Saad Al-Suwaidi
Qatar's U19 national team will start its qualifying campaign for the 2020 AFC U-19 Championship on Wednesday against Sri Lanka as part of Group B matches.
Qatar is pooled in group B alongside Yemen, Turkmenistan and Sri Lanka. Group B matches will be played at Aspire Academy pitches 4 and 5 from November 6 to 10.
Yemen will take on Turkmenistan in the first match of Group B.
Turkmenistan and Sri Lanka were the first to arrive in Doha for the qualifiers, with the Yemeni team arriving on Monday.
The qualifiers tournament was divided into two geographical regions: West (West Asia, South, and Central) with 25 teams in six groups and the East (East Asia and ASEAN) with 21 teams in five groups.
The first-place teams qualify for the finals in each of the 11 groups, along with with the top four of second-place teams, and the host country, which receives the direct qualification card
Qatar will face Sri Lanka on Wednesday the 6th of November at 19:10, followed by their second match against Turkmenistan on Friday the 8th of November also at 19:10, and will close out their group B matches with Yemen on the 10th of November at 19:10.