The UAE Federation officially requests hosting the World Cup qualifiers ... and determines the two selected stadiums

The Emirates Football Association announced today that it has officially submitted a request to the AFC to host the remaining matches of the joint qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and Asia 2023 for Group G, which includes the Emirates, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.

The matches will be held in the grouping system from June 3 to June 15, after they were scheduled for March and June, as they were postponed due to unstable health conditions in the Asian continent.

This came in a press release of the federation, where the Secretary General of the Football Association, Mohammed bin Hazam, confirmed that: The UAE file meets all the standards, conditions and requirements set by the continental federation, whether the training and matches stadiums, or the residence of the missions of the teams, referees and officials of the AFC, in addition to a high health protocol. Quality guarantees everyone's safety.

He said that the Football Association chose the Zabeel (Al Wasl) and Al Maktoum (Al Nasr) stadiums to hold the matches, and hotels and training venues were carefully selected.

The Secretary-General added that the Football Association has coordinated with the competent authorities in the country about hosting qualifying matches, which are of great importance to our national team, which aspires to win all matches to ensure passage to the second and decisive phase of the qualifiers, indicating that the Federation’s Board of Directors is keen to provide all support. For the Whites in his qualifying campaign to fulfill the hopes and aspirations of the Emirati fans.

Bin Hazzam expressed his confidence in the ability of the UAE to host group matches, and it is more deserving to do so, according to the testimony of many factors, the most important of which is that our team was going to play three matches on its home soil and one outside its home before postponing, in addition to the great experience we have in organizing various sporting events in general and football Football in particular, perhaps the last of which was the 2019 AFC Asian Cup with the participation of 24 teams for the first time, before the FIFA Club World Cup in the 2017 and 2018 editions.

He continued: During the Corona pandemic, we demonstrated to everyone our ability to handle the situation perfectly, as we hosted more than 20 teams and teams that played international matches with the approval of the Asian and International Football Associations.


Team matches program


* June 3


Thailand - Indonesia


UAE - Malaysia


* June 7


Vietnam - Indonesia


UAE - Thailand  


* June 11


- Indonesia - UAE


- Malaysia - Vietnam


* June 15


- Thailand - Malaysia


- UAE - Vietnam

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