Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian Qualifiers

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Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian Qualifiers
Tournament details
Dates7 February – 21 November 2007
Teams24 (from 1 confederation)
2004
2012

The Asian Football Confederation's Pre-Olympic Tournament was held from 7 February to 21 November 2007. Twenty-four teams entered the qualification for the three allocated spots for the 2008 Summer Olympics Football tournament in Beijing.

Contents

The qualification saw Australia, Korea Republic, and Japan winning their final round groups and qualifying to the Olympics.

Format

Asian berths for the final is 3 plus the host China PR (automatically qualified).

Preliminary round
14 highest seeded teams received byes for the second round. Other 20 teams were paired, where each pair played home and away. The 10 winners would advance to the second round.
Second round
24 teams were grouped into 6 groups of 4 teams each, where each group would consist of home and away round-robin tournament. The winners and runners-up of each group would advance to the final stage.
Final round
12 teams were grouped into 3 groups of 4 teams each, where each group would consist of home and away round-robin tournament. The winners of each group would qualify to the finals.

Preliminary round 1

The first legs were played on 7 February and the second legs on 14 February 2007. The aggregate winners advanced to the second round.

Team 1Agg.Team 21st leg2nd leg
Myanmar  Flag of Myanmar (1974-2010).svg22(p)Flag of India.svg  India 11 11
(25p)
Afghanistan  Flag of Afghanistan (2004-2013).svg02Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 1 02
Australia  Flag of Australia (converted).svg120Flag of Chinese Taipei (Olympics; 1986-2010).svg  Chinese Taipei 110 10
Bangladesh  Flag of Bangladesh.svg13Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 03 10
Singapore  Flag of Singapore.svg35Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 12 23
Uzbekistan  Flag of Uzbekistan.svg61Flag of Tajikistan.svg  Tajikistan 41 20
Palestine  Flag of Palestine.svg23Flag of Yemen.svg  Yemen 12 11
Thailand  Flag of Thailand.svg61Flag of Turkmenistan.svg  Turkmenistan 10 51
Indonesia  Flag of Indonesia.svg10Flag of Maldives.svg  Maldives 10 00
Jordan  Flag of Jordan.svgFlag of Kyrgyzstan.svg  Kyrgyzstan 2
1The first leg of the VietnamAfghanistan match in Hanoi was cancelled due to the Afghanistan team's financial problems that led to the team being unable to afford to travel to Vietnam, and security worries. FIFA rescheduled the single-tie match to 14 February 2007.
2Withdrew

Preliminary round 2

Matches were played from 28 February to 6 June 2007. The top two teams in each group advancing to the final round.

Preliminary round 3

The final round was played in three groups of four teams each held from 22 August to 21 November 2007. The winner of each group will represent Asia at the 2008 Olympic Games with host China. The groups were drawn on 13 June.

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