The UAE will discover at the beginning of next month whom they shall face inside the third and final round of qualification for the 2022 wor...
How qualification worked
The oft-postponed 2d spherical concluded closing week, with 12 teams qualifying for the very last degree. Seven of the eight organization winners stepped forward - Syria, Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Japan, UAE, South Korea - alongside the 5 first-class runners-up: China, Iraq, Oman, Vietnam, Lebanon. Qatar, who host subsequent year’s global finals, crowned group E, thus commencing some other runner-up spot (the authentic quota became four).
The format
The 12 teams could be drawn into businesses of six, in which in the intervening time they're slated to play domestic and away, in spherical-robin matches. The pinnacle two in every institution qualify for the sector Cup, whilst the 2 third-positioned groups increase to a unmarried-fit play-off. The winner of in order to then flow directly to the intercontinental play-offs, with a final risk to qualify for the finals at stake.
The draw
The groups will discover their pathway to Qatar whilst the draw is made on July 1 in Kuala Lumpur. The seeding for the draw is based totally on a special release of the Fifa scores for Asian teams, which changed into showed ultimate Friday. The groups will be divided into six pots, with the top two ranked in Pot 1, the following groups in Pot 2, and so on. The pot number corresponds to the location the group may be placed in the institution.
The seedings (1-12)
1. Japan
2. Iran
3. Australia
4. South Korea
5. Saudi
6. UAE
7. Iraq
8. China
9. Oman
10. Syria
11. Vietnam
12. China
With the UAE placed in Pot 3, it means they will be drawn in a group that features either Japan or Iran, and either Australia or South Korea.
The programme
AFC global Cup qualification has been again and again postponed because of the pandemic. Ultimate November, the AFC announced the final round would begin on September 2, 2021 and finish in March 2022. Even though there was hypothesis that the time table will be not on time till early next year, given ongoing impact of the pandemic, at gift the calendar reads as follows:
- Sep 2, 2021
- Sep 7, 2021
- Oct 7, 2021
- Oct 12, 2021
- Nov 11, 2021
- Nov 16, 2021
- Jan 27, 2022
- Feb 1, 2022
- Mar 24, 2022
- Mar 29, 2022
The UAE's finals history
The UAE have best as soon as formerly certified for a international Cup, in 1990. They reached the 1/3 spherical of Asian qualification for Russia 2018, handiest to complete fourth in group B, in the back of Japan, Saudi Arabia and Australia.
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