The AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification, is a quadrennial international association football competition for women's, organised by the sport's Asian governing body, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to decide the participants for AFC Women's Asian Cup.
In 2006, the structure saw a major overhaul, with a qualifier tournament introduced for the final championship tournament, allowing all the member nations of AFC to participate.
The tournament was also rebranded to 'AFC Women's Asian Cup'.
In the current format, a total of twelve teams qualify for the final tournament which includes the hosts, top three finishers of previous edition and eight teams who qualify via qualification tournament.
[1] From the 2029 edition, a total of twelve teams will qualify for the final tournament which includes the hosts and eleven teams who qualify via the second round of the new 2-round qualification tournament.