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The ten winners advanced to the second round. The best loser qualified for the 2027 AFC Asian Cup qualification third round, while the remaining teams qualified for the 2027 AFC Asian Cup qualification – play-off round. Second round: 36 teams (ranked 1–26 and ten first-round winners) were divided into nine groups of four teams. The teams ...
The seeding for the draw was based on the FIFA Men's World Rankings on 20 June 2024 (shown in parentheses below). [5] Each group contained one team from each of the six pots. The draw started with Pot 6 and concluded with Pot 1, with each team drawn being placed in the corresponding position sequentially in Group A, then B, then C. [6]
Club ranking was introduced in 2014 by the AFC. [1] It was an informative ranking and not used to seed clubs in the club competitions. [2]In 2024, the AFC announced changes in the format for ranking the three revamped Club competitions – AFC Champions League Elite, AFC Champions League Two, AFC Challenge League – effective from the 2024–25 season. [4]
Forty-six FIFA-affiliated nations are eligible to enter the joint qualification process for both the 2026 FIFA World Cup and 2027 AFC Asian Cup; Northern Mariana Islands, which is not a FIFA member, would have entered through the play-off round. [1] However, it was not included in the draw for the play-off round. [2]
Federations member the Asian Football Confederation. AFC Asian Cup: Qualification is linked with AFC Asian Qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup. AFC U23 Asian Cup: Linked with Qualifiers for the Men's Olympic Football Tournament. AFC U20 Asian Cup; AFC U17 Asian Cup; AFC Women's Asian Cup: Women's cup; Linked with Qualifiers for the FIFA Women's ...
The AFC Asian Cup qualification [a] is the process that a national association football team goes through to qualify for the final tournament of AFC Asian Cup. The qualification reduces the large field of eligible entrants from 47 to just 24 for the finals.
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in most countries and territories in Asia. [ a ] The AFC was formed in 1954. It has 47 members.
The Asian section of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup held in Qatar for national teams who are members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Apart from Qatar (who qualified automatically as hosts), a total of 4.5 slots (4 direct slots and 1 inter-confederation play-off slot) in the final ...