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2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC second round
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The second round of AFC matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (and 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification) was played from 24 May 2015 to 29 March 2016.[1]
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Format
A total of forty teams (teams ranked 1–34 in the AFC entrant list and six first round winners) were divided into eight groups of five teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The eight group winners and the four best group runners-up advanced to the third round of FIFA World Cup qualification as well as qualify for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup finals.
A total of 24 teams eliminated from World Cup qualification in the second round competed in the third round of 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification (which was separated from the third round of 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification), where they were divided into six groups of four teams and competed for the remaining slots of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. The 24 teams consisted of the sixteen highest ranked teams eliminated in the second round, and the eight teams that advanced from the play-off round of 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification which were contested by the remaining twelve teams eliminated in the second round.[2]
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Seeding
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The draw for the second round was held on 14 April 2015, at 17:00 MST (UTC+8), at the JW Marriott Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[3][4]
The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of April 2015 (shown in parentheses below).[5] The 40 teams were seeded into five pots:[6]
- Pot 1 contained the teams ranked 1–8.
- Pot 2 contained the teams ranked 9–16.
- Pot 3 contained the teams ranked 17–24.
- Pot 4 contained the teams ranked 25–32.
- Pot 5 contained the teams ranked 33–40.
Each group contained one team from each of the five pots. The fixtures of each group were automatically decided based on the respective pot of each team.
As the seeding order was based on the most recent FIFA Rankings prior to the draw, it differed from the order in the AFC entrant list, which was based on the FIFA World Rankings of January 2015. Among the six first round winners, three were seeded higher than pot 5 (India in pot 3, Timor-Leste and Bhutan in pot 4), on the basis of ranking points gained from the first round matches, while the other three (Yemen, Cambodia and Chinese Taipei) were seeded in pot 5.
- Notes
- Bolded teams qualified for the third round.
- (D): Disqualified after draw
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In league format, the ranking of teams in each group was based on the following criteria (regulations Articles 20.6 and 20.7):[7]
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Group A
- On 12 December 2017, AFC decided to forfeit the first five matches involving Timor-Leste – both v Malaysia, home v United Arab Emirates, away v Saudi Arbia, and home v Palestine due to the use of falsified documents for their players of Timor-Leste.[10]
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Ali Sabah Adday Al-Qaysi (Iraq)
Attendance: 32,482
Referee: Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari (Singapore)
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Adham Makhadmeh (Jordan)
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Group B
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari (Singapore)
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Group C
Attendance: 28,036
Referee: Sukhbir Singh (Singapore)
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Group D
- FIFA awarded Iran a 3–0 win as a result of India fielding the ineligible player Eugeneson Lyngdoh.[22] The match initially ended 3–0 to Iran.
Attendance: 14,500
Referee: Ammar Al-Jeneibi (United Arab Emirates)
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Group E
Attendance: 100
Referee: Yousef Al-Marzouq (Kuwait)
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Group F
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Group G
- During this stage the Kuwait Football Association was suspended after the country had failed to comply with a decision from FIFA that its sports law had to be changed. The three remaining matches involving Kuwait – away v Myanmar, home v Laos, and away v South Korea – were not played as scheduled, and were eventually awarded as 3–0 wins for Kuwait's opponents.[29][30][31] Kuwait was also unable to compete in the Third round of the Asian Cup qualifying, to which it would have advanced based on its ranking.
Attendance: 3,056
Referee: Mohd Nafeez Abdul Wahab (Malaysia)
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Salah Abbas Alabbasi (Bahrain)
Attendance: 12,150
Referee: Ammar Al-Jeneibi (United Arab Emirates)
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Group H
- FIFA awarded North Korea a 3–0 win as a result of Yemen fielding the ineligible player Mudir Al-Radaei, after North Korea had defeated Yemen 1–0. Al-Radaei failed to serve an automatic one match suspension for receiving two yellow cards earlier in the First round of the competition.[38]
Attendance: 3,200
Referee: Hettikamkanamge Perera (Sri Lanka)
Attendance: 5,200
Referee: Dmitriy Mashentsev (Kyrgyzstan)
Attendance: 34,000
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Ranking of runner-up teams
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To determine the four best runner-up teams, the following criteria were used:
- Points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss)
- Goal difference
- Goals scored
- Fair play points
- Drawing of lots
As a result of Indonesia being disqualified by FIFA suspension, Group F contained only four teams compared to five teams in all other groups. Therefore, the results against the fifth-placed team were not counted when determining the ranking of the runner-up teams.[41]
Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Counting only matches against teams ranked first to fourth in the group, 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Fair play points; 5) Drawing of lots.
Notes:
Rules for classification: Counting only matches against teams ranked first to fourth in the group, 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Fair play points; 5) Drawing of lots.
Notes:
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Ranking of fourth-placed teams
To determine the four best fourth-placed teams, the following criteria were used:
- Points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss)
- Goal difference
- Goals scored
- Fair play points
- Drawing of lots
As a result of Indonesia being disqualified by FIFA suspension, Group F contained only four teams compared to five teams in all other groups. Therefore, the results against the fifth-placed team were not counted when determining the ranking of the fourth-placed teams.[41]
Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Counting only matches against teams ranked first to fourth in the group, 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Fair play points; 5) Drawing of lots.
Rules for classification: Counting only matches against teams ranked first to fourth in the group, 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Fair play points; 5) Drawing of lots.
Goalscorers
There were 507 goals scored in 149 matches, for an average of 3.4 goals per match.
14 goals
11 goals
8 goals
7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
Nathan Burns
Jiang Ning
Maya Yoshida
Khampheng Sayavutthi
Ri Hyok-chol- Jong Il-gwan
Jonathan Cantillana- Tamer Seyam
Misagh Bahadoran
Ali Assadalla
Yahya Al-Shehri[note 29]
Safuwan Baharudin- Fazrul Nawaz
Kwon Chang-hoon- Lee Jae-sung
Mahmoud Al-Mawas- Sanharib Malki
Teerasil Dangda
Arslanmyrat Amanow
Omar Abdulrahman[note 29]
Odil Ahmedov
Lê Công Vinh
2 goals
Khaibar Amani- Norlla Amiri
- Mustafa Zazai
- Massimo Luongo
- Mark Milligan
- Aaron Mooy
Ismail Abdullatif- Abdulwahab Al-Malood
- Sayed Mohamed Adnan
Tshering Dorji- Chencho Gyeltshen
- Wang Yongpo
- Wu Lei
- Yu Hanchao
Wu Chun-ching
Godfred Karikari- Lam Ka Wai
- Jaimes McKee
Sunil Chhetri
Ashkan Dejagah- Ehsan Hajsafi
Ali Adnan- Justin Meram
- Mu Kanazaki
Vitalij Lux
Hassan Chaito- Hassan Maatouk
Aung Thu- Pak Kwang-ryong
Amad Al-Hosni- Ahmed Mubarak Al-Mahaijri
- Abdulaziz Al-Muqbali
- Jaka Ihbeisheh
- Sameh Maraaba
- Yashir Pinto
- Iain Ramsay
- Karim Boudiaf
- Mohammed Kasola
- Fahad Al-Muwallad[note 29]
- Khairul Amri
- Jang Hyun-soo
- Ki Sung-yueng
- Koo Ja-cheol
- Suk Hyun-jun
- Abdelrazaq Al Hussain
- Raja Rafe
Akhtam Nazarov- Pokklaw Anan
- Theerathon Bunmathan
- Adisak Kraisorn
- Mongkol Tossakrai
Ramon Saro[note 29]- Guwanç Abylow
- Alexander Geynrikh
- Anzur Ismailov
- Nguyễn Văn Toàn
Ahmed Al-Sarori
1 goal
- Faysal Shayesteh
- Josef Shirdel
- Mathew Leckie
- Tommy Oar
- Sami Al-Husaini
- Hussain Ali Baba
- Mohamed Al Romaihi
- Abdullah Omar
Jahid Hasan Ameli- Biren Basnet
Sos Suhana- Huang Bowen
- Mei Fang
- Zhang Linpeng
- Zhang Xizhe
- Hung Kai-chun
- Wen Chih-hao
- Yaki Yen
Brandon McDonald- Travis Nicklaw
- Christian Annan
- Bai He
- Chan Siu Ki
- Ju Yingzhi
- Lo Kwan Yee
- Paulinho
- Xu Deshuai
- Sandesh Jhingan
- Jeje Lalpekhlua
- Robin Singh
- Karim Ansarifard
- Saeid Ezatolahi
- Jalal Hosseini
- Alireza Jahanbakhsh
- Kamal Kamyabinia
- Morteza Pouraliganji
- Ramin Rezaeian
- Masoud Shojaei
- Andranik Teymourian[note 29]
- Mehdi Torabi
- Mohannad Abdul-Raheem
- Ali Hosni
- Dhurgham Ismail
- Mahdi Kamel
- Ahmed Yasin
- Genki Haraguchi
- Hiroshi Kiyotake
- Masato Morishige
- Takashi Usami
Munther Abu Amarah- Yaseen Al-Bakhit
- Yousef Al-Naber
- Yousef Al-Rawashdeh
- Baha' Faisal
- Ahmed Samir
Ali Maqseed- Aziz Mashaan
- Faisal Zayid
- Ildar Amirov
- Edgar Bernhardt
- Bakhtiyar Duyshobekov
- Almazbek Mirzaliev
- Roda Antar
- Abbas Ahmed Atwi
- Hilal El-Helwe
- Mohammed Ghaddar
- Ali Hamam
- Youssef Mohamad
- Joan Oumari
- Feiz Shamsin
Mohd Amri Yahyah[note 29]- Baddrol Bakhtiar
- Mohd Safiq Rahim[note 29]
- Safee Sali[note 29]
Asadhulla Abdulla- Ahmed Nashid
- Ahmed Niyaz
- Kyaw Ko Ko
- Kyaw Zayar Win
- Suan Lam Mang
- Zaw Min Tun
- Jang Kuk-chol
- Ro Hak-su
- So Hyon-uk[note 29]
- So Kyong-jin
- Mohammed Al-Ghassani
- Saad Al-Mukhaini
- Qasim Said
- Raed Ibrahim Saleh
- Musab Al-Battat
- Ahmed Awad
- Abdelatif Bahdari
- Matías Jadue
- Pablo Tamburrini
- Khader Yousef
- Manuel Ott
- Javier Patiño
- Stephan Schröck
- Akram Afif
- Abdelkarim Hassan
- Ahmed Abdul Maqsoud
- Ismaeel Mohammad
- Sebastián Soria
- Salman Al-Faraj[note 29]
- Osama Hawsawi
- Naif Hazazi
- Faris Ramli
- Lee Chung-yong
- Lee Jeong-hyeop
- Nam Tae-hee
- Moayad Ajan
- Oday Al-Jafal
- Ahmad Kallasi
- Omar Midani
- Fatkhullo Fatkhuloev
- Tana Chanabut
- Kroekrit Thaweekarn
- Serdaraly Ataýew
- Artur Geworkýan
- Ruslan Mingazow
- Süleýman Muhadow
- Mekan Saparow
- Mohamed Ahmed
- Ismail Al Hammadi
- Ahmed Al Hashmi
- Dawood Ali
- Habib Fardan
- Mohanad Salem
- Stanislav Andreev
- Server Djeparov
- Azizbek Haydarov
- Eldor Shomurodov
- Đinh Tiến Thành
- Trần Phi Sơn
1 own goal
- Sharif Mukhammad (against Japan)
- Khoun Laboravy (against Japan)
- Leng Makara (against Syria)
- Ildar Amirov (against Australia)
- Valery Kichin (against Bangladesh)
- Ali Hamam (against South Korea)
- Zaw Min Tun (against Kuwait)
- Hamdi Al Masri (against Japan)
- Serdar Annaorazow (against Guam)
- Mekan Saparow (against Oman)
- Đinh Tiến Thành (against Thailand)
Notes
- Indonesia was also drawn into this group, but on 30 May 2015 the country's football association was suspended due to governmental interference, and on 3 June 2015 the team was disqualified and all matches involving it were cancelled.
- United Arab Emirates had already qualified for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup as tournament hosts and were competing to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
- The fixtures between Saudi Arabia and Palestine were switched after Saudi Arabia cited "exceptional conditions" for their inability to travel to the West Bank.[12] The return fixture, originally to be played on 13 October 2015 at the Faisal Al-Husseini International Stadium, Al-Ram, was later postponed by Saudi Arabia's refusal to pass through Israeli-controlled borders,[13] until the process of agreeing on the venue was concluded.[14] The match was rescheduled to be played on 5 November 2015 in Palestine, after the Palestinian Football Association gave full security guarantees for the match.[15] The match was later further delayed until 9 November, and to be changed to a neutral venue in Asia, as the Palestinian government confirmed that it could no longer guarantee the safety and security for the match.[16] The neutral venue was announced to be Amman International Stadium in Amman, Jordan.[17]
- The home matches of Palestine against Saudi Arabia and Malaysia were played on neutral ground as the Palestinian government confirmed that it could no longer guarantee the safety and security for the matches.[16] The neutral venue was announced to be Amman International Stadium in Amman, Jordan.[17]
- Maldives played their home match against China PR in China because of the poor condition of the National Football Stadium.[21]
- FIFA awarded Iran a 3–0 win as a result of India fielding the ineligible player Eugeneson Lyngdoh.[22] The match initially ended 3–0 to Iran.
- Afghanistan played their home matches in Iran because of security concerns from the War in Afghanistan.[23]
- The fixtures between Japan and Singapore were switched because the Singapore National Stadium was booked on 16 June 2015 to host the closing ceremony of the 2015 Southeast Asian Games.[24]
- Syria played their home matches in Oman because of security concerns from the Syrian Civil War.[25]
- The Thailand v Vietnam match was brought forward from 11 June 2015, as it interfered with commitments for the 2015 Southeast Asian Games.[28]
- Iraq played their home matches in Iran because of security concerns from the Iraqi Civil War.[23]
- Myanmar played their home matches in Thailand due to a sanction after a crowd incident during a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Oman. The sanction had originally banned the team from entering the competition, but the Myanmar FA filed an appeal to FIFA which was partially upheld.[32]
- The Myanmar v Kuwait match, originally to be played on 17 November 2015, 19:00 UTC+7, at the Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, was not played as scheduled because of the suspension of the Kuwait Football Association by FIFA.[34]
- The match scheduled for 17 November 2015 should be canceled (and awarded as a 3–0 win for Myanmar) as it did not take place because of the suspension of the Kuwait Football Association.[35][36]
- The Kuwait v Laos match, originally to be played on 24 March 2016, 18:35 UTC+3, at the Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium, Kuwait City, was not played as scheduled because of the suspension of the Kuwait Football Association by FIFA.[34]
- The match scheduled for 24 March 2016 should be canceled (and awarded as a 3–0 win for Laos) as it did not take place because of the suspension of the Kuwait Football Association.[36][37]
- The South Korea v Kuwait match, originally to be played on 29 March 2016, 20:00 UTC+9, at the Daegu World Cup Stadium, Daegu, was not played as scheduled because of the suspension of the Kuwait Football Association by FIFA.[34]
- The match scheduled for 29 March 2016 should be canceled (and awarded as a 3–0 win for South Korea) as it did not take place because of the suspension of the Kuwait Football Association.[36][37]
- FIFA awarded North Korea a 3–0 win as a result of Yemen fielding the ineligible player Mudir Al-Radaei, after North Korea had defeated Yemen by 1–0. Al-Radaei failed to serve an automatic one match suspension for receiving two yellow cards earlier in the First round of the competition.[39]
- Yemen played their home matches in Qatar because of security concerns from the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.[40]
- This player's goal tally included one or more goals which the player scored in matches that were subsequently forfeited, but which FIFA still continued to count in its statistics.
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