The final tournament took place in Ho Nanjing, China PR from 3-13 November 2011. The six participating teams were Australia, China PR, Japan, Korea DPR, Korea Republic and Thailand. Japan and Korea DPR secured qualification with a match to spare, while China PR claimed the third and final berth on the last day of competition.
Botswana, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tunisia and Zambia will participate in the first qualifying round, which takes place between 20 January and 5 February 2012.
The six teams who progress will compete in the second qualifying round, which will take place between 9 and 25 March 2012. Three countries will progress to the finals.
The UEFA Women’s U-17 Championship 2011/12 will serve as the qualification tournament. A total of 42 countries will compete, while the first qualifying round took place from 1 August – 31 October 2011.
Two teams will progress to the finals and join automatically-qualified hosts Azerbaijan.
The host country qualifies automatically.