2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC fourth round

Format

The fourth round saw the five group winners and five group runners-up from the third round split into two groups of five. The top two teams from each group advanced to the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals in Brazil, while the two third-placed teams advanced to the fifth round.

Seeding

The draw for round four was held on 9 March 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with the teams seeded according to their March 2012 FIFA Ranking. The FIFA rankings used were released on 7 March 2012 and included all matches from the third round of Asian Qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The ten teams (shown below with their March 2012 FIFA Ranking in brackets, and their positions in the third round in small brackets) are split into five pots, with each group containing a team from each pot.

Groups

The matches were played from 3 June 2012 to 18 June 2013.

As the last matchday overlaps with the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup (which commences on 15 June 2013), the fourth round draw was adjusted to ensure Japan (the representative of the AFC for the Confederations Cup) received a bye on 18 June 2013, by placing them on Position 5 (instead of Position 2 where Japan were supposed to be placed as of the date of draw) in their group in order not to play on the last matchday.

Lebanon defender Ramez Dayoub was convicted of match-fixing after his back pass led to the only goal of the match in a 1–0 defeat by Qatar. Dayoub was suspended for life by the Lebanese Football Association.

Group A

1. Most importantly, make sure the score is FINAL! Don't update based on games that are still ongoing.
2. Update the record of BOTH TEAMS, not just the winner or the team you support.
3. Update EVERY COLUMN, not just Pts, in particular GF and GA (errors will be hard to detect).
4. Make sure the teams are in the correct new positions (in particular, make sure teams with the same number of points are ranked correctly based on the tiebreakers of the tournament). If in any doubt, check with standings from official websites (such as FIFA.com) or reliable sources. --

Kwak Tae-hwi Kim Shin-wook

Koo Ja-cheol

Tursunov Lee Dong-gook

Son Heung-min

Nekounam Ghoochannejhad

Zoteev Ahmedov Bakayev

Group B

1. Most importantly, make sure the score is FINAL! Don't update based on games that are still ongoing.
2. Update the record of BOTH TEAMS, not just the winner or the team you support.
3. Update EVERY COLUMN, not just Pts, in particular GF and GA (errors will be hard to detect).
4. Make sure the teams are in the correct new positions (in particular, make sure teams with the same number of points are ranked correctly based on the tiebreakers of the tournament). If in any doubt, check with standings from official websites (such as FIFA.com) or reliable sources. --

Maeda Okazaki

Honda Kagawa Kurihara

Amer Deeb

Al-Mashri Thompson

Okazaki

Holman Jedinak Hayel

Cahill Kruse Neill

Goalscorers

• Keisuke Honda

• Tim Cahill

• Reza Ghoochannejhad

• Javad Nekounam

• Ryoichi Maeda

• Shinji Okazaki

• Ahmad Hayel

• Lee Keun-ho

• Archie Thompson

• Mohammad Reza Khalatbari

• Shinji Kagawa

• Yuzo Kurihara

• Ahmed Mubarak Al Mahaijri

• Sebastián Soria

• Kim Bo-kyung

• Ulugbek Bakayev

• Bahodir Nasimov

• Sanzhar Tursunov

• Mark Bresciano

• Brett Holman

• Joshua Kennedy

• Robbie Kruse

• Lucas Neill

• Tommy Oar

• Luke Wilkshire

• Alaa Abdul-Zahra

• Hammadi Ahmad

• Nashat Akram

• Younis Mahmoud

• Hiroshi Kiyotake

• Hassan Abdel-Fattah

• Khalil Bani Attiah

• Tha'er Bawab

• Amer Deeb

• Ali Al Saadi

• Roda Antar

• Hassan Maatouk

• Ismail Al Ajmi

• Mohammed Al Balushi

• Juma Darwish Al-Mashri

• Abdulaziz Al-Muqbali

• Yusef Ahmed

• Khalfan Ibrahim

• Abdulgadir Ilyas Bakur

• Kim Chi-woo

• Kim Shin-wook

• Koo Ja-cheol

• Kwak Tae-hwi

• Lee Dong-gook

• Son Heung-min

• Odil Ahmedov

• Server Djeparov

• Jasur Hasanov

• Oleg Zoteev

• Mile Jedinak (against Oman)

• Akmal Shorakhmedov (against South Korea)

• Ki Sung-yueng (against Uzbekistan)

• Artyom Filiposyan (against South Korea)

Notes

References

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