2018 FIFA World Cup Qualification – AFC Second Round

The second round of AFC matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (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 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 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), at the JW Marriott Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings 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 of January 2015. Among the six first round 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.
*(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 (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss)
# Goal difference
# 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 (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss)
# Goal difference
# 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-SahlawiThis 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
*{{fbicon, QAT Hassan Al-Haydos
*{{fbicon, KSA Taisir Al-Jassim
*{{fbicon, UAE Ali Mabkhout
*{{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
*{{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
*{{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

, 2 goals=
*{{fbicon, AFG, 2013 Khaibar Amani
*{{fbicon, AFG, 2013 Norlla Amiri
*{{fbicon, AFG, 2013 Mustafa Zazai
*{{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
*{{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
*{{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
*{{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
*{{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
*{{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
*{{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

Qualifiers – Asia: Round 2
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