2023-05-12 14:11:24
AFC President Sheikh Salman Ibrahim bin Khalifa delivers a speech before the 2023 AFC Asian Cup draw
On Thursday, the Qatari capital, Doha, hosted the draw for the final qualifiers for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, which will be held in Qatar next year.
China was supposed to host this tournament, but it apologized last year because it was unable to prepare for the event, following the outbreak of the Corona epidemic in the country, starting in late 2019.
The AFC later announced that the tournament would be held in Qatar from January 12 to February 10, 2024.
24 international teams are participating in the tournament, divided into six groups.
The results of the lottery were as follows:
Group A: Qatar, China, Tajikistan and Lebanon.
The second group: Australia, Uzbekistan, Syria and India.
The third group: Iran, the UAE, Hong Kong and Palestine.
Group D: Japan, Indonesia, Iraq and Vietnam.
Group E: South Korea, Malaysia, Jordan and Bahrain.
Group Six: Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan and Oman.
The first of each group and its runner-up will qualify for the next round, in addition to the 4 teams that achieved the best results among the third-placed teams.
And 10 Arab teams succeeded in qualifying for the final qualifiers for the 2023 Asian Cup.
The host Qatar team, which heads Group A, will seek to preserve the title following winning it for the first time in 2019 in the UAE.
stations in history Competition
Japan is the most successful Asian Cup winner, having won the title 4 times, the last of which was in 2011.
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The Japanese national team seeks to win its fifth Asian title
The Japanese team competes for the record in winning the championship titles, the Saudi team, which won the title three times in 1984, 1988 and 1996, and the Iranian team, which won the title three times in a row in 1968, 1972 and 1976.
The first edition of the competition was launched in 1956 and was won by South Korea at the time.
Kuwait recorded the first Arab victory in the Asian Cup, following its team won the title when it hosted the finals in 1980.
Iraq also won the title in 2007 in Indonesia, by defeating Saudi Arabia in the final match.
The date of the competition, which is held every four years, has been postponed more than once for several reasons, including the outbreak of the Corona pandemic.
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