Handball at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's tournament

Men's handball at the 2006 Asian Games was held in Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan from 3 December 3 to 14 December 2006.

Men at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall
Date	3–14 December 2006
Competitors	232 from 15 nations
Medalists
Kuwait    Qatar    Iran
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Main article: Handball at the 2006 Asian Games

Squads

Bahrain	China	Hong Kong	India
Ali Yusuf Jasim Mohamed Ahmed Tarrada Husain Jasim Fakher Hasan Madan Abdulrahman Mohamed Jaafar Abdulqader Sadiq Ali Husain Al-Qaidoom Mahmood Abdulqader Mahdi Madan Ahmed Al-Naser Ahmed Al-Tajer Abbas Malalla Sayed Majeed Al-Mosawi Tayseer Mohsen	Yan Liang Zhu Xinchen Zhou Xiaojian Zhang Zhiyu Liu Zipeng Tian Jianxia Ding Dawei Wang Xiaolong Hao Kexin Miao Qing Wang Xing Ye Qiang Cui Liang	Chan Kwok Hing Hui Man Pong Chan Wan Man Chan Wing Cheong Charm Wing Kei Cheung Kin Kwok Chan Kwong Yue Ip Shi Yan Lam Ka Wai Lin Ming Fai Ko Tsz Yan Leung Hoi Yip Roger Ho Yiu Tai Wai Tse Wai Hei Ng Wan Lung	Sachin Bhaskar Wagh Sukhdev Singh Firoz Ahmad Khan Binu Vasu Rasheed Khan Rakesh Kumar K. Praseed Kumar Pawan Kumar Naya Chandra Singh Gaurav Sehgal Kunal Sharma Anand Natraj Shyamala Prem Kumar Mohinder Singh Rawat Sachin Chaudhary Ratish Kumar Pandey
Iran	Japan	Kuwait	Lebanon
Iman Ehsannejad Mohammad Reza Rajabi Mohammad Reza Jafarnia Hani Zamani Masoud Zohrabi Saeid Pourghasemi Mostafa Sadati Allahkaram Esteki Farid Alimoradi Alireza Rabie Hossein Shahabi Ali Akbar Khoshnevis Rasoul Dehghani Peyman Sadeghi Hojjat Rahshenas	Takayuki Shimizu Katsuaki Matsubayashi Kenji Toyoda Seiichi Maeda Kyosuke Tomita Daisuke Miyazaki Norikazu Higashi Hideaki Nagashima Toru Takeda Yoshio Nakagawa Toshihiro Tsubone Yoshiyuki Nakahata Takashi Takagi Masayuki Kagawa Masakatsu Izuma Tetsuya Kadoyama	Torki Al-Khalidi Bader Abbas Abdulaziz Al-Zoabi Faisal Al-Mutairi Saleh Al-Jaimaz Husain Siwan Fahad Rabie Abdullah Al-Theyab Yousef Al-Fadhli Ali Al-Haddad Mahdi Al-Qallaf Meshal Swailem Hamad Al-Rashidi Ali Al-Mithin Saad Al-Azemi Ali Murad	Hassan Sakr Akram El-Cheikh Hussein Kassem Assaf Ahmad Chahine Maher Hamdar Mahmoud Barakat Mohammad Hamdar Rabih Mazloum Jad Badra Bilal Akil Philippe Tamer Bassam Farasha Khoder Al-Nahass Zoulfikar Daher Imad Kaafarani Sami Hamdar
Macau	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	South Korea
Chan Ka Chung Chau Hong Cheng Lei Hou Ieong Lei Seng Hong Ho Kin Seng Cheang Kin Long Kuok Weng Hang Leong Weng Mun Kou Weng Kin Mok Ka Chon Vong Vai Tin Lao Ka Seng Cheong Ka Ho Lei Kio Chon Sou Kwok Ho Sou Pui Kei	Anas Al-Suweidan Adnan Al-Ali Khalid Al-Hashmi Rashid Al-Remaihi Samir Hashim Abdulla Saad Al-Saad Mohamed Bajawi Mohammed Walid Ghazal Ahmed Saad Al-Saad Mubarak Bilal Al-Ali Mohsin Yafai Yousef Ashoor Fawaz Al-Moadhadi Khalid Al-Marri Yousef Al-Maalem Badi Johar	Abdullah Al-Abdulali Qusai Al-Saeed Yasser Shakhor Hussain Al-Ekhwan Turki Al-Bedhy Abdullah Al-Dossari Ali Al-Saihati Manaf Al-Saeed Sultan Al-Obaidi Nabil Al-Obaidi Ahmed Al-Enbaawi Mohammed Al-Salem Faisal Al-Flati Talal Al-Suraihi Bandar Al-Harbi Turki Al-Enbaawi	Han Kyung-tai Ko Kyung-soo Park Jung-geu Kim Jang-moon Park Kyung-suk Paek Won-chul Park Chan-young Park Jong-pyo Yoon Ci-yoel Lee Tea-young Lee Jae-woo Yu Dong-geun Yoon Kyung-shin Kim Tea-wan Lee Byung-ho Lee Jun-hee
Syria	United Arab Emirates	Uzbekistan
Tarek Al-Cheikh Musa Amin Al-Hussein Obaeda Al-Abd Saher Hmedi Kasem Swedan Saji Mahamid Mohammad Hadad Al-Nmeri Al-Cheikh Musa Mosab Al-Jondy Bassel Al-Rayes Sahib Al-Azawi Rami Al-Jahmani Mohammad Al-Hasan Mustafa Al-Karad Firas Ahmad Ahmad Mahamid	Abdulrahman Al-Nuaimi Omar Al-Khani Hamad Khalfan Ali Saqer Omran Al-Marzouqi Abdulla Al-Saffar Ahmed Saqer Kazim Al-Saffar Khalid Ahmed Al-Balooshi Abdulrazzak Al-Hashemi Nabil Bin Ashour Ibrahim Ibrahim Jasim Al-Ali Juma Al-Kaabi Mohamed Hassan Al-Balooshi Abdulla Al-Hammadi	Damir Kurbanov Rustam Usarov Zafar Azimov Aleksey Shevchenko Erkinbay Normatov Sherzodbek Kasimov Evgeniy Iskhakbaev Bahromjon Madaminov Akramjon Otajonov Ulugbek Ikromov Alimjan Egemsaparov Jasurbek Abdullaev

Results

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Preliminary league

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Qatar	3	3	0	0	129	56	+73	6	Main round
2	Bahrain	3	2	0	1	125	70	+55	4
3	India	3	1	0	2	80	109	−29	2	Placement 9–12
4	Macau	3	0	0	3	37	136	−99	0	Placement 13–15

Source: Results

3 December 10:00	Bahrain	53–11	Macau	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Kim, Kim (KOR)
	M. Abdulqader 11	(27–5)	four players 2
	3× 2×		2× 2×

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3 December 18:00	Qatar	48–19	India	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Ossipov, Porol (KAZ)
	Ah. Al-Saad 12	(19–9)	F. Khan 6
	3× 4×		2× 3×

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4 December 12:00	India	31–14	Macau	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Abdulhusain, Khalaf (KUW)
	N. Singh 12	(17–5)	Chau, Kuok 3
	4× 3×		3× 4×

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5 December 12:00	Bahrain	47–30	India	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Liu, Liu (CHN)
	M. Abdulqader 10	(22–15)	N. Singh 9
	3× 6×		3× 2× 1×

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5 December 20:00	Qatar	52–12	Macau	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Kim, Kim (KOR)
	Al-Suweidan, A. Al-Ali 8	(24–5)	Lao 4
	3× 2×		3× 4×

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6 December 18:00	Bahrain	25–29	Qatar	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Tanji, Samha (SYR)
	four players 5	(13–10)	Ah. Al-Saad 9
	4× 10× 2×		2× 7×

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kuwait	3	3	0	0	105	68	+37	6	Main round
2	Iran	3	2	0	1	85	74	+11	4
3	China	3	1	0	2	78	83	−5	2	Placement 9–12
4	Hong Kong	3	0	0	3	64	107	−43	0	Placement 13–15

Source: Results

3 December 16:00	China	25–27	Iran	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Al-Suwaidi, Al-Marzouqi (UAE)
	Zhu 7	(10–15)	Rabie 6
	4× 4×		3× 9× 1×

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4 December 10:00	China	30–23	Hong Kong	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Ogasawara, Hamada (JPN)
	Wang Xia. 7	(18–10)	Cheung, Ho 4
	3× 3×		3× 4×

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4 December 16:00	Kuwait	31–22	Iran	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Hirzallah, Al-Shoubaki (JOR)
	Swailem 7	(16–12)	Esteki 8
	3× 2×		2× 6× 1×

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5 December 14:00	Hong Kong	18–36	Iran	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Ogasawara, Hamada (JPN)
	Ip, Ho 4	(10–13)	Esteki 11
	4× 3×		3× 6×

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5 December 18:00	Kuwait	33–23	China	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Al-Suwaidi, Al-Marzouqi (UAE)
	Murad 6	(18–9)	Zhu 7
	3× 2×		3× 3×

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6 December 14:00	Kuwait	41–23	Hong Kong	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Al-Qarni, Al-Dossary (KSA)
	Al-Theyab, Al-Mithin 6	(20–14)	Ip 6
	3× 5×		3× 5×

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Saudi Arabia	3	3	0	0	110	77	+33	6	Main round
2	Japan	3	2	0	1	115	76	+39	4
3	United Arab Emirates	3	1	0	2	95	94	+1	2	Placement 9–12
4	Uzbekistan	3	0	0	3	80	153	−73	0	Placement 13–15

Source: Results

3 December 12:00	Japan	56–30	Uzbekistan	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Liu, Liu (CHN)
	Toyoda 8	(31–12)	Egemsaparov 9
	3× 2×		2× 4×

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3 December 20:00	United Arab Emirates	29–33	Saudi Arabia	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Tanji, Samha (SYR)
	Al-Ali 6	(11–17)	Al-Ekhwan 9
	3× 2×		2× 6×

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4 December 18:00	Japan	25–26	Saudi Arabia	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Al-Hail, Al-Hamad (QAT)
	Miyazaki 6	(11–11)	Al-Harbi 10
	4× 3× 1×		4× 3× 1×

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4 December 20:00	United Arab Emirates	46–27	Uzbekistan	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Dib, Haidar (LIB)
	Al-Khani, A. Al-Saffar, Ah. Saqer 8	(24–19)	Egemsaparov 8
	3× 3× 1×		3× 2×

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5 December 16:00	Japan	34–20	United Arab Emirates	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Karbaschi, Kolahdouzan (IRI)
	Kadoyama 9	(15–11)	Ah. Saqer 5
	4× 6×		4× 4×

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6 December 16:00	Uzbekistan	23–51	Saudi Arabia	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Abdulhusain, Khalaf (KUW)
	Ikromov 8	(11–24)	T. Al-Enbaawi 12
	4× 8× 1×		3× 5× 1×

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	2	2	0	0	83	65	+18	4	Main round
2	Syria	2	1	0	1	73	66	+7	2
3	Lebanon	2	0	0	2	57	82	−25	0	Placement 9–12

Source: Results

3 December 14:00	South Korea	38–36	Syria	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Karbaschi, Kolahdouzan (IRI)
	Lee J.H. 12	(18–17)	Al-Rayes 12
	2× 9× 2×		4× 5×

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4 December 14:00	Syria	37–28	Lebanon	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Al-Qarni, Al-Dossary (KSA)
	Swedan 9	(18–13)	Al-Nahass 10
	2× 3×		3× 5×

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5 December 10:00	South Korea	45–29	Lebanon	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Ossipov, Porol (KAZ)
	Kim T. 8	(23–11)	Al-Nahass 14
	2× 8× 1×		4× 13× 1×

Placement 13–15

	Placement 13–15				Placement 13–14
	10 December
	Macau	35
					11 December
	Uzbekistan	46
					Uzbekistan	32
					Hong Kong	35

Semifinals

10 December 21:30	Macau	35–46	Uzbekistan	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Liu, Liu (CHN)
	Vong 8	(15–24)	Otajonov, Ikromov 9
	3× 3×		3× 4×

Placement 13–14

11 December 10:00	Uzbekistan	32–35	Hong Kong	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Ogasawara, Hamada (JPN)
	Normatov 8	(18–19)	Ip 9
	4× 11× 3×		3× 2× 2×

Placement 9–12

	Placement 9–12				Placement 9–10
	10 December
	India	28
					12 December
	United Arab Emirates	42
					United Arab Emirates	29
	10 December
					Lebanon	31
	China	28
	Lebanon	31
					Placement 11–12
					11 December
					India	33
					China	34

Semifinals

10 December 17:30	India	28–42	United Arab Emirates	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Kim, Kim (KOR)
	F. Khan 11	(10–27)	Al. Saqer 8
	3× 1×		3× 2×

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10 December 19:30	China	28–31	Lebanon	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Ogasawara, Hamada (JPN)
	Zhu, Zhang, Wang Xia. 5	(13–14)	Al-Nahass 12
	3× 10× 2×		3× 5× 1×

Placement 11–12

11 December 12:00	India	33–34	China	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Dib, Haidar (LIB)
	F. Khan 9	(14–18)	Wang Xia. 10
	3× 3× 1×		3× 3×

Placement 9–10

12 December 14:00	United Arab Emirates	29–31	Lebanon	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Ossipov, Porol (KAZ)
	A. Al-Saffar, Ah. Saqer 7	(12–12)	Daher 9
	2× 9× 1×		4× 9× 1×

Main round

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Qatar	3	3	0	0	66	45	+21	6	Semifinals
2	Iran	3	2	0	1	82	71	+11	4
3	Syria	3	1	0	2	80	84	−4	2	Placement 5–6
4	Saudi Arabia	3	0	0	3	44	72	−28	0	Placement 7–8

Source: Results

7 December 18:00	Qatar	27–24	Iran	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Tanji, Samha (SYR)
	Ah. Al-Saad 11	(12–12)	Zamani, Esteki, Rahshenas 6
	3× 3×		3× 7×

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7 December 20:00	Saudi Arabia	25–34	Syria	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Hirzallah, Al-Shoubaki (JOR)
	Al-Ekhwan, Al-Bedhy, Al-Saihati 5	(11–15)	Al-Rayes 10
	4× 9× 1×		3× 4× 1×

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8 December 18:00	Qatar	29–21	Syria	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Abdulhusain, Khalaf (KUW)
	Ah. Al-Saad 9	(17–7)	Hadad 7
	3× 7×		2× 8× 2×

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8 December 20:00	Saudi Arabia	19–28	Iran	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Ossipov, Porol (KAZ)
	Al-Saihati 5	(8–15)	Esteki 5
	3× 8×		2× 9×

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9 December 18:00	Qatar	10–0	Saudi Arabia	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Al-Suwaidi, Al-Marzouqi (UAE)
		(Walkover)

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9 December 20:00	Syria	25–30	Iran	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Hirzallah, Al-Shoubaki (JOR)
	Swedan 9	(8–13)	Rahshenas 6
	3× 5×		3× 6×

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kuwait	3	3	0	0	99	78	+21	6	Semifinals
2	South Korea	3	1	1	1	95	87	+8	3[a]
3	Japan	3	1	1	1	75	85	−10	3[a]	Placement 5–6
4	Bahrain	3	0	0	3	81	100	−19	0	Placement 7–8

Source: Results
Notes:

1. Head-to-head result: KOR 26–26 JPN. Overall goal difference was used as the tiebreaker.

7 December 14:00	Kuwait	35–24	Japan	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Karbaschi, Kolahdouzan (IRI)
	Al-Zoabi, Murad 7	(19–10)	Izuma 6
	3× 7× 1×		3× 4×

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7 December 16:00	South Korea	43–29	Bahrain	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Ossipov, Porol (KAZ)
	Paek 7	(21–15)	J. Abdulqader, M. Madan 7
	3× 6×		3× 7×

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8 December 14:00	Kuwait	32–28	Bahrain	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Hirzallah, Al-Shoubaki (JOR)
	Al-Azemi, Murad 7	(20–10)	J. Abdulqader, Al-Mosawi 6
	2× 8×		4× 8× 2×

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8 December 16:00	South Korea	26–26	Japan	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Tanji, Samha (SYR)
	Paek 8	(13–14)	Toyoda 7
	1× 7×		3× 1×

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9 December 14:00	Kuwait	32–26	South Korea	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Al-Hail, Al-Hamad (QAT)
	Murad 13	(15–10)	Lee T. 9
	3× 5×		3× 6× 2×

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9 December 16:00	Japan	25–24	Bahrain	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Al-Qarni, Al-Dossary (KSA)
	Higashi 5	(13–10)	Malalla 6
	4× 8× 1×		3× 3×

Placement 5–8

Placement 7–8

12 December 16:00	Bahrain	32–31	Saudi Arabia	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Kim, Kim (KOR)
	J. Abdulqader 8	(18–18)	Al-Saihati 8
	2× 4×		3× 3×

Placement 5–6

13 December 14:00	Japan	31–34	Syria	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Dib, Haidar (LIB)
	Kadoyama 8	(15–16)	Al-Rayes 8
	3× 5×		3× 2×

Final round

	Semifinals				Gold medal match
	11 December
	Kuwait	31
					14 December
	Iran	22
					Kuwait	27
	11 December
					Qatar	24
	Qatar	40
	South Korea	28
					Bronze medal match
					14 December
					Iran	31
					South Korea	27

Semifinals

11 December 18:00	Kuwait	31–22	Iran	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Hirzallah, Al-Shoubaki (JOR)
	Murad 8	(16–10)	Zamani 7
	3× 2×		3× 3×

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11 December 20:00	Qatar	40–28	South Korea	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Abdulhusain, Khalaf (KUW)
	Ah. Al-Saad 8	(19–13)	Lee J.H. 9
	3× 3×		3× 10× 2×

Bronze medal match

14 December 16:00	Iran	31–27	South Korea	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Ossipov, Porol (KAZ)
	Zamani 10	(14–11)	Lee T. 9
	3× 9× 1×		4× 7×

Gold medal match

14 December 18:00	Kuwait	27–24	Qatar	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall, Al-Rayyan Referees: Karbaschi, Kolahdouzan (IRI)
	Swailem 13	(13–11)	Ghazal 5
	3× 3×		4× 9× 2×

Final standing

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	Kuwait	8	8	0	0
	Qatar	8	7	0	1
	Iran	8	5	0	3
4	South Korea	7	3	1	3
5	Syria	6	3	0	3
6	Japan	7	3	1	3
7	Bahrain	7	3	0	4
8	Saudi Arabia	7	3	0	4
9	Lebanon	4	2	0	2
10	United Arab Emirates	5	2	0	3
11	China	5	2	0	3
12	India	5	1	0	4
13	Hong Kong	4	1	0	3
14	Uzbekistan	5	1	0	4
15	Macau	4	0	0	4