AFC Asian Cup

India qualified for the AFC Asian Cup 2023 after Palestine beat the Philippines 4-0 in Group B. This will be India's fifth Asian Cup appearance.

The team’s best performance was a runners-up finish on their debut campaign in 1964. The quadrennial event is scheduled to be held from June 16 to July 16, next year. India have played in the continental tournament on four occasions before - 1964, 1984, 2011 and 2019.

Palestine hammered Philippines 4-0 in the Group B third round clash in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, thereby sealing India's place in the main event that takes ...

Philippines finish with four points to their name in three outings with a goal difference of -3. As per competition rules, five of the best-placed runners-up from each group qualify for the finals along with the top-placed sides. Hong Kong though, have a superior goal difference (+4) and thus find themselves at the top of the table in Group D.

The road to the Asian Cup though, was made needlessly hard by an Indian team that underperformed against teams ranked below them.

After China declined to host the AFC Asian Cup on the back of increasing Covid cases, the question of who will host the tournament is up in the air. Should the country be allowed to play in the AFC Asian Cup, there is also the matter of where the Cup will be held. Now that qualification has been secured, comes the question of whether the national team will be allowed to play in the Asian Cup. Currently being run by a Supreme Court of India-ordered Committee of Administrators (CoA), football administration in the country is, according to FIFA law, possibly being interfered with. Then there is the process of electing the new executive delegation of the AIFF. All in all, according to CoA member Dr S Y Quraishi, the entire process of elections and results should be complete by September. It has been one of his consistent remarks as the national team coach and an issue that has been discussed to no avail in Indian football. Despite this ‘lack of better players’ argument that comes up for the national team, India took a step forward in this AFC Asian Cup qualifying.

This is the first time that India have qualified for two successive editions of the Asian Cup. Ahead of their final game against group toppers Hong Kong, Sunil ...

The new host country for AFC Asian Cup 2023 is yet to be finalised after China gave up its hosting rights due to the COVID-19 situation in the country. The quadrennial event is scheduled to be held from June 16 to July 16, next year. The sides were divided into six groups of four teams each with the eventual six group winners and five best runner-ups qualifying for next year’s Asian Cup.

This win helped India to become the group topper with nine points from three wins and secured its second consecutive Asian Cup main-round berth for the ...

Despite a torrential downpour hitting the venue towards the end of the opening half, Indians braved the conditions to keep its hold on the proceedings. The goal perked up the home side which went in search for more. India picked up the goals at two ends of the opening half.

The Indian football team beat Hong Kong 4-0 in the final Group D match of the AFC Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers. Sunil Chhetri was one of the four goalscorers ...

In the 84th minute, Brandon Fernandes and Roshan Singh combined well to provide Manvir Singh a chance to score. In the 44th minute, Jeakson Singh’s free-kick found an unmarked Sunil Chhetri, who controlled the ball well and beat the goalkeeper to his right. Manvir Singh (84’) and Ishan Pandita (91’) then got on the scoresheet to make it India’s biggest win under coach Igor Stimac, who has been in charge of the team since 2019.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong team has earned a spot for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup despite a 4-0 defeat to India in the qualifying final round on Tuesday, ...

Hong Kong SAR and India had actually cemented places in the finals hand by hand before the kick-off of the third round, as the Philippines placed second in Group B with only four points. In a relatively irrelevant fixture later, India was up by two goals after the first half and scored another two in the closing phase, securing a comfortable 4-0 triumph on home turf. Hong Kong, China had played three times in the Asian soccer elites stage, as it placed third in the first edition in 1956 and finished fourth and fifth in 1964 and 1968 respectively.

Happy news for fans of the Malaysian football team — Harimau Malaya has secured a spot at the 2023 Asian Cup after defeating Bangladesh.

For the final kicker, Darren Lok slotted in the fourth goal at minute 73 — capping a historic night for Malaysia. For the first time in 42 years, the team qualifies for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup Finals on merit. Last Saturday (12 June), Farizal received criticism for his mistake in conceding a penalty that lead to the 1-2 defeat to Bahrain.

Malaysia have claimed a 4-1 win over Bangladesh to qualify for the AFC Asian Cup for the first time since co-hosting the tournament in 2007.

And with 17 minutes left on the clock, Harimau Malaya went on to seal qualification after two substitutes combined to devastating effect, with Akhyar Rashid breaking free down the right and laying a pass on a platter to leave Darren Lok with a simple tap-in at the far post. Nonetheless, just two minutes after the restart, there was to be no denying the Malaysians from adding a third when a corner was initially taken short and curiously worked all the way back to near the halfway line before Faisal Abdul Halim floated an inch-perfect pass onto the head of Syafiq, who deftly flicked a backward header into the top corner. But a minute after the half-hour mark, Bangladesh pulled level when a long throw into the area was flicked on by Rakib Hossain and found Mohammad Ibrahim, who had ghosted into a dangerous area completely unmarked to dispatch a header past Ahmad Syihan Hazmi.

Malaysia booked their place in the 2023 AFC Asian Cup with a 4-1 win over Bangladesh at the Bukit Jalil National Stadium on Tuesday.

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Having been co-hosts in 2007, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam will all feature at the AFC Asian Cup again next year -- this time on merit.

Featuring at next year's tournament will be the next chapter of what has been a golden era for Vietnam under coach Park Hang-seo following some duller days. And on their own merit too. Since then, the quartet has had contrasting fortunes. 90 minutes later, it proved to be worth the wait - and the stifled yawns that are likely to follow the morning after -- as the Indonesians claimed a resounding 7-0 win that guaranteed an Asian Cup berth of their own in style. As one of just 12 teams marching on into the next round of Asian qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the Vietnamese have long known they would be featuring at the Asian Cup again -- for a second consecutive appearance after an impressive run to the quarterfinals in 2019. The fact that it was also jointly held in the region meant it marked the first time that four Southeast Asian nations -- geographically at least -- featured at the same Asian Cup. (Australia, who made their Asian Cup debut in 2007 after joining the Asian Football Confederation, are also a member of the ASEAN Football Federation).