2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)
Tournament details
Dates	19 November 2003 - 16 November 2005
Teams	38 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	134
Goals scored	400 (2.99 per match)
Attendance	2,873,158 (21,441 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ali Daei ; (9 goals)
	← 2002 2010 →

Last updated April 23, 2024

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for Asia .

44 Asian teams are affiliated with FIFA, but Cambodia, Philippines, Bhutan and Brunei decided not to take part, and Myanmar were banned from the competition (for refusing to play a qualifier in Iran during 2002 qualifying), so a total of 39 teams took part, competing for 4.5 places in the World Cup.

Format

The qualification was composed of three rounds. Only the 14 last ranked teams according to FIFA took part in the Preliminary Round, where they were paired 2-by-2 and played home-and-away knock-out matches. The 7 winners joined the other 25 teams in the second round, where those 32 teams were divided in 8 groups of four teams each. The teams in each group would play against each other home-and-away, and the team with most points in each group would advance to the Third Round.

In the third round, the 8 remaining teams were divided in two groups of 4 teams each, that would again play against each other in a home-and-away basis. The two teams with most points in each group would qualify to the World Cup. The two third placed teams would play-off against each other home-and-away. Winner of this play-off would play against the fourth placed team in the final round of CONCACAF in an intercontinental play-off for a place in the World Cup.

First round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Turkmenistan	13–0	Afghanistan	11–0	2–0
Chinese Taipei	6–1	Macau	3–0	3–1
Bangladesh	0–4	Tajikistan	0–2	0–2
Laos	0–3	Sri Lanka	0–0	0–3
Pakistan	0–6	Kyrgyzstan	0–2	0–4
Mongolia	0–13	Maldives	0–1	0–12

Guam and Nepal were scheduled to play against each other on November 21 and 25; Nepal withdrew, so Guam progressed to the 2nd round, but Guam later withdrew.

FIFA then decided to elect a "lucky loser", to select the best of the teams that lost, to advance to the second round.

The losers were compared, using the following criteria to break ties: a) number of points; b) goal difference; c) goals scored.

Team	Pld	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Laos	2	1	1	0	3	−3	1
Bangladesh	2	0	2	0	4	−4	0
Macau	2	0	2	1	6	−5	0
Pakistan	2	0	2	0	6	−6	0
Afghanistan	2	0	2	0	13	−13	0
Mongolia	2	0	2	0	13	−13	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Laos advanced to the second round.

Second round

In the second round, the 25 teams who received byes, as well as the 7 play-off round winners, were split into eight groups of four teams each. Teams played home-and-away games with the other teams in their group, and the top-ranked team qualified for the third round.

Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	6	5	1	22	4	+18	15	Third round	—	0–1	3–1	7–0
2	Jordan	6	4	2	10	6	+4	12		0–2	—	1–0	5–0
3	Qatar	6	3	3	16	8	+8	9		2–3	2–0	—	5–0
4	Laos	6	0	6	3	33	−30	0		0–7	2–3	1–6	—

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uzbekistan	6	5	1	0	16	3	+13	16	Third round	—	1–1	3–0	6–1
2	Iraq	6	3	2	1	17	7	+10	11		1–2	—	4–1	6–1
3	Palestine	6	2	1	3	11	11	0	7		0–3	1–1	—	8–0
4	Chinese Taipei	6	0	0	6	3	26	−23	0		0–1	1–4	0–1	—

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	6	6	0	0	16	1	+15	18	Third round	—	1–0	7–0	1–0
2	Oman	6	3	1	2	14	3	+11	10		0–1	—	0–0	7–0
3	India	6	1	1	4	2	18	−16	4		0–4	1–5	—	1–0
4	Singapore	6	1	0	5	3	13	−10	3		1–2	0–2	2–0	—

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kuwait	6	5	1	15	2	+13	15	Third round	—	1–0	4–0	6–1
2	China	6	5	1	14	1	+13	15		1–0	—	7–0	4–0
3	Hong Kong	6	2	4	5	15	−10	6		0–2	0–1	—	2–0
4	Malaysia	6	0	6	2	18	−16	0		0–2	0–1	1–3	—

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 5

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	North Korea	6	3	2	1	11	5	+6	11	Third round	—	0–0	4–1	2–1
2	United Arab Emirates	6	3	1	2	6	6	0	10		1–0	—	1–0	3–0
3	Thailand	6	2	1	3	9	10	−1	7		1–4	3–0	—	1–1
4	Yemen	6	1	2	3	6	11	−5	5		1–1	3–1	0–3	—

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 6

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bahrain	6	4	2	0	15	4	+11	14	Third round	—	2–1	4–0	5–0
2	Syria	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8		2–2	—	2–1	0–1
3	Tajikistan	6	2	1	3	5	9	−4	7		0–0	0–1	—	2–1
4	Kyrgyzstan	6	1	1	4	5	12	−7	4		1–2	1–1	1–2	—

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 7

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	6	4	2	0	9	2	+7	14	Third round	—	2–0	2–0	2–0
2	Lebanon	6	3	2	1	11	5	+6	11		1–1	—	0–0	3–0
3	Vietnam	6	1	1	4	5	9	−4	4		1–2	0–2	—	4–0
4	Maldives	6	1	1	4	5	14	−9	4		0–0	2–5	3–0	—

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 8

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Saudi Arabia	6	6	0	0	14	1	+13	18	Third round	—	3–0	3–0	3–0
2	Turkmenistan	6	2	1	3	8	10	−2	7		0–1	—	3–1	2–0
3	Indonesia	6	2	1	3	8	12	−4	7		1–3	3–1	—	1–0
4	Sri Lanka	6	0	2	4	4	11	−7	2		0–1	2–2	2–2	—

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Third round

In the third round, the 8 teams who won their groups in the earlier round were split into two groups of four teams each. Teams played home-and-away games with the other teams in their group, and the top two teams qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Meanwhile, the third-placed teams entered a play-off to determine who would contest the AFC–CONCACAF play-off.

Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Saudi Arabia	6	4	2	0	10	1	+9	14	2006 FIFA World Cup	—	2–0	3–0	3–0
2	South Korea	6	3	1	2	9	5	+4	10	2006 FIFA World Cup	0–1	—	2–1	2–0
3	Uzbekistan	6	1	2	3	7	11	−4	5	Fourth round	1–1	1–1	—	3–2
4	Kuwait	6	1	1	4	4	13	−9	4		0–0	0–4	2–1	—

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	6	5	0	1	9	4	+5	15	2006 FIFA World Cup	—	2–1	1–0	2–1
2	Iran	6	4	1	1	7	3	+4	13	2006 FIFA World Cup	2–1	—	1–0	1–0
3	Bahrain	6	1	1	4	4	7	−3	4	Fourth round	0–1	0–0	—	2–3
4	North Korea	6	1	0	5	5	11	−6	3		0–2	0–2	1–2	—

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Fourth round

Teams finishing 3rd in the third round groups played each other to determine a possible 5th qualifier from Asia. The first leg was originally played on 3 September 2005 but the match was ordered to be replayed by FIFA after a refereeing mistake. With Uzbekistan leading the tie 1–0, a penalty was awarded to them but the referee disallowed the resulting goal and offered an indirect freekick to Bahrain for encroachment. Uzbekistan had formally requested for the match to be recorded as an automatic 3–0 victory.^[2]

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Uzbekistan	1–1 (a)	Bahrain	1–1	0–0

Bahrain advanced to the AFC–CONCACAF play-off on the away goals rule.

Inter-confederation play-offs

The Fourth Round winner then played the fourth-placed team of the CONCACAF qualifying group, Trinidad and Tobago, in a home-and-away play-off. The winner of this play-off qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Trinidad and Tobago	2–1	Bahrain	1–1	1–0

Qualified teams

The following four teams from AFC qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup ¹
Saudi Arabia	Third round group 1 winners	8 June 2005	3 (1994, 1998, 2002)
Japan	Third round group 2 winners	8 June 2005	2 (1998, 2002 )
South Korea	Third round group 1 runners-up	8 June 2005	6 (1954, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 )
Iran	Third round group 2 runners-up	8 June 2005	2 (1978, 1998)

¹Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Top goalscorers

There were 400 goals scored in 134 matches, for an average of 2.99 goals per match.

9 goals

Ali Daei

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

Below are full goalscorer lists for each round:

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "2006 FIFA World Cup Germany Preliminaries: Asian Zone". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 11 January 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2008.
↑ "Uzbekistan and Bahrain to play it again". ESPN. Retrieved 13 July 2016.

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[asianzone-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "2006 FIFA World Cup Germany Preliminaries: Asian Zone". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 11 January 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2008.

[2] "Uzbekistan and Bahrain to play it again". ESPN. Retrieved 13 July 2016.

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AFC	First round Second round Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Third round Fourth round (play-off)
CAF	First round Second round
CONCACAF	First round Second round Third round Fourth round
CONMEBOL	Group round
OFC	First round Second round (OFC Nations Cup)
UEFA	First round Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Second round (play-offs)
Play-offs	CONCACAF v AFC CONMEBOL v OFC
Video game	FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)

Contents

Format

First round

Second round

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Third round

Group 1

Group 2

Fourth round

Inter-confederation play-offs

Qualified teams

Top goalscorers

Related Research Articles

References

External links