2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualification
Tournament details
Host countries Qatar (Group A)
Tajikistan (Group B)
Bahrain (Group C)
Uzbekistan (Group D)
United Arab Emirates (Group E)
Jordan (Group F)
Tajikistan (Group G)
Singapore (Group H)
Kyrgyzstan (Group I)
Mongolia (Group J)
Japan (Group K)
Dates 23 October – 2 November 2021
Teams 38 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 12 (in 10 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played 50
Goals scored 146 (2.92 per match)
Attendance 29,433 (589 per match)
Top scorer(s) South KoreaPark Jeong-in
(5 goals)
2020 2024

International football competition
The 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualification was an international men ‘s under-23 football contest which decided the participating teams of the 2022 AFC U-23 asian Cup.

A sum of 16 teams qualified to play in the concluding tournament, including Uzbekistan who qualified automatically as hosts nation. [ 2 ] due to non-compliance to doping regulations, the World Anti-Doping Agency ( WADA ) banned Indonesia and Thailand from using their national flags in competitions, except during the Olympics. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was reported that Indonesia prepared the flag of its federation, in the event its team was barred from using the national flag. [ 5 ]

draw [edit ]

Out of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 42 teams entered the competition. The final tournament hosts Uzbekistan decided to participate in qualification. Their matches were not taken into history when calculating the group ranking and best second-placed teams among the groups. The draw was held on 9 July 2021, 12:00 ( UTC+5 ), in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. [ 6 ] The 42 teams were drawn into nine groups of four teams and two groups of three teams. For the puff, teams were divided into two zones :

  • West Zone: 23 teams from West Asia, Central Asia and South Asia, to be drawn into five groups of four teams and one group of three teams (Groups A–F).
  • East Zone: 19 teams from ASEAN and East Asia, to be drawn into four groups of four teams and one group of three teams (Groups G–K).

The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship concluding tournament and reservation ( overall ranking shown in parentheses ). The eleven teams which indicated their intention to serve as qualification group hosts prior to the draw were drawn into separate groups. On 29 July, North Korea withdrew from the rival due to safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a resultant role, to better libra of the number of teams across all groups, the AFC conducted a disembowel on 11 August to move one team from Groups G to J, which was Hong Kong, who were placed in Group K. [ 7 ] On 11 October, China besides withdrew from the contest for the same rationality, leaving Group G with alone two teams. [ 8 ]

Notes
  • Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
  • (H): Qualification group hosts determined before the draw
  • (H)*: Qualification group hosts determined after the draw
  • (Q): Final tournament hosts, automatically qualified regardless of qualification results
  • (W): Withdrew after draw
Notes
  • (X): Suspended

Draw resultant role [edit ]

The pull resulted in following groups .
Bold indicates that the team has qualified for the final examination tournament .

  1. a b c d Withdrew from the tournament .

Player eligibility [edit ]

Players born on or after 1 January 1999 were eligible to compete in the tournament. [ 9 ]

format [edit ]

In each group, teams played each other once at a centralize venue. The eleven group winners and the four best runner-up qualified for the final examination tournament. In group G, after the withdrawal of Brunei and China PR, the two teams left ( Australia and Indonesia ) played each early doubly. The winner qualified for the final examination tournament, with the loser eliminated. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ]

Tiebreakers [edit ]

Teams were ranked according to points ( 3 points for a win, 1 point for a pull, 0 points for a loss ), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the club given, to determine the rankings .

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
  9. Drawing of lots.

Groups [edit ]

All matches were played between 23 October and 2 November 2021 .

Group A [edit ]

  • All matches were held in Qatar.
  • Times listed are UTC+3.
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Qatar ( H ) 3 2 1 0 9 1 +8 7 Final tournament
2  Syria 3 1 2 0 6 1 +5 5
3  Yemen 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 4
4  Sri Lanka 3 0 0 3 0 13 −13 0

Rules for classification:
( H ) Host source : AFC Rules for classification : qualification tiebreakers Host

Group B [edit ]

  • All matches were held in Tajikistan.
  • Times listed are UTC+5.
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Iran 3 3 0 0 9 2 +7 9 Final tournament
2  Tajikistan ( H ) 3 2 0 1 9 3 +6 6
3  Lebanon 3 1 0 2 4 3 +1 3
4    Nepal 3 0 0 3 0 14 −14 0

Rules for classification:
( H ) Host reservoir : AFC Rules for categorization : reservation tiebreakers Host

Group C [edit ]

  • All matches were held in Bahrain.
  • Times listed are UTC+3.
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Iraq 2 2 0 0 7 0 +7 6 Final tournament
2  Bahrain ( H ) 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 3
3  Maldives 2 0 0 2 0 7 −7 0
4  Afghanistan[a] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Withdrew
  1. ^[13] Afghanistan retire from the tournament on 25 October 2021 as they were not able to reach Bahrain before the first catch due to absence of timely flights from Kabul as per an official affirmation .

Group D [edit ]

  • All matches were held in Uzbekistan.
  • Times listed are UTC+5.
  •  Uzbekistan already qualified to the final tournament as host country, so their matches were not taken into account when calculating the group ranking.
  • Originally Kuwait was supposed to host group D; however, the AFC changed host country due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. On 19 October 2021, Uzbekistan was named replacement host.[14]
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Kuwait 2 2 0 0 3 1 +2 6 Final tournament
2  Saudi Arabia 2 1 0 1 4 2 +2 3
3  Bangladesh 2 0 0 2 0 4 −4 0

Group E [edit ]

  • All matches were held in the United Arab Emirates
  • Times listed are UTC+4.
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  United Arab Emirates ( H ) 3 2 0 1 4 2 +2 6 Final tournament
2  India 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 4[a]
3  Kyrgyzstan 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 4[a]
4  Oman 3 1 0 2 2 4 −2 3
  1. a b punishment shoot-out : India 4–2 Kyrgyzstan

Group F [edit ]

  • All matches were held in Jordan.
  • Times listed are UTC+2.
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Jordan ( H ) 2 1 1 0 2 1 +1 4 Final tournament
2  Turkmenistan 2 1 0 1 3 2 +1 3
3  Palestine 2 0 1 1 2 4 −2 1

Rules for classification:
( H ) Host reservoir : AFC Rules for categorization : qualification tiebreakers Host

Group G [edit ]

  • Both matches were held in Tajikistan.
  • Times listed are UTC+5.
  • After the withdrawal of Brunei and China PR, the remaining teams left played each other twice. The winner qualified for the final tournament, with the loser eliminated.[10][11][12]
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Australia 2 2 0 0 4 2 +2 6 Final tournament
2  Indonesia 2 0 0 2 2 4 −2 0
3  China PR[a] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Withdrew
4  Brunei[b] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  1. ^[8] China PR withdrew from the competition on October 11 due to COVID-19 pandemic
  2. ^[15] Brunei withdrew from the rival on September 3 .

Group H [edit ]

  • All matches were held in Singapore.
  • Times listed are UTC+8.
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  South Korea 3 3 0 0 14 1 +13 9 Final tournament
2  Singapore ( H ) 3 1 1 1 4 7 −3 4
3  Timor-Leste 3 1 1 1 3 8 −5 4
4  Philippines 3 0 0 3 0 5 −5 0

Rules for classification:
( H ) Host beginning : AFC Rules for classification : qualification tiebreakers Host

Group I [edit ]

  • All matches were to be held in Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), but AFC determined that the host would be changed,[16] with Kyrgyzstan as the new host.
  • Times listed are UTC+6.
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Vietnam 2 2 0 0 2 0 +2 6 Final tournament
2  Myanmar 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 3
3  Chinese Taipei 2 0 0 2 0 2 −2 0

Group J [edit ]

  • All matches were held in Mongolia.
  • Time listed are UTC+8.
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Malaysia 3 2 1 0 2 0 +2 7 Final tournament
2  Thailand 3 1 2 0 4 1 +3 5
3  Laos 3 1 0 2 3 6 −3 3
4  Mongolia ( H ) 3 0 1 2 3 5 −2 1

Rules for classification:
( H ) Host beginning : AFC Rules for classification : qualification tiebreakers Host

Group K [edit ]

  • All matches were held in Japan.
  • Times listed are UTC+9.
  • DPR Korea withdrew from the competition on 29 July. They were replaced by a team initially drawn in Group G–J (excluding host countries and teams from Pot 1), which was determined by a draw on 11 August to be Hong Kong.[7]
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Japan ( H ) 2 2 0 0 8 0 +8 6 Final tournament
2  Cambodia 2 1 0 1 4 6 −2 3
3  Hong Kong 2 0 0 2 2 8 −6 0
4  North Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Withdrew[7]

Rules for classification:
( H ) Host source : AFC Rules for categorization : reservation tiebreakers Host

Ranking of second-placed teams [edit ]

due to groups having different numbers of teams, the results against the fourth-placed teams in four-team groups were not considered for this rank. Exceptions :

  • In Group D, the results against the host country Uzbekistan were not considered.
  • In Group G, the runners-up results were not considered for this ranking, as the group contained only two teams.[10][11][12]
Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 J  Thailand 2 1 1 0 3 0 +3 4 Final tournament
2 D  Saudi Arabia 2 1 0 1 4 2 +2 3
3 F  Turkmenistan 2 1 0 1 3 2 +1 3
4 B  Tajikistan 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 3[a]
5 C  Bahrain 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 3[a]
6 I  Myanmar 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 3
7 K  Cambodia 2 1 0 1 4 6 −2 3
8 A  Syria 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 2
9 E  India 2 0 1 1 0 1 −1 1
10 H  Singapore 2 0 1 1 3 7 −4 1

source : AFC
Notes :

  1. a b disciplinary points : Tajikistan –1, Bahrain –2 .

Goalscorers [edit ]

There were 114 individuals who scored at least 1 goal. There were 146 goals scored in 50 matches, for an average of 2.92 goals per match. 5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
source : AFC

Qualified teams [edit ]

The postdate teams qualified for the 2022 AFC U-23 asian Cup .

1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]