TEHRAN - Iran’s U-23 football team was placed in Pot 3 of the Nagoya 2026 Asian Games draw.
Iran’s U-23 football  team was placed in Pot 3 of the seeding on the eve of the Nagoya 2026 Asian Games men’s football draw.
Based on the procedure announced by the Nagoya 2026 Asian Games Organizing Committee, the seeding of the teams in determining the position of each of the 15 participating teams in the group stage was done as follows.
In this seeding, Japan as the host is placed in Pot 1, followed by China, Vietnam and South Korea. Uzbekistan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Thailand are in Pot 2, and Iran is placed in Pot 3 along with Kyrgyzstan, Qatar and the Philippines.
Being in the third pot means that the Iranian national team will be grouped with at least one team from the first pot and one team from the second pot in the group stage; an issue that could make the draw for Hussein Abdi’s team more difficult than the teams in the first two pots.
The men’s football tournament of the Nagoya Asian Games will be held with the participation of 15 teams, and the participating teams will compete in three groups of four teams and one group of three teams. At the end of the group stage, the first and second teams of each group will go to the knockout stage.