World Cup Qualifiers will be re-scheduled to 2021 owing to current Covid-19 situation, states AFC

The Indian football team’s aspirations of playing in the 2022 FIFA World Cup are all but over, even though their chances of making it to the 2023 AFC Asian Cup are bright. The remaining matches of the group stages were previously supposed to get over by now, but the pandemic had postponed all sports activities throughout the world. While the remaining matches were re-scheduled to October-November later this year, the recent spike in Covid-19 cases has made it impossible to stage them. As reported by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), the matches will be further pushed back to 2021 considering the pandemic situation in many Asian countries.

India is currently placed at the fourth position in Group E with three points from five matches, having failed to win a single match in the qualifiers so far. Qatar leads the group with 13 points from as many matches with four wins to their name.