South Korea, Australia, Indonesia and Qatar have submitted ‘Expressions of Hobby’ to exchange China as hosts of subsequent 12 months’s Asian Cup, the Asian Soccer Confederation stated on Monday.
The cut-off date for the 4 associations to publish their bid paperwork has been set for Aug. 31, and the AFC’s govt committee will announce the brand new host on October 17, it stated.
China was once because of host the 24-team match, scheduled for June and July subsequent 12 months, however the nation’s efforts to practice a zero-COVID-19 coverage ended in it being moved.
South Korea gained the inaugural Asian Cup in 1956 and retained the trophy as hosts 4 years later – the one time they staged the finals. The rustic has no longer staged a significant match since co-hosting the Global Cup with Japan in 2002.
Australia, Asian Cup winners in 2015, already has a hectic 2023 deliberate as co-hosts of the Girls’s Global Cup with New Zealand. That match begins on July 20 subsequent 12 months.
Soccer Australia leader govt James Johnson stated previous this month the governing frame had consulted with the AFC to believe transferring the Asian Cup to later within the calendar to keep away from a conflict with the Global Cup.
Qatar will level the lads’s Global Cup this 12 months from November 21 to December 18. They have got hosted the Asian Cup two times, in 1988 and 2011, and gained the match in 2019.
Indonesia have been one among 4 co-hosts of 2007 Asian Cup and exited within the team level – their very best end within the match.
Japan’s Soccer Affiliation showed in Might that they had been informally approached about the potential of changing China as hosts however technical director Yasuharu Sorimachi instructed native media previous this month there was once little probability of it bidding.