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Large Medium SmallSYDNEY?- The underperformed Chinese national football team were drawn with three-time champion Saudi Arabia, and strong contestants Uzbekistan and?DPR Korea in what appears the tournament's most competitive group - Group B.
Hosts Australia's prospects of winning the Asian Cup on home soil in 2015 became significantly more difficult when the Socceroos were drawn into Pool A with 2002 World Cup semifinalist South Korea.
The top four ranked teams were seeded into different groups, with South Korea slipping to No 5 in the region ahead of Wednesday's draw and, in turn, becoming the most threatening team from the second pot of nations. Australia will play Kuwait in the tournament opener on Jan 9 in Melbourne. Oman was also drawn into Group A.
Defending champion Japan was drawn into Group D with 2007 Asian champion Iraq, Jordan and the winners of the eight-team 2014 AFC Challenge Cup to be held in the Maldives in May.
Iran was placed with the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain in an all-West Asian Group C.
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