Thanks Greenlion, great post.

That picture kind of looks like they're renovating Worker's Stadium in Beijing to be rectangular, is this the case?

I  might go to this tournament 

Would be a great one to travel to as a fan. Modern rectangular stadia, excellent transport infrastructure and plenty of hotel/tourist infrastructure and other things to see and do.

Workers Stadium in Beijing has been demolished this week and will be reconstructed as a football-specific stadium in time for the Asian Cup.

https://twitter.com/modernleifeng/status/1296011068947349506

https://twitter.com/Superligachina/status/1295847288326311943

https://twitter.com/billbirtles/status/1296034441437962241

Also, Pudong Football Stadium in Shangai will be finished next month. Its first event will be a League of Legends championship in September and October.

https://twitter.com/titan_plus/status/1292029012089245697

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QzOms056v4

Qatar bid for 2027. Sigh

Fortunately they're still just one of five bidders at this stage, there's a 2027 thread in this subforum with more info.

Hera are the pictures of 2023 AFC Asian Cup stadiums published by The 2023 AFC Asian Cup Local Organising Committee and other sources

Under renovation

Beijing - Workers Stadium (Gongti)， Capacity 70,161， Club Beijing Guoan，open date: 1959,rebuild starts in July 2020, open date December 2022, planned to host the Final match and Open ceramony



Tianjin - Teda Football Stadium, capacity 36,390, club Tianjin Teda, open date: 2004


Under construction：

Shanghai - Pudong Football Stadium (White jade bowl), Capacity: 33,765, Club: Shanghai SIPG, open date : September 15th,2020


Chongqing - Longxing Football stadium (Phoenix)， Capacity 60,000 Club: Chongqing Lifan, open date:2022



Chengdu - Fenghuangshan football stadium, capacity 57,087 club: Sichuan FC open date： 2021


Xi'an -Internaionalfootball Center, capacity 59,000 Club: Shanxi Chang'an Atheletic open date: 2022


Dalian - Dalian Burracuda Bay Football Stadium， Capacity 63,000 club: Dalian Pro,open date: 2022


Qingdao — Youth football stadium, capacity 52,800 club Qingdao Huanghai, open date: 2022


Suzhou, Kunshan city -Kunshan football stadium, capacity 45,000 open date 2022


Xiamen - Egrat Football Stadium, capacity 60,041 open date 2022

Can't wait to go to this, assuming we qualify.

CCTV5 programme about the 2023 AFC Asian Cup Stadiums

2020.07.11 2023 Asian CUP: New Stadiums, New Becons
http://tv.cctv.com/2020/07/11/VIDEcNgqjFKovXBO0rGrCHHF200711.shtml

2020.09.29: 2023 Asian Cup China: New design, New Hopes
https://tv.cctv.com/2020/09/29/VIDEJWfqCMLpcvDQiFveAfU4200929.shtml

Asian Cup dates set for 2023 tournament
The Asian Football Confederation has announced the dates for the 2023 Asian Cup.

The 18th edition of the Asian Cup, the region's flagship national team competition, will take place in China on June 16-July 16, 2023.

Ten cities across China will host the 24-team tournament, which will be held over 31 days, three days more than the 28-day showpiece in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2019.

China will host the tournament for the second time after organising it in 2004.

The 2019 edition of the quadrennial event was the first to be expanded from 16 to 24 teams.

Qatar are the defending champions after winning their maiden title in the UAE.

https://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/asian-cup-dates-set-for-2023-tournament

Guangzhou's 100k seater coming along nicely, surely they'll add it to the Asian Cup if it's finished on time at the end of 2022, right?





https://twitter.com/Peter_Guo2001/status/1347085736592375809

Yay, its back in the offseason!

Or.. maybe by then, it won't be our off-season anymore...

Evergrande have sold their stadium to another property group due to their debt crisis, according to the skyscrapercity forum there's only a skeleton crew working on it at the moment. Evergrande isn't the only development company in trouble. Perhaps a China 2034 World Cup isn't such a sure thing after all.

✨ 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 ✨

♦️ AFC Executive Committee confirms 🇶🇦 Qatar as #AsianCup2023 host!

♦️ 🇮🇳 India and 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia shortlisted for #AsianCup2027



https://www.the-afc.com/en/about_afc/committees/executive_committee/news/qatar_to_host_afc_asian_cup_2023_india_and_saudi_arabia_shortlisted_for_2027_edition.html

Edit: read the posts

agreed, definitely needs an edit

also dates are set =======>  12 January — 10 February 2024

this overlaps with Olympic Qualification tournament also in qatar from 10-28 January 2024 with the top 3 heading to paris