AFC announces Asian Cup list in Hong Kong

On June 4th, 2024, AFC official website updated the list of 26 men's soccer teams from China and Hongkong who participated in the Asian Cup, namely Yan, Tao, Wang, Liu Dianzuo, Jiang, Zhu, Li Lei, Zhang, Liu Yang, Wu Shaocong, Jiang Shenglong, Lin, Wang Shangyuan, Xu Xin and Xie Pengfei.

In this big list, seven people from the Hong Kong Super League champion Jiezhi team were selected. Laurie, who played for Dalian Super League last season, Ru Zinan of Meizhou Hakka team and An Yongjia, the best player in last season, were also summoned by head coach Anderson.

In this Asian Cup, China Hong Kong team is in Group C with Iranian team, UAE team and Palestinian team. 14, China and Hong Kong will have their first group match, UAE.

Qatar Asian Cup will start on June 65438+1October 12, 2024. China is in Group A with Qatar, Tajikistan and Lebanon. According to the schedule, on June 5438+1October 13, China will play Tajikistan in the first game, and on October 7/KLOC-0 and 22/respectively.

The new competition system of Asian Football Federation

201April 16 in the afternoon, at the just-concluded AFC Executive Committee meeting, the new preliminaries system was formally adopted. 20 18 Russia's World Cup qualifiers have undergone fundamental changes, and the final stage of the Asian region 10 has also ended its historical mission and turned to 12.

At the same time, the second half of the preliminaries will be merged with the 20 19 UAE Asian Cup qualifiers, and the number of teams participating in the 20 19 UAE Asian Cup will also increase from 16 to 24. At the second annual meeting of the Executive Committee on August 14, 2023, AFC confirmed that it would launch a brand-new AFC Women's League from the 2024-2025 season.