Apr 1, 2013

AFC Challenge Cup 2014: Eight Finalist Confirmed

Eight teams who will be competing in the AFC Challenge Cup 2014 has been finalized. The eight teams qualified for the cup are host Maldives, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Philippines, Palestine, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Kyrgyzstan.
In the qualification stage, 20 teams were divided into 5 groups and all the group winners and two second best teams qualified for the final round of the challenge cup. Host has been automatically qualified without competing in the qualification.


Myanmar who won the fourth place in 2008 and 2010 challenge cup qualified as the winner of group A
with 7 points. They beat India and Guam while they had a draw against Chinese Taipei.
2006 challenge cup semifinalist Kyrgyzstan qualified as group B winners with an unbeaten record with 9 points. They beat Tajikistan, Pakistan and Macau in the qualification stage.Afghanistan won Group C by beating Sri Lanka and Mongolia while they drew against Laos.
Palestine, the fourth place team on 2012 challenge cup lead group D with 7 points by beating
Bangladesh and Northern Mariana and also they drew against Nepal.
Philippines 2012 challenge cup third place team beat Turkmenistan, Cambodia and Brunei Darussalam 
and qualified as group E winners.
2010 and 2012 runners up, Turkmenistan qualified narrowly as first of the best second place team. They
got 6 points and a goal difference of 9 goals. And the second team to qualify as the best second place 
team is Bangladesh. They got 6 points and goal difference of 5 goals.

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