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AFC Challenge Cup 2012 qualifying draw on Oct 20

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Kuala Lumpur: The AFC Challenge Cup 2012 qualification draw will be held on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, in AFC House.

The qualification format has been for the 20 teams, which have entered the fray, into a pre-qualifying round and a group stage. The seedings are based on the 2010 AFC Challenge Cup.

For the pre-qualifying phase, the eight lowest ranked teams will play off on a home-and-away basis. The matches take place on 9 and 16 February 2011. The four winners advance to the group stage.

In the group stage, there are 16 teams (four groups of four teams each) playing a single round robin (league system). This includes the 12 highest ranked automatically qualified teams and the four qualifiers. The match days are 20-31 March 2011. The top two teams in each group go to the Finals.

Unlike previous editions, no team has been given direct entry into the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup Finals.

Defending champions DPR Korea, runners-up Turkmenistan and third-placed Tajikistan will now have to go through the qualifiers to punch their tickets to the Finals.

Number of teams

No. Team No. Team
1 Afghanistan 11 Maldives
2 Bangladesh 12 Mongolia
3 Bhutan 13 Myanmar
4 Cambodia 14 Nepal
5 Chinese Taipei 15 Pakistan
6 DPR Korea 16 Palestine
7 India 17 Philippines
8 Kyrgyzstan 18 Sri Lanka
9 Laos 19 Tajikistan
10 Macau 20 Turkmenistan

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8 Comments

  1. http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html#confederation=25998&rank=196

    According to October’s latest FIFA rankings, we are NOT among the 8 lowest ranked teams that will take part in AFC Challenge Cup qualifiers!

    This means that Afghanistan, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Chinese Taipei, Palestine, Bhutan, and Mongolia will have to take part in the preliminary play-offs.

    Pakistan gets to play straight in the group stage qualification rounds in March 2011!

    1. Seeding for will be based on 2010 AFC Challenge Cup, not on FIFA ranking released on October. Hope so still we play in group stage and get easy draw.

      1. Thanks for the verification.

        Well we did finish 2nd in our qualifying group for 2010 Challenge Cup and just narrowly missed out on qualifying. So we were not the 8 lowest ranked teams from that competition that is for sure!

        Either way, I am confident we will be put in straight in the group stage for March next year.

        1. Hope so deliver this time and put better show. Pakistan performs against low ranked team but faces difficulty when playing high ranked team.

    1. Imran, I also pray for the same. By winning AFC Challenge CUp 2012, Pakistan will qualify for Asia Cup Football 2015. It seems tough ask. Still I hope Pakistan puts up improved show. For that our team needs to play more friendlies so it can gives us good international exposure.

  4. Hope so this time we get better draw. Not having Lankans again in our group, not even North Korea or India or Maldives or any central asian team. For exact draw, we have to wait till 20th October. Still Pakistan is most likely to be placed in group stage directly as we were the runners up of previous AFC challenge cup.

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