Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: May 09, 2023, 08:50 IST
India have been positioned alongside with Tajikistan, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Indonesia in Pot 4 for the ultimate draw for AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023.
In simply three days’ time, Asia’s high 24 groups will be taught their path to final glory on the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023. All eyes shall be on Doha for the Final Draw ceremony because the stage is about for the Continent’s flagship worldwide match, which kicks off on January 12, 2024.
After an intense and enthralling qualification interval spanning three years that concluded in June 2022, a last forged of 24 groups is left standing.
The groups shall be divided into 4 Pots of six every in accordance with the newest FIFA Ranking. Thereafter, the groups shall be drawn into six teams of 4 every throughout Groups A to F.
To be certain that Qatar commences the match with the opening match, the hosts have been allotted the primary place in Pot 1.
The different groups in Pot 1 are Japan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Korea Republic, Australia and Saudi Arabia. Pot 2 contains Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Uzbekistan, China PR, and Jordan whereas Pot 3 can have Bahrain, Syria, Palestine, Vietnam, Kyrgyz Republic, and Lebanon.
Tajikistan will turn out to be the thirty sixth debutant in AFC Asian Cup historical past after they take to the sphere in Qatar, because of Shervoni Mabatshoev’s profitable aim in opposition to Singapore on June 11, 2022, through the third spherical of Qualifiers that sealed a historic qualification to Asia’s crown jewel.
The Dastai Muntakhabi, who had beforehand fallen brief on the identical qualifying stage for the 2019 version, are the one new face on the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023 and their qualification implies that because the competitors’s inception in 1956, solely two editions haven’t been graced by no less than one debutant, the AFC knowledgeable in a launch on Monday.
Only three of the remaining 23 groups weren’t concerned in the 2019 showpiece in the UAE – Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and Malaysia. While the Garuda and Harimau Malaya each final took half in 2007, Hong Kong, China’s participation is their first because the fourth version that befell in 1968.
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