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Following their
draw against Afghanistan on Tuesday, India retained their third place in Group E of the AFC Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers. And on Wednesday, with two years to go to Asia’s flagship men’s national team tournament, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) confirmed the 22 out of 24 teams who have advanced to the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Qualifiers Final
Round. After the conclusion of the Preliminary Joint Qualifiers Round 2, 13 participating teams, including AFC Asian Cup 2023 host China PR and FIFA World Cup 2022 host and reigning Asian champions Qatar have sealed their places for the Continental showpiece, which is scheduled to take place from June 16 to July 16, 2023. Therefore, three of the lowest ranked second-placed teams, all eight third and fourth-placed teams across Groups A to H, as well as three best fifth-placed
teams – 22 teams in total, including India – have qualified for the 24-team AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Qualifiers Final Round. The remaining four Participating teams, ranked 36 to 39, will compete in the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Qualifiers Play-offs, which will be played over two legs on September 7 and October 12, 2021, with the draw to be held on June 24, 2021. The full list of the teams participating in the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Qualifiers Final Round as well as
the Qualifiers Play-off can be found below. The following 22 Participating Teams have qualified for the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Qualifiers Final Round by virtue of their final positions in the Asian Qualifiers Preliminary Round 2. The following four Participating Teams (ranked 36 to 39) will be drawn to compete in the AFC Asian Cup China 2023™ Qualifiers Play-off, with the two winners qualifying for the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Qualifiers Final Round. For more updates, follow Khel Now on Twitter, Instagram and join our community on Telegram. TagsAFC Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers: 22 teams including India confirmed for Final Round
The 2023 AFC Asian Cup will be the 18th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It will be held from 16 June to 16 July 2023. The tournament will involve 24 national teams after its expansion of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, including that of the host nation, assuming the current format of the finals is maintained. Qatar are the defending champions. The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in China. However, on 14 May 2022, the AFC announced that China would not be able to host the tournament due to the circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and China's Zero-COVID policy. Host selectionThe first bidding involved four countries which expressed interests in hosting the tournament: China, Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand. Later on, the other three countries: South Korea, Indonesia and Thailand, all withdrew for various reasons, thus China was announced as the winning bid on 4 June 2019, on the eve of the 69th FIFA Congress in Paris, France. On their initial bid, China selected 12 venues in different cities for this tournament. However, due to their Zero-COVID policy, China later announced their withdrawal as the host of 2023 Asian Cup. Therefore, the second round of bidding will be decided by the AFC later, with the deadline being scheduled on 30 June 2022. South Korea was the first country to announce its bid for the second session on 20 June 2022. QualificationMain article: 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualificationThe first two rounds of qualification also served as the Asian qualification for the World Cup. Qatar participated in the second round only for qualification to the 2023 Asian Cup, as they qualified automatically for the World Cup as host nation. China participated in the second round only for qualification to the 2022 World Cup, as they had initially qualified automatically for the Asian Cup as host nation. Timor-Leste was barred from participating in the qualification tournament after being found to have fielded a total of twelve ineligible players in 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification matches, among other competitions. However, as FIFA have not barred them from the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Timor-Leste are still allowed to enter the competition, but they are ineligible to qualify for the Asian Cup. Qualifying began on 6 June 2019 for 23 spots joining the host nation China. The tournament will take place in June and July 2023, moved from the typical January/February scheduling of the AFC Asian Cup due to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, which will take place in November and December 2022. North Korea withdrew from the qualifying round due to safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Japan became the first team to qualify, by defeating Myanmar 10–0. Hong Kong qualified for the Asian Cup for the first time after 55 years, since 1968, which represents the longest drought in AFC Asian Cup history. Tajikistan made their debut in the Asian Cup, while fellow CAFA member nations, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, were the only two nations from the Central Asian zone which failed to qualify for the tournament. All 16 teams of the 2007 edition qualified for this tournament, with co-hosts Indonesia and Malaysia qualifying for the first time since. Kuwait and Yemen were the only two West Asian teams not to qualify for the final tournament. Similarly to 2019, India remained the only South Asian team to qualify for the tournament, and it was also the first time that India qualified for two consecutive AFC Asian Cup. The Philippines, North Korea, Turkmenistan, and Yemen are the only teams who had competed the previous edition that won't participate in this edition, while the AFF had, for the first time, five nations participating in the competition (Australia also participated in the 2007 edition but had not joined the AFF), a record for the region. Qualified teams
DrawNOTE: The following arrangement is provisional, based on the June FIFA rankings and the system adopted in 2019. The 12 teams that participated in the third round of qualification were placed in Pots 1 and 2 while the remaining teams were allocated to the remaining pots. The hosts, which are yet to be announced, will be placed in Pot 1. The final arrangement of teams will be confirmed by the AFC, based on the final FIFA rankings at the time of the draw.
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Template:2023 AFC Asian Cup How many teams will play AFC Asian Cup?Australia joined the Asian confederation in 2007 and hosted the Asian Cup finals in 2015, winning the competition in the final against South Korea. The 2019 tournament was expanded from 16 teams to 24 teams, with the qualifying process doubling as part of the qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
How many teams will qualify for Asia Cup?Asia Cup 2022: The six-team tournament comprising India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will have four teams qualifying for the Super 4 stage. Four teams - India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan - qualified for the Asia Cup 2022 Super Four stage.
How many teams are in the AFC Asian Cup 2022?Kuala Lumpur: Newcomers, familiar foes and regional derbies will light up the 2022 AFC Cup group stage getting underway in May with 39 teams competing across nine groups. Following the conclusion of the draw, the-AFC.com looks at six intriguing encounters to lookout for during the group stage.
Who qualified for afc 2023?Which teams have qualified for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup?. |
