Doha: Qatar Football Association (QFA) announced a 27-player squad for the 2023 U-20 AFC Asian Cup to be held in Uzbekistan from March 1-18 next year.
The top four teams in the tournament will qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup to be held in Indonesia from May 20 to June 11. Qatar is in Group B along with Australia, runners up of the 2010 edition, Iran and Vietnam, the 2016 semifinalists.
Qatar, who won the 2014 edition in Myanmar, qualified for the tournament as leaders of Group B in the AFC qualifiers played earlier this year.
THE SQUAD: Ahmed Riyad, Ali Mohamed, Shanin al-Abdulrahman (all Duhail SC), Mostafa al-Sayed, Sami Mazen, Ibrahim Mohamed (all Al Rayyan), Al Hashmi al-Hussein, Amir Hassan, Mohamed Khalid (all Al Arabi), Mahdi Salem, Talal al-Shuaibi (both Al Sadd), Jassim al-Sharshani, Eissa al-Najjar (both Al Ahli), Yousef Tariq, Nabil Irfan (both Al Wakrah), Anas Abdulsalam, Ahmed Haganeh (both Al Shamal), Awab al-Awad (Al Sailiya), Mohamed Mansour (Al Gharafa), Abubakr Mohamed (Al Khor), Fares Saeed, Mubarak Shanan, Hassan al-Ghareeb, Mostafa Essam (all Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa, Spain), Ahmed al-Rawi, Rashid al-Abdullah (both AD Alcorcon, Spain), Chalpan Abdullah (KAS Eupen, Belgium).
