Football Asian Cup 2023

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Football Asian Cup 2023
2023 AFC Asian Cup
Number of nations 24  (of 46 applicants)
venue China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China
Opening game June 2023
Endgame July 2023
Games 51

The 18th Asian Football Championship (officially: 2023 AFC Asian Cup ) is expected to be played in China in June and July 2023 . As in 2019 , 24 teams will take part in the finals. If the mode remains unchanged, the game will initially be played in a group stage in six groups of four teams and then from the round of 16 in the knockout system .

The defending champion is Qatar .

Award

By the end of March 2016, a total of four national football associations expressed their interest in hosting the final round of the Asian Cup. They were China , Indonesia , South Korea and Thailand . In July 2017, Indonesia and shortly afterwards Thailand withdrew from the application process. In October 2017, another applicant, India , showed interest, but missed the application deadline. This left two candidates with China and South Korea, both of whom had already hosted the final round once (South Korea 1960 and China 2004 ). In May 2019, South Korea withdrew its application as the association wanted to focus on applying for the 2023 Women's World Cup .

The announcement of the host has already been postponed several times. It was originally supposed to take place in May 2018, then in September 2018 and finally in April 2019 at the 29th AFC Congress. Finally, on June 4, 2019 , the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) awarded the 2023 Asian Football Championship to China.

Venues

Venues of the Asian Cup 2023

In its application, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) listed twelve stadiums in the twelve cities of Changsha , Chengdu , Chongqing , Dalian , Guangzhou , Hangzhou , Beijing , Shanghai , Suzhou , Tianjin , Wuhan and Xi'an as possible venues. Of the stadiums named in the application, all would have a capacity of at least 30,000 spectators, and six of them would have a capacity of 50,000. The largest stadium would be the Beijing National Stadium in the capital Beijing with a capacity of 91,000 spectators.

Ten venues were confirmed in December 2019. Of the twelve cities named in the application, Changsha, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Wuhan were not included, while Qingdao and Xiamen were newly added.

qualification

As in the last tournament, apart from the host, no other teams are directly qualified. The qualification is expected to take place in four rounds, of which the first two also represent the first two rounds of the qualification for the 2022 World Cup . Due to this merger, both the host of the 2022 World Cup, Qatar , and the host of the 2023 Asian Cup will participate in the qualification.

In the first round in June 2019, the twelve teams with the lowest rankings in the FIFA world rankings from April 4, 2019 will play against each other in a knockout system with a return leg. In the second round, from September 2019 to June 2020, the six winners and the remaining 34 higher-placed teams will meet in eight groups of five in a double round robin format . The eight group winners and the four best runners-up in the group should qualify directly for the final round of the 2023 Asian Cup.

The remaining teams will continue to play for the remaining twelve places in the finals. The rest of the game plan initially provides for two play-off rounds with a return leg in autumn 2020 and another group stage in double round robin format from March 2021 to March 2022.

Attendees

The following countries have qualified for the tournament so far:

  • China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China (host)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Host cities for AFC Asian Cup China 2023 confirmed . In: The-AFC.com . December 28, 2019. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  2. ^ AFC Competitions Committee decisions . In: The-AFC.com . April 12, 2016. Archived from the original on April 12, 2016. Retrieved on April 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ Indonesia withdraws from 2023 AFC Asian Cup bid . In: The-AFC.com . July 6, 2017. Archived from the original on July 9, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  4. ↑ Thailand withdraws from AFC Asian Cup bidding . In: The-AFC.com . July 21, 2017. Archived from the original on July 23, 2017. Retrieved on April 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ India to table bid to host the 2023 AFC Asian Cup . In: Goal.com . October 7, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b Paul Nicholson: South Korea challenges China as it names cities for 2023 Asian Cup bid . In: InsideWorldFootball.com . November 23, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  7. ↑ China all but confirmed as 2023 Asian Cup hosts after Korea withdraw . In: Reuters.com . May 16, 2019. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ Agenda of the 29th AFC Congress 2019 (PDF; 928 kB) In: The-AFC.com . April 1, 2019. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  9. ↑ China PR to host AFC Asian Cup 2023 . In: The-AFC.com . June 4, 2019. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
  10. ↑ AFC Asian Cup 2023 - Bid Evaluation Report . In: The-AFC.com . Archived from the original on June 4, 2019. Retrieved June 8, 2019.
  11. ↑ a b c Umaid Wasim: Pakistan to learn World Cup, Asian Cup qualifying fate on April 17 . In: Dawn.com . March 22, 2019. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  12. ↑ See the dates in the AFC calendars for 2020 , 2021 and 2022