Doha, December 25 (QNA) - The Coach of the Qatar Olympic football team, Ilidio do Vale, announced Monday the list of the team that will participate in the preparatory camp in the United Arab Emirates on the 7th of January in preparation for the AFC U-23 Cup, which Qatar will host from April 15 to May 3, 2024, qualifying for the Football competition at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

The list of the team included 30 players: Tamim Mansour, Nayef Abdul Rahim, Abdullah Ismail, Khaled Ali, Ahmed Hisham, Hassan Muhammad, Mustafa Essam (Al Rayyan), Youssef Abdullah, Abdullah Badr, Ahmed Muhammad, Muhammad Salem, Naif Humaid (Al Sadd), Abdullah Sir Al Khatm, Jassim Fahd (Al Gharafa), Nabil Irfan, and Youssef Tariq ( Al Wakrah), Mohammed Imad and Jassim Mohammed (Al Ahly), Mahdi Salem and Faisal Mohammed (Al Shamal), Ali Nasser and Mohammed Manai (Al Markhiya), Ali Nader and Ahmed Riyad (Al Khor), Fares Saeed (Al Duhail), Amir Hassan (Al Arabi), Youssef Mohammed (Qatar), and Ali Muhammad (Muaither), Al Makki Mohsen (Al Sailiya), and Mustafa Al-Sayed Omar (Lusail).

The tournament, which is held in a single-stage split league system, with the top two teams from each group qualifying for the quarter-finals, sees 16 teams compete to win the title of the sixth edition of the tournament.

The draw of the continental championship that took place earlier last November, resulted in the Qatari team topping the first group alongside teams from Australia, Jordan and Indonesia. The second group was strong, with Japan, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates and China, while Saudi Arabia, the defending champions, led the third group along with Iraq, Thailand and Tajikistan... while the fourth group included Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Kuwait and Malaysia.

The top three finishers of the 2024 Qatar U-23 Asian Cup qualify directly to the football competition at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, while the fourth-placed team will face the fourth-placed in the African U-23 Cup of Nations finals, with the Olympic winner to be announced.

Qatar, hosting the sixth edition, is seeking to take advantage of this opportunity, in order to qualify for the Olympic Games for the third time in its history after Los Angeles in 1984, and Barcelona in 1992. (QNA)