At 15:00 on July 1, Beijing time, the draw results for the top 12 Asian qualifiers for the 2022 Qatar World Cup were released. The Chinese team was in Group B with Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Vietnam. The teams in Group A are Iran , South Korea, UAE , Iraq , Syria , Lebanon .
It is understood that the top 12 competition will adopt a home and away round-robin system to play 10 games. The top two in each group, a total of 4 teams will directly enter the Qatar World Cup finals , while the third place in the two groups will enter the fourth round to determine an intercontinental play-off spot.
This year’s top 12 competition is expected to start in September this year, and all rankings will be determined in March 2022.
National Football World Cup top 12 schedule
September 2, 2021 Round 1: Away game against Australia
September 7, 2021 Round 2: Home game against Japan
October 7, 2021 Round 3: Home game against Vietnam
2021 10 Round 4 on November 12: away game against Saudi Arabia
html November 11, 2021 Round 5: home game against Oman html November 16, 2021 Round 6: home game against Australia html January 27, 2022 Round 7: away game JapanFebruary 1, 2022 Round 8 (New Year's Day): away game against Vietnam
March 24, 2022 Round 9: Home game against Saudi Arabia
March 29, 2022 Round 10: away game against Oman
National Football Team and Historical record of opponents in the same group (the results in brackets are the world preliminaries head-to-head results)
vs Japan: 7 wins, 7 draws, 14 losses (1 win)
vs Australia: 4 wins, 3 draws and 7 losses (1 win, 1 draw)
vs Saudi Arabia: 7 wins and 4 7 draws and 7 losses (4 wins and 1 draw)
vs Oman: 4 wins and 2 losses (2 wins)
vs Vietnam: 10 wins and 1 draw (2 wins)
Written by Shenzhen Evening News reporter Lin Weihang