The second round of
AFC matches for
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification process was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA FIFA#Structure, confederations to decide 31 of the 32 teams which would play in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, with Russia national football team, Rus ...
(and
2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification) was played from 24 May 2015 to 29 March 2016.
Format
A total of forty teams (teams ranked 1–34 in the
AFC entrant list and six
first round
First most commonly refers to:
* First, the ordinal form of the number 1
First or 1st may also refer to:
Acronyms
* Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, an astronomical survey carried out by the Very Large Array
* Far Infrared a ...
winners) were divided into eight groups of five teams to play home-and-away
round-robin matches. The eight group winners and the four best group runners-up advanced to the
third round of FIFA World Cup qualification as well as qualify for the
2019 AFC Asian Cup
The 2019 AFC Asian Cup (or commonly called the Asian Cup 2019) was the 17th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international association football, football championship of Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) ...
finals.
A total of 24 teams eliminated from World Cup qualification in the second round competed in the
third round of 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification (which was separated from the third round of 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification), where they were divided into six groups of four teams and competed for the remaining slots of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. The 24 teams consisted of the sixteen highest ranked teams eliminated in the second round, and the eight teams that advanced from the
play-off round of 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification which were contested by the remaining twelve teams eliminated in the second round.
Seeding
The draw for the second round was held on 14 April 2015, at 17:00
MST (
UTC+8
UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00.
It is the most populous time zone in the world, as well as a possible candidate for ASEAN Common Time, mainly due to China's large population, with an estimated population ...
), at the JW Marriott Hotel in
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur (KL), officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, is the capital city and a Federal Territories of Malaysia, federal territory of Malaysia. It is the largest city in the country, covering an area of with a census population ...
, Malaysia.
The seeding was based on the
FIFA World Rankings
The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, first introduced in December 1992. The men's teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their gam ...
of April 2015 (shown in parentheses below). The 40 teams were seeded into five pots:
*Pot 1 contained the teams ranked 1–8.
*Pot 2 contained the teams ranked 9–16.
*Pot 3 contained the teams ranked 17–24.
*Pot 4 contained the teams ranked 25–32.
*Pot 5 contained the teams ranked 33–40.
Each group contained one team from each of the five pots. The fixtures of each group were automatically decided based on the respective pot of each team.
As the seeding order was based on the most recent FIFA Rankings prior to the draw, it differed from the order in the
AFC entrant list, which was based on the
FIFA World Rankings
The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, first introduced in December 1992. The men's teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their gam ...
of January 2015. Among the six
first round
First most commonly refers to:
* First, the ordinal form of the number 1
First or 1st may also refer to:
Acronyms
* Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, an astronomical survey carried out by the Very Large Array
* Far Infrared a ...
winners, three were seeded higher than pot 5 (India in pot 3, Timor-Leste and Bhutan in pot 4), on the basis of ranking points gained from the first round matches, while the other three (Yemen, Cambodia and Chinese Taipei) were seeded in pot 5.
;Notes
*Bolded teams qualified for the
third round
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system
Places
* 3rd Street (di ...
.
*(D): Disqualified after draw
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Group E
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Group F
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Group G
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Group H
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Ranking of runner-up teams
To determine the four best runner-up teams, the following criteria were used:
#
Points
A point is a small dot or the sharp tip of something. Point or points may refer to:
Mathematics
* Point (geometry), an entity that has a location in space or on a plane, but has no extent; more generally, an element of some abstract topologica ...
(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss)
#
Goal difference
Goal difference, goal differential or points difference is a form of tiebreaker used to rank sport teams which finish on equal points in a league competition. Either "goal difference" or "points difference" is used, depending on whether matches ar ...
# Goals scored
# Fair play points
# Drawing of lots
As a result of Indonesia being disqualified by FIFA suspension, Group F contained only four teams compared to five teams in all other groups. Therefore, the results against the fifth-placed team were not counted when determining the ranking of the runner-up teams.
Ranking of fourth-placed teams
To determine the four best fourth-placed teams, the following criteria were used:
#
Points
A point is a small dot or the sharp tip of something. Point or points may refer to:
Mathematics
* Point (geometry), an entity that has a location in space or on a plane, but has no extent; more generally, an element of some abstract topologica ...
(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss)
#
Goal difference
Goal difference, goal differential or points difference is a form of tiebreaker used to rank sport teams which finish on equal points in a league competition. Either "goal difference" or "points difference" is used, depending on whether matches ar ...
# Goals scored
# Fair play points
# Drawing of lots
As a result of Indonesia being disqualified by FIFA suspension, Group F contained only four teams compared to five teams in all other groups. Therefore, the results against the fifth-placed team were not counted when determining the ranking of the fourth-placed teams.
Goalscorers
{{Goalscorers
, goals=507 , matches=149
, 14 goals=
*{{fbicon, KSA
Mohammad Al-Sahlawi
Mohammad Ibrahim Mohammad Al-Sahlawi (; born 10 January 1987) is a Saudi Arabian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Striker (association football), striker for Al Safa FC, Al-Safa.
Club career Al-Qadsiah
Al-Sahlawi was ...
[This player's goal tally included one or more goals which the player scored in matches that were subsequently forfeited, but which FIFA still continued to count in its statistics.]
, 11 goals=
*{{fbicon, UAE
Ahmed Khalil
, 8 goals=
*{{fbicon, AUS
Tim Cahill
*{{fbicon, CHN
Yang Xu
, 7 goals=
*{{fbicon, IRN
Sardar Azmoun[
*{{fbicon, SYR, 1980 Omar Khribin
, 6 goals=
*{{fbicon, CHN Yu Dabao
*{{fbicon, JPN Keisuke Honda
*{{fbicon, JOR Hamza Al-Dardour
*{{fbicon, KOR Son Heung-min
*{{fbicon, TJK Manuchekhr Dzhalilov
, 5 goals=
*{{fbicon, AUS Tom Rogic
*{{fbicon, IRN Mehdi Taremi][
*{{fbicon, JPN Shinji Kagawa
*{{fbicon, JOR Hassan Abdel-Fattah
*{{fbicon, MDV ]Ali Ashfaq
Ali Ashfaq (; born 6 September 1985) is a Maldivian former professional association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. Nicknamed "Man of Steel" (), he is regarded as one of the best players in the South ...
*{{fbicon, QAT Hassan Al-Haydos
Hassan Khalid Hassan Al-Haydos (; born 11 December 1990) is a Qatari professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains Qatar Stars League club Al Sadd.
Club career
Al-Haydos started playing football for Al Sadd at the age of ...
*{{fbicon, KSA Taisir Al-Jassim
Taiseer Jaber Abdulmohsen Al-Jassim (, can also be spelled as Taisir Al-Jassim, born 25 July 1984) is a Saudi Arabian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He was the captain of Al-Ahli Saudi FC and vice-captain of the Sa ...
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*{{fbicon, UAE ]Ali Mabkhout
Ali Ahmed Mabkhout Mohsen Imran Al Hajeri (; born 5 October 1990) is an Emirati professional association football, footballer who plays as a forward (association football), forward for UAE Pro League club Al-Nasr SC (Dubai), Al-Nasr and the Unite ...
*{{fbicon, UZB Sardor Rashidov
, 4 goals=
*{{fbicon, AUS Mile Jedinak
*{{fbicon, IRQ Younis Mahmoud
*{{fbicon, JPN Shinji Okazaki
*{{fbicon, JOR Abdallah Deeb
*{{fbicon, KUW Bader Al-Mutawa
*{{fbicon, KUW Yousef Nasser
*{{fbicon, KGZ, 1992 Anton Zemlianukhin
*{{fbicon, PLE Ahmad Abu Nahyeh[
*{{fbicon, QAT ]Boualem Khoukhi
Boualem Khoukhi (; born 9 July 1990) is a professional association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football), centre-back for Al-Sadd SC, Al Sadd in the Qatar Stars League. Born in Algeria, he represented the Qatar nati ...
*{{fbicon, QAT Mohammed Muntari
*{{fbicon, QAT Mohammed Musa
*{{fbicon, SYR, 1980 Osama Omari
*{{fbicon, UZB Igor Sergeev
, 3 goals=
*{{fbicon, AUS Nathan Burns
*{{fbicon, CHN Jiang Ning
*{{fbicon, JPN Maya Yoshida
is a Japanese professional footballer who captains and plays as a Defender (association football)#Centre-back, centre-back for Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy.
Yoshida formerly played for the Japan national football team, Japan national team ...
*{{fbicon, LAO Khampheng Sayavutthi
*{{fbicon, PRK Ri Hyok-chol
*{{fbicon, PRK Jong Il-gwan
*{{fbicon, PLE Jonathan Cantillana
*{{fbicon, PLE Tamer Seyam
*{{fbicon, PHI Misagh Bahadoran
*{{fbicon, QAT Ali Assadalla
*{{fbicon, KSA Yahya Al-Shehri[
*{{fbicon, SGP Safuwan Baharudin
*{{fbicon, SGP Fazrul Nawaz
*{{fbicon, KOR Kwon Chang-hoon
*{{fbicon, KOR Lee Jae-sung
*{{fbicon, SYR, 1980 Mahmoud Al-Mawas
*{{fbicon, SYR, 1980 Sanharib Malki
*{{fbicon, THA Teerasil Dangda
*{{fbicon, TKM Arslanmyrat Amanow
*{{fbicon, UAE Omar Abdulrahman][
*{{fbicon, UZB Odil Ahmedov
*{{fbicon, VIE ]Lê Công Vinh
Lê Công Vinh (born 10 December 1985) is a Vietnamese former Association football, footballer who played as a forward. He was part of the Vietnam national football team, Vietnam national team between 2004 and 2016, and played predominantly as ...
, 2 goals=
*{{fbicon, AFG, 2013 Khaibar Amani
Khaibar Amani (Dari language, Dari: خیبر امانی; born 6 February 1987) is an Afghan footballer who plays for FC Hanau 93. Amani has also played for the Afghanistan national football team.
Club career
Amani previously has played for Kicke ...
*{{fbicon, AFG, 2013 Norlla Amiri
*{{fbicon, AFG, 2013 Mustafa Zazai
Mustafa Zazai (born 9 May 1993) is an Afghan association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Cambodian club Riel Phnom Penh and formerly the Afghanistan national football team, Afghanistan national team.
Early life
Zazai was ...
*{{fbicon, AUS Massimo Luongo
*{{fbicon, AUS Mark Milligan
*{{fbicon, AUS Aaron Mooy
*{{fbicon, BHR Ismail Abdullatif
*{{fbicon, BHR Abdulwahab Al-Malood
*{{fbicon, BHR Sayed Mohamed Adnan
*{{fbicon, BHU Tshering Dorji
*{{fbicon, BHU Chencho Gyeltshen
*{{fbicon, CHN Wang Yongpo
*{{fbicon, CHN Wu Lei
*{{fbicon, CHN Yu Hanchao
*{{fbicon, TPE Wu Chun-ching
*{{fbicon, HKG Godfred Karikari
*{{fbicon, HKG Lam Ka Wai
*{{fbicon, HKG Jaimes McKee
*{{fbicon, IND Sunil Chhetri
*{{fbicon, IRN Ashkan Dejagah
*{{fbicon, IRN Ehsan Hajsafi
*{{fbicon, IRQ Ali Adnan
*{{fbicon, IRQ Justin Meram
*{{fbicon, JPN Mu Kanazaki
is a Japanese professional footballer who plays for club Verspah Oita. He scored the two goals that won the 2016 J1 League final for Kashima Antlers over Urawa Red Diamonds.
Club career
On 25 March 2020, Kanazaki returned to Nagoya Grampus o ...
*{{fbicon, KGZ, 1992 Vitalij Lux
*{{fbicon, LIB Hassan Chaito
*{{fbicon, LIB Hassan Maatouk
*{{fbicon, MYA Aung Thu
*{{fbicon, PRK Pak Kwang-ryong
*{{fbicon, OMA Amad Al-Hosni
*{{fbicon, OMA Ahmed Mubarak Al-Mahaijri
Ahmed Mubarak Obaid al-Mahaijri (; born 23 February 1985), commonly known as Ahmed Mubarak or Ahmed Kano, is an Omani professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Club career
Kano has previously played for various clubs in GCC countries ...
*{{fbicon, OMA Abdulaziz Al-Muqbali
*{{fbicon, PLE Jaka Ihbeisheh
*{{fbicon, PLE Sameh Maraaba
*{{fbicon, PLE Yashir Pinto
*{{fbicon, PHI Iain Ramsay
*{{fbicon, QAT Karim Boudiaf
*{{fbicon, QAT Mohammed Kasola
*{{fbicon, KSA Fahad Al-Muwallad[
*{{fbicon, SGP Khairul Amri
*{{fbicon, KOR Jang Hyun-soo
*{{fbicon, KOR Ki Sung-yueng
*{{fbicon, KOR Koo Ja-cheol
*{{fbicon, KOR Suk Hyun-jun
*{{fbicon, SYR, 1980 Abdelrazaq Al Hussain
*{{fbicon, SYR, 1980 Raja Rafe
*{{fbicon, TJK Akhtam Nazarov
*{{fbicon, THA Pokklaw Anan
*{{fbicon, THA Theerathon Bunmathan
*{{fbicon, THA Adisak Kraisorn
*{{fbicon, THA Mongkol Tossakrai
*{{fbicon, TLS Ramon Saro][
*{{fbicon, TKM Guwanç Abylow
*{{fbicon, UZB Alexander Geynrikh
*{{fbicon, UZB Anzur Ismailov
*{{fbicon, VIE Nguyễn Văn Toàn
*{{fbicon, YEM Ahmed Al-Sarori
, 1 goal=
*{{fbicon, AFG, 2013 ]Faysal Shayesteh
Faysal Shayesteh (; born 10 June 1991) is an Afghan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for I-League club Sreenidi Deccan and the Afghanistan national team.
Youth career
Born in Kabul, Shayesteh moved to the Nether ...
*{{fbicon, AFG, 2013 Josef Shirdel
*{{fbicon, AUS Mathew Leckie
*{{fbicon, AUS Tommy Oar
*{{fbicon, BHR Sami Al-Husaini
*{{fbicon, BHR Hussain Ali Baba
*{{fbicon, BHR Mohamed Al Romaihi
*{{fbicon, BHR Abdullah Omar
*{{fbicon, BAN Jahid Hasan Ameli
*{{fbicon, BHU Biren Basnet
*{{fbicon, CAM Sos Suhana
*{{fbicon, CHN Huang Bowen
*{{fbicon, CHN Mei Fang
*{{fbicon, CHN Zhang Linpeng
*{{fbicon, CHN Zhang Xizhe
*{{fbicon, TPE Hung Kai-chun
*{{fbicon, TPE Wen Chih-hao
*{{fbicon, TPE Yaki Yen
*{{fbicon, GUM Brandon McDonald
*{{fbicon, GUM Travis Nicklaw
*{{fbicon, HKG Christian Annan
*{{fbicon, HKG Bai He
*{{fbicon, HKG Chan Siu Ki
*{{fbicon, HKG Ju Yingzhi
*{{fbicon, HKG Lo Kwan Yee
*{{fbicon, HKG Paulinho
*{{fbicon, HKG Xu Deshuai
*{{fbicon, IND Sandesh Jhingan
*{{fbicon, IND Jeje Lalpekhlua
*{{fbicon, IND Robin Singh
*{{fbicon, IRN Karim Ansarifard
*{{fbicon, IRN Saeid Ezatolahi
*{{fbicon, IRN Jalal Hosseini
*{{fbicon, IRN Alireza Jahanbakhsh
Alireza Jahanbakhsh (, ; born 11 August 1993) is an Iranian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Midfielder#Winger, right winger and Midfielder, attacking midfielder for Dutch Eredivisie club SC Heerenveen and captain (ass ...
*{{fbicon, IRN Kamal Kamyabinia
*{{fbicon, IRN Morteza Pouraliganji
*{{fbicon, IRN Ramin Rezaeian
*{{fbicon, IRN Masoud Shojaei
*{{fbicon, IRN Andranik Teymourian[
*{{fbicon, IRN Mehdi Torabi
*{{fbicon, IRQ Mohannad Abdul-Raheem
*{{fbicon, IRQ Ali Hosni
*{{fbicon, IRQ Dhurgham Ismail
*{{fbicon, IRQ Mahdi Kamel
*{{fbicon, IRQ Ahmed Yasin
*{{fbicon, JPN Genki Haraguchi
*{{fbicon, JPN Hiroshi Kiyotake
*{{fbicon, JPN Masato Morishige
*{{fbicon, JPN Takashi Usami
*{{fbicon, JOR Munther Abu Amarah
*{{fbicon, JOR Yaseen Al-Bakhit
*{{fbicon, JOR Yousef Al-Naber
*{{fbicon, JOR Yousef Al-Rawashdeh
*{{fbicon, JOR Baha' Faisal
*{{fbicon, JOR Ahmed Samir
*{{fbicon, KUW Ali Maqseed
*{{fbicon, KUW Aziz Mashaan
*{{fbicon, KUW Faisal Zayid
*{{fbicon, KGZ, 1992 Ildar Amirov
*{{fbicon, KGZ, 1992 Edgar Bernhardt
*{{fbicon, KGZ, 1992 Bakhtiyar Duyshobekov
*{{fbicon, KGZ, 1992 Almazbek Mirzaliev
*{{fbicon, LIB Roda Antar
*{{fbicon, LIB Abbas Ahmed Atwi
*{{fbicon, LIB Hilal El-Helwe
*{{fbicon, LIB Mohammed Ghaddar
*{{fbicon, LIB Ali Hamam
*{{fbicon, LIB Youssef Mohamad
*{{fbicon, LIB Joan Oumari
*{{fbicon, LIB Feiz Shamsin
*{{fbicon, MAS Mohd Amri Yahyah][
*{{fbicon, MAS Baddrol Bakhtiar
*{{fbicon, MAS Mohd Safiq Rahim][
*{{fbicon, MAS Safee Sali][
*{{fbicon, MDV Asadhulla Abdulla
*{{fbicon, MDV Ahmed Nashid
*{{fbicon, MDV Ahmed Niyaz
*{{fbicon, MYA Kyaw Ko Ko
*{{fbicon, MYA Kyaw Zayar Win
*{{fbicon, MYA Suan Lam Mang
*{{fbicon, MYA Zaw Min Tun
*{{fbicon, PRK Jang Kuk-chol
*{{fbicon, PRK Ro Hak-su
*{{fbicon, PRK So Hyon-uk][
*{{fbicon, PRK So Kyong-jin
*{{fbicon, OMA Mohammed Al-Ghassani
*{{fbicon, OMA Saad Al-Mukhaini
*{{fbicon, OMA ]Qasim Said
Qasim Said Sanjoor Hardan (; born 20 April 1989), commonly known as Qasim Said, is an Omani Association football, footballer who plays for Al-Nasr S.C.S.C., Al-Nasr.
Club career
On 4 June 2014, Said agreed a one-year contract extension with Al- ...
*{{fbicon, OMA Raed Ibrahim Saleh
*{{fbicon, PLE Musab Al-Battat
*{{fbicon, PLE Ahmed Awad
*{{fbicon, PLE Abdelatif Bahdari
*{{fbicon, PLE Matías Jadue
*{{fbicon, PLE Pablo Tamburrini
*{{fbicon, PLE Khader Yousef
*{{fbicon, PHI Manuel Ott
*{{fbicon, PHI Javier Patiño
*{{fbicon, PHI Stephan Schröck
*{{fbicon, QAT Akram Afif
*{{fbicon, QAT Abdelkarim Hassan
*{{fbicon, QAT Ahmed Abdul Maqsoud
*{{fbicon, QAT Ismaeel Mohammad
*{{fbicon, QAT Sebastián Soria
*{{fbicon, KSA Salman Al-Faraj[
*{{fbicon, KSA Osama Hawsawi
*{{fbicon, KSA Naif Hazazi
*{{fbicon, SGP Faris Ramli
*{{fbicon, KOR Lee Chung-yong
*{{fbicon, KOR Lee Jeong-hyeop
*{{fbicon, KOR Nam Tae-hee
*{{fbicon, SYR, 1980 Moayad Ajan
*{{fbicon, SYR, 1980 Oday Al-Jafal
*{{fbicon, SYR, 1980 Ahmad Kallasi
*{{fbicon, SYR, 1980 Omar Midani
*{{fbicon, TJK Fatkhullo Fatkhuloev
*{{fbicon, THA ]Tana Chanabut
Tana Chanabut (; born June 6, 1984), simply known as Man () is a Thai professional football manager and former football player. He is currently the assistant coach of Thai League 1 club Khon Kaen United.
International career
On 8 September 201 ...
*{{fbicon, THA Kroekrit Thaweekarn
*{{fbicon, TKM Serdaraly Ataýew
*{{fbicon, TKM Artur Geworkýan
*{{fbicon, TKM Ruslan Mingazow
*{{fbicon, TKM Süleýman Muhadow
*{{fbicon, TKM Mekan Saparow
*{{fbicon, UAE Mohamed Ahmed
*{{fbicon, UAE Ismail Al Hammadi
*{{fbicon, UAE Ahmed Al Hashmi
*{{fbicon, UAE Dawood Ali
*{{fbicon, UAE Habib Fardan
*{{fbicon, UAE Mohanad Salem
*{{fbicon, UZB Stanislav Andreev
*{{fbicon, UZB Server Djeparov
*{{fbicon, UZB Azizbek Haydarov
*{{fbicon, UZB Eldor Shomurodov
*{{fbicon, VIE Đinh Tiến Thành
*{{fbicon, VIE Trần Phi Sơn
, 1 own goal=
*{{fbicon, AFG, 2013 Sharif Mukhammad (against Japan)
*{{fbicon, CAM Khoun Laboravy (against Japan)
*{{fbicon, CAM Leng Makara (against Syria)
*{{fbicon, KGZ, 1992 Ildar Amirov (against Australia)
*{{fbicon, KGZ, 1992 Valery Kichin (against Bangladesh)
*{{fbicon, LIB Ali Hamam (against South Korea)
*{{fbicon, MYA Zaw Min Tun (against Kuwait)
*{{fbicon, SYR, 1980 Hamdi Al Masri (against Japan)
*{{fbicon, TKM Serdar Annaorazow (against Guam)
*{{fbicon, TKM Mekan Saparow (against Oman)
*{{fbicon, VIE Đinh Tiến Thành (against Thailand)
Notes
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References
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External links
*{{Official website, https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/index.html, Official FIFA World Cup website
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