Nepal to host Final of AFC challenge cup 2012!!!

Maldives, Nepal, and Palestine have expressed an interest to bid to host the tournament. A decision on which country will be hosts was confirmed by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on 29 July 2011. It’s third time Nepal will participate in this event and Nepal’s best performance has been in 2006 when Nepal reached Semi-final.A Big Celebration is a must!

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Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has awarded the hosting rights of AFC Challenge Cup final round 2012 to Nepal. The Tournament is slated in March, 2012

The first meeting of the AFC Competitions Committee for the 2011-2015 term held under the chairmanship of UAE’s Yousef Al Serkal on Wednesday made the decision.

Nepal, Maldives and Palestine were vying to win the bid but Nepal won the bet. The president of AFC Organizing committee of AFC President's Cup and AFC Challenge Cup is Ganesh Thapa, who is also the president of ANFA

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So, what do you think? Can Nepal win the title or at least reach final this time and can Nepal get home advantage if it hosts?

Qualified Nations in BOLD

Group A
Palestine, Philippines 
Bangladesh Myanmar

Group B
India, Turkmenistan
Pakistan, Chinese Taipei

Group C
Maldives, Tajikistan 
Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia

Group D
North Korea, Nepal
Afghanistan, Sri Lanka

However, the decision needs to be ratified by ex-co meeting on Friday.

Meanwhile, AFC competitions committee made following decisions:

- AFC Asian Cup: A Task Force will be established to recommend a more competitive format for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

- 2014 World Cup Asian qualifiers: It was decided to use FIFA World Rankings to seed the teams for Round 4.

- 2012 London Olympics: The Round 4 playoff between three second-placed teams from Round 3 will be played in the neutral venue of Malaysia from March 25 to 29. The winning team of this playoff will play a CAF representative for a place in the 2012 London Olympics.

- AFC U-22 Championship: The first edition of the biennial AFC U-22 Championship will be held in June 2013. The next edition of this competition will serve as qualifiers for the 2016 Olympics. The format for the competition was also approved.

- 2012 AFC Challenge Cup: Nepal was chosen to host the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup Finals.