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2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup
كأس آسيا تحت 23 سنة 2024
Tournament details
Host country	Qatar
Dates	15 April – 3 May 2024
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
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The 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup will be the 6th edition of the AFC U-23 Asian Cup (previously the AFC U-23 Championship before rebranding from 2021),^[1] the biennial international age-restricted football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-23 national teams of Asia. The tournament will be held from 15 April to 3 May 2024.^[2]

The tournament will act as the AFC qualifiers for the 2024 Summer Olympics men's football tournament. The top three teams of the tournament would qualify for the Olympics in France as the AFC representatives while the fourth-best team will play an AFC–CAF play-off match for qualification.^[3] A total of 16 teams will compete in the tournament.^[4] Saudi Arabia are the defending champions.

Host selection

Qatar has been selected as the host for this competition by the Asian Football Confederation Competitions Committee.^[5] This marks as the second time that Qatar will be hosting this competition, the first in 2016.

Qualification

Qualification matches were played between 6 and 12 September 2023.^[6]

Qualified teams

Team	Qualified as	Last appearance	Appearance	Previous best performance
Qatar	Hosts	2022	5th	Third place (2018)
Jordan	Group A winners	2022	6th	Third place (2013)
South Korea	Group B winners	2022	6th	Champions (2020)
Vietnam	Group C winners	2022	5th	Runners-up (2018)
Japan	Group D winners	2022	6th	Champions (2016)
Uzbekistan	Group E winners	2022	6th	Champions (2018)
Iraq	Group F winners	2022	6th	Champions (2013)
United Arab Emirates	Group G winners	2022	5th	Quarter-finals (2013, 2016, 2020)
Thailand	Group H winners	2022	5th	Quarter-finals (2020)
Australia	Group I winners	2022	6th	Third-place (2020)
Saudi Arabia	Group J winners	2022	6th	Champions (2022)
Indonesia	Group K winners	Debut	1st	Debut
Kuwait	Best runners-up	2022	3rd	Group stage (2013, 2022)
Tajikistan	2nd Best runners-up	2022	2nd	Group stage (2022)
China	3rd best runners-up	2020	5th	Group stage (2013, 2016, 2018, 2020)
Malaysia	4th best runners-up	2022	3rd	Quarter-finals (2018)

Venues

To be confirmed.

Draw

The draw will take on 16 November 2023 (to be confirmed time and place of draw).^[7]

The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams, with seeding based on their performance at the 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Qatar (hosts) Saudi Arabia Uzbekistan Japan	Australia South Korea Iraq Vietnam	Thailand Jordan United Arab Emirates Kuwait	Malaysia Tajikistan Indonesia China

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team have to register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must have been goalkeepers (Regulations Article 26.3).^[4]

Group stage

All times are local, AST (UTC+3).

Group A

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Qatar (H)	Knockout stage
2	A2	Knockout stage
3	A3
4	A4

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
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Group B

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	B1	Knockout stage
2	B2	Knockout stage
3	B3
4	B4

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

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Group C

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	C1	Knockout stage
2	C2	Knockout stage
3	C3
4	C4

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

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Group D

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	D1	Knockout stage
2	D2	Knockout stage
3	D3
4	D4

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out will be used to decide the winner if necessary.

Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

Winners will qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

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Third place play-off

The winner will qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The loser will advance to the AFC–CAF play-off match.

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Final

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Qualified teams for the Summer Olympics

The following three teams from AFC qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in France.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in the Summer Olympics^[a]
TBD	2024
TBD	2024
TBD	2024

^ Italic indicates hosts for that year

References

^ "AFC rebrands age group championships to AFC Asian Cups". AFC. 2 October 2020.
^ "ASEAN FOOTBALL on Instagram". Instagram. 17 April 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
^ Virgílio Franceschi Neto (1 July 2022). "How to qualify for football at Paris 2024. The Olympics qualification system explained". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
^ ^a ^b "AFC U23 Asian Cup 2024 Competition Regulations" (PDF). AFC.
^ "Qatar recommended as host for the AFC U23 Asian Cup 2024". the-AFC. 30 September 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
^ "AFC Competitions Calendar 2023". AFC.
^ "Asian Football Calendar (Sep 2023 – Aug 2024)". the-AFC.com. 4 September 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2023.

External links

AFC U23 Asian Cup, the-AFC.com

[8] Italic indicates hosts for that year

[1] "AFC rebrands age group championships to AFC Asian Cups". AFC. 2 October 2020.

[2] "ASEAN FOOTBALL on Instagram". Instagram. 17 April 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.

[3] Virgílio Franceschi Neto (1 July 2022). "How to qualify for football at Paris 2024. The Olympics qualification system explained". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 April 2023.

[regulations-4] "AFC U23 Asian Cup 2024 Competition Regulations" (PDF). AFC.

[5] "Qatar recommended as host for the AFC U23 Asian Cup 2024". the-AFC. 30 September 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022.

[6] "AFC Competitions Calendar 2023". AFC.

[7] "Asian Football Calendar (Sep 2023 – Aug 2024)". the-AFC.com. 4 September 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2023.

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