The Korea Football Association also applied for a bid when selecting a venue in 2019 but withdrew
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Bae Jin-nam = With China returning the right to host the 2023 Asian Football Federation (AFC) Asian Cup, attention is focused on where the new venue will be.
The Asian Football Federation (AFC) announced on its website on the 14th, “After extensive discussion with the China Football Association (CFA), we have received an official notice from the CFA that the 2023 Asian Cup cannot be held.”
“We acknowledge the exceptional circumstances in which China gave up its hosting rights due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said, explaining the background of this decision.
Earlier, China decided to postpone the Summer Asian Games (September Hangzhou) and Summer Universiade (June-July Chengdu) scheduled to be held in China this year due to the spread of Corona 19 in Shanghai and Beijing.
The 2023 Asian Cup was scheduled to be held from June 16 to July 16 next year, with 24 countries participating in 10 cities in China.
China was selected as the host of the 2023 Asian Cup at the AFC Extraordinary General Meeting held in Paris, France in June 2019.
However, as China gave up hosting the Asian Cup with less than a year left, the AFC had to find a new host country right away.
The AFC has only announced that it will announce specific follow-up measures related to the hosting of the 2023 Games at an appropriate time.
The 2023 Asian Cup is a competition that South Korea also entered into in the first place. Four countries, including Korea, wished to apply for the bid, but as Korea, Indonesia and Thailand withdrew, the hosting rights returned to China.
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In the case of the Korea Football Association, the bid application was rejected as it decided to focus on the bid for the FIFA Women’s World Cup held in the same year.
The association promoted the joint hosting of the 2023 Women’s World Cup with North Korea at the suggestion of FIFA President Gianni Infantino. .
However, due to strained inter-Korean relations, etc., in December 2019, the deadline to submit a bid plan, the women’s World Cup bid was announced to be withdrawn.
The Asian Cup, which started in 1956 and held every four years, is the most prestigious national competition in the Asian continent.
Korea has not hosted any competitions since the second hosting of the Games in 1960.
As China offered the right to host the 2023 Games, South Korea even applied for a bid in the first place, so it is noteworthy whether the country will take on the challenge once more.
With only regarding a year left in the preparation period, there are few countries that can realistically meet the requirements of the AFC and jump into a new bid.
Of course, in Asia, there are many things that need to be resolved first as it is a national competition of the size and level following the World Cup.
For now, the Korea Football Association is also in the position to watch the AFC follow-up measures.
An official from the association said, “In order for the Asian Cup-scale tournament to be held, the government and local governments must first have a willingness to participate.
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