2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC third round
Third Round of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
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This page provides the summaries of the AFC third round matches for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.
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.[1][2]
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.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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Note: Syria was replaced by Tajikistan in the third round on 19 August 2011 following the awarding of both second round matches to Tajikistan.[3]
Group A
Iraq  | 0–2 |  Jordan |
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| Report | Abdel-Fattah  43'Abdallah Deeb 47' |
Singapore  | 0–2 | Iraq |
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| Report | Abdul-Zahra 50' Mahmoud 86' |
| Jordan | 2–1 |  China |
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| Abdel-Rahman 49' Amer Deeb 56' |
Report | Hao Junmin 57' |
| Singapore | 0–4 | China |
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| Report | Yu Hai 41' Li Weifeng 56'Zheng Zheng 73', 81' |
Group B
South Korea  | 6–0 |  Lebanon |
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| Park Chu-young 8', 45+1', 67' Ji Dong-won 66', 85'Kim Jung-woo 82' |
Report |
United Arab Emirates  | 2–3 |  Kuwait |
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| Al Hammadi 84' Khalil 89' |
Report | Nasser 7', 65' Al-Mutawa 51' |
| Kuwait | 1–1 | South Korea |
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| Fadhel 54' |
Report | Park Chu-young 9' |
| South Korea | 2–1 | United Arab Emirates |
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| Park Chu-young 55' Al-Kamali  64' (o.g.) |
Report | Matar 90+2' |
| United Arab Emirates | 0–2 | South Korea |
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| Report | Lee Keun-ho 88' Park Chu-young 90+3' |
| Lebanon | 2–1 | South Korea |
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| Al Saadi 4' Atwi 32' (pen.) |
Report | Koo Ja-cheol 20' (pen.) |
| South Korea | 2–0 | Kuwait |
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| Lee Dong-gook 65' Lee Keun-ho 71' |
Report |
| United Arab Emirates | 4–2 | Lebanon |
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| Saeed 20', 78' Al-Wehaibi 38'Matar 68' |
Report | El Ali 23' Maatouk 45+2' |
Group C
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |
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| 1 | Uzbekistan |
6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 16 | Fourth round | — | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | |
| 2 | Japan |
6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 3 | +11 | 10 | 0–1 | — | 1–0 | 8–0 | ||
| 3 | North Korea |
6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 7 | 0–1 | 1–0 | — | 1–0 | ||
| 4 | Tajikistan |
6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 18 | −17 | 1 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 1–1 | — |
| Japan | 1–0 | North Korea |
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| Yoshida 90+4' |
Report |
| Tajikistan | 0–1 | Uzbekistan |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Shatskikh 72' |
| North Korea | 1–0 | Tajikistan |
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| Pak Nam-Chol 14' |
Report |
| Uzbekistan | 1–1 | Japan |
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| Djeparov 8' |
Report | Okazaki 65' |
| North Korea | 0–1 | Uzbekistan |
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| Report | Geynrikh 26' |
| Uzbekistan | 1–0 | North Korea |
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| Kapadze 48' |
Report |
| North Korea | 1–0 | Japan |
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| Pak Nam-Chol 50' |
Report |
| Uzbekistan | 3–0 | Tajikistan |
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| Tursunov 35' Ahmedov 60'Geynrikh 70' |
Report |
| Tajikistan | 1–1 | North Korea |
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| Khamrakulov 61' |
Report | Jang Song-Hyok 54' (pen.) |
| Japan | 0–1 | Uzbekistan |
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| Report | Shadrin 53' |
Group D
Oman  | 0–0 |  Saudi Arabia |
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| Report |
| Saudi Arabia | 1–3 |  Australia |
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| Al-Shamrani 66' |
Report | Kennedy 40', 56' Wilkshire 77' (pen.) |
| Saudi Arabia | 0–0 | Oman |
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| Report |
| Australia | 4–2 | Saudi Arabia |
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| Brosque 43', 75' Kewell 73'Emerton 76' |
Report | Al-Dawsari 19' Al-Shamrani 45+2' |
| Oman | 2–0 |  Thailand |
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| Al-Hadhri 8' Al-Muqbali 90+2' |
Report |
Group E
Iran  | 3–0 |  Indonesia |
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| Nekounam 53', 74' Teymourian 87' |
Report |
| Indonesia | 0–2 |  Bahrain |
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| Report | Saeed 45+1' Abdul-Latif 70' |
| Iran | 6–0 | Bahrain |
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| Hosseini 22' Jabbari 34'Aghily 42'Teymourian 61'Ansarifard 75'Rezaei 83' |
Report |
| Bahrain | 10–0 | Indonesia |
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| Abdul-Latif 5' (pen.), 71', 75' Al Alawi 16', 61'Abdulrahman 35' (pen.), 42'Saeed 63', 82', 90+4' |
Report |
Goalscorers
There were 173 goals scored in 60 matches, for an average of 2.88 goals per match.
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
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
1 goal
- 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
1 own goal
- Mahmoud Baquir Younes (against Kuwait)
- Rashid Al Farsi (against Thailand)
- Walid Abbas (against Kuwait)
- Hamdan Al Kamali (against South Korea)
Notes
- Moved from the original venue at Yanggakdo Stadium due to the poor condition of the pitch.[6]
- Moved from the original venue at Rajamangala Stadium due to flooding.[7]