Allowing the public to attend the Arab Cup

The Organizing Committee of the Arab Cup for National Football Teams, hosted by Doha, with the participation of 23 teams for the first time, announced the holding of the qualifying playoffs for the group stage in the presence of the fans. And 30% of the stadiums' capacity will be allowed in accordance with the precautionary measures taken to prevent the emerging corona virus. The committee stated in an official statement that it was decided to hold the championship competitions at Khalifa Stadium and Jassim bin Hamad Stadium at Al Sadd Club. The supplement matches will be held between 14 teams in a direct confrontation system of one match, the winner of which qualifies to reserve the qualification ticket for the finals of the tournament, which will be held in Doha from November 31 to December 18.

The Organizing Committee stressed that the media coverage of the supplement matches will be limited to newspapers and websites located in Qatar only due to the repercussions of the Corona virus, with the application of precautionary measures to recover from infection from the emerging Corona virus in a period not exceeding 9 months from the date of the event, with the completion of two doses of the vaccine before the matches. At least two weeks.

The media will not be allowed to attend the training of the teams that will enter a medical bubble upon their arrival in the Qatari capital, Doha, with reliance on video communication technology in conducting press conferences before and after the matches, and there will be no mixed area for the meetings of the players to maintain the safety of everyone, and limit the spread of virus.

The qualifying matches for the playoffs begin with a strong confrontation between two African teams, when Sudan meets its Libyan counterpart on June 19, while Oman will play Somalia on June 20, before Jordan meets its counterpart South Sudan on the 21st of the same month.

Yemen will play Mauritania on June 22, after which Lebanon will play its counterpart Djibouti on June 23, while Palestine will meet Comoros on 24, and then a Gulf summit between Bahrain and Kuwait on 25. The qualified teams from the seven matches will join the group stage of the tournament, which The highest-ranked Arab teams in the FIFA rankings qualified for it, and they are the host Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Syria from Asia, and Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Egypt from Africa.

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