2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Third Round

This page provides the summaries of the AFC Third Round matches for 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
The 2014 FIFA World Cup will feature 32 teams. One place was allocated to the hosts, , but no automatic place is given to the defending champions, . The remaining 31 places will be determined by a qualification process, in which entrants from among the other 207 teams from the six FIFA...

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Format

In this round the fifteen winners from the second round

2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Round

This page provides the summaries of the AFC Second Round matches for 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.- Format :In this round the eight winners from the first round joined the 22 AFC sides seeded 6–27 in the AFC World Cup rankings. The teams were drawn into 15 home-and-away ties...

joined the five AFC sides seeded 1–5 in the AFC World Cup rankings . 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

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

, Brazil

Brazil

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on 30 July 2011.

The matches will take place from 2 September 2011 to 29 February 2012. The top two teams in each group at the end of the stage will progress to the fourth round

2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Fourth Round

This page provides the summaries of the AFC Fourth Round matches for 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.-Format:The fourth round will see the 5 group winners and 5 group runners-up from the third round split into two groups of five....

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.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
(16) (23) (28) (54) (73)	(83) (90) (91) (92) (95)	(100) (104)* (107) (108) (109)	(115) (119) (131) (137) (159)

Note: were replaced by in the Third Round on 19 August 2011 following the awarding of both Second Round matches to Tajikistan.

Group A

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Group B

On the next match day (29 February):

South Korea will advance to the Fourth Round if
- they do not lose to Kuwait, OR
- Lebanon lose to United Arab Emirates AND
  - South Korea lose by fewer than ten goals more than Lebanon do, OR
  - South Korea lose by exactly ten goals more than Lebanon do AND Lebanon do not score at least five more than South Korea.
Lebanon will advance to the Fourth Round if
- they do not lose to United Arab Emirates, OR
- Kuwait do not defeat South Korea, OR
- South Korea lose by at least eleven more goals than Lebanon, OR
- South Korea lose by ten more goals than Lebanon AND Lebanon score at least five more than South Korea.
Kuwait will advance to the Fourth Round if they defeat South Korea.

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Group C

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Group D

On the next match day (29 February):

Saudi Arabia will advance to the Fourth Round if
- they defeat Australia, OR
- they draw with Australia AND Thailand defeat Oman by fewer than three goals, OR
- they draw with Australia AND Thailand defeat Oman by three goals AND Thailand do not score more than Saudi Arabia, OR
- they do not lose to Australia by more than five goals AND Oman draw with Thailand, OR
- they lose to Australia by six goals AND Oman draw with Thailand AND Oman do not score at least three more than Saudi Arabia.

Oman will advance to the Fourth Round if
- they defeat Thailand AND Saudi Arabia do not defeat Australia, OR
- they draw with Thailand AND Australia defeat Saudi Arabia by at least seven goals, OR
- they draw with Thailand AND Australia defeat Saudi Arabia by six goals AND Oman score at least four more than Saudi Arabia.

Thailand will advance to the Fourth Round if
- they defeat Oman AND Saudi Arabia lose to Australia, OR
- they defeat Oman by at least four goals AND Saudi Arabia do not defeat Australia, OR
- they defeat Oman by three goals AND Saudi Arabia draw with Australia AND Thailand score more than Saudi Arabia.

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Group E

On the next match day (29 February)

Qatar will advance to the fourth round if
- they do not lose to Iran, OR
- Bahrain do not defeat Indonesia, OR
- the combined margin of Qatar's loss and Bahrain's win is fewer than 9 goals (or exactly 9 if Bahrain do not score at least 5 more than Qatar)

Bahrain will advance to the fourth round if they defeat Indonesia AND Iran defeat Qatar by a combined margin at least 10 goals (9 if Bahrain score at least 6 goals more than Qatar)

If Bahrain and Iran win by a combined margin of exactly 9 goals and Bahrain score exactly 5 more than Qatar, the tie between Bahrain and Qatar will be decided by a playoff.

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Goalscorers

As of 15 November 2011, there have been 128 goals scored in 50 games, for an average of 2.56 goals per game.

6 goals Park Chu-Young

Park Chu-Young

Park Chu-Young is a South Korean footballer who plays for Arsenal in the Premier League and is the current captain for the South Korea national team.-Youth career:...

5 goals Shinji Okazaki

Shinji Okazaki

Shinji Okazaki is a Japanese football player currently playing for VfB Stuttgart of the German Bundesliga.-Career:...

4 goals Joshua Kennedy

Joshua Kennedy

Joshua Blake Kennedy is an Australian professional football player who plays as a striker for the Australia national association football team and Nagoya Grampus.- Club career :...

3 goals

Mojtaba Jabbari

Mojtaba Jabbari

Mojtaba Jabbari is an Iranian football player who currently plays for Iran's Premier Football League's Esteghlal as a midfielder.-Club career:...

Javad Nekounam

Javad Nekounam is an Iranian footballer who plays for CA Osasuna in La Liga.Usually playing as a central midfielder, he is known for his passing ability, defensive acumen, ball distribution and powerful long-range shots. He represented his national team over 120 times.-Early years / UAE:Having...

Younis Mahmoud

Younis Mahmoud Khalef is an Iraqi football striker who currently playes for Al-Wakrah. He was recently removed from his previous club, Al-Gharafa in Qatar despite being the top goal scorer in the league for the third time in five years. He is also the captain of the Iraq national football team...

Khalfan Ibrahim

Khalfan Ibrahim Khalfan Al Khalfan is a Qatari footballer who plays as a striker for Al Sadd. He is also a member of the Qatar national team. He was named the Asian Player of the Year in 2006, becoming the first Qatari to win the title. He played for Al-Arabi on the youth level before moving to Al...

2 goals

Brett Holman

Brett Holman

Brett Trevor Holman is an Australian professional football player. He currently plays as a attacking midfielder or left winger for the Dutch Eredivisie club AZ and the Australia national football team.-Early life:...

Yu Hai

Yu Hai (footballer)

Yu Hai is a Chinese professional association football player who currently plays for Shaanxi Renhe Commercial Chanba in the Chinese Super League.-Club career:...

Zheng Zheng

Zheng Zheng is a Chinese football player who currently plays as a defender for Shandong Luneng in the Chinese Super League.-Club career:Zheng Zheng was a graduate of the Shandong Luneng under-19 youth team and would be premoted to the senior team during the 2008 Chinese Super League season where...

Cristian Gonzáles Hadi Aghily Gholamreza Rezaei

Gholamreza Rezaei

Gholamreza Rezaei is an Iranian Football Striker who currently plays for Persepolis in the Iran Pro League- Club career :He started his career in Fajr Sepasi in his hometown, Shiraz, where he was introduced to Iranian Football. after showing his talent in Fajr, he was bought by Tehrani wealthy...

Andranik Teymourian

Andranik Timotian-Samarani , more commonly known as Andranik "Ando" Teymourian is an Armenian Iranian footballer. He usually plays as a defensive midfielder, but can also play as a side midfielder. He is notably the only Christian footballer in the Iranian national team.-Early career:Andranik was...

Nashat Akram

Nashat Akram Abid Ali is an Iraqi professional footballer who is currently playing for Lekhwiya. He is an Iraqi international. He usually plays as a midfielder. Akram is one of Iraq's promising young prospects, and has been linked with Manchester City and Sunderland...

Mike Havenaar

is a Japanese professional footballer of Dutch descent. He currently plays as a striker for J. League Division 1 club Ventforet Kofu. Havenaar speaks Japanese, Dutch and English.- Early life :...

Shinji Kagawa

is a Japanese footballer who plays for German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund. He previously played for Cerezo Osaka. He has been capped by Japan at international level.-Club career:...

Hassan Abdel Fattah

Hassan Abdel-Fattah Mahmoud is a Jordanian footballer of Palestinian origin, He plays as a Attacking Midfielder for Al-Wahdat, and is a member of the Jordan national football team and has always played as player number 18 of Jordan and number 5 of Al-Wahdat.-International career:Apparently, Hassan...

Abdallah Deeb Amer Deeb

Amer Deeb

Amer Deeb Mohammad Khalil is a Jordanian footballer of Palestinian origin, who plays for Al-Wahdat and the Jordan national football team and has always played as player number 7 of Jordan and number 8 of Al-Wahdat....

Ahmed Hayel

Ahmed Hayel Ibrahim is a Jordanian football player who currently plays as a Striker for Al-Faisaly . Hayel is also a member of the Jordan national football team.-International goals:- External links :...

Yousef Nasser

Yousef Nasser is a Kuwaiti footballer who is a forward for the Kuwaiti Premier League club Kazma.-International goals:-Honours:-References:...

Hassan Maatouk

Hassan Maatouk is a Lebanese football striker who is currently on loan to UAE Pro-League side Ajman Club and the Lebanon national football team.-Career:Hassan plays for Al-Ahed...

Pak Nam-Chol

Pak Nam-Chol (footballer born 1985)

Pak Nam-Chol is a North Korean international football player.Pak has appeared for the Korea DPR national football team in 15 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches scoring three goals....

Mohammed Razak

Mohammed Razak is a Qatari professional association football player who is a midfielder for Lekhwiya Sports Club. Mohammed Razak scored a goal in an friendly game against Bayern Munich for the Qatar national football team on July 9, 2011....

Ji Dong-Won

Ji Dong-Won is a South Korea footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Sunderland and the South Korea national team.-Early Career:...

Teerasil Dangda

Teerasil Dangda is a Thai footballer, currently playing for Muangthong United. He is also an established member of the Thailand national team, and was in the squad for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup. He is a one of young Players to Watch in 2010 of Asia.-Club career:...

Ismail Matar

Ismail Matar Ibrahim Khamis Al Mukhaini Al Junaibi , is an Emirati footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for Al Wahda and the UAE national team....

Alexander Geynrikh

Alexander Geynrikh is a Russian-Uzbek professional footballer forward who plays for Suwon Bluewings and the Uzbekistan national team. He is of partial German descent.-Career:...

1 goal

Alex Brosque

Alex Brosque

Alex Brosque is an Australian professional football player who currently plays for J. League side Shimizu S-Pulse...

Mile Jedinak

Michael John "Mile" Jedinak is an Australian professional football player. He is currently contracted to Crystal Palace of the English Championship...

Luke Wilkshire

Luke Wilkshire is an Australian football player who plays for Dynamo Moscow in the Russian Premier League...

Ismail Abdul-Latif Mohammad Al Ataib Sayed Saeed Hao Junmin

Hao Junmin

Hao Junmin is a Chinese international association football player who currently plays for Shandong Luneng Taishan.-Early career:Hao Junmin began his professional football career with Tianjin Kangshifu during the 2004 Chinese Super League season when he made his league debut on 15 September 2004...

Li Weifeng

Li Weifeng is a Chinese football defender who currently plays for Tianjin Teda. He has represented the Chinese national football team over 100 times. He also played in the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship....

Zheng Zhi

Zheng Zhi is a Chinese professional association football player who currently plays for Guangzhou Evergrande. Starting his career as a defender, he would be moved into central midfield by his coach at Shenzhen Jianlibao and experienced immediate success there by winning the 2004 Chinese Super...

Bambang Pamungkas

Bambang Pamungkas is an Indonesian footballer who currently plays for Persija Jakarta in the Indonesian Super League and the Indonesia national football team. His natural position is striker...

Karim Ansarifard

Karim Ansarifard is an Iranian footballer who plays for Saipa in Iran Pro League as a Striker and is part of the Iran national football team . His playing style and ability have drawn comparisons to Ali Daei who scouted him and he was declared as Daei's "successor".World Soccer selected...

Seyed Jalal Hosseini Milad Meydavoudi

Milad Meydavoudi

Milad Meydavoudi is an Iranian football player, who currently plays for Esteghlal in Iran's Premier Football League.-Club career:Meydavoudi started his career at Esteghlal Ahvaz with whom he made his professional debut in 2004, He was broght to Esteghlal Ahvaz by Nasser Hejazi from youth team.In...

Alaa Abdul-Zahra

Alaa Abdul-Zahrah Khashen Al-Azzawi is an Iraqi football player who currently plays for Al-Wakrah in Qatar and the Iraq national football team. His nickname is Kaka of Iraq or Iraqi Kaka. During his profissonal career in Qatar and Sudan he was known as Alaa Al-Zahra...

Qusay Munir

Qusay Muneer Abboodi Al-Hussein is an Iraqi footballer who is a midfielder for Qatar SC in Qatar and the Iraq national football team. Munir, the defensive midfielder of the Iraqi national team, is most noted for playing a big role in addition to playing every single minute in Iraq's successful...

Yuichi Komano

is a Japanese football player. He plays for J. League division 1 side Júbilo Iwata. He is right-footed and mainly plays right full back for the club but he is often employed in the left for Japan national football team.-Playing career:...

Yasuyuki Konno

is a Japanese football player who plays for F.C. Tokyo in Japan's professional J. League.He was part of the Japanese 2004 Olympic football team, which finished fourth in group B, below group winners Paraguay, Italy and Ghana....

Ryoichi Maeda

is a Japanese football player who currently plays for Jubilo Iwata of the J. League Division 1.-Club career:Maeda was born in Kobe, Japan but spent his childhood in the United States. He was educated at and played for Gyosei Junior High and Ghosei High School in Tokyo. While he was a high school...

Kengo Nakamura

is a Japanese football midfielder who currently plays for Kawasaki Frontale of the J. League.-Playing style:K.Nakamura is a playmaking midfielder usually employed by Kawasaki Frontale on the central midfield. His view can supply pass very widely over the wide range.Besides passing, Nakamura is...

Maya Yoshida

is a Japanese football player. He is a centre back defender and currently plays for Dutch side VVV-Venlo.-Career:Yoshida had been a defensive midfielder when playing for Grampus's youth team, but was converted to a centre back after promotion to its top team in 2007. In the 2008 season, he was in...

Baha'a Abdul-Rahman

Baha' Abdul-Rahman Mustafa Suleiman is a Jordanian football player who is a member of the Jordan national football team and Al-Faisaly Club of Jordan.-International career:...

Anas Bani Yaseen

Anas Walid Khaled Bani Yaseen is a Jordanian footballer who plays as an attacking defender. He is a member of the Jordan national football team and the football club Al Qadsia in Kuwaiti Premier League.-International career:...

Fahad Al Enezi

Fahad Al Anzi is a Kuwaiti footballer who is a midfielder for the Saudi Premier League club Ittihad FC on loan from the Kuwaiti Premier League club Kazma.-FK Partizan:...

Bader Al-Mutwa Hussain Fadel

Hussain Fadel

Hussain Fadel is a Kuwaiti football player.who playes for Al Qadisiya.He played for Al Qadisiya in the 2008 AFC Champions League group stages....

Musaed Neda

Musaed Neda is a Kuwaiti football player. He Currently play for Al Qadisiya.Neda scored the first goals of a free directly in the final match against Kuwait Club. He scored three goals from direct free kicks in a game Qadisiya 3 v.s Kuwait 0...

Ali Al Saadi

Ali Al Saadi is a Lebanese football player who currently is a Safa Beirut player and represents Lebanon internationally. He plays as a defender. He participated in the ONGC Nehru Cup as part of the Lebanese team and scored the winning goal in the opening match against India, defeating India...

Roda Antar

Roda Antar is a Lebanese football midfielder who currently plays for Shandong Luneng Taishan in the Chinese Super League, and is captain of the Lebanon national team....

Abbas Ali Atwi

Abbas Ali Atwi is a Lebanese footballer. He currently plays for the Lebanese side Al Ahed F.C. as a striker. In 2003 and 2004, he played for Olympic Beirut before signing with Al Ahed in 2005. He started his career playing for Al-Bourj FC...

Mahmoud El Ali

Mahmoud El Ali is a Lebanese footballer who currently plays for Al-Ahed in Lebanon. He represents the Lebanon national football team at international level. He is a striker.-Career:...

Mohammed Ghaddar

Mohammed Mahmoud Ghaddar is a Lebanese footballer who currently plays for Kelantan FA in the Malaysian Super League and the Lebanon national football team.Ghaddar is the first ever Lebanese footballer to play for Kelantan FA.-Nejmeh:...

Akram Moghrabi

Akram Moghrabi is a Lebanese professional association football attacking midfielder. Akram Moghrabi is currently a regular starter for his current Lebanese Premier League club Nejmeh. He represents his nation by playing for the Lebanon national football team. Preferably, Scandar is an attacking...

Amad Al Hosni

Amad Ali Suleiman Al Hosni, also spelled "Imad" , is an Omani footballer. He currently plays for Al-Ahli Sports Club.-Career:Al Hosni was signed by Charleroi in September 2009 on free transfer...

Abdulaziz Al Sulaiti

Abdulaziz Al Sulaiti is a Qatari footballer who is a midfielder for Al-Arabi. He made his debut for the Qatar national football team during the 9th International Friendship Tournament held in December 2009....

Mohamed El-Sayed Sebastián Soria

Sebastián Soria

Andrés Sebastián Soria Quintana , is a naturalized Qatari footballer who plays as a striker for Qatar SC.-Early career:Soria originally had a 2-week trial at Uruguayan club Defensor Sporting in Montevideo as a youngster, however they subsequently rejected Soria, and he returned home.Soria continued...

Ahmed Al-Fraidi

Ahmed Al-Fraidi is a Saudi football player.At the age of 17 he joined the Riyadh based club Al-Hilal, where he plays as number 8 on a midfielder position....

Nasser Al-Shamrani

Nasser Al-Shamrani is a Saudi Arabian football player for the Al-Shabab football club based in Riyadh. Nasser, a forward, moved to Al-Shabab during the beginning of the 2007-2008 season from Al-Wehda. He signed a contract with Al-Shabab for 13 million riyals for 5 seasons...

Naif Hazazi

Naif Hazazi , is a Saudi Arabian footballer, currently playing for the Jeddah-based Al-Ittihad club. He plays as a centre forward....

Mohammed Noor

Mohammed Noor Al-Hawsawi is a footballer from Saudi Arabia. He plays for the club side Al-Ittihad and has been called the Saudi Patrick Vieira. He is also considered as one of the best players in Asia....

Aleksandar Đurić Kim Jung-Woo

Kim Jung-Woo

Kim Jung-Woo , from Korea University, is a South Korean football player who as of 2011 Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma.-Career:He started off his career playing for Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i, and then had a spell playing with at Nagoya Grampus Eight of the Japanese J-League.Kim joined Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma of...

Koo Ja-Cheol Lee Keun-Ho

Lee Keun-Ho

Lee Keun-ho is a South Korean football player who currently plays for Japanese club Gamba Osaka in the J. League Division 1.-Personal life:...

Sompong Soleb

Sompong Soleb is a Thai footballer. He plays for Thai Division 1 League clubside Buriram.He debuted for the senior Thailand national football team in 2010....

Ismail Al Hammadi

Ismail Al Hammadi is a footballer from the United Arab Emirates . He currently plays for Al-Ahli Football Club - Dubai.-International goals:-External links:*...

Ahmed Khalil Mahmoud Khamees

Mahmoud Khamees

Mahmoud Khamees Al-Hammadi is a footballer from the United Arab Emirates who currently plays for Al-Wahda.-External links:...

Odil Ahmedov

Odil Ahmedov is a footballer from Uzbekistan. He usually plays as an defensive midfielder, he also played as a center back on Asian Cup 2011, because of injuries of some defensive players. He is playing for FC Anzhi Makhachkala....

Server Djeparov

Server Djeparov is an Uzbekistani professional football midfielder who currently plays for Al-Shabab. He has won the Asian Footballer of the Year awards twice, first in 2008 and the other in 2011.-Early life:He was born on 3 October 1982 in Chirchiq, Uzbek SSR...

Timur Kapadze

Timur Kapadze is an Uzbekistani professional football midfielder of Georgian descent who currently plays for K-League side Incheon United.-International career:...

Maksim Shatskikh

Maksim Aleksandrovich Shatskikh , is an Uzbek professional footballer who plays for Arsenal Kyiv in the Ukrainian Premier League....

Sanzhar Tursunov

Sanzhar Atkhamovich Tursunov is a Russian and Uzbekistani professional football player. Currently, he plays for FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod.-FC Pakhtakor:...

1 own goal

Mahmoud Baquir Younes

Mahmoud Baquir Younes

Mahmoud Baquir Younes is a Lebanese footballer who currently plays for the Lebanese national team and Al Ahed in the Lebanese Premier League.- Title : Lebanese Premier League: 3...

(playing against Kuwait) Rashid Al-Farsi (playing against Thailand)
Walid Abbas

Walid Abbas

Walid Abbas is an Emirati professional association football player who plays as a defender. He currently plays for Al Shabab Al Arabi in the UAE Football League. He wears the number 5 shirt for club and wears the number 14 shirt for country...

(playing against Kuwait)
Hamdan Al Kamali

Hamdan Al Kamali

Hamdan Ismail Mohammed Al Kamali is an Emirati footballer, currently playing as a central defender for Al Wahda and UAE national team.-Al Wahda:...

(playing against South Korea)

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