Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, April 20. The East Asia Football Federation recently announced that the 2022 East Asia Football Championship (also known as the East Asia Cup) originally planned to be held in China will be held in Japan. day.
The East Asian Football Federation revealed on the official website that there will be no qualifiers for this East Asian Cup, and the participating teams in the final stage will be directly generated according to the FIFA World Ranking on March 31 this year.
At the same time, since the North Korean team has announced that they will not participate in this competition, the four teams participating in the men's competition are China, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong, China, and the four women's teams are China, Japan, South Korea and Chinese Taipei. team.
Schedules and venues for all games will be announced at a later date.
The spokesperson of the Chinese Football Association said in Haikou last week that the Chinese U23 national men's football team and the Chinese national women's football team will represent China in this event, and the teams' preparations have been fully advanced.
The East Asian Cup, also known as the East Asian Final Four, is held in turn by Japan, South Korea and China.
The East Asia Cup was held for the first time in 2003 and joined the women's football competition in 2005.
Chongqing and Wuhan in China hosted the event in 2008 and 2015 respectively.
The last tournament was held in South Korea in 2019, with the South Korean team winning the men's championship and the Japanese team winning the women's championship.