U23 Asian Cup Draw: Group of Death! The National Olympic Games and Japan, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates are in the same group, and the top three go straight to the Olympics
On November 23, Beijing time, the draw for the final stage of the 6th U23 Asian Cup in 2024 and the Asian final stage of the Paris Olympic Games Qualifiers was held in Doha, and the Chinese Olympic Games were in the same group as Japan, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates. Asia has 3.5 Olympic quotas, with the top three straight points and the fourth play-off.
In the qualifiers held in September this year, the National Olympic Games drew 0-0 with the United Arab Emirates and beat India 2-1, and finally qualified for the U23 Asian Cup finals as the runners-up of the four best groups.
Next year's U23 Asian Cup will feature 16 teams divided into four groups of four teams. The draw was based on the results of the previous event, but due to well-known reasons, the 99-year-old National Olympic Games withdrew from the 2022 U23 Asian Cup qualifiers and had no results, so it could only be the fourth pot. In the previous four U23 Asian Cups, the Chinese team participated in all of them, but all of them were out of the group.
The specific classification is as follows:
Pot 1: Qatar (host), Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Japan
Second gear: Australia, South Korea, Iraq, Vietnam
Tier 3: Thailand, Jordan, UAE, Kuwait
Tier 4: Malaysia, Tajikistan, Indonesia, China
This afternoon, the draw ceremony for the U23 Asian Cup was held in Doha, and the results were divided into Group B, with Japan, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates in the same group, which is definitely the group of death!
The specific results of the draw are as follows:
Group A: Qatar, Australia, Jordan, Indonesia
Group B: Japan, South Korea, UAE, China
Group C: Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Thailand, Tajikistan
Group D: Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Kuwait, Malaysia
The 2024 Under-23 Asian Cup will be held in Qatar from 15 April to 3 May next year, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the knockout rounds, while the final top three (champions, runners-up and runners-up) will go straight to the Paris Olympics, with the fourth place going through an intercontinental play-off against African side Guinea for the final Olympic ticket.