When will the 2024 AFC U23 Championship Finals take place? Where?

According to the original schedule, the 2024 AFC U23 Championship finals will take place from January 10 to January 28, 2024. However, with the ASIAN Cup being moved to January 2024, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has also changed the time to organize the 2024 AFC U23 Championship finals.

Specifically, the matches of the 2024 AFC U23 Championship finals will take place from April 15 to May 3, 2024. The host country of the tournament will be Qatar, as this country has surpassed a series of candidates such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Uzbekistan to become the host of the tournament.

The matches will take place at 4 venues: Al Khor, Lusail, Al Rayyan and Doha with 4 stadiums: Al Bayt (68,895 seats), Lusail (88,966 seats), Education City (44,667 seats) and Al Thumama (44,400 seats).

There will be 15 teams that have won tickets from the qualifying round (11 group winners and 4 highest-ranked second-placed teams) along with the host Qatar to participate in the final round. The 16 teams will be divided into 4 seeding groups (depending on the results of the 2022 AFC U23 Championship finals) and divided equally into 4 groups.

The 4 teams in the 4 groups will compete in a round-robin in the group stage to find the 2 teams with the highest positions to play in the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals. The 3 teams ranked first, second and third will win tickets to the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 4th ranked team will play a play-off match with the 4th representative of the U23 Africa Cup of Nations.

The AFC U23 Championship has been held 5 times before. It is worth mentioning that out of these 5 times, Vietnam U23 has participated 4 times. Vietnam U23’s best achievement was the victory in Changzhou, China, with the runner-up position in 2018.

With the 2024 U23 Asia, U23 Vietnam hopes to create a miracle similar to 2018.

List of 16 teams participating in the 2024 AFC U23 Championship finals (updated)