The draw ceremony for the Arab Gulf League and Arab Gulf Cup soccer tournaments will take place at the Ministry of Health headquarters in Dubai, in appreciation of the efforts made by the first line of defense in tackling the Corona pandemic.
The League of Professionals stated that the Arab Gulf Cup competition is scheduled to start in its new form on the third of September next, with the knock-out system of the first-leg and second-leg matches in each of the first round, the quarter-finals and the four rounds, provided that the final of one match will be on a neutral stadium.
The competing teams will be determined in all the elimination roles based on one official lottery, in addition to identifying the stadiums on which the matches will be played back and forth, and the first round of the competition will witness the establishment of six confrontations, after the victory "title holder", and Sharjah, the last champion of the league, is excused from playing In the first stage, they join the six teams that qualify for the quarter-finals of the competition.
At the level of the Arab Gulf League championship, it will start in the ninth of September, followed by the Arab Gulf League U-21 competition on September 11.
The Gulf U-21 Championship has undergone several changes to the championship system, as the new format depends on setting up matches two days after the first team’s matches in the Arab Gulf League.
The tournament saw the redistribution of the financial returns of the competition in a different way, and coordination with media institutions to intensify media interest in this tournament, in order to develop them technically and marketingly.
Regarding the players ’participation in this competition, it has been decided that the participation of the goalkeepers registered in the first team and the resident players from the same age group of 21 and registered in the first team to participate in this competition, in addition to three players from the first team born in 1998 and above. above.