The 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification will be the qualification tournament for the 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup.

The qualification tournament will decide eight of the twelve participating teams in the final tournament to be held in Australia.^[3] Along with the host nation, the top three teams in the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup final tournament also secured automatic qualification: China, South Korea and Japan.^[4] A total of 33 teams submitted entries to participate in the qualifiers.

This tournament will also serve as the first stage of Asian qualification for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2028 Olympic football tournament.

The teams will be divided into eight groups, with group winners qualifying to the final tournament.^[5]

The following 12 teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Finals appearance	Last appearance	FIFA Ranking (Dec. 2024)	Previous best performance
Australia	Hosts	15 May 2024	7th	2022	15	Champions (2010)
China	2022 champions	18 December 2024	16th	2022	17	Champions (1986, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2006, 2022)
South Korea	2022 runner–ups	18 December 2024	14th	2022	20	Runners-up (2022)
Japan	2022 third place	18 December 2024	18th	2022	8	Champions (2014, 2018)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

The draw is scheduled to take place on 21 March 2025.

For the first time in the tournament's history, the seeding for both qualifiers and final draws is expected to be based on the latest FIFA Women's World Ranking at the time of the draw. Previously, the teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous final tournament and qualification rankings.^[6]

The following teams have entered the qualification round,^[4] with their latest FIFA Women's World Ranking (December 2024) shown in parenthesis: