Hosts Qatar will be joined by defending champions Oman, 10-time winners Kuwait, Iraq and Yemen in the round-robin tournament on November 27-December 9.

The tournament draw was completed in Doha on Wednesday and the team that finishes top will be crowned champions.

As the players head back to their clubs and the national team head coaches start planning for the November International Window - when two more Matchdays will be held - the-AFC.com picks five takeways from Tuesday.

Goals from Ibrahim Bayesh, Mohanad Ali, Amjad Attwan and Ahmad Ibrahim helped Iraq achieve their second consecutive win in the group and get their seventh point of the campaign.

The Slovenian coach was satisfied with the result as the victory put his side top of the group, ahead of Bahrain on goal difference.

Akram Afif gave Qatar the lead going into the break but Oman clawed their way back to level the tie through Rabia Al Rawi before Almoez Ali sealed the victory for the home side in the Asian Qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and AFC Asian Cup China 2023.

Vadim Abramov’s White Wolves will face the Akshumkar at Tashkent’s Pakhtakor Stadium in the first meeting between the Central Asian neighbours since 2017.

Both sides will use the friendly to prepare for pivotal home matches in the days to follow, with Uzbekistan to host Saudi Arabia on November 14 before meeting Palestine five days later, while Alexander Krestinin’s Kyrgyz Republic are to set to entertain Japan and Tajikistan in Bishkek.

Hey’s appointment, announced in tandem with Radulović’s exit, sees him reclaim the position he held from May to December 2018.

The German boss is tasked with rescuing Myanmar’s FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Asian Qualifiers campaign, which has produced three defeats from as many matches.

Korea Republic and DPR Korea played to a goalless draw in Pyongyang, leaving them both on seven points in FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying.