football Committee in June 2020.

[10] Five teams qualified directly for the World Cup via the knockout stage and two more advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

[13] India was recommended for hosting the tournament by the AFC Women's Football Committee on 19 February 2020.

[5][14] The 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup was held amid the COVID-19 pandemic which affected the organization of the tournament.

Following negative test results, the movement of players and officials were restricted to the hotel, and the training and match venues.

[16] Several teams reported positive COVID-19 cases during the tournament, namely China,[17] India,[18] Japan,[19] South Korea,[18] Myanmar,[18] the Philippines,[17] and Vietnam.

[35] The final draw was held on 28 October 2021, 15:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The losers of the quarter-final matches entered play-offs, the format of which depended on Australia's results in the tournament.

[42] In addition, five percent of the prize money earned by the champions and runners-up would be kept and issued to the AFC Dream Asia Foundation to fund social responsibility activities.

[3] The format of the play-offs round depended on the performance of Australia, who qualified automatically for the World Cup as hosts.

The logo features the AFC Women's Asian Cup trophy at the center, with a "swirl" surrounding the trophy "inspired by the national flags and colors of playing kits in Asia, and the iconic stadiums in which the AFC Women’s Asian Cup is played in and celebrates cultural diversity and the unwavering support and enthusiasm of fans for their national teams".

The maroon colour of the logo is inspired by the art of the Warli people, a tribe native to the northern Western Ghats in the tournament's host state of Maharashtra.