Reda Saleem (Dubai)
The draw for the 20th Asian Handball Championship, qualifying for the 2023 World Championship “Poland – Sweden” 2023, which will be held in Dammam during the period from January 18-31 next, has placed our national team in Group D, which includes Qatar, Iraq and Oman, while the first group includes South Korean teams. Kuwait, Jordan and Singapore.
Saudi Arabia, the owner of the land and the public, leads the second group, which includes Iran, Australia and India, and the third group includes Japan, Bahrain, Hong Kong, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
The draw was held yesterday evening at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture “Ithra” in the Eastern Province, and the first and second preliminary rounds from each group qualify for the quarter-finals, which includes 8 teams and were distributed into two groups that play in the league system, and the first and second place holders qualify for the round The semi-finals and the four teams that qualify for the box qualify for the World Championship, while the third-placed in the two groups compete for the fifth qualifying seat for the World Cup.
During the draw ceremony, the identity and logo of the tournament was revealed, in the presence of Badr Diab, Vice President of the International Handball Federation for Asia, treasurer of the AFC, Ahmed Abu Al-Layl, Executive Director of the AFC, and Fadel Al-Nimr, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Federation, Chairman of the Supreme Organizing Committee of the tournament. .
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