2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification

Qualified teams

Notes: :1 Bold indicates champion for that year :2 Italic indicates host

Seedings

On 6 December 2007 the Asian Football Confederation announced the seeding for the preliminary round of the 2011 tournament:

• Teams marked '*' withdrew prior to the draw. All of them participated in the 2008 and 2010 AFC Challenge Cup, and therefore had a chance to qualify via those two tournaments.
• India (marked '**') were drawn into Group C of the qualifiers, but withdrew from the qualifiers following their victory in the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup which automatically qualified them for the final tournament.
• Maldives (marked '***') were the only other team that entered the Asian Cup qualifiers who could also qualify via the 2010 AFC Challenge Cup, but they were eliminated from the Asian Cup qualifiers before the group stage.
• The following teams did not enter main qualification, but could qualify via the AFC Challenge Cups if they chose to enter:

Preliminary round

The preliminary round reduced the number of non-automatic qualifiers to 20. Following the withdrawals of Korea DPR, Myanmar and Turkmenistan, only two teams were involved. The two lowest ranked AFC teams, Lebanon and Maldives, played home-and-away matches in April 2008. The away goals rule would be applied, and extra time and penalty shootout would be used to decide the winner if necessary. The winner of the preliminary round advanced to the qualifying round, where it was joined by the 19 teams seeded 4th to 22nd.

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Yaacoub Atwi Ghaddar

Al Jamal

Lebanon won 6–1 on aggregate and advanced to the group stage.

Qualifying round

The 20 teams were divided into five groups of four. Teams played each other home and way in a round-robin format. The top two in each group advanced to the 2011 tournament where they were joined by the other qualifiers — Qatar, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, India and North Korea.

Seedings

The following teams were drawn at this round:

Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss) and tie breakers are in following order:

1. Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
2. Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
3. Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
4. Goal difference in all the group matches;
5. Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
6. Kicks from the penalty mark if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
7. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Tatsuya Tanaka

Fatadi
Salman Isa

Nagatomo Nakazawa Túlio

Satō
S. Nakamura Okazaki

Fatadi Salman Al-Dali

Abbod

Adnan

Al Abidi

Honda

Group B

Emerton

Sulaiman

Naser Heffernan

Group C

Following their victory in the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup, India was given a bye to the final tournament and removed from this group prior to the first match. They were not replaced.

Matar
A. Khalil

Geynrikh

Nasimov
Kapadze

Group D

Lê Công Vinh
Nguyễn Vũ Phong

Al Khatib Liu Jian

Du Wei
Jiang Ning
Hao Junmin

Al Khatib

Qu Bo

Zhang Linpeng

Al Ahga
J. Al Hussain
A. Al Hussain

Group E

Bagheri
Rezaei
Zare
Nouri

Alam Shah

Chaiman

Madanchi Rezaei

Anas

Goalscorers

;6 goals

• Japan Shinji Okazaki

;5 goals

• Bahrain Ismael Abdullatif

;3 goals

• China Gao Lin
• Japan Sōta Hirayama
• Singapore Noh Alam Shah

;2 goals

• Australia Luke Wilkshire
• Bahrain Salman Isa
• Bahrain Abdulla Baba Fatadi
• China Qu Bo
• China Du Wei
• Iran Mohammad Nouri
• Iran Gholamreza Rezaei
• Iran Javad Nekounam
• Kuwait Bader Al-Mutawa
• Lebanon Mahmoud El Ali
• Syria Maher Al Sayed
• Syria Firas Al Khatib
• Syria Jehad Al Hussein
• THA Sutee Suksomkit
• UAE Mohamed Omer
• UAE Ismail Matar
• UAE Ahmad Khalil
• Uzbekistan Alexander Geynrikh
• Vietnam Nguyễn Vũ Phong
• Vietnam Lê Công Vinh
• Yemen Zaher Farid Al-Fadhli
• Yemen Ali Al Nono

;1 goal

• Australia Tim Cahill
• Australia Dean Heffernan
• Australia Brett Emerton
• Australia Mark Milligan
• Bahrain Hussain Salman
• Bahrain Sayed Mohamed Adnan
• China Hao Junmin
• China Jiang Ning
• China Liu Jian
• China Yu Hai
• China Yang Xu
• China Zhang Linpeng
• Hong Kong Cheng Siu Wai
• IDN Bambang Pamungkas
• IDN Boaz Solossa
• IDN Budi Sudarsono
• Iran Majid Gholamnejad
• Iran Karim Bagheri
• Iran Maziar Zare
• Iran Hadi Aghili
• Iran Mehrzad Madanchi
• Japan Yuji Nakazawa
• Japan Marcus Túlio Tanaka
• Japan Yuto Nagatomo
• Japan Tatsuya Tanaka
• Japan Makoto Hasebe
• Japan Shunsuke Nakamura
• Japan Hisato Satō
• Japan Keisuke Honda
• Jordan Hatem Aqel
• Jordan Amer Deeb
• Jordan Odai Al-Saify
• Jordan Anas Bani Yaseen
• Kuwait Musaed Neda
• Kuwait Ahmad Ajab
• Kuwait Fayez Bandar
• Kuwait Yousef Nasser
• Lebanon Nasrat Al Jamal
• Lebanon Akram Moghrabi
• Lebanon Ali Yaacoub
• Lebanon Abbas Ahmed Atwi
• Lebanon Mohammed Ghaddar
• Lebanon Mohamad Korhani
• Malaysia Mohd Zaquan Adha
• Malaysia Baddrol Bakhtiar
• Maldives Shamweel Qasim
• Oman Khalifa Ayil
• Oman Hassan Rabia
• Oman Fawzi Bashir
• Oman Ismail Sulaiman
• Singapore Agu Casmir
• Singapore Mustafic Fahrudin
• Singapore Aleksandar Đurić
• Syria Abdelrazaq Al Hussain
• Syria Raja Rafe
• Syria Mohamed Al Zeno
• Syria Abdul Fattah Al Agha
• THA Therdsak Chaiman
• UAE Sultan Bargash
• Uzbekistan Farhod Tadjiyev
• Uzbekistan Server Djeparov
• Uzbekistan Anvar Gafurov
• Uzbekistan Bahodir Nasimov
• Uzbekistan Timur Kapadze
• Vietnam Nguyễn Minh Phương
• Vietnam Phạm Thành Lương
• Yemen Sami Abbod
• Yemen Akram Al Selwi
• Yemen Mohammed Al Abidi

;Own goal

• Yemen Aref Thabit Al-Dali (1) (playing against Bahrain)

References

References

1. [https://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=reu-asiacup&prov=reuters&type=lgns Australia, Japan top seeds for 2011 Asian Cup draw]
2. [http://images.the-afc.com/Documents/common/cms/afc/AsianCup2011QualifiersRegulations20080606.pdf Regulations AFC Asian Cup 2011 – Qualifiers] {{webarchive. link. (27 May 2012)
3. (15 September 2008). "Asian Cup qualifying Group C recast". [[Asian Football Confederation.