The road to Paris for our Senior Women's National Football Team is set after the Asian Football Confederation conducts its first round draw on Thursday at its Kuala Lumpur offices.
26 teams comprise the participating field for the first round, which the draw will filter into seven groups, five of which will have four teams and two with just three.
Matches will be played at an undetermined centralized venue between April 3-11.
Only the top teams of each group will advance into the second round, which will see them join the five-best teams in the region: Australia, China PR, DPR Korea, Japan, and Korea Republic. The twelve teams will be then drawn into three groups of four teams, with the top team of each group and the best second-place team advancing into the final round, which will be determined through home-and-away playoff matches.
At the end of qualifying, two teams will be representing the continent in 2024 Olympics.
In the previous go-round for the 2020 Olympics, the Philippines made it to the second round of qualifying, but bowed out after a defeat to Chinese-Taipei.
The 26 teams have been seeded into four pots, based on the latest FIFA Women's World Rankings released last December 9. The subdivision is as follows:
Pot 1: Vietnam, Chinese-Taipei, Thailand, Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Philippines, India
Pot 2: Islamic Republic of Iran, Jordan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Nepal, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia
Pot 3: Palestine, Singapore, Turkmenistan, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Tajikistan, Timor Leste
Pot 4: Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Bhutan, Afghanistan
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