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The activities of the seventh edition of the Asian Under-16 Basketball Championship will begin in Doha this Sunday evening, with the participation of 15 countries, including Jordan.
The Asian qualifying tournament for the U-18 World Cup will continue until the 24th of this month, where the participating teams were divided into four groups, and Jordan was placed in the third group, which also includes the teams of New Zealand, South Korea, and Bahrain, while the first group includes the teams, Australia (holder). title), India, Lebanon and Sri Lanka, while the second group includes the teams of Qatar, the host country, and the teams of: Iran, Japan, and Saudi Arabia, while the fourth group includes the teams of the Philippines, China, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan.
The Jordanian national team will play its first match in Al Gharafa Hall this afternoon, where it will meet the Bahrain national team in the third group matches, and in the same group, the South Korean and New Zealand national teams will meet in Al Rayyan Hall.
The Qatar Basketball Association announced, on its website, that the Qatar national team will open its campaign in the seventh edition of the Asian Under-16 Basketball Championship by facing the Saudi national team this evening, in the first match of the two teams in the second group, with the national teams of Iran and Japan meeting today in the same group.
The Australian and Indian teams will open the matches this afternoon with a confrontation within the first group matches, while Lebanon will meet with Sri Lanka in the Al Gharafa Hall in the matches of the same group, while the Kazakhstan team will meet with Malaysia in the evening in the Al Rayyan Hall, within the matches of the fourth group, and in the same group China will meet with the Philippines. At the same time in Al Rayyan Hall.
The President of the Qatar Basketball Federation, Mohammed Saad Al-Mughaisib, said that the FIBA Under-16 Asian Cup is the first tournament hosted by the Basketball Association after winning the honor of organizing the 2027 Qatar World Cup, indicating that the Federation will organize many tournaments in the coming years that will be It is important in promoting Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup for the first time in the Middle East and North Africa region.
It is noteworthy that this is the second time in a row that the Qatar Basketball Association is hosting the Asian Under-16 Cup.