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The draw for the second round was held on 27 July 2023 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [5] The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of July 2023 (shown in parentheses below). The identities of the first round winners were not known at the time of the draw. Note: Bolded teams qualified for the third round of World Cup qualifying.
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.
This was the first AFC Asian Cup meeting between the two nations since 2015, where Iran defeated Qatar 1–0 to eliminate Qatar from the tournament. The two's most recent meeting in other competitive fixtures occurred during the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, which also ended with Iran winning 2–0 and 1–0. Ahead of the semi-final clash ...
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) are divided into nine groups of four teams. The teams ...
The draw for the group stage was held on 24 August 2023 at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.The 36 teams were drawn into nine groups of four teams: three groups each in the West Asia Zone (Groups A–C) and the ASEAN Zone (Groups F–H), one group in the Central Asia Zone (Groups E), and one group each in the South Asia Zone (Group D) and the East Asia Zone (Group I).
This was the sides' first competitive meeting since the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification phase, a 0–0 draw. Their most recent meeting was a friendly match in 2019, with China securing a 1–0 victory. In fact, China had never lost to Tajikistan in all five of their previous encounters.
The 2023–24 AFC Cup knockout stage was played from 12 February to 5 May 2024. [1] ... with the order of legs determined by the Inter-zone play-off semi-final draw ...
Group B of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup took place from 13 to 23 January 2024. [1] The group consisted of Australia , Uzbekistan , Syria and India . [ 2 ] The top two teams, Australia and Uzbekistan, along with third-placed Syria (as one of the four best third-placed teams ), advanced to the round of 16.