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.
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
- 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.
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