According to news from AFC , the third phase of the 2023 Asian Cup qualifiers is scheduled to hold a group draw ceremony at the AFC headquarters of Kuala Lumpur on February 24 next year. The 24 teams will be divided into 6 groups to compete for the remaining 11 tickets.
2023 Asian Cup Qualifiers Second Stage is the top 40 match of the Qatar World Cup Qualifiers that ended in the first half of this year. The 12 teams that qualified for the top 12 matches also received tickets for the Asian Cup. Among them, Chinese team is the host of the 2023 Asian Cup, and has automatically obtained tickets. Qatar team has also obtained tickets because it won the first place in the group in the top 40 matches. Therefore, a total of 13 teams have qualified for the final stage competition. The remaining 11 teams will be competed for by the remaining teams participating in the top 40 games.
Due to the impact of the epidemic, the AFC has previously changed the competition method of the third stage of the Asian Cup qualifiers, changed the original home and away system to a centralized match system, and decided on the group rankings in a single cycle. The game time is also uniformly arranged for three rounds of competitions on June 8, 11 and 14, 2022. It is also because of this that the group lottery ceremony originally scheduled to be held in October this year has been postponed. According to the latest arrangements of the AFC, the group draw ceremony for the qualifiers is scheduled to be held on February 24 next year. At that time, the 24 teams participating in the qualifying round will be divided into four levels based on the latest world rankings of national and regional national teams announced by FIFA in February next year, and will divide the 24 teams into four levels, one team will be drawn from each level and form six different groups.
According to the latest FIFA rankings, the classification situation is roughly as follows:
First level: Uzbek, Bahrain, Jordan, Kyrgyz, Palestinian, India;
Second level: Tajik, Thailand, Philippines, Turkmen, Kuwait, and Hong Kong team in China;
Third level: Myanmar, Afghanistan, Yemen, Malaysia, Maldives, Singapore team;
Fourth level: Indonesia, Nepal, Cambodia, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka.
Since the Southeast Asian Championship is currently in Singapore, it will not end until January 1 next year, so the rankings of Southeast Asian teams will definitely change. Moreover, there is a FIFA designated national team competition window from the end of January to the beginning of February next year, and each team will also arrange warm-up matches at that time, so the FIFA rankings of each team may change, and the final classification situation is to be announced by FIFA in mid-February next year. ( Sports Weekly All-media reporter Ma Dexing report)
Source: Sports Weekly
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