All groups are known for Asian Cup 2019

Eight months from now (plus one day) is starting edition number 17 of the Asian championship. In total there is 24 teams who were divided in 4 pots of 6 teams, and now in reverse order: for the Asian Cup 2019 final 6 groups will comprise of 4 teams. All these happened today at the well known skyscraper Burj Khalifa in the Armani hotel in Dubai.
Before the draw it was only known that the host of the competition is going to be in the first group. And for the draw itself four main (two current and two legendary) stars from the continent showed up at the podium: Philip Younghusband, Sunil Chhetri, Sun Jihai and Ali Daei who mixed up and took out the little balls backwards from pot 4 to pot 1 to form the following groups:

Group A: United Arab Emirates, Thailand, India, Bahrain.

Group B: Australia, Syria, Palestine, Jordan.

Group C: South Korea, PR China, Kyrgyzstan, Philippines.

Group D: IR Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, Yemen.

Group E: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Lebanon, North Korea.

Group F: Japan, Uzbekistan, Oman, Turkmenistan.

Beginning very early next year, this exciting event is going to start 05 January, and whether Australia can defend its title we are going to find out 01 February.