Football at the 2026 Asian Games
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The Football tournament at the 2026 Asian Games is being held between 14 September and 3 October 2026 in several cities across both Chūbu and Kansai regions. In this tournament, fifteen teams participate in men's competition and twelve teams participate in women's competition.
South Korea are the men's defending champions while Japan are the women's defending champions.
Competition schedule
The schedule is as follows:
Venues
A total of seven venues around six cities is used.
Eleven venues were chosen for the bid after Aichi-Nagoya was selected, including Toyota, Nagoya, Kariya, Oita, Utsunomiya, Yokohama, Hiroshima, Suita, Saitama, Chiba and Chōfu. Those venues where shortlisted to Toyota, Nagoya, Kariya, Gifu, Shizuoka, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe, then later excluded Kyoto and Kobe on 30 April 2025. Notably, none of the stadiums used in the 2020 Olympics and 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup is used in this tournament, and the Shizuoka Stadium with Nagai Stadium are the only stadiums in this tournament that were used in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
The Toyota Stadium hosts the men's finals, while Shizuoka Stadium hosts the women's finals.
These host cities host the following matches:
Qualification
In the previous editions, participating nations were free to enter teams in the football tournament of the Asian Games. For the 2026 Asian Games, a qualification criteria was set up with the participating teams of the 2026 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualifying for the men's tournament, and the teams of the 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifying for the women's tournament (both with the exception of Australia due to not being a member of the OCA).
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