AFC Challenge Cup 2008 / qualification

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The qualification for the second AFC Challenge Cup took place from April 2nd to May 28th, 2008. 16 teams competed against each other in four groups with four teams each. The four group winners qualified for the finals in India .

As group winners, the teams from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Nepal qualified for the finals. Of the 16 teams registered, only fourteen went on to qualify as Laos and Palestine withdrew their participation.

In addition to the four athletically qualified teams, hosts India, North Korea, Turkmenistan and Myanmar also took part in the finals and played for qualification for the 2011 Asian Cup.

Attendees

The following teams took part in the qualification:

Draw the groups

According to their results at the last edition in 2006 , the teams were divided into four pots.

The four group winners qualify for the final round. In addition to hosts India , North Korea , Myanmar and Turkmenistan are also seeded for the finals.

Lottery pot 1 KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan Sri LankaSri Lanka Sri Lanka TajikistanTajikistan Tajikistan
Lottery pot 2 BangladeshBangladesh Bangladesh BruneiBrunei Brunei PalestinePalestine Palestine TaiwanTaiwan Taiwan
Lottery pot 3 Afghanistan 2002Afghanistan Afghanistan CambodiaCambodia Cambodia PakistanPakistan Pakistan PhilippinesPhilippines Philippines
Lottery pot 4 BhutanBhutan Bhutan GuamGuam Guam LaosLaos Laos MacauMacau Macau

The draw on January 16, 2008 in Kuala Lumpur resulted in the following groups:

Group A GuamGuam Guam Sri LankaSri Lanka Sri Lanka TaiwanTaiwan Taiwan * PakistanPakistan Pakistan
Group B TajikistanTajikistan Tajikistan BruneiBrunei Brunei BhutanBhutan Bhutan PhilippinesPhilippines Philippines *
Group C Afghanistan 2002Afghanistan Afghanistan BangladeshBangladesh Bangladesh LaosLaos Laos KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan *
Group D CambodiaCambodia Cambodia * PalestinePalestine Palestine KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan ** MacauMacau Macau

* Host the group. ** The Group D games were originally supposed to be played in Nepal , but the country withdrew from the game due to political problems. The Asian Association therefore switched to Phnom Penh , Cambodia .

Games and results

Group A

All games in Taipei , Taiwan

rank country Gates Points
1 Sri LankaSri Lanka Sri Lanka 14: 4 7th
2 PakistanPakistan Pakistan 12:10 6th
3 TaiwanWIDTH = 30TaiwanWIDTH = 30 Taiwan 7: 5 4th
4th GuamGuam Guam 4:18 0
April 2, 2008
Sri Lanka - Guam 5: 1 (0: 0)
Taiwan - Pakistan 1: 2 (1: 2)
April 4, 2008
Pakistan - Sri Lanka 1: 7 (1: 3)
Guam - Taiwan 1: 4 (1: 4)
June 7, 2008
Sri Lanka - Taiwan 2: 2 (0: 1)
Pakistan - Guam 9: 2 (4: 0)

Group B

All games in Iloilo , Philippines

rank country Gates Points
1 TajikistanTajikistan Tajikistan 7: 1 7th
2 PhilippinesPhilippines Philippines 4-0 7th
3 BhutanBhutan Bhutan 2: 7 1
4th BruneiBrunei Brunei 1: 6 1
May 13, 2008
Tajikistan - Bhutan 3: 1 (1: 0)
Brunei - Philippines 0: 1 (0: 1)
May 15, 2008
Philippines - Tajikistan 0-0
Bhutan - Brunei 1: 1 (1: 0)
May 17, 2008
Philippines - Bhutan 3: 0 (2: 0)
Tajikistan - Brunei 4: 0 (0: 0)

Group C

All games in Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan

Laos withdrew its team.

rank country Gates Points
1 Afghanistan 2002Afghanistan Afghanistan 1-0 4th
2 KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan 2: 2 3
3 BangladeshBangladesh Bangladesh 1: 2 1
May 5, 2008
Bangladesh - Afghanistan 0-0
May 7th
Afghanistan - Kyrgyzstan 1: 0 (1: 0)
May 9, 2008
Kyrgyzstan - Bangladesh 2: 1 (0: 0)

Group D

All games in Phnom Penh , Cambodia

Palestine withdrew its crew.

rank country Gates Points
1 NepalNepal Nepal 4: 2 6th
2 CambodiaCambodia Cambodia 3: 2 3
3 MacauMacau Macau 3: 6 0
May 24, 2008
Nepal - Macau 3: 2 (1: 1)
May 26
Cambodia - Nepal 0: 1 (0: 1)
May 28, 2008
Cambodia - Macau 3: 1 (1: 0)

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