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Create history! FIFA s 104th bottom fish is so cold, and it enters the Asian Cup for the first time, but unfortunately the Chinese men s football team cannot draw

12:01pm, 11 September 2025Football

All the qualifiers for the 7th U23 Asian Cup were over. The Chinese men's football team successfully tied the ball and advanced to the main stage with the Australian men's football team to avoid the danger of being beaten by tacit understanding.

In this qualifier, a total of 44 teams participated in the competition, divided into 11 groups, each team played a single round competition, and finally ranked first in each group, plus four best-scoring groups second, and qualified together.

After winning consecutive victories in the first two rounds and getting 6 points, the Chinese team defended with all their strength in the last round, and finally successfully scored 1 point, achieving the goal of qualifying. This is also the 6th time that the Chinese team has been qualified for the main competition. Every time they participate in the qualifiers, they can advance to the finals. All 16 teams in the U23 Asian Cup were confirmed:

Host: Saudi Arabia

11 Groups: Jordan, Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Iraq, Qatar, Iran, South Korea, Syria

The second group with the best results: China, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates

In the last event, the Indonesian team, Kuwait, Malaysia, and Tajikistan teams were all able to advance to the main competition, but this time the qualifiers were eliminated one after another, especially the Indonesian team, which reached the semi-finals in the last one, including the outscoring South Korea team in the quarterfinals. Unfortunately, they fell in the playoffs one step away from participating in the Olympics.

Now, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Kyrgyzstan have replaced the above four teams respectively. Among them, Lebanon and Kyrgyzstan have advanced to the U23 Asian Cup for the first time, and have created history.

Compared with Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan is relatively unfamiliar to domestic fans. This men's national team has no competitiveness in the past Asian football world, especially the youth team. There are very few times that have participated in the Asian Cup finals. This time, the U23 age group is considered the first time to qualify for the main competition.

In this qualifier, Kyrgyzstan completed a counterattack, winning consecutively against the Palestinian team, Sri Lanka team, and a 2-2 draw against Uzbekistan team. In the end, with 7 points in three rounds, he beat Uzbekistan team, which won the Asian championship with 7 points, and directly qualified for the top spot in the group.

Despite this, the Kyrgyzstan team's division is still in the fourth level, because the U23 Asian Cup group draw is based on the record of the past three competitions. The Kyrgyzstan team has not had any experience in participating in the main competition before, so they naturally rank in the last level to participate in the draw.

The division status of the 16 teams in the main competition:

The first level: Saudi Arabia (host), Uzbekistan, Japan, Iraq

The second level: South Korea, Vietnam, Australia, Qatar

The third level: Thailand, Jordan, the UAE, Iran

The fourth level: China, Syria, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon

The AFC will draw a group lottery on October 2. The Kyrgyzstan team is in the same group as the Chinese team, Syria, and Lebanon, which means that the Chinese team will definitely not draw the new army of Kyrgyzstan. I hope to draw Iraq, Vietnam, and Thailand. This is the most ideal result.

has participated in the main competition five times before, and all Chinese teams were eliminated in the group, with a record of 2 wins and 13 losses, which is very bad. I hope that this time I can complete the breakthrough and enter the knockout stage for the first time.

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