AFC Beach Soccer C'Ship 2017 Draw. Uzbekistan national team placed in the third pot

Fourteen nations will learn their AFC Beach Soccer Championship Malaysia 2017 opponents on Tuesday at the tournament's official draw in Kuala Lumpur, reports the-AFC.com.

The competition, which also serves as the qualifiers for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Bahamas 2017, will see the participating nations divided into two groups of five teams and one group of four teams.

The group winners and the best second-placed team from the three groups will qualify for the semi-finals, the winners of which will advance to the final.

Uzbekistan national team also will participate in this tournament placed in Pot 3 with China PR and Iraq national teams.

The teams (with their rankings in brackets) will be drawn as follows:

Pot 1: Oman (1st), Japan (2nd), Islamic Republic of Iran (3rd)
Pot 2: Lebanon (4th), United Arab Emirates (5th), Bahrain (6th)
Pot 3: Uzbekistan (7th), China PR (8th), Iraq (9th)
Pot 4: Thailand (10th), Qatar (11th)
Pot 5: Afghanistan (unranked), Malaysia (unranked), Myanmar (unranked)

The top three teams will fly the Asian flag at the 2017 global extravaganza in the Bahamas which is scheduled to begin on April 27.