The final round of the Asian Cup qualifier in 2019 ended last night. The first two teams of the six teams have successfully reached the final circle of the Asian Cup. In addition to the teams that have reached the top 12 auto promotion, all 24 teams of the Asian Cup in 2019 have been produced.
Who are the top 24 teams in the Asian Cup? When will the Asian Cup begin
The 2019 Asian Cup will be held in the UAE from January 5 to February 1, 2019, which is the first time in the history of the Asian Cup to expand to 24 teams. According to the rules, teams that have reached the top 12 in the previous World Cup Asian preliminary can automatically advance to the Asian Cup finals in 2019, including the Chinese men's football team. The rest of the Asian teams play two qualifying rounds first, and then they are divided into six groups to play in the Asian Cup qualifier. The top two players in each group can also qualify for the Asian Cup.
Before this round of group match, the top two of the other groups have been determined, only group F's qualification situation is not clear. But in the end, the Philippines defeated Tajikistan 2-1, Yemen defeated Nepal 2-1, the Philippines with 12 points and Yemen with 10 points advanced, Tajikistan with 7 points won the third place in the group.
In addition to the automatic promotion of China's men's football, Macao, China, came to the bottom of the group with 4 goals and 16 goals in 6 games in the preliminary group A, Hong Kong, China, ranked third in the group with 1 win, 2 draw, 3 negative product and 5 points in group B, while Taipei, China, lost 2-4 in the total score of the first round qualification round to Cambodia, and failed to reach the final circle of the Asian Cup.
The group drawing ceremony of the Asian Cup 2019 will be held in Dubai on May 4 this year. 24 teams will be divided into 6 groups. The host UAE will automatically become the seed team of the draw. The remaining five seed teams will be the top five Asian teams of FIFA. As the national football team lost both the previous China Cup matches, it has lost the qualification of seed team. The other five seed teams in the Asian Cup draw are: Iran, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia.
Asian Cup 2019 teams:
Top 12 teams in the World Cup Asia qualifier: UAE, China, Iran, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Uzbekistan, Qatar, Iraq, Thailand, Syria
12 qualifying teams for Asian Cup: India, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, North Korea, Jordan, Vietnam, Palestine, Oman, Bahrain, Turkmenistan, Philippines, Yemen