Olympic finals for the 10th consecutive time, has been confirmed

The Olympic team will participate in the WAFF U-23 Championship as an invited team during the March A-match period. The WAFF U-23 Championship will be held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia from the 18th to the 26th. Olympic teams from eight countries, including Korea, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE, Iraq, Australia, Thailand, and Egypt, will participate.  토토사이트넷

Each team will play three times in the tournament. It will be held in the quarterfinals and the winners and losers will compete to determine the rankings from first to eighth place.

Korea will play its first match against Thailand on June 20. Depending on the result of the match against Thailand, the team will play the winner or loser of the Saudi Arabia-Jordan match on June 23, and will have a final ranking match on June 26.

The roster will be announced on Friday when the national team's roster will be announced. The Olympic team will be called up at Incheon International Airport on Thursday night and depart for Saudi Arabia.

Hwang Sun-hong, the head coach of the Korean Olympic team, will be away for a while. The team will be led by head coach Myung Jae-yong as he will serve as the interim coach for the second consecutive qualifying match for the 2026 North-Central America World Cup. Hwang Hee-hoon, the former coach of the Korea Football Association, will join the Olympic team as the goalkeeper coach during the competition, replacing Kim Il-jin, who will serve as the interim goalkeeper coach for the national team.

The final preparatory camp and training schedule have also been confirmed ahead of the final qualifying round for the Paris Olympics and the U-23 Asian Cup to be held in Qatar in April. After returning home after the WAFF U-23 Championship, the Olympic team will confirm its final entry and reconvene in Korea on April 2. The team will depart for the UAE on April 5 for training in Dubai, and will conduct its final training session with the Middle East team there on April 9. It will enter Doha, where the final preliminary round will take place, on April 10.

Sixteen teams will participate in the final preliminary round of Asian qualifiers for the Paris Olympics, and the top three teams will advance to the Olympic finals. The fourth place finisher will have to play against the fourth place finisher in African qualifiers. Korea belongs to Group B and will play against UAE on June 16, China on June 19 and Japan on June 22.