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The 2023 AFC Asian Cup was an international football tournament held in Qatar from 12 January to 10 February 2024. The 24 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad with a minimum of 18 players and a maximum of 26 players, at least three of whom had to be goalkeepers.
The 2023 AFC Asian Cup was the 18th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It involved 24 national teams after its expansion in 2019 , with hosts Qatar the defending champions.
The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian ... Qatar: 2 (2019, 2023) ...
In 1988 and 2011, Qatar hosted the AFC Asian Cup, which is the biggest football event on the continent. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Qatar hosted the Gulf Cup tournament in 1976 , 1992 and 2004 , winning the biggest tournament for national teams in the region in 1992 and 2004.
On 11 January 2023, AFC announced that Iranian-born Australian referee Alireza Faghani would adjudicate the first match of the tournament. On 8 February 2024, Ma Ning was appointed to take charge of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup final between Jordan and Qatar in Doha on 10 February 2024.
Group A of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup took place from 12 to 22 January 2024. [1] The group consisted of hosts, defending and eventual champions Qatar , China , tournament debutants Tajikistan , and Lebanon . [ 2 ]
The 2023 AFC Asian Cup final was a football match which determined the winner of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, the 18th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of the Asian Football Confederation.
Since the AFC Asian Cup was founded in 1956, Qatar has participated in 10 Asian Cups between 1980 and 2019. However, prior to the 2019 edition, Qatar only reached the quarter-finals twice: in 2000 as one of the two best third-place teams when the tournament had only 12 nations competing, and in 2011, when they finished second in Group A behind Uzbekistan.