File A (seed 1 to 6): 1, Japan, 2, China, 3, Iran, 4, Bahrain, 5, Uzbekistan, 6, Jordan;
Area B (No.7 seed to 12): 7. Korea, 8. Iraq, 9. Oman, 10, Kuwait, 1 1, Saudi Arabia, 12, Qatar;
Area C (13 to 18 seed): 13, UAE, 14, Yemen, 15, Syria, 16, Lebanon, 17.
File D (seed 19 versus 24): 19, Palestine, 20, Sri Lanka, 2 1, China Taipei, 22, Pakistan/Bangladesh, 23, India, 24, Australia.
The top two in the group are directly promoted.
Among them, the ranking of the above teams is based on the performance of each team in the 2004 Asian Cup preliminaries and knockout rounds. The principle of this lottery is that teams of the same level will not be in the same group. In addition, Australia will formally join the AFC next year. Therefore, they participated in the Asian Cup qualifiers for the first time, and they were also placed in the D file "reasonably", which is naturally the last thing any team wants to meet.
The 24 teams in A/B/C/D4 will be divided into 4 levels, with 6 teams in each level participating in the draw, and the Asian Cup qualifiers will also be divided into 6 groups with 4 teams in each group, of which the top two teams will directly advance to the 2007 Asian Cup finals. The advanced 12 players will play against Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand (automatic promotion) in the final round.
Who will be in the death group?
The current Asian Cup grading lottery is similar to that of the 2006 World Cup, so the second place must have a Korean seed team, the third place must have a UAE seed team, and the fourth place must have an Australian seed team. In terms of probability, it is unlikely that the first three teams will be grouped with a certain team, but it will be difficult no matter who is grouped with South Korea or Australia. Can China, whose AFC status has declined, be lucky? But even if it is assigned to a strong team, according to the rules of a group of two qualifying places, there is no problem for China to advance to the final.
As the most important event in recent years, the first meeting of the AFC in 2007 was the Asian Cup Organizing Committee meeting held in Zhang Jilong on June 3, 65438, and the draw ceremony for the Asian Cup qualifiers was held at June 38+04: 30 the next day. 24 teams will send their representatives to participate in the lucky draw. As Zhu will still lead the team to participate in the Spanish Tour, the goalkeeper coach will attend the meeting instead of him. As can be seen from this detail, the national football team is still full of confidence in qualifying for the Asian Cup.