All matches of the Asian Cup, the continental competition for teams in the Asian Football Confederation, are fully available to viewers in the United States.
Countries such as Japan, South Korea, Qatar and Australia compete for the title. Qatar enters as defending champions after achieving its first success in 2019. For US audiences, CBS’ streaming platform Paramount+ has coverage of the tournament from Qatar.
Paramount+ coverage includes 33 group stage contests available on the service. That includes matches from each of the six groups of the 24-nation tournament. Some of the games can be broadcast on the CBS Sports Golazo Network. Iran will play the United Arab Emirates and Australia will face Uzbekistan in some of the biggest matches of the group stage.
The AFC formed the groups based on the April 2023 FIFA World Ranking. Spread across four pots, the top six teams could not have played each other. While that may take away some of the draw from the group stage, the first round of games can still be volatile. Furthermore, the Asian football scene has been continually growing in capacity. The success of Japan, South Korea and Australia is indicative of this.
Each of those teams, and the 21 others competing for success in Qatar, are in action on Paramount+ for US audiences. The competition begins on January 12 and will run until February 10.
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Paramount+ has the rights to the Asian Cup in the United States
This year, the six teams at the top of the FIFA world rankings in Asia are the favorites to win the Asian Cup. At the top of that list is Japan. The Japanese have been dominating teams around the world since they narrowly lost to Croatia in the round of 16 of the World Cup. Japan has won its last nine matches between friendlies and World Cup qualifiers. In those games, Japan averages more than four goals per game. That includes comfortable victories over Canada, Turkey, Peru and, most of all, Germany.
However, just behind Japan on the list of favorites is South Korea. Led by talisman Son Heung-min, South Korea also reached the last 16 at the World Cup after finishing ahead of Ghana and Uruguay. South Korea has also been crushing its opposition in recent weeks. No team has scored against South Korea since El Salvador in June 2023. South Korea has not been short of goals either, with 19 in the team’s last five games.
Asian Cup starts in mid-January
Those World Cup matches will be familiar to you this year. Qatar will use the same venues used for the World Cup in December 2022. South Korea opens the tournament at Education City Stadium, where they played each of their group stage matches.
Each team’s three-game group stage schedule ends on January 25. Then, the round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals and final will be in the following days. Below you can find the full schedule of Asian Cup games streaming on Paramount+.
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