WORLD/ASIAN CUP DRAW TOMORROW
Jul 16, 2019
The draw for the next phase of qualifiers to the 2022 World Cup and 2023 Asian Cup will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Forty teams will be divided in to five levels, according to their rankings, with Jordan included in pot two.
Pot One: Iran, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia and China
Pot Two: Iraq, Uzbekistan, Syria, Oman, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam and Jordan
Pot Three: Palestine, India, Bahrain, Thailand, Tajikistan, North Korea, Chinese Taipei and the Philippines
Pot Four: Turkmenistan, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Yemen, Afghanistan, Maldives, Kuwait and Malaysia
Pot Five: Indonesia, Singapore, Nepal, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Guam and Sri Lanka.
These teams will be divided into eight qualifying groups who will play home and away against each other.
The group winners will go through with four of the best placed runners-up, making it 12 directly qualifying through to the China 2023 Asian Cup.
There will be one more tier of qualifiers for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, with the 12 teams being split into two groups of six, and the top two from each qualifying directly. The second round of Asian qualifiers will be played from September 5, 2019 to June 9, 2020.
