2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)

2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)

Tournament details
Teams	43 (from 1 confederation)

Iran vs South Korea

Uzbekistan vs Bahrain

Uzbekistan vs Japan 2009

The Asian Football Confederation was allocated four assured qualifying berths for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and one place in a play-off. 43 teams were in the running for these spots; Laos, Brunei and the Philippines did not attempt to qualify. This was the first time Timor-Leste competed in World Cup qualification and the first time Australia attempted to qualify for the World Cup as a member of the AFC, having moved from the Oceania Football Confederation at the start of 2006.

Asia's four automatic qualifying berths were taken by Australia, Japan and both North and South Korea. Bahrain failed to become a fifth Asian representative in the World Cup after losing their AFC/OFC playoff against New Zealand.

Seeding

The initial seeding (used in the draw for the first two rounds) was based on each team's performance during the qualification stage for the previous World Cup.^[1] The admission of Australia to the AFC complicated matters slightly (as they had not taken part in the previous AFC qualification cycle, but had progressed to the World Cup finals in Germany - and had advanced further than the AFC qualifiers).

Initially, the AFC placed Australia as the first seed even though this contradicted the letter of the seeding - past practice (such as adopted by the AFC in the draw for the qualification to the 2008 Olympic Football Tournament) would have seeded Australia last.

By the time of the main qualification draw in Durban (which included the AFC third round), the seeding had been adjusted to rank the top 5 AFC nations according to their performance in the World Cup Final Tournament (of 2006). This resulted in minor changes to the seeding at that point.

Seeding for the first two rounds

Teams ranked 1–5 received a bye from the first two knockout rounds and are entered into the third round.
Teams ranked 6–43 entered at the first round, with teams ranked from 6–24 drawn against teams ranked from 25–43.
Of the first round winners, the eight lowest remaining seeds would go on to play in the second round. The other teams would receive a bye to the third round.^[2]

Top Seeds (Ranked 1st to 5th)	Pot A (Ranked 6th to 24th)	Pot B (Ranked 25th to 43rd)
Australia  South Korea  Saudi Arabia  Japan  Iran	Bahrain  Uzbekistan  Kuwait  North Korea  China PR  Jordan  Iraq  Lebanon  Oman  United Arab Emirates  Qatar  Syria  Palestine  Thailand  Turkmenistan  Tajikistan  Indonesia  Hong Kong  Yemen	Vietnam  Kyrgyzstan  Maldives  India  Singapore  Sri Lanka  Malaysia  Chinese Taipei  Bangladesh  Macau  Pakistan  Afghanistan  Mongolia  Guam    Nepal  Cambodia  Bhutan  Myanmar  Timor-Leste

• Guam and Bhutan withdrew after the draw, but before playing any matches.

First round

The official draw took place on 6 August 2007 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Teams from Pot A were randomly paired with a team from Pot B.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pakistan	0–7	Iraq	0–7	0–0^1
Uzbekistan	11–0	Chinese Taipei	9–0	2–0
Thailand	13–2	Macau	6–1	7–1
Sri Lanka	0–6	Qatar	0–1	0–5
China PR	11–0	Myanmar	7–0	4–0^4
Bhutan	w/o^2	Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan	2–2 (5–6 pens)	Jordan	2–0	0–2 (aet)
Vietnam	0–6	United Arab Emirates	0–1	0–5
Bahrain	4–1	Malaysia	4–1	0–0
Timor-Leste	3–11	Hong Kong	2–3^5	1–8
Syria	5–1	Afghanistan	3–0	2–1^1
Yemen	3–2	Maldives	3–0	0–2
Bangladesh	1–6	Tajikistan	1–1	0–5
Mongolia	2–9	North Korea	1–4	1–5
Oman	4–0	Nepal	2–0	2–0
Palestine	0–7	Singapore	0–4^1	0–3^6
Lebanon	6–3	India	4–1	2–2
Cambodia	1–5	Turkmenistan	0–1	1–4
Guam	w/o^3	Indonesia

1. ^ For security reasons, Iraq played their home leg in Syria, Palestine played their home leg in Qatar and Afghanistan played their home leg in Tajikistan.^[3]
2. ^ Bhutan withdrew.^[4]
3. ^ Guam withdrew.^[5]
4. ^ FIFA decided to move Myanmar home match to Malaysia.^[6]
5. ^ Timor-Leste elected to play their home leg in Indonesia.
6. ^ Palestine failed to appear; Singapore was awarded a 3–0 win. The Palestine Football Federation appealed to have the match rescheduled on the grounds that its players did not receive permits to leave the Gaza Strip, but FIFA dismissed the appeal.^[7]

Second round

Of the nineteen teams that progressed from the first round, the eight lowest seeded teams by FIFA rankings were required to play in the second round (the other eleven teams received a bye to the third round). As with the first round the draw took place on 6 August 2007 at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

As the teams involved were not known at the time, the draw placed teams ranked 16-19 against teams ranked 12-15. The ties drawn were

• 17th against 14th
• 16th against 12th
• 18th against 13th
• 19th against 15th

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Hong Kong	0–3	Turkmenistan	0–0	0–3
Indonesia	1–11	Syria	1–4	0–7
Singapore	3–1	Tajikistan	2–0	1–1
Yemen	1–2	Thailand	1–1	0–1

Third round

The top 5 seeds were joined by the eleven highest-ranked winners from the first round and the four second round winners.

Qualified teams

Byes to Round 3	Top 11 Round 1 winners	Round 2 winners
Australia  South Korea  Saudi Arabia  Japan  Iran	Bahrain  Uzbekistan  Kuwait^1  North Korea  China PR  Jordan  Iraq  Lebanon  Oman  United Arab Emirates  Qatar	Syria  Thailand  Turkmenistan  Singapore

¹ On 30 October 2007, the Kuwait Football Association was suspended from international football competitions by FIFA. On 9 November 2007, Kuwait was conditionally reinstated to international football competitions by FIFA.^[8]

Seeding

These 20 teams were drawn into five groups of four teams at the main group draw in Durban, South Africa on 25 November 2007. The seeding for the main draw was the same for the first two rounds, with the exception that the five seeded nations (those that qualified for the 2006 finals) were ordered on the basis of results in the 2006 finals tournament.^[9] This saw Iran move from fifth to third, and Japan and Saudi Arabia ranked equal fourth.

The four seeding Pots used were:

Pot A	Pot B	Pot C	Pot D
Australia  South Korea  Iran  Japan  Saudi Arabia	Bahrain  Uzbekistan  Kuwait  North Korea  China PR	Jordan  Iraq  Lebanon  Oman  United Arab Emirates	Qatar  Syria  Thailand  Turkmenistan  Singapore

Groups

The teams in each group played each other twice, once home and once away. The teams that finished first and second in their group qualified for the fourth round.

Group 1

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Australia 6 3 1 2 7 3 +4 10  Qatar 6 3 1 2 5 6 −1 10  Iraq 6 2 1 3 4 6 −2 7  China PR 6 1 3 2 3 4 −1 6   Australia  – 0 – 1 1 – 0 3 – 0 China PR  0 – 0 – 1 – 2 0 – 1 Iraq  1 – 0 1 – 1 – 0 – 1 Qatar  1 – 3 0 – 0 2 – 0 –

On 26 May 2008, FIFA decided to suspend Iraq from international competition, after the Iraq Football Association was disbanded by the government on 20 May 2008.^[10] The suspension was provisionally and conditionally lifted on 29 May 2008.^[11]

Qatar fielded the ineligible player Emerson in the 2–0 defeat of Iraq on 26 March 2008, prompting world governing body FIFA controversially^[12] to suspend the player but clear Qatar of any wrongdoing, in direct contradiction to its decisions against Singapore.

Iraq appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but it was rejected by the CAS, saying that Iraq submitted documents and the appeal fees too late.^[13]

Group 2

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Japan 6 4 1 1 12 3 +9 13  Bahrain 6 3 2 1 7 5 +2 11  Oman 6 2 2 2 5 7 −2 8  Thailand 6 0 1 5 5 14 −9 1   Bahrain  – 1 – 0 1 – 1 1 – 1 Japan  1 – 0 – 3 – 0 4 – 1 Oman  0 – 1 1 – 1 – 2 – 1 Thailand  2 – 3 0 – 3 0 – 1 –

Group 3

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  South Korea 6 3 3 0 10 3 +7 12  North Korea 6 3 3 0 4 0 +4 12  Jordan 6 2 1 3 6 6 0 7  Turkmenistan 6 0 1 5 1 12 −11 1   Jordan  – 0 – 1 0 – 1 2 – 0 North Korea  2 – 0 – 0 – 0 1 – 0 South Korea  2 – 2 0 – 0 – 4 – 0 Turkmenistan  0 – 2 0 – 0 1 – 3 –

Group 4

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Uzbekistan 6 5 0 1 17 7 +10 15  Saudi Arabia 6 5 0 1 15 5 +10 15  Singapore 6 2 0 4 7 16 −9 6  Lebanon 6 0 0 6 3 14 −11 0   Lebanon  – 1 – 2 1 – 2 0 – 1 Saudi Arabia  4 – 1 – 2 – 0 4 – 0 Singapore  2 – 0 0 – 3* – 3 – 7 Uzbekistan  3 – 0 3 – 0 3 – 0* – Note: The positions of Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia are reversed from the original final standings after two matches were forfeited by Singapore and became 3 – 0 defeats as a result of them fielding an ineligible player.

Group 5

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Iran 6 3 3 0 7 2 +5 12  United Arab Emirates 6 2 2 2 7 7 0 8  Syria 6 2 2 2 7 8 −1 8  Kuwait 6 1 1 4 8 12 −4 4   Iran  – 2 – 0 0 – 0 0 – 0 Kuwait  2 – 2 – 4 – 2 2 – 3 Syria  0 – 2 1 – 0 – 1 – 1 United Arab Emirates  0 – 1 2 – 0 1 – 3 –

Fourth round

In the fourth round, the 10 remaining teams were drawn into 2 groups of 5 teams.

Qualified teams

Round 3	Group winner	Group runner-up
Group 1	Australia	Qatar
Group 2	Japan	Bahrain
Group 3	South Korea	North Korea
Group 4	Saudi Arabia*	Uzbekistan*
Group 5	Iran	United Arab Emirates

* Positions based on original final standings

Seeding

The 10 qualifiers were drawn into two groups of five teams at the draw in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 27 June 2008. The seeding for the fourth round was based on that used in the third round draw, but Saudi Arabia and Japan (seeded equal 4th in that draw) were separated by a random selection held at the start of the fourth round draw.^[14]

The top 6 ranked qualifiers were split into 3 pots of 2 teams, with the bottom 4 ranked nations grouped together in a separate pot. Each group was allocated 1 team from each of Pots 1, 2 and 3, and 2 teams from Pot 4.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Australia  South Korea	Iran  Japan	Saudi Arabia  Bahrain	Uzbekistan  North Korea  United Arab Emirates  Qatar

Groups

The teams in each group played each other twice, once home and once away. The top 2 teams in each group qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Finals in South Africa. The third-placed teams met in a play-off to determine who would play the OFC winner, New Zealand, in a separate playoff for a spot in the Finals.

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Australia 8 6 2 0 12 1 +11 20  Japan 8 4 3 1 11 6 +5 15  Bahrain 8 3 1 4 6 8 −2 10  Qatar 8 1 3 4 5 14 −9 6  Uzbekistan 8 1 1 6 5 10 −5 4   Australia  – 2 – 0 2 – 1 4 – 0 2 – 0 Bahrain  0 – 1 – 2 – 3 1 – 0 1 – 0 Japan  0 – 0 1 – 0 – 1 – 1 1 – 1 Qatar  0 – 0 1 – 1 0 – 3 – 3 – 0 Uzbekistan  0 – 1 0 – 1 0 – 1 4 – 0 – Australia and Japan qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Bahrain advanced to the AFC play-off.

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  South Korea 8 4 4 0 12 4 +8 16  North Korea 8 3 3 2 7 5 +2 12  Saudi Arabia 8 3 3 2 8 8 0 12  Iran 8 2 5 1 8 7 +1 11  United Arab Emirates 8 0 1 7 6 17 −11 1   Iran  – 2 – 1 1 – 1 1 – 2 1 – 0 North Korea  0 – 0 – 1 – 1 1 – 0 2 – 0 South Korea  1 – 1 1 – 0 – 0 – 0 4 – 1 Saudi Arabia  1 – 1 0 – 0 0 – 2 – 3 – 2 United Arab Emirates  1 – 1 1 – 2 0 – 2 1 – 2 – South Korea and North Korea qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Saudi Arabia advanced to the AFC play-off.

Fifth round

Teams finishing 3rd in the fourth round groups played each other to determine a possible 5th qualifier from Asia. The draw for the order in which the two matches would be played was held on 2 June 2009 during the FIFA Congress in Nassau, the Bahamas.^[15]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bahrain	2–2 (a)	Saudi Arabia	0–0	2–2

Bahrain advanced to the Asia-Oceania play-off on the away goals rule.

Asia-Oceania play-off

The Fifth Round winner then played the winner of the OFC qualifying group, New Zealand, in a home-and-away play-off. The winner of this play-off qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals.

The draw for the order in which the two matches would be played was held on 2 June 2009 during the FIFA Congress in Nassau, the Bahamas.^[15]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bahrain	0–1	New Zealand	0–0	0–1

New Zealand qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Goalscorers

There were 374 goals scored in 144 games, for an average of 2.60 goals per game.

Pos	Player	Country	Total goals	Goals by round
				R1	R2	R3	R4	PO
1	Sarayoot Chaikamdee	Thailand	8	5	2	1	X	X
	Maksim Shatskikh	Uzbekistan		5	—	2	1	X
3	Ahmad Ajab	Kuwait	6	0	—	6	X	X
	Ismail Matar	United Arab Emirates		1	—	4	1	X
5	Zyad Chaabo	Syria	5	0	4	1	X	X
	Park Ji-Sung	South Korea		—	—	2	3	—
	Mohammed Ghaddar	Lebanon		4	—	1	X	X
	Sebastián Soria	Qatar		3	—	1	1	X
9	Tim Cahill	Australia	4	—	—	1	3	—
	Brett Emerton	Australia		—	—	2	2	—
	Cheng Siu Wai	Hong Kong		4	0	X	X	X
	Javad Nekounam	Iran		—	—	1	3	X
	Mahdi Karim	Iraq		4	—	0	X	X
	Hassan Abdel-Fattah	Jordan		—	—	4	X	X
	Jong Chol-Min	North Korea		4	—	0	0	X
	Hong Yong-Jo	North Korea		0	—	3	1	X
	Park Chu-Young	South Korea		—	—	2	2	—
	Abdoh Otaif	Saudi Arabia		—	—	2	2
	Aleksandar Duric	Singapore		0	2	2	X	X
	Raja Rafe	Syria		0	4	0	X	X
	Jehad Al Hussein	Syria		0	1	3	X	X
	Numondzhon Khakimov	Tajikistan		4	0	X	X	X
	Server Djeparov	Uzbekistan		0	—	4	0	X
24	Joshua Kennedy	Australia	3	—	—	1	2	—
	Harry Kewell	Australia		—	—	2	1	—
	Mahmood Abdulrahman	Bahrain		1	—	0	2	0
	A'ala Hubail	Bahrain		1	—	2	0
	Salman Isa	Bahrain		—	—	2	1
	Chan Siu Ki	Hong Kong		3	0	X	X	X
	Emad Mohammed	Iraq		1	—	2	X	X
	Yasuhito Endo	Japan		—	—	2	1	—
	Shunsuke Nakamura	Japan		—	—	1	2	—
	Yuji Nakazawa	Japan		—	—	3	0	—
	Marcus Tulio Tanaka	Japan		—	—	1	2	—
	Pak Chol-min	North Korea		3	—	0	0	—
	Kim Do-Heon	South Korea		—	—	3	—	—
	Lee Keun-Ho	South Korea		—	—	0	3	—
	Sayed Ali Bechir	Qatar		2	—	1	0	X
	Yasser Al-Qahtani	Saudi Arabia		—	—	3	0
	Malek Mouath	Saudi Arabia		—	—	3	0
	Redha Tukar	Saudi Arabia		—	—	3	0
	John Wilkinson	Singapore		1	0	2	X	X
	Mohamed Al Zeno	Syria		2	1	0	X	X
	Teeratep Winothai	Thailand		1	0	2	X	X
	Datsakorn Thonglao	Thailand		2	0	1	X	X
	Emilio Da Silva	Timor-Leste		3	X	X	X	X
	Mohamed Al-Shehhi	United Arab Emirates		1	—	1	1	X
	Odil Ahmedov	Uzbekistan		0	—	3	0	X
	Timur Kapadze	Uzbekistan		1	—	2	0	X
	Farhod Tadjiyev	Uzbekistan		—	—	—	3	X
49	Mark Bresciano	Australia	2	—	—	1	1	—
	Faouzi Mubarak Aaish	Bahrain		—	—	1	1	0
	Ismael Abdullatif	Bahrain		0	—	1	X	1
	Abdulla Baba Fatadi	Bahrain		1	—	0	1	0
	Jaycee John	Bahrain		1	—	0	X	1
	Liu Jian	China PR		1	—	1	X	X
	Qu Bo	China PR		2	—	0	X	X
	Sunil Chetri	India		2	X	X	X	X
	Gholamreza Rezaei	Iran		—	—	2	0	X
	Masoud Shojaei	Iran		—	—	0	2	X
	Nashat Akram	Iraq		1	—	1	X	X
	Kengo Nakamura	Japan		—	—	1	1	—
	Yoshito Okubo	Japan		—	—	2	0	—
	Keiji Tamada	Japan		—	—	1	1	—
	Choe Kum-Chol	North Korea		—	—	1	1	—
	Mun In-Guk	North Korea		—	—	—	2	—
	Ki Sung-Yueng	South Korea		—	—	—	2	—
	Kwak Tae-Hwi	South Korea		—	—	1	1	—
	Seol Ki-Hyeon	South Korea		—	—	2	—	—
	Mahmoud El Ali	Lebanon		1	—	1	X	X
	Kin Seng Chan	Macau		2	X	X	X	X
	Ismail Sulaiman	Oman		0	—	2	X	X
	Amad Ali	Oman		0	—	2	X	X
	Fábio César	Qatar		0	—	2	0	X
	Ahmed Al-Fraidi	Saudi Arabia		—	—	1	1
	Saad Al-Harthi	Saudi Arabia		—	—	1	1
	Naif Hazazi	Saudi Arabia		—	—	—	2
	Shi Jiayi	Singapore		2	0	0	X	X
	Mohd Noh Alam Shah	Singapore		1	1	0	X	X
	Firas Issmael	Syria		1	1	0	X	X
	Firas Al Khatib	Syria		0	0	2	X	X
	Teerasil Dangda	Thailand		2	0	0	X	X
	Artur Gevorkyan	Turkmenistan		2	0	0	X	X
	Mamedaly Karadanov	Turkmenistan		2	0	0	X	X
	Mekan Nasirov	Turkmenistan		1	1	0	X	X
	Basheer Saeed	United Arab Emirates		1	—	0	1	X
	Victor Karpenko	Uzbekistan		1	—	1	0	X

Key:

• — Bye
• X Eliminated

1 goal

Afghanistan Obaidullah Karimi  Australia David Carney Scott Chipperfield Mile Sterjovski  Bahrain Sayed Mohamed Adnan  Bangladesh Zumratul Hossein Mithu  Cambodia Samel Nasa  China PR Du Zhenyu Li Jinyu Li Weifeng Sun Xiang Wu Wei'an Yang Lin Zhang Yaokun Zheng Bin Zheng Zhi Zhou Haibin  Hong Kong Cheung Sai Ho Lam Ka Wai Lo Kwan Yee  India Steven Dias  Indonesia Budi Sudarsono

Iran Karim Bagheri Jalal Hosseini Ali Karimi Mohsen Khalili Mehdi Mahdavikia Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht Fereydoun Zandi  Iraq Jassim Mohammed Ghulam Hawar Mulla Mohammed  Japan Seiichiro Maki Shinji Okazaki Tatsuya Tanaka Atsuto Uchida  Jordan Waseem Al-Bzour Hatem Aqel Tha'er Bawab Mahmoud Shelbaieh  North Korea An Chol-Hyok Jon Kwang-Ik Kim Kuk-Jin Pak Nam-Chol Jong Tae-Se  South Korea Kim Chi-Woo  Kuwait Fahad Al-Rashidi  Lebanon Roda Antar Amer Khan

Kyrgyzstan Aibek Bokoev Cholponbek Esenkul Uulu  Malaysia Mohd Bunyamin Umar  Maldives Ali Ashfaq Shamveel Qasim  Mongolia Donorovyn Lkhümbengarav Odkhuu Selenge  Oman Mohamed Al Hinai Fawzi Bashir Hashim Saleh Ahmed Mubarak Al Mahaijri Hassan Mudhafar  Qatar Ali Afif Saad Al-Shammari Talal Al-Bloushi Magid Mohamed Majdi Siddiq  Saudi Arabia Osama Al-Muwallad Osama Hawsawi Nasser Al-Shamrani Hamad Al-Montashari  Singapore Mustafic Fahrudin Fazrul Nawaz  Syria Maher Al Sayed Aatef Jenyat Sanharib Malki

Tajikistan Jamshed Ismailov Dzhomikhon Mukhiddinov Dilshod Vasiev  Thailand Patiparn Phetphun Tawan Sripan Suree Sukha Nirut Surasiang  Turkmenistan Vladimir Bayramov Arif Mirzoyev Guvanch Ovekov  United Arab Emirates Nawaf Mubarak Ismail Al Hammadi Ahmed Mohammed Al-Mahri Saeed Alkas Abdulrahim Jumaa Faisal Khalil Subait Khater Saif Mohammed  Uzbekistan Ulugbek Bakayev Vitaly Denisov Aleksandr Geynrikh Aziz Ibragimov Islom Inomov Shavkat Salomov Anvarjon Soliev Ilhomjon Suyunov  Yemen Ali Al Nono Fekri Al-Hubaishi Mohammed Salem Haitham Thabit

Own goals

Japan Marcus Tulio Tanaka for Bahrain  Lebanon Ramez Dayoub for Singapore

Syria Anas Al Khouja for Kuwait  Qatar Ahmed Faris Al-Binali for Japan

Timor-Leste Alfredo Esteves for Hong Kong  Singapore Baihakki Khaizan for Lebanon

United Arab Emirates Fares Juma for Saudi Arabia

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External links

• AFC Qualification 2010 Official Website
• Asian zone at FIFA.com