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The qualification process involved four rounds, where the first two rounds doubled as the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification for Asian teams. Only the first round acted as qualifiers for the cancelled 2020 AFC Solidarity Cup as the six teams which were eliminated from the first round of the 2022 World Cup and 2023 Asian Cup joint qualifiers. The ...
A total of four teams (the four lowest fifth-placed teams of the Asian Cup qualifying second round) competed in the play-off round.The two play-off winners joined the 22 teams which advanced directly from the Asian Cup qualifying second round to the third round, to compete for the final 11 slots in the 2023 AFC Asian Cup.
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 eight group winners and the four best group runners-up advanced to the third round of FIFA World Cup qualification as well as qualified for the AFC Asian Cup finals. The next 16 highest ranked teams (the remaining four group runners-up, the eight third-placed teams and the four best group fourth-placed teams) advanced directly to the third ...
The team that wins the penalty shoot-out are then declared champions. The fourteen finals to-date have produced five matches go into extra-time, and two of those further being determined by a penalty shoot-out. The winners are awarded the Asian Cup trophy. [1] Japan is the most successful team at the tournament, winning it four times. Iran and ...
Since 2019, the Asian Cup final tournament has been contested by 24 teams, having been expanded from the 16-team format that was used from 2004 to 2015. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Each team plays three games in a group of four, with the winners and runners-up from each group advancing to the knockout stage along with four best third-placed teams.
Team Zone Method of qualification Date of qualification Finals appearance Last appearance Previous best performance FIFA Rankings; April 2023 [nb 1] December 2023 A1 Qatar: WAFF: Hosts and Second round Group E winners: 7 June 2021: 11th: 2019: Winners : 61: 58 A2 China: EAFF: Second round Group A runners-up: 15 June 2021: 13th: 2019: Runners-up ...
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.