AFC U23 Championship : Qatar 2016

[St_Mark]

The AFC U-23 Championship acts as the AFC qualifiers for the Olympic football tournament
, replacing the previous process of home-and-away Olympic qualifiers.
The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics men's football
tournament in Brazil as the AFC representatives



The tournament will be held inQatar
Between 12–30 January 2016.
A total of 16 teams will play in the tournament.

GROUP A

Pos.	Team	GP	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-
1	China U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Iran U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Qatar U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Syria U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Group A
January 12, 2016
Syria v Iran
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
Qatar v China
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium
January 15
China v Syria
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium
Iran v Qatar
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
January 18
Qatar v Syria
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
Iran v China
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium


League table

GROUP B

Pos.	Team	GP	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-
1	Japan U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	North Korea U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Saudi Arabia U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Thailand U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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GROUP C

Pos.	Team	GP	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-
1	Iraq U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	South Korea U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Uzbekistan U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Yemen U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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GROUP D

Pos.	Team	GP	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-
1	Australia U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Jordan U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	U.A.E. U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Vietnam U23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

[St_Mark]

: All the Fixtures

Group A
January 12, 2016
Syria v Iran
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
Qatar v China
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium
January 15
China v Syria
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium
Iran v Qatar
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
January 18
Qatar v Syria
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
Iran v China
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium

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Group B
January 13
Japan v DPR Korea
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Grand Hamad Stadium
Saudi Arabia v Thailand
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Grand Hamad Stadium
January 16
Thailand v Japan
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Grand Hamad Stadium
DPR Korea v Saudi Arabia
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Grand Hamad Stadium
January 19
Saudi Arabia v Japan
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium
DPR Korea v Thailand
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Grand Hamad Stadium

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Group C
January 13
Iraq v Yemen
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium
Korea Republic v Uzbekistan
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium
January 16
Yemen v Korea Republic
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium
Uzbekistan v Iraq
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium
January 19
Iraq v Korea Republic
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Grand Hamad Stadium
Uzbekistan v Yemen
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium

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Group D
January 14
Jordan v Vietnam
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium
Australia v United Arab Emirates
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Grand Hamad Stadium
January 17
Vietnam v Australia
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Grand Hamad Stadium
United Arab Emirates v Jordan
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium
January 20
Jordan v Australia
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium
United Arab Emirates v Vietnam
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Grand Hamad Stadium

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Quarter-Finals
January 22
QF2 – Winner Group B v Runner Up Group A
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium
QF1 – Winner Group A v Runner Up Group B
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
January 23
QF3 – Winner Group C v Runner Up Group D
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium
QF4 – Winner Group D v Runner Up Group C
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Grand Hamad Stadium

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Semi-Finals
January 26
SF2 – Winner QF2 v Winner QF 4
Kick-off: 1630hrs
Venue: Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium
SF1 – Winner QF1 v Winner QF 3
Kick-off: 1930hrs
Venue: Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium

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3rd / 4th Placing
January 29
Loser SF1 v Loser SF2
Kick-off: 1745hrs
Venue: Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium

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Final
January 30
Winner SF1 v Winner SF2
Kick-off: 1745hrs
Venue: Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium

[Abtin]

Iran squad:

[Farhad-7]

Will TV3 show Iran games in this tourney? Or is it Varzesh channel?

[Abtin]

Will TV3 show Iran games in this tourney? Or is it Varzesh channel?

One can never know. What is certain is though, that they must show namaz and islamic propaganda before the game and a few minutes into the game.

[Farhad-7]

One can never know. What is certain is though, that they must show namaz and islamic propaganda before the game and a few minutes into the game.

Tell me about it. Full of akhoonds, azabdari, etc. I've been in Iran for the past few weeks. Even the Internet is stressful. The 12Mbps internet doesn't go higher than 2mbps which sucks for streaming EPL matches since majority of games they show here are Barcas and Reals and some Italian football

Anyhow back on topic...Checked varzesh3 schedule and it doesn't showed Team omid's game yet vs. Syria.

[Z Joon]

AFC's player to watch: Amir Arsalan Motahari

[St_Mark]

Will TV3 show Iran games in this tourney? Or is it Varzesh channel?

http://shoof.alkass.net/shoof/play.p...diVXYrZy83ND0q

[masoud nekounam]

St_Mark, what's the likely starting line-up for Iran?

[St_Mark]

St_Mark, what's the likely starting line-up for Iran?

Hard to tell what Khakpour strategy is against Syria.
This is one of possibilities .

Akhbari

Abdollahzadeh.-Daneshgar_kanani- Aliyari/MilMo

Karimi_Cheshmi

Turabi-Pahlevani -Mehmo

Motahari

Last time against Syria he started with:

Replacing Turabi & Mohammadi for missing Chaab & Fazeli , Switching Cheshmi to DM will be resonable change.

Lineup versus Syria

Akhbari

Abdollahzadeh.-Daneshgar_Cheshmii- Aliyari

Karimi_Neghizadeh

Chaab/Saghebi-Rahmanii -Fazeli/MilMo

Motahari

.

We don't know status of Cheshmi .
Khakpour prefer Kamandani as playmaker.
Kakpour rarley play both Mohammadi bro together.
Not sure who will be LB among Mohammadi , Aliyari, Heidarieh.

Lineup versus Yemen

Akhbari

Mohebi-Daneshgar_Cheshmii- Aliyari

Karimi_Neghizadeh

Fazeli-Saghebi -Pahlavan

MehMo

.

Iran Lineup versus KSA.

Akhbari

Mohebi-Daneshgar_Cheshmii- Aliyari

Karimi_Neghizadeh

Fazeli-Saghebi -Pahlavan

Motahari

.

[St_Mark]

From Syria Squad:
Official U23 AFC Site

http://www.the-afc.com/uploads/afc/f...gistration.pdf

Why so many of Syrian Players Bd is 1/1/93 ? Also

1/1/9 is breaking date , one day older in-eligible !

NO OTHER TEAMS EXCEPT Yemen has such coincidences / engineered!).

It looks not right.

[KC McElroy]

From Syria Squad:
Official U23 AFC Site

http://www.the-afc.com/uploads/afc/f...gistration.pdf

Why so many of Syrian Players Bd is 1/1/93 ? Also

1/1/9 is breaking date , one day older in-eligible !

NO OTHER TEAMS EXCEPT Yemen has such coincidences / engineered!).

It looks not right.

LOL arab sauding at its best!

[KC McElroy]

qatar also has a couple of players with a January 1, 1993 birthdate. They also have a player called Ahmad Moein Doozandeh.
yemen has two players with this birth date. Is January 1st, 1993 the age cutoff for this tournament? If it is, it would explain the arab teams' sauding.

Edit: These people really think others are stupid. From wikipedia: Players born on or after 1 January 1993 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

[littlepersia17]

LOOOL!!![emoji1][emoji1] I also told my African friend why so many Africans are born in January and he said its because it's easier to remember! [emoji12]

[Vanmonton]

LMAO wow!
You can't even be bothered to give them different dates of birth!!? Even having one person with that DOB is stupid, because as Mark mentioned, that's the cutoff date! Speechless.

Man people in our region are seriously next level stupid.