According to the famous reporter Madexing , since the odd U23 Asian Cup does not involve the allocation of Olympic quotas, no country will take the initiative to bid, so the AFC handed over the U23 Asian Cup to the country that hosted the Asian Cup in the following year. That is, the 2023 Asian Cup host China will host the fifth U23 Asian Cup in 2022. China hosted the third U23 Asian Cup in 2018. However, the 95-age U23 national football team was hacked and was beaten to miss the group qualifying.
U23 Asian Cup, in the Olympic Games, the task of "part-time" Olympic qualifiers, that is, even-numbered events become extremely important, such as the second session in 2016 and the fourth session in 2020, but the odd-numbered U23 Asian Cup has become useless. In 2018, four cities in Jiangsu in China hosted the third U23 Asian Cup, but the 95-year-old U23 national football team was "blacked" by Iranian referee Fagani in the last round of the group stage and was eliminated in the group at home.
20 4th U23 Asian Cup in 2020, the 97-age national Olympic team failed to qualify from the group and was eliminated with three consecutive losses. The fifth U23 Asian Cup in 2022 has become a useless again, and no country has taken the initiative to bid. According to reporter Ma Dexing, in order to avoid the embarrassment of no country hosting, the AFC has tied the U23 Asian Cup with the Asian Cup, that is, countries that hold the Asian Cup need to host the even U23 Asian Cup.
The competition notice issued by the AFC shows that the 2022 U23 Asian Cup has been "directly" handed over to China, after all, China is the host of the 2023 Asian Cup.
will participate in the 2022 U23 Asian Cup, a team of 99 years old in China. The coach currently in charge of the team is Jankovic. He has returned to China from Serbia and is currently actively inspecting players of the age. However, compared with the attention received by the 97-age national Olympic team at the beginning and during the process of establishing the National Olympic Team, the 99-age group did not receive attention from the outside world, which is related to the fact that the team will play in the fifth useless U23 Asian Cup.
