The Asian Football Confederation Department will run tomorrow morning the draw for the AFC U-16 Junior Cup, scheduled for November 25 to December 12 2020 in the Kingdom of Bahrain, with the participation of 16 teams.
The draw will be held via the videoconference system in the context of preventive and preventive measures, as a result of the Corona pandemic, and with the participation of Competition Department officials in the Continental Federation, and representatives of the participating teams.
According to the lottery system, the 16 teams will be divided into four groups, so that each group includes four teams that play in the league system from one role, and the first and second-placed teams from each group qualify to the quarter-finals, provided that the four teams that qualify for the semi-finals are formally qualified to participate in the Cup The World for Young People Under 17, 2021, to be established in the State of Peru.
The participating teams were classified into 4 levels according to the results of the last edition of the tournament held in Malaysia, where Bahrain was the "host of the tournament" at the head of the first group with the defending champions Japan and Tajikistan team and the summer of the last edition in 2018, and South Korea, which ranked third in the previous version In the first level of classification, while the second level includes North Korea, Australia, Indonesia and Oman, while the third level includes the teams of India, Iran, Yemen and Saudi Arabia, while the fourth level includes our national team, China, Uzbekistan and Qatar.