{"id":9480,"date":"2021-07-09T14:46:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T09:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/?p=9480"},"modified":"2021-07-09T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T09:52:21","slug":"nepal-drawn-alongside-iran-lebanon-and-tajikistan-in-afc-u-23-asian-cup-2022-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2021\/07\/09\/nepal-drawn-alongside-iran-lebanon-and-tajikistan-in-afc-u-23-asian-cup-2022-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal drawn alongside Iran, Lebanon and Tajikistan in AFC U-23 Asian Cup 2022 Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>Nepal has been drawn alongside Iran, Lebanon<strong>,<\/strong> and Tajikistan in Group \u2018B\u2019 for the AFC U-23 Asian Cup 2022 Qualifiers.<br><br>The 42 teams were drawn into 11 groups with 15 spots available at the AFC U-23 Asian Cup 2022 with Uzbekistan having already confirmed their place as hosts, the first time the tournament will be staged in the Central Zone.<br><br>The draw divided the teams into two Regions \u2013 the West Region comprising 23 West, South, and Central Participating Teams as well as the East Region, which consists of 19 East and ASEAN participating teams.<br><br>The West Region comprises six groups in total \u2013 five groups of four teams and one group of three teams \u2013 while the East Region features four groups of four teams and one group of three teams, with the 11 group winners and four best second-placed teams sealing their qualification to the final.<br><br>The qualifiers are scheduled for October 23 to 31, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group A: Syria, Qatar (H), Yemen, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group B: Islamic Republic of Iran, Tajikistan (H), Lebanon, Nepal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group C: Iraq, Bahrain (H), Afghanistan, Maldives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group D: Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Kuwait (H), Uzbekistan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group E: United Arab Emirates (H), Oman, India, Kyrgyz Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group F: Jordan (H), Palestine, Turkmenistan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group G: Australia, China PR, Indonesia (H), Brunei Darussalam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group H: Korea Republic, Singapore (H), Timor-Leste, Philippines<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group I: Vietnam, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei (H)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group J: Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Mongolia (H)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group K: DPR Korea, Japan, Cambodia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Nepal has been drawn alongside Iran, Lebanon, and Tajikistan in Group \u2018B\u2019 for the AFC U-23 Asian Cup 2022 Qualifiers. The 42 teams were drawn into 11 groups with 15 spots available at the AFC U-23 Asian Cup 2022 with Uzbekistan having already confirmed their place as hosts, the first time the tournament will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-stories","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AFC-U23-Asian-Cup-2022-Qualifier.jpg?fit=1440%2C810&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-2sU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}