The

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(AFC) section of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification saw 43 teams competing for 4 or 5 berths in the final tournament in

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. As in recent tournaments the AFC had four direct qualifiers for the finals tournament in addition to a further possible place via the intercontinental play-offs against

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's fifth-placed team, which was chosen through a random draw, rather than being decided by FIFA beforehand as in previous tournaments (e.g., 2010 against a team from OFC, 2006 against a team from

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). Iran and South Korea from Group A, along with Australia and Japan from Group B won the 4 direct qualification positions, with Jordan defeating Uzbekistan in a play-off to see which team would face the 5th placed CONMEBOL team,

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, for a place in the World Cup, eventually also failed to qualify for the competition.

Format

The main qualifying draw took place in Brazil on 30 July 2011. Initially it was announced that the

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Competitions Committee decided to use the 2010 qualification format for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The AFC published information in their calendar suggesting qualifiers would start on 8 October 2010 with the first leg of first round ties. Therefore, for the

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finals, FIFA advised the AFC that 2014 qualifiers could not begin until after mid-2011. On 13 August 2010 the AFC announced a format for the qualifiers that was identical to the 2010 format even though the final number of qualifiers had not been determined. A final format, with the initial stages modified slightly from 2010, was announced in March 2011. Qualification began with two sets of two-leg knock-out qualification rounds – the first held on 29 June and 2 July and 3 July 2011 and the second on 23 and 28 July – reducing the number of teams in the main draw to 20. As in the 2010 format, the third stage consisted of 5 groups of 4 teams (with matches held between September 2011 and February 2012) with the top 2 in each group advancing to 2 groups of 5 that will play a further group stage during 2012 and 2013. The top two teams in each group qualify for the 2014 finals directly, with the two third-placed teams playing-off for a chance to qualify via an intercontinental qualifying tie. A random draw determined that the final tie would be against the fifth-placed team from CONMEBOL qualification.

Entrants

43 of the 46 AFC national teams entered qualification. A ranking list for the qualification rounds was released by AFC on 8 March 2011, with an updated list released due to the non-participation of Guam and Bhutan. The rankings determined the round of qualification that teams began competition: *Teams ranked 1–5 (the teams that competed in the

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finals and the intercontinental play-offs) do not compete in the qualification rounds, and automatically qualify for the first group stage (drawn in Brazil in July 2011). *Teams ranked 6–27 (other teams that advanced past the first round in 2010 qualification, plus the three first round losers with the 'best' results) receive a bye to the second round of qualification. *Teams ranked 28–43 enter at the first round. ;Notes: *

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were suspended by FIFA from September 2009 through May 2011. Their reinstatement came too late for Brunei to participate in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. *

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and

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did not participate in the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

First round

The first round consisted of eight home-and-away series, featuring the 16 lowest ranked teams in Asia. The winners of these series proceeded to the

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Seeding

Teams were seeded into two pots – Pot 1 included teams ranked 28–35 and Pot 2 teams ranked 36–43.

Matches

The first round draw of the Asian qualifiers took place on 30 March 2011 in

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. The first legs were played on 29 June 2011 and the second legs were played on 2 and 3 July 2011.

Second round

The second round consisted of fifteen home-and-away series, featuring the 8 winners from the

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and other 22 teams ranked 6–27. The winners of these series then proceeded to the third round.

Seeding

Teams were seeded into two pots – Pot 1 included teams ranked 6–20 and Pot 2 teams ranked 21–27 along with the 8 first round winners. ^† First round winners whose identity was not known at the time of the draw.

Matches

Ties were drawn at the same time as the first round. The first legs were played on 23 July 2011 and the second legs were played on 28 July 2011. *

Note 1: The first leg of

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was originally won 2–0 by Oman, but was subsequently awarded to them as a 3–0 victory. The return leg was abandoned in the 45+2 minute due to crowd trouble. Oman was leading 2–0. The result was declared final by FIFA, and Myanmar were initially banned from competing in the qualifying tournament for the 2018 World Cup, although this was lifted after an appeal. So Myanmar had to play their home matches of 2018 World Cup qualifying in neutral ground. *

Note 2: Both legs of the

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

tie were awarded 3–0 to Tajikistan after Syria was ruled to have fielded an ineligible player. Syria had won the first leg 2–1 and the return leg 4–0.

Third round

The third round saw the 5 automatic qualifiers joined by the 15 winners from the second round. These teams were drawn into five groups of four teams, at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in

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on 30 July 2011. The matches were played from 2 September 2011 to 29 February 2012. The top two teams from each group advanced to the fourth round.

Seeding

The July 2011 FIFA Ranking – released on 27 July – was used to seed the teams. (Rankings shown in brackets) Note.

were replaced by

in the third round on 19 August 2011 following the awarding of both second round matches to Tajikistan.

Groups

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Fourth round

The fourth round saw the group winners and runners-up from the third round play in two groups of five. The top two teams from each group advanced to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, while the two third-placed teams advance to the fifth round.

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and

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have qualified for the

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Seeding

The draw for Round Four was held on 9 March 2012 in

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, with the teams seeded according to their March 2012 FIFA Ranking. The FIFA rankings used were released on 7 March 2012 and included all matches from the third round of Asian qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The ten teams (shown below with their March 2012 FIFA Ranking in brackets) are split into five pots, with each group containing a team from each pot.

Groups

The matches were played from 3 June 2012 to 18 June 2013. As the competition partially overlapped with the

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, which was held from 15 June 2013, the AFC decided that the match day will be adjusted for

, the representative of AFC for the Confederations Cup, placing them on Position 5 in their group in order not to play on 18 June 2013.

Group A

Group B

Fifth round

The two teams who finished third in the fourth round groups (

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and

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) played each other to determine the AFC participant in the intercontinental play-off. The draw for the fifth round of the AFC qualifiers was held in

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on 19 March 2013 during meetings of the Organising Committee for the FIFA World Cup. The games took place on 6 and 10 September 2013. With the two teams still evenly matched at full-time in the second leg,

eventually progressed to the intercontinental playoff after winning 9–8 on

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Inter-confederation play-offs

The fifth round winner,

, played against

's fifth-placed team,

, in a home-and-away play-off. The winner of this play-off,

, qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals. The first leg was played on 13 November 2013, and the second leg was played on 20 November 2013.

Qualified teams

The following four teams from AFC qualified for the final tournament. :

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

There were 432 goals scored in 150 games (including inter-confederation play-offs), for an average of 2.88 goals per game. ;8 goals * Shinji Okazaki ;7 goals * Younis Mahmoud * Hassan Abdel-Fattah *

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* Qu Bo * Yu Dabao *

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Chang Han Chang Han (, born December 25, 1985, in Hualien) is a Taiwanese football player from Amis tribe. He usually plays as a striker. During the 2008 Summer Olympics qualifications, he was usually in the starting line-up in Chinese Taipei's 4– ...

Xavier Chen Xavier Chen (; born 5 October 1983) is a former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He began his youth career with Anderlecht before moving to KV Kortrijk where he first played at senior level (2003–2007). After Kortrijk, he sp ...

Jeje Lalpekhlua Jeje Lalpekhlua Fanai (born 7 January 1991) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a striker, and last appeared with Indian Super League club East Bengal. Between 2011 and 2019, he scored 23 goals in 56 international matches represe ...

Gouramangi Singh Gouramangi Singh Moirangthem (born 25 January 1986) is an Indian former professional footballer. He is currently the assistant coach of Indian Super League club Goa. Club career A product of the Tata Football Academy, he has plied his trade ...

* Muhammad Ilham *

Mohammad Nasuha Mohammad Nasuha (born 15 September 1984 in Serang) is an Indonesian former footballer who last played for Cilegon United and the Indonesia national football team. Before played for Persib, he played for Persikota, Sriwijaya and Persija Interna ...

* Bambang Pamungkas * Muhammad Ridwan * Saeid Daghighi *

Jalal Hosseini Seyyed Jalal Hosseini ( fa, سید جلال حسینی; born 3 February 1982), commonly known as Seyyed Jalal or Jalal Hosseini, is a former Iranian professional footballer who played as a centre-back and was the Captain of Iranian club Persepo ...

Ali Karimi Mohammad Ali Karimi Pashaki ( fa, علی کریمی ; born 8 November 1978) is an Iranian football coach and former player. During his professional football career, he has played in the Iran Pro League, UAE Pro League, Qatar Stars League and ...

Milad Meydavoudi Milad Meydavoudi ( fa, ميلاد میداوودی, born 20 January 1985 in Masjed Soleyman) is an Iranian football player, who last played for Naft Masjed Soleyman in Persian Gulf Pro League. He was appointed as assistant coach of Khooshe Tal ...

* Hammadi Ahmad *

Karrar Jassim Karrar Jassim Mohammed Al-Mahmoudi ( ar, كرار جاسم محمد المحمودي, born 11 June 1987) known as Karrar Jassim, is an Iraqi professional footballer, who plays as a midfielder most recently for Naft Al-Wasat in the Iraqi Premier ...

Mustafa Karim Mustafa Karim Abdullah ( ar, مصطفى كريم عبدالله) (born 21 July 1987) is an Iraqi footballer. He last played for Al-Talaba. He plays as striker, and is known for his ability to score with both feet. Career: Youth, Olympic and N ...

* Qusay Munir * Hiroshi Kiyotake * Yuichi Komano * Yasuyuki Konno * Kengo Nakamura *

Maya Yoshida is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club Schalke 04 and captains the Japan national team. Club career Nagoya Grampus Born in Nagasaki, Japan, Yoshida began playing football at Nanling FC in his seco ...

Baha' Abdel-Rahman Baha' Abdel-Rahman Mustafa Suleiman ( ar, بهاء عبد الرحمن مصطفى سليمان) is a Jordanian footballer as a midfielder who plays for Selangor in Malaysia Super League and the Jordan national football team. Personal life an ...

Khalil Bani Attiah Khalil Zaid Bani Attiah ( ar, خليل زيد بني عطية; born 8 June 1991) is a Jordanian professional footballer who plays for the Jordan national football team and for Al-Hussein. He has a younger brother named Nour Bani Attiah, who pl ...

Bashar Bani Yaseen Bashar Mustafa Bani Yaseen ( ar, بشار مصطفى بني ياسين; born 1 June 1977) is a retired Jordanian footballer who played as a defender. International career Bashar began his career as a left back, but later played as a central d ...

* Mussab Al-Laham *

Tha'er Bawab Tha'er Fayed Al Bawab ( ar, ثائر فايد بواب; born 1 March 1985) is a Jordanian footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club AD Villaviciosa de Odón. He spent most of his professional career in Spain and Romania. Club caree ...

Basem Fathi Basem Fat'hi Omar Othman ( ar, باسم فتحي عمر عثمان; born 1 August 1982) is a retired Jordanian footballer of Palestinian origin who played mostly for Al-Wehdat . International goals Honors and Participation in International ...

Waleed Ali Waleed Ali ( ar, links=no, وليد علي, born 3 November 1980) is a Kuwaiti footballer who played as midfielder for the Kuwait Premier League club Al Kuwait. He previously played for Iran Pro League club Esteghlal. He formerly played for Kh ...

* Fahad Al Ansari * Fahad Al Enezi *

Bader Al-Mutawa Bader Ahmed al-Mutawa ( ar, بدر أحمد المطوع; born 10 January 1985) is a Kuwaiti professional footballer who plays for Qadsia and the Kuwait national team, where he usually operates as a second striker. He wears the jersey number ...

Hussain Fadel Hussain Fadhel (born 9 October 1984 in Kuwait City, Kuwait) is a Kuwaiti footballer who currently plays for Qadsia SC and also Kuwait national football team. He played for Al Qadisiya in the 2008 AFC Champions League group stages. In Augus ...

* Khampheng Sayavutthi * Souliya Syphasay * Kanlaya Sysomvang *

Soukaphone Vongchiengkham Soukaphone Vongchiengkham ( Lao: ສຸກອາພອນ ວົງຈຽງຄໍາ; born 9 March 1992) is a Laotian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Trat in the Thai League 2 Thai League 2 ( th, ไทยลีก 2), c ...

Tarek El Ali Tarek Ahmad El Ali ( ar, طارق أحمد العلي; born 6 February 1986) is a Lebanese former footballer who played as a forward. Club career Nejmeh El Ali signed for Lebanese Premier League side Nejmeh's youth team on 4 August 2003 ...

* Abbas Atwi * Mohammed Ghaddar *

Akram Moghrabi Akram Omar Moghrabi ( ar, أكرم عمر مغربي; born 19 October 1985) is a Lebanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Sagesse. Club career Moghrabi signed for Nejmeh's youth sector on 11 September 2002. On 23 July 2 ...

Leong Ka Hang Leong Ka Hang (; born 22 November 1992 in Macau) is a Macanese professional footballer who is currently a free agent. He plays as a striker. Early career Leong Ka Hang broke his arm three times when he was 15, 16 and soon after. The doctor tol ...

* Abdul Hadi Yahya * Khürelbaataryn Tsend-Ayuush * Mai Aih Naing * Pai Soe *

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Jagajeet Shrestha Jagajeet Shrestha ( ne, जगजीत श्रेष्ठ) is a Nepali footballer who last played for Preston Lions in State League 1 as a midfielder. He was called to Nepali internationals at the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers and most ...

Sujal Shrestha Sujal Shrestha ( ne, सुजल श्रेष्ठ) (born 4 February 1993) is a former Nepalese footballer. He played for club Machhindra F.C. in Martyr's Memorial A-Division League as a midfielder. He was called to Nepal squad for the 2 ...

* Bhola Silwal * Jang Song-hyok * Mohammed Al-Balushi *

Hussain Al-Hadhri Hussain Ali Farah Al-Hadhri ( ar, حسين علي فرح الحضري), commonly known as Hussain Al-Hadhri, is an Omani footballer who plays for Dhofar Club in Oman Professional League. Club career Al-Hadhri had played a vital role for Dhof ...

* Juma Darwish Al-Mashri * Ismail Al-Amour * Houssam Wadi *

Nate Burkey Nathaniel George Payos Burkey (born 7 January 1985) is a Filipino former football player. He spent most of his career playing professionally in the Philippines. Burkey currently serves as the assistant coach of the Philippines national team. ...

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* Ángel Guirado *

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Abdulaziz Al Sulaiti Abdulaziz Al Sulaiti (born June 11, 1988) is a Qatari footballer who is an attacking midfielder . He made his debut the Qatar national football team during the 9th International Friendship Tournament held in December 2009. Al Sulaiti played for ...

* Mohamed El-Sayed * Meshal Mubarak *

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* Salem Al-Dossari * Ahmed Al-Fraidi *

Osama Al-Muwallad Osama Al-Muwallad ( ar, أسامة المولد) (born 15 May 1984) is a Saudi Arabian football (soccer) player who currently plays as a defender for Al Ittihad. He played for Al-Ittihad in the 2005 FIFA Club World Cup and has played several tim ...

* Mohammad Al-Sahlawi * Hassan Fallatah *

Osama Hawsawi Osama Hawsawi ( ar, أسامة هوساوي, born 31 March 1984) is a retired Saudi Arabian Association football, footballer who played as a central defender. After starting out at Al-Wehda, he went on to spend the vast majority of his career w ...

* Naif Hazazi * Mohammad Abdul * Fahrudin Mustafić *

Qiu Li Qiu Li (, born June 6, 1981 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China) is a naturalised Chinese- Singaporean former professional association football player and current assistant coach of Shenyang Urban F.C. Playing career Club career Qiu started ...

* Chathura Gunaratne * Kim Jung-woo *

Kim Shin-wook Kim Shin-wook (; ; born 14 April 1988) is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a striker for Singapore Premier League club Lion City Sailors and the South Korea national team. Club career Ulsan Hyundai Kim spent his youth t ...

* Kwak Tae-hwi *

Son Heung-min Son Heung-min ( ko, 손흥민; ; born 8 July 1992) is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and captains the South Korea national team. Considered one of the best forward ...

Kim Chi-woo Kim Chi-woo (; born 11 November 1983) is a South Korean former footballer who played as a left-back. Club career Incheon United After attending Chung-Ang University, Kim joined newly formed K League club Incheon United in 2004. He made 17 leagu ...

George Mourad George Mourad ( ar, جورج مراد; born 18 September 1982) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Mourad represented both Sweden and Syria internationally. Club career After playing for Västra Frölunda IF, he joined ...

* Nadim Sabagh * Akhtam Khamroqulov *

Kamil Saidov Kamil Saidov (born 25 January 1989) is a Tajikistani footballer who plays for Barki Tajik. He is a member of the Tajikistan national football team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign. Career In January 2014, Saidov joined FC Isti ...

* Jakkraphan Kaewprom *

Sompong Soleb Sompong Soleb ( th, สมปอง สอเหลบ; born 30 July 1986), simply known as Pong ( th, ปอง) is a Thai professional association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for Sukhothai F.C., ...

* João Kik * Arslanmyrat Amanow * Gahrymanberdi Çoňkaýew * Wýaçeslaw Krendelew * Berdi Şamyradow * Hamdan Al-Kamali * Ahmed Khalil * Mahmoud Khamees * Anzur Ismailov * Marat Bikmaev * Jasur Hasanov *

Timur Kapadze Timur Kapadze ( uz, Temur Kapadze; russian: Тимур Кападзе; tr, Timur Kapadze, ka, თემურ კაპაძე) is an Uzbekistani former professional football midfielder of Ahiska-Turkish descent. Early life Of Turkish Mesk ...

Victor Karpenko Victor Aleksandrovich Karpenko (russian: Виктор Александрович Карпенко; born 7 September 1977) is a retired Uzbekistani professional association football, football midfielder, and current coach of FC Bunyodkor. Caree ...

* Aleksandr Shadrin * Maksim Shatskikh * Oleg Zoteev * Nguyễn Ngọc Thanh *

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* Nguyễn Văn Quyết * Phạm Thành Lương ;1 own goal * Mile Jedinak (playing against

) * Mahmoud Baquir Younes (playing against

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to Iraq–Ku ...

) * Rashid Al-Farsi (playing against

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...

) *

Ki Sung-yueng Ki Sung-yueng (Hangul: ; Hanja: ; ; born 24 January 1989) is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder or a defensive midfielder for the K League 1 club FC Seoul. From 2008 to 2019, Ki was a full international fo ...

(playing against

) * Farrukh Choriev (playing against

) *

Walid Abbas Walid Abbas Murad Yousuf Al-Balushi ( ar, وليد عباس; born 11 June 1985) is an Emirati professional association football player who plays for Shabab Al-Ahli. International career Abbas has played for the United Arab Emirates national ...

(playing against

) * Hamdan Al-Kamali (playing against

) *

Artyom Filiposyan Artyom Filiposyan (russian: Артём Филипосян, born 6 January 1988) is an Uzbek professional footballer of Armenian descent who plays as a centre-back. Career Club He began his playing career at Mash'al Mubarek. After two seasons he ...

(playing against

) *

Akmal Shorakhmedov Akmal Shorahmedov ( uz, Akmal Shorahmedov), (born 10 May 1986) is an Uzbekistani professional footballer who currently plays as a right back for FC AGMK. Career On 24 February 2011 Bunyodkor's site presented and announced Akmal Shorahmedov as B ...

(playing against

)

References

External links

Results and schedule (FIFA.com version)

World Cup Qualification Asia – Hailoosport.com
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World Cup Qualification Asia – Hailoosport.com
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