QOC
Qatar handball team will begin training on July 27 to prepare for the Asian qualifiers, which will be held in Doha from October 17 to 27, for the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020.
The draw for the men's Asian qualifiers for the 2020 Olympic Games put the Qatari team in Group A along with the teams of Saudi Arabia, India, and Hong Kong, while the Group B included Bahrain, South Korea, Iran, and Kuwait.
The first-place winners qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, while the runners-up play a playoff.
It will be the second time in a row that Qatar has hosted the men's Asian handball qualifiers for the Olympic Games. In 2015, Qatar hosted the 2016 Rio Olympics qualifiers, where the Qatar handball team qualified for the Olympics for the first time in the history of Qatari handball.