Earlier in May, FIFA waved green flag to conduct study into the feasibility of hosting soccer World Cup every two years, the move that could have a profound impact on the global football structure.

The proposal, put forth by the Saudi Arabian Football Association, was endorsed by 166 votes to 22, during a virtual FIFA congress in May.

Lately, four Asian nations, including Nepal, Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, have extended their support for the biennial proposal.

The four counties issued a joint statement stating their support to Gianni Infantino’s pet project, becoming the first member associations from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

We “are uniting in support of proposals to review the FIFA international match calendar as we jointly believe that the debate can only be positive for football’s modernization,” said the four associations in the joint statement.

“Four-year gap between FIFA World Cups is too great – and the window of opportunity too small – to preclude whole generations of talent,” read the joint statement.

“Less than a quarter of current AFC member associations have been represented in almost a century of FIFA World Cup finals in a situation where these tournaments are real drives of development.”

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The Himalayan nation has qualified for the Final Round by virtue of being the fourth-placed team in Group B of the Joint Qualifiers of World Cup 2022 and AFC Asian Cup 2023.

On Wednesday, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) confirmed 22 teams that have been qualified for the 24-team AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Qualifiers Final Round.

The 22 teams include 3 of the lowest-ranked second-placed teams, all 8 third and fourth-placed teams, and 3 best fifth-placed teams in the Joint Qualifiers.

The remaining four teams ranked 36 to 39 will participate in the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers play-offs scheduled on September 7 and October 12, 2021.

Nepal secured fourth position in Group B, behind Australia, Kuwait, and Jordan. Nepal played eight matches, won 2, lost 6, and secured 6 points.

List of the teams qualified for the AFC Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers Final Round:

Positions/Rankings of the teams that participated in the FIFA WC 2022 Qualifiers:

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Phillips, who has been serving as the Technical Director of the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) since 2019, was recommended for the head coach position by the five-member ANFA Technical Committee. The Committee members are Krishna Thapa, Upendra Man Singh, Kumar Raj Bhandari, Arjun Lama, and Dinesh Byanjankar.

Before serving for the ANFA, Phillips has vast work experience with football clubs in Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. He also served as the manager of Papua New Guinea’s national women’s team and worked in the coach education department of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

The new coach is bestowed with the huge responsibility of training the women’s national team for the upcoming AFC Women’s Asian Cup Championship 2022 Qualifiers. The closed camp training of Nepal’s women’s football team is expected to begin at the earliest possible.

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Nepal will play alongside Australia, Chinese Taipei, Jordan and Kuwait.

All the Asian countries were divided into five groups in the draw at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) House in Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2019.

The group stage matches will be played in double round-robin format, in which competing teams will face each other twice in ‘home and away conditions’.

The qualifiers will take place between September 05-June 09, 2019.

Qatar – 2022 FIFA World Cup Stadium

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In the most recent update for the upcoming game, Nepal has been grouped with Afghanistan, Oman and ‘host country Qatar’ in Group A and will play against these countries on the following dates:

The AFC U23 Championship qualifiers will begin in March 2019 with 44 qualifier teams from two zones competing against each other– West- 24 teams, East- 20 teams.

Group B and C
Group B host country Bahrain has been setup with Bangladesh, Palestine and Sri Lanka. This will be Bahrain’s ‘fourth’ attempt to qualify for the finals.

Meanwhile, Group C host country ‘Islamic Republic of Iran’ will battle it out with inaugural champions Iraq, Turkmenistan and Yemen.

Group D and E
Saudi Arabia of ‘2013 AFC fame’ will be hosting Group D matches and play against Lebanon, Maldives and United Arab Emirates (UAE). The country is eagerly looking forward to going beyond their previous group-level stage, where they failed in January 2018.

On the other hand, Group E will include Kuwait, Kyrgyz Republic, Jordan and Syria.

Group F and G
AFC U23 2018 winners and present Group F’ host country Uzbekistan will play against India, Pakistan and Tajikistan.

Group G host country Mongolia will be up against DPR Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Group H and I
Group H’s Cambodia will be hosting group mates Australia, Chinese Taipei and Korea Republic and while striving to reach the finals.

With the AFC U23 2019 Qualifiers, Myanmar will make a ‘comeback’ after two years against AFC U23 2016 winner Japan, Timore Leste and Macau.

Group J and K
Malaysia made history for their country, when they reached the quarter-finals of AFC U23 2018 championship in January. This time they’re aiming to win the trophy but not before they beat opponents China PR, Laos and Philippines.

Vietnam came close to the trophy this year but failed to bring it home. However, with the matches scheduled throughout the AFC U23 2019 qualifier season, it hopes to do so by defeating Group K countries Brunei, Indonesia and Thailand.

Eventually, all the 11 groups’ winners and their runners-up teams will make it to the finals of the AFC Under 23 2020 Championship in Thailand. What is interesting is that host countries of the finals will receive ‘automatic qualification’.

May the best team win!

Football fans! Get ready to be entertained to Asia’s biggest football tournaments.

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As per an update from Asian Football Confederation (AFC), the 2018 Indonesia Asian Games (Men’s Football) will be held between August 14, 2018 and September 1, 2018 in Jakarta and Pelambang.

Team Nepal’s ‘20’ player names have been announced, which include goalkeeper Kiran Chemjong, midfielder-cum-defender Rohit Chand and forward player Bhara Khawas.

The 2018 Asian Games will see the participation of 24 teams, of which, two top teams from each group and four best third-placed teams will progress to the pre-quarterfinal rounds.

Meanwhile, defending champions South Korea, Kyrgyz Republic, Malaysia and Bahrain were drawn alongside in ‘Group E’.

The rest of the countries are divided in the following groups:

• Group A: Host countries – Indonesia, Laos, Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei
• Group B: Thailand, Bangladesh, Qatar and Uzbekistan
• Group C: Iraq, Timor-Leste, Syria and China
• Group F: 2014 Asian Games Runner-up North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Myanmar

However, Nepal has not stepped foot in the women’s football games, which witness a participation of 11 teams.

We wish the country luck for its feat at the 2018 Indonesia Asian Games. All the Best Nepal!

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