The Arab Federation announced that teams will compete in the preliminary round using the knockout format.
The four contestants in the club championship's preliminary stage are officially announced by The Arab Federation
Four teams have been confirmed by the Arab Football Association to compete in the Arab Club Championship's preliminary round matches.
From March 2 to March 5 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the preliminary round will take place. In addition to Arta Solar clubs from Djibouti, Fahmane Al-Yemeni, Hersed Al-Somali, and Vulcan from the Comoros Islands, the Arab Federation has announced their participation in the preliminary round.
For the winner to advance to the first round, the four teams competing in the preliminary round compete in a knockout format. There are now 37 clubs taking part in the King Salman bin Abdulaziz Arab Championship for Clubs, which is the current iteration of the competition.
During the competitions of the first round, the preliminary round qualifier will compete with 23 other teams. There are 24 teams left from the first round (the qualifier from the preliminary round - 11 teams from Asia - 7 teams from Africa - 5 participating teams nominated by the national federations).
Twelve teams will advance to the second round, which will be played between the qualified teams so that six of them will advance to the finals, which will be played in a four-group format. The first-round matches will be played under the home-and-away format. March 13–15, April 3–5, and April 10–12 will be the dates for the first round.
- Being the winner of the last competition, the Egyptian Zamalek squad will take part in the championship round.
- To provide formal consent to the Egyptian Federation and to proclaim his candidature to compete in the first round of the Arab Championship, Vanguards of the Army used FilGoal.com.
- The third Egyptian squad competing in the competition has not yet made an official announcement.
Moreover, Al-participation Ahly in the group stage of the final round was made known to the Competitions Committee's head, Amer Hussein, via an invitation from the Arab Federation to join Zamalek at that time.
Contrary to the date of the Confederation, the chairman of the Egyptian Competitions Commission at the time said that neither Pyramids nor Future could compete since they had to compete in the first round. Hence, the fourth-place-finishing Vanguards of the Army team will receive a nomination.
The 2023 FIFA Club World Cup will provide financial awards
- $5,000,000 For first place.
- The prize money for second place is $4 million.
- 2.5 million dollars will be awarded as third-place honors.
- 2 million dollars will be awarded as the fourth-place reward.
- 1.5 million dollars will be awarded as the fifth-place reward.
- One million dollars will be awarded as the sixth-place reward.
- $500,000 is awarded as the seventh-place reward.
Along with Al-Ahly and Zamalek, Vanguards of the Army competes in the Arab Club Championship
It was determined that the Al-Ahly and Zamalek clubs from Egypt will compete in the competition, as well as the football team Vanguards of the Army, whose preparatory matches will begin in March.
After placing fourth, Vanguards of the Army decided to compete in the Arab Championship. Obtaining the golden square on its wall in the previous season 2021–2022, beating Future, who had the same points balance but in direct competition, with 56 points.
Since Vanguards beat Future with a clear goal in the first leg, they exceeded the Army. If not for the clubs selected by the Football Association to compete in the African Champions League and the African Confederation Championship, and return
Army vanguards would have taken part in the Confederation Championship. Al-Tale'a Al-Jaish will take part in the Arab Championship, a competition in which it has previously competed, finishing fourth in the general league in the 2006–2007 and 2007–2008 seasons.
- This will be Al-Tale'a Al-third Jaish's fourth-place finish since entering the League of Renown and Light.
- Last year, the Vanguards of Al-Jaish football made history by becoming the first team in team history to win the Egyptian Super Cup.
- Following their 3-2 victory against Al-Ahly in a penalty shootout during their match at Alexandria's Burj Al-Arab Stadium.
Once the first time resulted in a loss, the additional time was decided. along two sides. According to Major General Ayman Al-Masry, director of football at Tala'a Al-Jaish Club, the team is eagerly expecting the delivery of the Arab Championship's organizational guidelines and the schedule of the preliminary qualifiers for the finals, which will begin in March.
