Kuala Lumpur, (ONA) The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has set dates for Omani teams and clubs to participate in the upcoming Asian entitlements that were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, in the meeting held by the continental federation of the game with the West Asian Federation “via video conferencing” to discuss the return of the Asian championships and competitions.

The Omani Football Association was represented at this meeting by Hisham Al-Adwani, Director of the Omani League and Khalifa Al-Hassani, Director of Competitions at the Omani Football Association.

The first national football team will complete the double Asian qualifying matches for the World Cup and Asian Cup in the days of FIFA days next October. It comes in second place at the level of Group V with 12 points, led by the Qatar team with 13 points, then Afghanistan (4 points), India (3 points) and Bangladesh (one point). It is still waiting for the return match with Afghanistan in Tajikistan and with Qatar in the Sultanate and Bangladesh in Dhaka.

The dates for the qualifiers for the Junior U-16 Championship, which will be held in the Kingdom of Bahrain from the 25th of November to the 12th of December, have been determined. As for the Futsal Football Championship, it will be held in Turkmenistan from 4 to 15 December.

On the participation of Dhofar Club in the AFC Asian Cup, the matches will be resumed during the period from October 27 to November 4, whose avenues nor ways has not been determined so far. Dhofar Club competes in the third group, having 3 points, equal to Al-Riffa of Bahrain and Al-Qadisiyah of Kuwait.

(ONA)