2022 World Cup falls further behind schedule with Asian games postponed
Asian qualifying games for the 2022 World Cup booked for the current year were delayed to 2021, adding to a global fixture backlog for football's greatest rivalry brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.
Asian qualifying games for the 2022 World Cup booked for the current year were delayed to 2021, adding to a global fixture backlog for football's greatest rivalry brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.
FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) gave a joint articulation saying the deferral is to ensure the wellbeing and security of all members from COVID-19.
The games will be rescheduled in 2021.
Every one of 40 countries included was because of play three or four rounds to finish the current period of World Cup qualifying in Asia which presently fell further bogged down without any games played in 2020.
FIFA's worldwide schedule of national-group games currently has too not many dates to finish the passing project as initially arranged after the most recent round of deferments.
The spaces in June 2022 secured for national-group games are quick getting a key to choosing the 32-country World Cup setup. However, those dates are accessible simply because of the contested FIFA choice in 2015 to move the finals competition to November and December to maintain a strategic distance from Qatar's singing summer heat.
Football administering bodies for Europe and South America previously proposed changes to make space for more national-group games.
