2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC third round

Format

The 20 teams (five teams given a bye directly to the third round, 11 highest-ranked winners from the first round, and four winners from the second round) were divided into four pots for the draw, each containing five teams. The pots were drawn as follows:

The 20 teams were split into five groups of four teams each, with all teams playing home and away against each of the other three teams in the group.

The top two teams in each group qualified for the fourth round.

Group 1

Cahill Bresciano

Akram

Kewell

Group 2

Ōkubo Nakazawa Maki

Ōkubo S. Nakamura

Winothai Latif Adnan

Nakazawa K. Nakamura

Group 3

Seol Ki-hyeon Park Ji-sung

Report

Bawab

Park Chu-young

Group 4

Mouath

Shatskikh Djeparov

Fazrul

Mustafić Wilkinson Karpenko Djeparov Denisov Ibrahimov Shatskikh

Hawsawi Tukar

Awarded

Awarded Al-Fraidi

Djeparov

Wilkinson

Mouath Al-Harthi

Group 5

Khalil

Al-Rashidi Hosseini

Al Khouja

Khalili

Mohammed

Rezaei

Malki

Goalscorers

• Ahmad Ajab

• Hassan Abdel Fattah

• Ismail Matar

• Server Djeparov

• Yuji Nakazawa

• Hong Yong-jo

• Yasser Al-Qahtani

• Malek Mouath

• Redha Tukar

• Kim Do-heon

• Jehad Al-Hussain

• Odil Ahmedov

• Brett Emerton

• Harry Kewell

• A'ala Hubail

• Salman Isa

• Gholamreza Rezaei

• Emad Mohammed

• Yasuhito Endō

• Yoshito Ōkubo

• Ismail Sulaiman Al Ajmi

• Amad Al Hosni

• Fábio César Montezine

• Abdoh Otaif

• Aleksandar Đurić

• John Wilkinson

• Park Chu-young

• Park Ji-sung

• Seol Ki-hyeon

• Firas Al-Khatib

• Teeratep Winothai

• Timur Kapadze

• Maksim Shatskikh

• Mark Bresciano

• Tim Cahill

• Joshua Kennedy

• Faouzi Aaish

• Ismail Abdullatif

• Sayed Mohamed Adnan

• Sun Xiang

• Zheng Zhi

• Zhou Haibin

• Jalal Hosseini

• Mohsen Khalili

• Javad Nekounam

• Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht

• Ferydoon Zandi

• Nashat Akram

• Hawar Mulla Mohammed

• Seiichiro Maki

• Kengo Nakamura

• Shunsuke Nakamura

• Marcus Tulio Tanaka

• Atsuto Uchida

• Waseem Al-Bzour

• Thaer Bawab

• Fahad Al-Rashidi

• Mahmoud El Ali

• Mohammed Ghaddar

• Choe Kum-chol

• Ahmed Mubarak Al Mahaijri

• Sayed Ali Bechir

• Khalfan Ibrahim

• Sebastián Soria

• Ahmed Al-Fraidi

• Saad Al-Harthi

• Osama Hawsawi

• Mustafic Fahrudin

• Fazrul Nawaz

• Kwak Tae-hwi

• Zyad Chaabo

• Sanharib Malki

• Sarayoot Chaikamdee

• Totchtawan Sripan

• Datsakorn Thonglao

• Guvanch Ovekov

• Saif Mohammed Al Bishr

• Mohamed Al Shehhi

• Faisal Khalil

• Vitaliy Denisov

• Alexander Geynrikh

• Aziz Ibrahimov

• Victor Karpenko

• Ramez Dayoub (against Singapore)

• Baihakki Khaizan (against Lebanon)

• Anas Al Khouja (against Kuwait)

Notes

References

References

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