Subject: »[U21] Asian Cup U21 || VII Edition

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Thank you all for this tournament. It was fun!

It's getting to that time of year again where all the teams from Australasia and Asia come together to battle it out for the champions of their region.

Last edition Indonesia took out the title, beating out strong opposition in India in the final and Australia in the semi final.

So let's open the sign ups

I will try to make this competition fit in to the packed off season schedule (add youself to the below list).

Participants
1. Australia
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U21 ASIAN CUP - 8th EDITION (also Oceania for those two teams)
Link to current cup

*Firstly, I just want to remind every coach, this cup isn't just for the coaches, it is for all the managers in the country you coach. Without them, you wouldn't have a national team and we wouldn't have an Asian Cup, so please, post something in the forums, send your users a message or two saying how we are going. Get that interest built up. They may not respond this season, but someone next season may, or someone the season afterwards. You just never know who may stay in sokker, train a future star, watch a future match, and it can all be built on forum communication about the Asian Cup*

Season 8 of the Asian Cup will be run again this season.

Registrations
Registration
Preliminary Seeding (may change by draw) / world ranking / best rating this season:
1. Australia
2. Israel
3. Iran
4. Jamaica - replaced
5. Kazakhstan
6. Zhongguo
7. U.A.E.
8. India
9. Arabia Saudi - replaced
10. Viet Nam (via sk-mail)
11. New Zealand
12. Hong Kong
RESERVES
Singapore
Indonesia

This season we will be starting earlier than normal and will commence in the first week after the new elections Week 03 (30.12.23).
It will be a 3 round group phase followed by a semi final and a final. We will play with 8, 12 or 16 teams, first in best dressed. If we get less than 8, I will make it work.


Fixtures for the Asian Cup.

An example of the season is as follows

The example of the schedule below:

Week 01 (16.12.23) - Friendly
Week 02 (23.12.23) - Friendly (elections finish tomorrow)
Week 03 (30.12.23) - Asian Cup u21 Group
Week 04 (06.01.24) - Asian Cup u21 Group or World Cup Group or Mini World Cup u20
Week 05 (13.01.24) - Asian Cup u21 Group or World Cup Group or Mini World Cup u20
Week 06 (20.01.24) - Asian Cup u21 Semi Final or World Cup Group or Mini World Cup u20
Week 07 (27.01.24) - Asian Cup u21 Final or WC 1/8 or Friendly or Mini World Cup u20
Week 08 (03.02.24) - WC 1/4 or Druid's Cup Group or Mini World Cup u20
Week 09 (10.02.24) - WC 1/2 or Druid's Cup Group
Week 10 (17.02.24) - WC final or Druid's Cup Group
Week 11 (24.02.24) - 1/16 Druid's Cup
Week 12 (02.03.24) - 1/8 Druid's Cup or Friendly
Week 13 (09.03.24) - 1/4 Druid's Cup or Friendly
Week 01 (16.03.24) - 1/2 Druid's Cup or Friendly
Week 02 (23.03.24) - Final Druid's Cup or Friendly


So the final Registration is over, and here are the seeds.

The groups and draw will be based on the following.

The draw will be completely random, which will give everyone a chance of making it through to the semi finals - some less favourite teams having a chance to make it whilst some favourite teams could miss out.

There will be 3 groups of 4 teams, with the winner of each group, plus the best 2nd place advancing.

SEEDING
1. Australia (35)
2. Viet Nam (via sk-mail) (38)
3. India (54)
4. Israel (59)
5. New Zealand (61)
6. as-Saʻūdiyya (66)
7. Zhongguo (71)
8. U.A.E. (75)
9. Jamaica (83)
10. Kazakhstan (85)
11. Hong Kong (89)
12. Iran (96)

Asian Cup VIII - Groups

Group A

A1 - Viet Nam (38)
A2 - India (54)
A3 - New Zealand (61)
A4 - Kazakhstan (85)


Group B

B1 - Australia (35)
B2 - Israel (59)
B3 - Zhongguo (71)
B4 - Singapore (92)

Group C

C1 - Indonesia (56)
C2 - U.A.E. (75)
C3 - Hong Kong (89)
C4 - Iran (96)

As for organising matches, please remember the following:

- Week 1: 1v4, 2v3
- Week 2: 1v3, 2v4
- Week 3: 1v2, 3v4
- Home team invites in standard mode (not Cup). If sent in cup mode, only the score after 90minutes will be taken in to consideration.

Asian Cup VIII Draw

Week 1 (30.12.23)
Viet Nam vs Kazakhstan - 0:5 (forfeit)
India vs New Zealand - 2:0

Australia vs Singapore - 5:0
Israel vs Zhonghou - 5:0 (forfeit)

Indonesia vs Iran - (special case, both receive 1 pt but 0:5 loss)
UAE vs Hong Kong - 5:0 (forfeit)

Week 2 (06.01.24)
Viet Nam vs New Zealand
India vs Kazakhstan

Australia vs Zhonghou
Israel vs Sinapore

Indonesia vs Hong Kong
U.A.E vs Iran

Week 3 (13.01.23)
Viet Nam vs India
New Zealand vs Kazakhstan

Australia vs Israel
Zhonghou vs Singapore

Indonesia vs U.A.E
Hong Kong vs Iran


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As with in the past, Home team will invite in League mode for the group phase and Cup mode for the Finals phase.
Points will be awarded: 3 - win, 2 - draw, 1 - loss, 0 - forfeit. Forfeit will incur a 5-0 loss.


Registration:
Priority will be given to:
1. Countries entirely encompassed by Asia OR play in the AFC in real life world cup OR OFC in real life
2. Countries who cross multiple continents, one of which is Asia or Oceania
3. Countries who do not have another cup that their country could freely join due to it not being run this season/not existing ie African Cup, UEFA cup, Druid's Cup
4. Teams not falling in to the above brackets


***All decisions made by the organiser will be final, however you are welcome to question a decision initially via forum, but continued in sk-mail should the answer not be satisfactory. Fairness to all will be attempted if possible however some decisions may be required to maintain competition and further clarification made in future U21 Asian Cups.

Please post any questions ASAP to allow appropriate dissemination of information.


FRONT PAGE UPDATED

Groups, Seeds and Draw will be updated 24/12/23 (25/12/23 at the latest)
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Israel is signing up.

I've never done a tournament before... how are we linked to Druid cup?

Should I sign up for that one also?
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We aren't linked, I just used their calendar

But the way I have made this tournament is that anyone competing in Asian cup, can also participate in the Druid cup without the competitions overlapping

Understood now.

Count Israel in then :)
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I applied for Druid's Cup and would like to do our best with Iran at Asian Cup too (ofc. if I win elections)!
When I dont win, I'll discuss it with next Iran U21 Coach, and explain why should participate with Iran on both Cups.
I'll open a Thread there on National Forum. Iran have only 1 active User, but I'll inform anyway about Cup results! ;)

It would be good to create a theme for the new edition, any help you need I'll be here

Thanks man! I appreciate it!

Edit:
I discussed with other candidates: Iran will participate, doesn't matter who wins elections!
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Kazakhstán U21 will play

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Bumping this back to the top to avoid confusion

Thanks for explanation! This one we applied to! ;)

Zhongguo will play.