The team awaits the results of the Arab Cup draw today
The team will participate in the Arab Cup next December.
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The lottery for the Arab Cup 2021, organized by the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), to be hosted by Doha next December with the participation of 23 Arab teams, will be withdrawn this evening, along with the national team: Qatar (the host), Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti. Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen.
The Football Association said in a statement yesterday: “The federation is represented in the drawing ceremony hosted by the Opera House in the Cultural District (Katara), a member of the Federation’s Board of Directors, Ali Hamad, and Director of the Teams Department, Abdul Qadir Hasan.”
He added: “The 16 participating teams will be divided into four pots in the group stage, based on the latest international classification from FIFA before this draw, so that the first pot is allocated to the three highest-ranked teams, in addition to the host country, Qatar, and the second pot is allocated to the four teams that follow. In the classification, the same distribution will be repeated on the third and fourth pots, and the next seven teams from the qualifying rounds will be placed in the seven least ranked centers, where the teams that win the first, second and third qualifying matches will be placed in the positions 2, 3 and 4 inside Pot No. 3, while the The rest of the four finalists are in Pot No. 4 in a row. ”
The statement explained: “The tournament will start with the qualifying rounds that will bring together the 14 lowest-ranked teams in the global rankings, with seven playoff matches (one for each team), so that the seven winners in these matches will qualify for the final competition with the nine highest-ranked teams in the global rankings, including the country's national team the host".
He concluded: “The final competition will be from the group stage and the knockout phase, and competition will take place in the group stage between 16 teams divided into four groups, each consisting of four teams, and the first and second teams from each group will qualify for the knockout stage in the quarter-finals and semi-final rounds. The final, the third-place match and the final match of the championship.
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