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1997 AFC Women's Championship

Field	Value
tourney_name	AFC Women's Championship
year	1997
other_titles	1997年亞足聯女子亞洲杯
dates	5–14 December
country	China
num_teams	11
confederations	1
champion_other
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
count	6
matches	19
goals	132
player	Liu Ailing
prevseason	[1995](1995-afc-women-s-championship)
nextseason	[1999](1999-afc-women-s-championship)

The 1997 AFC Women's Championship was a women's football tournament held in the province Guangdong, China between 5 and 14 December 1997. It was the 11th staging of the AFC Women's Championship. The 1997 AFC Women's Championship, consisting of eleven teams, served as the AFC's qualifying tournament for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Asia's three berths were given to the two finalists - China and Korea DPR - and the winner of the third place play-off, Japan.

Group stage

Group A

Tababi Devi
Lokeshwari Devi

Homare Sawa Yuko Morimoto Miyuki Yanagita Mayumi Omatsu Nami Otake Tamaki Uchiyama Rie Yamaki

Yumi Toumei Homare Sawa Yuko Morimoto Miyuki Yanagita Tomomi Mitsui Tamaki Uchiyama

Chaoba Devi
Lokeshwari Devi
Tababi Devi

Group B

Fan Yunjie

Karima
Gulnara

Zhao Lihong Wei Haiying Liu Ying

Group C

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup{{football box

Liu Ailing
Sun Qingmei
Shui Qingxia
Jin Yan

Third place match

Winner qualified for 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup{{football box

Final

Awards

Goalscorers

JPN Homare Sawa
JPN Nami Otake
JPN Tamaki Uchiyama
JPN Miyuki Yanagita
JPN Rie Yamaki
JPN Yuko Morimoto
JPN Kae Nishina
JPN Mayumi Omatsu
JPN Yumi Toumei
UZB Yuldasheva Karima
UZB Azamova Gulnara

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