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The junior Indian men’s football team will start its AFC Under-20 Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers campaign in Group H against five-time champions Iraq at the Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium in Kuwait City on Friday. The India vs Iraq match will start at 7.00 PM IST [Indian
Standard Time]. Watch the AFC Under-20 Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers on live streaming in India. The junior AFC event was previously known as the AFC U-19 Asian Cup but has been rebranded as the AFC U-20 Asian Cup, the finals of which will be held in Uzbekistan from March 1 to 18 next year. After playing Iraq, India’s next Group H matches will be against the AFC U-19 Asian Cup 2010 runners-up Australia and hosts Kuwait on October 16 and 18, respectively. All the Group H matches will be
played at the Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium. India, led by one of their most prolific goal scorers Shabbir Ali, won the tournament jointly with Iran in 1974 but haven’t qualified for the continental showpiece since hosting the tournament in 2006. The Group H matches of the AFC U-20 Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers were initially slated to be held in Basra, Iraq last month, but were postponed and moved to Kuwait later. All matches in the other nine groups were played in September. The 10 group winners qualify for the AFC U-20 Asian Cup 2023 main draw along with the five best runners-up across qualifying groups. Hosts Uzbekistan automatically qualified for the 16-team tournament as hosts. Live streaming of India’s AFC U-20 Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers matches will be available on the official Facebook page of the Indian Football Team and the Kuwait Football Association’s official
YouTube channel.
There’s no live telecast of the AFC U-20 Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers on any TV channel in India.
AFC U-20 Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers: Schedule for Indian football team
All times are in Indian Standard Time [IST]
October 14, Friday
India vs Iraq - 7:00 PM IST
October 16, Sunday
India vs Australia - 7:00 PM IST
October 18, Tuesday
India vs Kuwait - 10:00 PM IST
AFC U-20 Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers: India squad
Goalkeepers: Zahid Hussain Bukhari, Som Kumar, Dipesh Chauhan
Defenders: Leewan Castanha, Amandeep, Abhishek Singh Tekcham, Sajad Hussain Parray, Halen Nongtdu, Brijesh Giri, Bikash Yumnam, Raj Basfore
Midfielders: Vibin Mohanan, Taison Singh Loitongbam, Harsh Shailesh Patre, Sibajit Leimapokpam, Vinay Harji, Shreyas Ketkar, Maheson Singh Tongbram, Aphaoba Singh.
Forwards: Macarton Louis Nickson, Himanshu Jangra, Gurkirat Singh, Suhail Ahmad Bhat
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The junior Indian men’s football team competed in Group H of the AFC U-20 Asian Cup 2023 qualifiers from October 14 to 18 in Kuwait.
The qualifiers consisted of 10 groups with the group winners and five best second-placed teams going through to the main event.
All group matches of the AFC U-20 Asian Cup 2023 qualifiers were held in September 2022 but one group could not be played in Iraq due to security issues. This group [H] took place in Kuwait from October 14 to 18.
Former champions India played Iraq, Australia and Kuwait in their three group-stage football matches. They finished third with one win and two losses and were unable to make it to the main event.
Group H
Match: Iraq 4-2 India
Scorers: India - Gurkirat Singh [22’], Maheson Singh Tongbram [33’]; Iraq - Abdulrazzaq Qasim [2’], Hayer Abdulkareem [51’], Ali Sadeq [63’] and Bikash Yumnam [own goal, 71’]
Match: India 1-4 Australia
Scorers: India - Gurkirat Singh [62’]; Australia - Garang Kuol [11'], Bikash Yumnam [own goal, 31'], Adrian Segecic [88'] and Max Caputo [90']
Match: India 2-1 Kuwait
Scorers: India - Taison Singh [8'], Gurkirat Singh [76']; Kuwait - Saleh Al-Mehtab [73']
AFC U-20 Asian Cup 2023 qualifiers: Group H points table and standings
| 1 | Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | +9 |
| 2 | Iraq | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | +3 |
| 3 | India | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | -4 |
| 4 | Kuwait | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -6 |
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