The AFC First Round of
2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
The 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification competition was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations. Each confederation — the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South Ameri ...
was contested between 40
AFC
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Organizations
* Action for Children, a UK children's charity
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* Africa Finance Corporation, a pan-African multilateral development finance institution
* A ...
members.
The top country in each group at the end of the stage progressed to the
second round
The second (symbol: s) is the unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), historically defined as of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds eac ...
, where the ten remaining teams were divided into two groups of five.
Group 1
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Group 2
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Group 3
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Group 4
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Group 5
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Group 6
''N.B. group originally scheduled to play 6 matches in Kathmandu, 25–29 March 2001. After Nepal withdrew from organising the matches, the AFC assigned the group to Almaty, Kazakhstan. Following a protest by Iraq, it was decided to first play 6 matches in either Amman or Baghdad (later fixed at Baghdad) and the remaining 6 in Almaty.''
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Group 7
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Group 8
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Group 9
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Group 10
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External links
FIFA.com Reports
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Qual
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Qual
The use of the term Prelim (short for preliminary examination) generally refers to an examination that qualifies a student to continue studies at a higher level, and/or allow the student to comprehend their studies and see how prepared they ar ...