Notably, Southeast Asia has up to 4 representatives participating in the finals, accounting for 1/4 of the teams. Following U23 Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia were able to squeeze through the narrow gap to enter the finals. Malaysia ranked second in Group H, Thailand’s group.
U23 Malaysia participated in the tournament as the second-place team with the 4th best performance in the qualifying round, which means the last qualifying ticket. According to the rules, in addition to the 11 leading teams in the 11 qualifying groups, the 4 second-place teams with the best results will win the right to attend the finals along with host Qatar.
Standing one place above Malaysia in the group of second-place teams with the best results is China U23 . The team of the country with 4 billion people has 4 points after the group stage, equal to the top team of Group G UAE but is inferior in sub-index. Group G has only 3 teams (the remaining team is India and Maldives dropped out).
The remaining second-place teams that won tickets to the finals include group F runner-up Kuwait and Group I runner-up Tajikistan. .
The top 11 teams that won the right to enter the finals include Jordan (group A), South Korea (group B), U23 Vietnam (C) Japan (D) Uzbekistan (E) Iraq (F) UAE (G). ) Thailand (H) Australia (I) Saudi Arabia (J) and Indonesia (K).
Most of the strongest teams football</a > Asia in the 23 year old group except Iran all participated. Iran is the second team in Group (E) with the 5th best performance in the qualifying round, which is not enough for them to win tickets to the final round.
Saudi Arabia is the defending champion of the tournament, they won the final round. The most recent tournament was in 2022. 2 years ago, Korea won in 2020. Uzbekistan won in 2018. Japan won in 2016 and Iraq won in 2013.
Teams Jordan Korea Japan Uzbekistan Iraq Australia and Saudi Arabia are also the teams that have participated in the finals the most times, each team 6 times.
U23 Vietnam is in the group of teams with the next most appearances with 5 appearances in the finals. U23 Vietnam’s number of participations is equal to hosts Qatar UAE, Thailand and China.
U23 Vietnam is also the team with the best performance among the group of teams that have participated 5 times. We are the only team among the above mentioned teams to have reached the final (lost 1-2 to Uzbekistan in 2018).
Finals Asia U23 2024 will take place from April 15 to May 3 next year in Qatar.
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