Qatar will stage the next Asian Cup in place of original host China, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced on Monday, with the tournament likely to be moved from mid-2023 to early 2024 to avoid the heat of the Gulf summer.
The continental championship was awarded to China in 2019, but the world's most populous country relinquished the rights this year as it pursued a "zero-COVID" policy.
The AFC reopened the bidding process and Qatar, which will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals from next month, was preferred to bids from South Korea and Indonesia at an executive committee meeting on Monday.