Asian Games

Asian Games (football) (Asian Games football) - the football tournament of the Asian Games contested by national teams under the Olympic Council of Asia framework with the involvement of the confederation’s football structures. Regulations: the competition includes qualification and a final tournament that uses a group stage followed by a knockout phase, group matches may end in a draw, with 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss, and ties on points are broken by goal difference and goals scored, then head-to-head criteria, followed by disciplinary records and drawing of lots. In the knockout matches, if the score is level after normal time, extra time is played as two 15-minute periods and, if still level, the winner is decided by a penalty shoot-out. The men’s tournament is an under-23 competition with up to three over-age players permitted, while the women’s tournament has no age restrictions.