U17 Asian Cup set for April 3 kick off; 8 groups qualify for U17 World Cup in November

April 1 – The 16-nation AFC U17 Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2025 kicks off Thursday, April 3 with the highest eight finishers qualifying for the primary of the expanded annual 48-team U-17 World Cups to be performed in Qatar this November.

All matches will likely be performed within the cities of Jeddah and Taif.
File four-time champions Japan (1994, 2006, 2018, 2023) are one fo the favourites to win the title and are one in all 9 former winners. 12 groups featured within the 2023 finals. The opening recreation sees 2012 winners Uzbekistan and 1998 champions Thailand conflict in Group A at the Okaz Stadium in Taif.

Later the within the day Saudi Arabia will start their marketing campaign for a 3rd title of their twelfth finals look towards China on the King Fahd Sports activities Metropolis Stadium in Taif. The Saudis gained in 1985 and 1988, with the latter adopted by a shocking success on the FIFA U-16 World Championship a 12 months later. Saudi Arabia are the one Asian group to win a FIFA males’s nationwide group event.

Semi-finalists on three events, Australia open Group B towards Vietnam on April 4 in Group B, adopted by Japan towards UAE on the King Fahd Sports activities Metropolis Stadium.
Group C  opens with two-time champions South Korea (1986, 2002) enjoying their seventieth match in event historical past on the Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium in Jeddah. The 2023 runners-up’ sixteenth look on the finals opens towards Indonesia.
Yemen face Afghanistan within the different opening Group C recreation in Jeddah’s King Abdullah Sports activities Metropolis Corridor Stadium.
Group D begins April 5 with the highest scorers in qualifying (38 targets) Tajikistan assembly 2018 runners-up Oman. Within the different recreation in Group D, North Korea face Iran on the Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium.

Teams:

Group A: Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Thailand, China PR

Group B: Japan, Australia, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates

Group C: Korea Republic, Yemen, Afghanistan, Indonesia

Group D: IR Iran, Tajikistan, Oman, DPR Korea

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