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AFC Asian Cup Schedule 2023

The AFC Asian Cup is the quadrennial international men’s football championship which will have 24 national teams this time. This year it will have the 18th edition of the AFC Asian Cup Schedule to be held in Qatar from the 12th of January to the 10th of February 2023. The 24 teams are divided into six groups containing four teams in each, with a total of 36 matches till the 25th of January 2023.

Among these teams, the four best third-placed teams from these six groups move to the knockout phase along with the six group conquerors and six second-position holders. The quarter-final will be on the 2nd and 3rd of February, 2023, and four matches will be played among eight teams. Then, the semi-finals will be on the 6th and 7th of February, and the final will be on the 10th of February, 2023.

AFC Asian Cup Host 2023

The host of the AFC Asian Cup Schedule was announced as China, and the matches were scheduled from the 16th of June to the 16th of July 2023. But due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and a policy of China, namely the Zero-COVID Policy, AFC said on the 14th of May 2022 that China could not host the tournament. Later Qatar was made the host with the bidding process on the 17th of October 2022, but due to very high temperatures in summer, the schedule was shifted to the start of 2024.

There will be 24 teams playing in eight stadiums of Qatar, which are Al Bayt Stadium at Al Khor, Khalifa International, Ahmad bin Ali and Education City Stadium at Al Rayyan, Al Thumama, Jassim bin Hamad and Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium at Doha and Al Janoub Stadium at Al Wakrah. Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium is the smallest among them, with a capacity of only 10,000, and Al Bayt Stadium is the largest, with a 68,895 capacity.

AFC Asian Cup Draw Date 2023

The AFC Asian Cup Draw was held on the 11th of May 2023 at the Katara Opera House present in Doha at 14:00 AST, and the 24 teams were selected to take part in this tournament this time. There are six groups from A to F in which the teams are divided, and that with the lowest points were drawn first but not allocated to the positions of their groups, followed by numeral orders of the group phase as occurred in prior editions.

Pot 1 squads were allotted to the first places of their groups, while subsequently, the parts of all other squads were drawn individually from Pot 4 to 2 (for the objectives of specifying the game programs in each group). The group made by the draw are given below:

A Group

• Qatar
• China
• Tajikistan
• Lebanon

B Group

• Australia
• Uzbekistan
• Syria
• India

C Group

• Iran
• United Arab Emirates
• Hong Kong
• Palestine

D Group

• Japan
• Indonesia
• Iraq
• Vietnam

E Group

• South Korea
• Malaysia
• Jordan
• Bahrain

F Group

• Saudi Arabia
• Thailand
• Kyrgyzstan
• Oman

AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers 2023

This is the qualification procedure arranged by the AFC to decide the participating squads for this year. It was organised from the 6th of June 2019 to the 14th of June 2022, and a total of 46 teams participated in it. The first round was with 12 teams for a ranking of 35 to 46, and from this, six winners were selected for the next round.

In the second round, 40 teams participated, whose rankings were 1 to 34 and another six from the first round.  These teams were divided into eight groups with five teams in each, and then the next round of Play-offs was organised, which had only one round to take the final round of the Asian Cup qualification. In the third round then, the selected 24 teams are separated into six groups to play round robin match, and this is the AFC Asian Cup 2023.

AFC Asian Cup Fixtures 2023

This is the schedule for the upcoming AFC Asian Cup, which the teams have to follow.

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