{"id":27525,"date":"2017-03-17T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T18:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27525"},"modified":"2017-03-17T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T18:47:00","slug":"afc-u-23-championship-2018-hopefuls-learn-their-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/17\/afc-u-23-championship-2018-hopefuls-learn-their-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC U-23 Championship 2018 hopefuls learn their opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFC – Kuala Lumpur, Forty AFC U-23 Championship China 2018 hopefuls discovered their qualifying opponents during the stage’s official draw at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

The ten group winners and five best second-placed teams among all the groups will advance to the finals. The qualifiers will take place from July 19 to 23, 2017 in the respective host countries which are Kyrgyz Republic, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Myanmar, DPR Korea, Thailand and China PR.<\/p>\n

Although directly qualified as the finals host, China PR have expressed interest to participate in the qualifying stage. Therefore, if China PR finish top of their group or finish among the five best second-placed teams, the next (sixth) second-placed team will qualify to the final stage of the competition in January, 2018.<\/p>\n

WEST Zone (West + South + Central)<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

Group A<\/strong>
\nA1. IRAN<\/strong>
\nA2. OMAN
\nA3. KYRGYZ REPUBLIC (host)
\nA4. SRI LANKA<\/p>\n

Group B<\/strong>
\nB1. IRAQ
\nB2. SAUDI ARABIA (host)
\nB3. BAHRAIN
\nB4. AFGHANISTAN<\/p>\n

Group C<\/strong>
\nC1. QATAR (host)
\nC2. SYRIA
\nC3. INDIA
\nC4. TURKMENISTAN<\/p>\n

Group D<\/strong>
\nD1. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (host)
\nD2. UZBEKISTAN
\nD3. LEBANON
\nD4. NEPAL<\/p>\n

Group E<\/strong>
\nE1. JORDAN
\nE2. TAJIKISTAN
\nE3. PALESTINE (host)
\nE4. BANGLADESH<\/p>\n

EAST Zone (East + ASEAN)<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

Group F<\/strong>
\nF1. AUSTRALIA
\nF2. MYANMAR (host)
\nF3. SINGAPORE
\nF4. BRUNEI DARUSSALAM<\/p>\n

Group G<\/strong>
\nG1. DPR KOREA (host)
\nG2. LAOS
\nG3. CHINESE TAIPEI
\nG4. HONG KONG<\/p>\n

Group H<\/strong>
\nH1. THAILAND (host)
\nH2. INDONESIA
\nH3. MALAYSIA
\nH4. MONGOLIA<\/p>\n

Group I<\/strong>
\nI1. KOREA REPUBLIC
\nI2. VIETNAM (host)
\nI3. TIMOR-LESTE
\nI4. MACAU<\/p>\n

Group J<\/strong>
\nJ1. JAPAN
\nJ2. CHINA PR (host)
\nJ3. CAMBODIA
\nJ4. PHILIPPINES<\/p>\n

\n

Fixtures for AFC U-23 Championship China 2018 Qualifiers Matchday One, July 19, 2017:<\/p>\n

Group A<\/strong>
\nIran<\/strong> v Sri Lanka
\nOman v Kyrgyz Republic<\/p>\n

Group B<\/strong>
\nIraq v Afghanistan
\nSaudi Arabia v Bahrain<\/p>\n

Group C<\/strong>
\nQatar v Turkmenistan
\nSyria v India<\/p>\n

Group D<\/strong>
\nUnited Arab Emirates v Nepal
\nUzbekistan v Lebanon<\/p>\n

Group E<\/strong>
\nJordan v Bangladesh
\nTajikistan v Palestine<\/p>\n

Group F<\/strong>
\nAustralia v Brunei Darussalam
\nMyanmar v Singapore<\/p>\n

Group G<\/strong>
\nDPR Korea v Hong Kong
\nLaos v Chinese Taipei<\/p>\n

Group H<\/strong>
\nThailand v Mongolia
\nIndonesia v Malaysia<\/p>\n

Group I<\/strong>
\nKorea Republic v Macau
\nVietnam v Timor-Leste<\/p>\n

Group J<\/strong>
\nJapan v Philippines
\nChina PR v Cambodia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AFC – Kuala Lumpur, Forty AFC U-23 Championship China 2018 hopefuls discovered their qualifying opponents…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":3658,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}