The fourth basket will include the national team of Turkmenistan in the draw for the final stage of the youth (under 23) Asian Cup-2022 in football. Relevant information released by the Asian Football Confederation.

According to her, the complete composition of the baskets looks like this:

Pot 1: Uzbekistan, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Australia.

Pot 2: Jordan, Thailand, UAE, Iran.

Pot 3: Iraq, Qatar, Vietnam, Japan.

Pot 4: Tajikistan, Malaysia, Kuwait, Turkmenistan.

Thus, we can already say that the youth team of Turkmenistan will not play in the final tournament with the teams of Tajikistan, Malaysia and Kuwait, which are in the same basket.

The draw for the 2022 Asian Youth Cup will take place on 17 February. As a result, four groups of four teams in each will be formed. The top two teams from each group will advance to the quarterfinals.

The final tournament will be held in Tashkent from June 1 to June 19, 2022. As a result, the top three teams will be eligible to represent Asia at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

Turkmen footballers will perform for the first time in the final stage of the Asian Youth Cup-2022. The wards of the 42-year-old head coach of the national team Ahmed Agamuradov won this right following the results of the qualifying tournament in Amman, during which they lost in the first match to their peers from Jordan - 0: 1, in the second they beat the representatives of Palestine - 3: 1 and eventually entered the top four the best teams among the runners-up in the qualifying groups.