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1990 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC first round
International football competition
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Main article: 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)
The AFC first round of 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification was decided by a draw which was conducted in Zürich, Switzerland, on 12 December 1987. The round began on 6 January 1989 and finished on 29 July 1989.
The top countries in each group at the end of the stage progressed to the final round, where the six remaining teams competed for the two places at the final tournament.
Format
The Maldives withdrew before the final draw, leaving 25 teams to be divided into 6 groups of 4 or 5 teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis, except in Group 4, where the teams played against each other twice but all games were held in South Korea and Singapore. The group winners would advance to the Final Round. Bahrain, India, and South Yemen withdrew after the draw, meaning a total of 22 teams competed.
Groups
Group 1
Hashim Radhi
Al-Soufi
Awad Saeed Khamis
Group 2
Al-Jam'an Al-Thunayan Abdullah Al-Nasser Helou Mahrous
Mahrous
Group 3
Al-Hasawi
Khalid Ismaïl Abdulrahman Mohamed Abdulaziz Mohamed
A. Ibrahim Al-Talyani Abdulaziz Mohamed
Group 4
Dollah Salleh Chung Hae-won
Lee Tae-ho Choi Sang-kook Kim Yong-se Lee Young-jin Noh Soo-jin Cho Min-kook
Tay Peng Kee Hwang Sun-hong
Salim Dollah Salleh Park Kyung-hoon Kim Yong-se Lee Tae-ho
Cho Min-kook Hwangbo Kwan Salim Devaraj
Noh Soo-jin Gunalan
Group 5
Mai Chao Ghayeghran Garousi
Ansarifard
Ma Lin
Ma Lin
Sabbir Rupu
Garousi
Zhang Xiaowen
Eftekhari Pious Ma Lin
Ma Lin
Group 6
Tak Yong-Bin
Oh Yong-Nam
Maeda Shinto Hasegawa Kurosaki
Kiswanto Ri Hyok-chon
Han Hyong-Il Kim Pung-Il Chu Gyong-Sik
Han Hyong-Il
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