The countdown to the start of the Asian Beach Ball Cup starts

Pattaya – Thailand, March 14/ WAM/ With the start of the countdown to the start of the eleventh edition of the Asian Beach Football Cup on March 20, the Thai Federation announced the completion of the preparation of the Jumin Beach Arena stadium in Pattaya to host the matches that will bring 16 teams, including the UAE team, the top continental ranking, which is ranked sixth in the world.
The first three teams will be qualified for the SiCill FIFA World Cup 2025, and the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Japan, Iran and Thailand teams have previously participated in the World Cup, representing the Asian continent, where Japan participated 12 times and is the only Asian national team that participated in all copies of the World Cup so far, followed by the UAE and Iran by 8 posts each, then Amman 5 times, and Bahrain. Twice, Thailand once calculated the official website of the Asian Football Confederation.
The Japan team is the best global position to achieve the Asian continent at the World Cup Ball World Cup, “The Second in the World Cup 2021”, and he previously won the title of Asia 3 times in the years 2009, 2011, and 2019, and the owner of the largest number of victories in the history of the Asian Championship by “35 wins”, and he did not go away from the first three places, where he reached the final match in 9 out of ten times.
Japan will play the first match in Thailand with the Iraqi team in its sixth appearance on March 20.

As for the second match in the tournament, it will bring together China, which ranked fourth twice “2006, 2008” and reached the quarter -finals in 2023, and the Saudi national team, which participates for the second time in a row and the third in his career.
While the second match in the tournament gathered between the Kuwait national team, which reached the stage of the knockout for the first time in 2023, for the third time in a row and the fifth in its career, against the Lebanon team, which ranked fourth twice “2015, 2017” and in its balance 5 previous successive posts.
Thailand achieved its best result on the same stadium in 2023 by qualifying to the quarter -finals, and the host team seeks to achieve more progress this time in its sixth consecutive participation, and India will face the first group meetings on the first day of the competitions.
The remaining four matches of the first round will be held on Friday, March 21, as Iran faces its Indonesian counterpart.

The UAE team, winning the title twice in 2007 and 2008, is playing with Afghanistan in the Group Three meetings.
The Oman national team, the 2015 champion, and the third place in the last version with the Vietnam team in the fourth group, will start, while Bahrain will play the champion of the first edition in 2006, with the Malaysia team.

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