New football groupings

Published September 15, 2002

SEOUL, Sept 14: Organizers of the Busan Asian Games Saturday unveiled new groupings for the football tournament after Jordan, Mongolia and Tajikistan pulled out while North Korea, Palestine and Afghanistan submitted their entries. The tournament will take place from September 27 to October 13:

Men

Group A: South Korea, Malaysia, Maldives, Oman

Group B: United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Yemen, Thailand

Group C: China, India, Bangladesh, Turkmenistan

Group D: Japan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Palestine

Group E: Iran, Qatar, Lebanon, Afghanistan

Group F: Kuwait, North Korea, Hong Kong, Pakistan.—AFP

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