2000 AFC Asian Cup qualification

Format

The 42 teams were divided into 6 groups of 4 teams, 3 groups of 5 teams, & 1 group of 3 teams. Each group decided its own system of play. Group 2, Group 7 & Group 8 are the only groups that saw teams play matches against each other twice, while the other groups played against each other once. Winners qualified for the 2000 AFC Asian Cup in Lebanon, joining the hosts as well as the champions, Saudi Arabia. West Asian groups were allocated in Group 1 to Group 5 while East Asian groups were allocated in Group 6 to Group 10.

Group 1

Al-Habsi

Jafar

Berdaly Nazarov

Kulbayev

Fawzi Hamad Obeid

Group 2

• All matches played in Syria and Iran on a double round-robin format.

Played in Aleppo, Syria.

Dinmohammadi Mahdavikia Estili Daei Mousavi |}}

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Jaffer

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Azzam Srour Al-Basha Hamami A. John |}}

Played in Tehran, Iran.

Kordieh |}}

Karimi Daei |}}

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Estili Daei |}}

Group 3

• All matches played in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
• Times listed as UTC+04:00.

Pirmatov Davletov Statskikh Marifaliev |}}

Jumaa |}}

Davletov Shirshov Bazarov |}}

Mattar Khalil |}}

Munna Faysal |}}

Vijayan Fyodorov Shirshov |}}

R. Singh Jayasuriya |}}

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Dias |}}

Al-Hammadi Al-Boloushi Ali Omer |}}

Group 4

All matches played in Doha, Qatar. |}}

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Al-Jaish |}}

Mustafa Al Enazi

Abdullah Al-Khatib |}}

Al Kuwari Hassan |}}

Litvinenko

Abu Raba Ghanem Hamarsheh Al-Khatib |}}

Kucheryavykh Klishin |}}

Al Enazi Abdullah |}}

Group 5

All matches played in Kuwait. Abdullah Al-Houwaidi Al-Khodari |}}

Al-Nono Al-Salimi |}}

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Joshi Rayamajhi |}}

Abdullah Al-Mutairi Bakhit Al-Shammari Sakeen Jassem |}} Note: At the time this match was the largest score difference in FIFA A-level matches.

Bayramov Muhadow Agabaýew |}}

Awad |}}

Agabaýew
Aleksandr Ignatow
Goçgulyýew
Kulyýew |}}

Al-Salimi Al-Nono Tahous Al-Ghurbani Al-Kahta Won Dei |}}

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Group 6

All matches played in Seoul, Korea Republic. Myo Hlaing Win |}}

Kim Eun-jung Lee Chun-soo Seol Ki-hyeon Ahn Hyo-yeon |}}

Aung Kyaw Moe Than Toe Aung |}}

Choi Tae-uk Choi Chul-woo Lee Chun-soo |}}

Homsombath |}}

Ahn Hyo-yeon |}}

Group 7

Lee Kin Wo Wong Chi Kyung |}}

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Pamungkas Putiray Sunan |}}

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Putiray Pamungkas |}}

Purjianto Nahumarury Nawawi Pamungkas Putro |}}

Group 8

Played in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Suparman |}}

Cheng Yung-Jen |}}

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Derus Jusoh Surasiang |}}

Played in Bangkok, Thailand.

Ming Tuan |}}

Surasiang Piturat Noosarung Thonkanya Kim Ho-Gun Ko Jong-Nam |}}

Ryang Gyu-Sa Ri Hyok-Choi |}}

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Baribarn Yusoff |}}

Group 9

All matches played in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Vũ Công Tuyền Văn Sỹ Hùng Võ Minh Hiếu Đặng Phương Nam Ngô Quang Trường |}}

Hao Haidong Yao Xia Li Tie |}}

Ma Mingyu Su Maozhen Li Weifeng Yao Xia Qu Shengqing Li Tie Shen Si Qi Hong |}} Note: At the time this match was the largest score difference in FIFA A-level matches.

Ngô Quang Trường |}}

T. Fegidero |}}

Zhang Enhua |}}

Group 10

All matches played in Macau.

Nakayama

Kazu Nakamura Hirano Takahara Sawanobori

Takahara

Qualified teams