This page provides the summaries of the AFC third round matches for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification .
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.
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]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 15 | Fourth round | — | 0–2 | 1–0 | 7–1 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 12 | 1–3 | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | |||
| 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 9 | 0–1 | 3–1 | — | 2–1 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 20 | −18 | 0 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–4 | — |
| Iraq | 0–2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Abdel-Fattah Abdallah Deeb |
| Singapore | 0–2 | |
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| Report | Abdul-Zahra Mahmoud |
| Jordan | 2–1 | |
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| Abdel-Rahman Amer Deeb | Report | Hao Junmin |
| Singapore | 0–3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Abdallah Deeb B. Bani Yaseen Hayel |
| Singapore | 0–4 | |
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| Report | Yu Hai Li Weifeng Zheng Zheng |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 13 | Fourth round | — | 6–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 14 | −4 | 10 | 2–1 | — | 2–2 | 3–1 | |||
| 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 8 | 1–1 | 0–1 | — | 2–1 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 14 | −5 | 3 | 0–2 | 4–2 | 2–3 | — |
| South Korea | 6–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Park Chu-young Ji Dong-won Kim Jung-woo | Report |
| United Arab Emirates | 2–3 | |
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| Al Hammadi Khalil | Report | Nasser Al-Mutawa |
| Kuwait | 1–1 | |
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| Fadhel | Report | Park Chu-young |
| South Korea | 2–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Park Chu-young Al-Kamali | Report | Matar |
| United Arab Emirates | 0–2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Lee Keun-ho Park Chu-young |
| Kuwait | 0–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Report | El Ali |
| Lebanon | 2–1 | |
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| Al Saadi Atwi | Report | Koo Ja-cheol |
| South Korea | 2–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Lee Dong-gook Lee Keun-ho | Report |
| United Arab Emirates | 4–2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Saeed Al-Wehaibi Matar | Report | El Ali Maatouk |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 16 | Fourth round | — | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 3 | +11 | 10 | 0–1 | — | 1–0 | 8–0 | |||
| 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 7 | 0–1 | 1–0 | — | 1–0 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 18 | −17 | 1 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 1–1 | — |
| Japan | 1–0 | |
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| Yoshida | Report |
| Tajikistan | 0–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Shatskikh |
| North Korea | 1–0 | |
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| Pak Nam-Chol | Report |
| Uzbekistan | 1–1 | |
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| Djeparov | Report | Okazaki |
| North Korea | 0–1 | |
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| Report | Geynrikh |
| Japan | 8–0 | |
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| Havenaar Okazaki Komano Kagawa Nakamura | Report |
| Uzbekistan | 1–0 | |
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| Kapadze | Report |
| North Korea | 1–0 | |
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| Pak Nam-Chol | Report |
| Uzbekistan | 3–0 | |
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| Tursunov Ahmedov Geynrikh | Report |
| Tajikistan | 1–1 | |
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| Khamrakulov | Report | Jang Song-Hyok |
| Japan | 0–1 | |
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| Report | Shadrin |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
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| 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 15 | Fourth round | — | 3–0 | 4–2 | 2–1 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 8 | 1–0 | — | 0–0 | 2–0 | |||
| 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 6 | 1–3 | 0–0 | — | 3–0 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 4 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | — |
| Oman | 0–0 | |
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| Report |
| Saudi Arabia | 1–3 | |
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| Al-Shamrani | Report | Kennedy Wilkshire |
| Saudi Arabia | 0–0 | |
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| Report |
| Australia | 4–2 | |
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| Brosque Kewell Emerton | Report | Al-Dawsari Al-Shamrani |
| Oman | 2–0 | |
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| Al-Hadhri Al-Muqbali | Report |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 5 | +12 | 12 | Fourth round | — | 2–2 | 6–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 10 | 1–1 | — | 0–0 | 4–0 | |||
| 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | +6 | 9 | 1–1 | 0–0 | — | 10–0 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 26 | −23 | 0 | 1–4 | 2–3 | 0–2 | — |
| Iran | 3–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Nekounam Teymourian | Report |
| Indonesia | 0–2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Saeed Abdul-Latif |
| Iran | 6–0 | |
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| Hosseini Jabbari Aghily Teymourian Ansarifard Rezaei | Report |
| Bahrain | 10–0 | |
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| Abdul-Latif Al Alawi Abdulrahman Saeed | Report |
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
1 goal
1 own goal