Hwang Seon-hong’s U-23 national soccer team, aiming to advance to the Olympic finals for the 10th consecutive time, departed for Saudi Arabia through Incheon International Airport in the early morning of the 18th to participate in the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) U-23 Championship.
The WAFF U-23 Championship, which will be held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia from the 18th to the 26th during the March international match period, is a prelude to the 2024 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Qatar U-23 Asian Cup, which will be held in Qatar on the 15th of next month along with the Asian qualifiers for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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Originally, U-23 national team coach Hwang Seon-hong was scheduled to lead the team himself, but as he took over as temporary coach of the A national team whose head coach position was vacant due to the dismissal of Coach Jurgen Klinsmann, the U-23 national team became ‘Hwang Sun-hong without Hwang Seon-hong.’
Coach Hwang will lead the A national team in the 3rd and 4th games of the 2026 North and Central America World Cup Asia 2nd qualifying round match against Thailand, and instead, head coach Myung Jae-yong will lead the U-23 national team in Dammam.
Eight countries participate in the WAFF U-23 Championship: Korea, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq, Australia, Thailand, and Egypt.
In this competition, each team plays three times.
It will be held as a quarterfinal tournament, with winners and losers competing against each other to determine rankings from 1st to 8th.
Korea will play its first match against Thailand on the 20th.
Depending on the result of the Thailand match, the winner or loser of the Saudi-Jordan match will be played on the 23rd, and the final ranking match will be held on the 26th.