2011 AFC U-19 Women's Championship

The 2011 AFC U-19 Women's Championship was the 6th edition of the AFC U-19 Women's Championship. Vietnam hosted the tournament from 6 to 16 October 2011. The top 3 teams Japan, North Korea, and China qualified to the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. Japan was later named host of the U-20 Women's World Cup, so their spot was awarded to fourth-place finisher South Korea.

Seeding

The tournament format is:

	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round	Competition format
First qualifying round	teams not in the top 8 of last tournament		2 groups of 4 teams, hosted by Philippines and Bangladesh
Second qualifying round	teams placed 6 to 8 in last tournament	2 group winners from 1st qualifying round	1 groups of 5 teams, hosted by Malaysia
Final tournament	top 5 finishers from last tournament	1 group winner from 2nd qualifying round	round-robin tournament, hosted by Vietnam

Qualification

Uzbekistan and Iran progressed from the first qualifying round as winners but then finished in the last two places in the second qualification round. Vietnam came through the qualification as the group winner in the 2nd qualification round.