2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC third round

Format

In this round the fifteen winners from the second round joined the five AFC sides seeded 1–5 in the AFC World Cup rankings (Japan, South Korea, Australia, North Korea, Bahrain). The teams were drawn into five groups of four teams, at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 30 July 2011.

The matches were played from 2 September 2011 to 29 February 2012. The top two teams in each group advanced to the fourth round.

Seeding

The 20 teams were divided into four pots for the draw, each containing five teams. The July 2011 FIFA Ranking – released on 27 July – was used to seed the teams.

Note: Syria was replaced by Tajikistan in the third round on 19 August 2011 following the awarding of both second round matches to Tajikistan.

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. --

Yu Hai Abdallah Deeb

Mahmoud Amer Deeb

B. Bani Yaseen Hayel

Amer Deeb

Li Weifeng Zheng Zheng Munir

Yu Dabao Mahmoud H.M. Mohammed Akram Karim

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. --

Ji Dong-won Kim Jung-woo Khalil Al-Mutawa

Moghrabi Antar

Al-Kamali Younes

Park Chu-young

Atwi Abbas

Lee Keun-ho Al-Wehaibi Matar Maatouk

Group C

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. --

Okazaki Komano Kagawa Nakamura

Okazaki Maeda

Ahmedov Geynrikh

Group D

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. --

Brosque

Teerasil Al-Farsi Wilkshire

Kennedy Jedinak

Al-Fraidi Noor

Kewell Emerton Al-Shamrani Al-Muqbali

Group E

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. --

Teymourian

Abdul-Latif

Khalfan Razak Jabbari Aghily Teymourian Ansarifard Rezaei

Khalfan Soria

Jabbari Rezaei Nekounam

Al Alawi Abdulrahman Saeed Kasola

Goalscorers

• Younis Mahmoud

• Park Chu-young

• Shinji Okazaki

• Joshua Kennedy

• Ismail Abdul-Latif

• Sayed Saeed

• Khalfan Ibrahim

• Alex Brosque

• Hao Junmin

• Mojtaba Jabbari

• Javad Nekounam

• Nashat Akram

• Hassan Maatouk

• Ismail Matar

• Brett Holman

• Mohammed Tayeb Al Alawi

• Mahmood Abdulrahman

• Yu Hai

• Zheng Zheng

• Cristian Gonzáles

• Hadi Aghily

• Ashkan Dejagah

• Gholamreza Rezaei

• Andranik Teymourian

• Mike Havenaar

• Shinji Kagawa

• Hassan Abdel-Fattah

• Abdallah Deeb

• Amer Deeb

• Ahmad Hayel

• Yousef Nasser

• Mahmoud El Ali

• Pak Nam-Chol

• Mohammed Razak

• Nasser Al-Shamrani

• Ji Dong-won

• Lee Keun-ho

• Teerasil Dangda

• Bashir Saeed

• Alexander Geynrikh

• Brett Emerton

• Mile Jedinak

• Harry Kewell

• Luke Wilkshire

• Mahmood Al-Ajmi

• Li Weifeng

• Yu Dabao

• Zheng Zhi

• Bambang Pamungkas

• Karim Ansarifard

• Jalal Hosseini

• Milad Meydavoudi

• Alaa Abdul-Zahra

• Karrar Jassim

• Mustafa Karim

• Hawar Mulla Mohammed

• Qusay Munir

• Yuichi Komano

• Yasuyuki Konno

• Ryoichi Maeda

• Kengo Nakamura

• Maya Yoshida

• Baha' Abdul-Rahman

• Bashar Bani Yaseen

• Basem Fat'hi

• Fahad Al Enezi

• Bader Al-Mutawa

• Hussain Fadhel

• Musaed Neda

• Ali Al Saadi

• Abbas Ali Atwi

• Roda Antar

• Mohammed Ghaddar

• Akram Moghrabi

• Jang Song-Hyok

• Hussain Al-Hadhri

• Amad Al Hosni

• Abdulaziz Al-Muqbali

• Abdulaziz Al Sulaiti

• Mohamed El-Sayed

• Mohammed Kasola

• Sebastián Soria

• Salem Al-Dawsari

• Ahmed Al-Fraidi

• Naif Hazazi

• Mohammed Noor

• Isa Halim

• Aleksandar Đurić

• Kim Jung-woo

• Koo Ja-cheol

• Lee Dong-gook

• Akhtam Khamroqulov

• Sompong Soleb

• Ismail Al Hammadi

• Ali Al-Wehaibi

• Ahmed Khalil

• Mahmoud Khamees

• Odil Ahmedov

• Server Djeparov

• Timur Kapadze

• Aleksandr Shadrin

• Maksim Shatskikh

• Sanzhar Tursunov

• Mahmoud Baquir Younes (against Kuwait)

• Rashid Al Farsi (against Thailand)

• Walid Abbas (against Kuwait)

• Hamdan Al Kamali (against South Korea)

Notes

References

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