T 20 world cup 2021 schedule - 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)

The fifth-placed team from AFC was drawn against the fifth-placed team from.

Retrieved 22 August 2019.

However, subject to approval by FIFA and AFC, and agreement of both member associations, the matches may be played as scheduled provided that the safety of all individuals involved meets the required standards.

On 12 August, FIFA announced that the matches scheduled for October and November 2020 would be rescheduled to 2021.

According to the joint format of the World Cup and Asian Cup qualifiers, both as the host nation of the 2022 World Cup and as the host nation of the 2023 Asian Cup also entered the second round of the qualifiers.

Apart from who qualified automatically as hosts , a total of 4.

They would have acted as qualifiers for the cancelled.

On the same day, however, FIFA, along with the Bangladeshi and Qatari associations, gave approval to the only second round match originally scheduled for 2020, Qatar v.

On 11 November 2020, the AFC Competitions Committee announced that all the Asian qualifiers second round matches should be completed by 15 June 2021 with matchdays 7 and 8 in March 2021 and matchdays 9 and 10 in June 2021 with the final round of the Asian qualifiers beginning in September 2021.