The draw for the AFC U-23 Championship finals in Thailand will be held in Bangkok from 8-26 January.
The Olympic White qualified to the finals after leading the Group D, which included the teams of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and the Maldives and played games last March in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, where he collected seven points after beating Lebanon 6-1 and Maldives 3-0, while tied with the Saudi team 1- 1.
The 16 teams will be divided into four groups so that each group includes four teams will play the league system from one role to qualify the first and second places from each group to the knockout rounds (round of eight), note that the AFC has divided the participating teams into four levels according to The final standings of the previous edition of the tournament held in China 2018, where our team, which returned to participate in the tournament after his absence from the last version of the fourth level with the teams of Syria, Iran and Bahrain, while the first level included teams Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Qatar, The second level teams, South Korea, Iraq, Japan, North Korea, the third-level teams of China, Australia, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
The third-placed champion, runner-up and runner-up will qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The Football Association will be represented at the ceremony by Olympic team manager Jamal Bouhendi and coach Macej Skorza.
During the last meeting of the Football and Technical Affairs Committee adopted the program to prepare the Olympic team for the finals. During the days of «FIFA» with the participation of six Asian teams.