2023-11-13 20:36:35
“Green”… first confrontation with Pakistan in “difficult” Asian qualifiers
The Saudi national team (Thursday) will launch its first official trip following its last participation in the Qatar 2022 World Cup, in the joint Asian qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup and the 2027 Asian Cup.
Since the Qatar World Cup, he has been content to play a number of international friendly matches during the FIFA International Days, in exchange for the reserve team’s participation in the Arabian Gulf Cup Championship, which was held in the Iraqi city of Basra last January.
The Saudi national team will meet the Pakistan national team for the first time in the history of confrontations between the two countries. They have never met on any friendly or official occasion, and Thursday’s confrontation will be the first of its kind.
If the confrontation with Pakistan was the first at all levels, then the “Green” confrontation against Tajikistan will be the first on the official side after they met friendlyly in 2005. Expanding the circle of participation gave many teams an opportunity to participate in the qualifiers.
Al-Fateh Club Stadium in Al-Ahsa will host the confrontation in the first round for the seventh group, which includes the teams of Pakistan, Jordan and Tajikistan.
The Saudi “Al-Akhdar” will be a guest of its counterpart, the Jordanian national team, on Tuesday, November 21, in the Jordanian capital, Amman, and at the Amman International Stadium in the second round of the same competition and group.
After increasing the seats of the teams qualifying for the World Cup for each continent following the decision to expand the circle of participation in the World Cup from 32 teams to 48 teams, the Asian continent now has eight direct seats, in addition to a seat in the global playoff, after the seats were only four in addition to the playoff.
Al-Fateh Club Stadium in Al-Ahsa, where the Greens will play their first official international matches (Asharq Al-Awsat)
The system for the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup was changed, and four stages were approved for the qualification process. The first round ended, which included 22 teams ranked from 26 to 47 on the Asian continent. They faced off in two round-robin matches, and the winner reserved his place in the second stage qualifiers.
The second stage, in which the Saudi “Green” is currently participating, begins, with the presence of 36 teams, including the teams ranked from first to 25th, next to the 11 teams that qualified. It was distributed into nine groups, each group containing four teams competing in a round-robin league system, with the winner and runner-up of each group qualifying to the decisive final stage.
These 18 teams will get direct seats in the 2027 Asian Cup, which Saudi Arabia is hosting and participating as the host country. This is the first hosting in the Kingdom’s history for the continental championship, the title of which has previously been won three times.
In the decisive round, the 18 teams will be distributed into three groups, with each group including six teams competing in a league system across the home and away stages, with the first two teams from each group qualifying directly to the World Cup, while the teams that finish third and fourth from each group will go to the final round. Asian supplement.
Mancini is on the verge of his first official mission with the Saudi national team (Asharq Al-Awsat)
The Asian playoff includes six teams competing with each other for two direct qualifying places for the World Cup. It is divided into two groups, so that each group includes three teams participating in the league system across the home and away stages, and the winner qualifies for the World Cup, while the two teams that finish second in each group compete through a playoff in order to determine the team that represents the Asian continent in the global playoff. The 2027 Asian Cup qualifiers will continue after the end of the first and second rounds of the joint qualifiers. First, a qualifier will be held in which 10 losing teams from the first round of the joint qualifiers will be held across two round-robin matches, and 5 winning teams will qualify for the final round of the Asian Cup qualifiers.
The final round of the Asian Cup qualifiers includes 24 teams competing for six seats, completing the final number of teams participating in the next edition of the tournament, which will guarantee the participation of the eighteen teams that qualified for the final qualifiers of the World Cup.
The final round includes the 18 teams that ranked third and fourth from the second round, in addition to the five teams that won the playoff. They are divided into six groups, with each group including four teams, and the first-place team in each group qualifies for the 2027 Asian Cup finals.
The increase in seats for continents from around the world will give a great opportunity for teams that have not previously participated in the World Cup, to attend for the first time in the 2026 edition, which is the first expanded edition to be implemented in the history of the World Cup Finals.
For several years, the scene in the Asian continent was dominated by the teams of South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Australia. South Korea is the most qualified and participated with 11 copies, then Japan with seven times, followed by Saudi Arabia, Iran and Australia with six participations.
The last World Cup in Qatar witnessed the historic participation of Asian teams, with the participation of six teams. Qatar participated as the host country, alongside four teams that qualified according to the qualifiers, namely Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea, and Iran, in addition to the Australian team, which qualified through the global playoff.
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