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[Olympic Games] Dates for Women's Olympic Asian Qualifiers Play-off final confirmed

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May 27, 2020

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Kuala Lumpur: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in consultation with FIFA has approved the proposals by the Chinese Football Association (CFA) and the Korea Football Association (KFA) to move their Women’s Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 2020 Asian Qualifiers Play-off matches to February 19 and 24, 2021.

China PR and Korea Republic were set to contest Asia’s final spot in the Women's 2020 Tokyo Olympic Football Tournament over two legs on June 4 and 9, 2020.

Subsequently on March 30, 2020, the International Olympic Committee announced the decision to move the Tokyo Summer Olympics from July 24 - August 9, 2020 to July 23 - August 8, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The latest decision was confirmed to allow both Member Associations to have sufficient preparation time considering the challenging and unprecedented circumstances brought about by the pandemic......


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