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World Cup 2014



AFC





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    ASIA


    • 43 teams entered the competition. Available World Cup spots: 4.5
    • 4 teams qualify directly. A fifth team will play off against the fifth best team in the CONMEBOL region for one spot in the World Cup.
    • Two preliminary home/away knock-out rounds are held to narrow down the field to 20 teams. These teams are divided into 5 groups of 4. The 5 groupwinners and runners-up progress to the final phase.
    • The final phase contains two groups of five teams. The two groupwinners and the two runners-up qualify for the World Cup. The two third placed teams play eachother home/away to determine who will represent Asia in an intercontinental play-off.


    Updated: 15 October 2013

    Matches played: 148  Goals scored: 432  Goals pr game: 2.92

    [Topscorers in this region]


    Intercontinental play-off
    Jordan vs Uruguay
    (13th and 20th November)


    Asian play-off
    Jordan vs Uzbekistan

    Final Phase

    GROUP A
    Iran
    South Korea
    Uzbekistan
    Qatar
    Lebanon
    GROUP B
    Japan
    Australia
    Jordan
    Oman
    Iraq


    Third Phase
    ---

    GROUP 1
    Iraq
    Jordan
    China
    Singapore
    GROUP 2
    South Korea
    Lebanon
    Kuwait
    United Arab Emirates
    GROUP 3
    Uzbekistan
    Japan
    North Korea
    Tajikistan
    ---
    GROUP 4
    Australia
    Oman
    Saudi Arabia
    Thailand
    GROUP 5
    Iran
    Qatar
    Bahrain
    Indonesia



    Preliminary knock-out round 2

    Preliminary knock-out round 1


     

    Topscorers in this region

    Shinji Okazaki           Japan          8
    Younis Mahmoud           Iraq           7
    Hassan Abdel-Fattah      Jordan         7
    Ahmad Hayel              Jordan         7
    Le Cong Vinh             Vietnam        7
    Javad Nekounam           Iran           6
    Chu-Young Park           South Korea    6
    Joshua Kennedy           Australia      5
    Hao Junmin               China          5
    Keisuke Honda            Japan          5
    Amer Deeb                Jordan         5
    Hassan Maatouk           Lebanon        5
    Khalfan Ibrahim          Qatar          5
    Nasser Al-Shamrani       Saudi Arabia   5
    Keun-Ho Lee              South Korea    5
    




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