2011_AFC_Asian_Cup_qualification
2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification
International football competition
The 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification saw various countries take part to determine 10 spots to the final tournament in Qatar under the new qualification system set by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
Quick Facts Tournament details, Dates ...
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | 9 April 2008 – 3 March 2010 |
| Teams | 24 (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 56 |
| Goals scored | 158 (2.82 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Shinji Okazaki (6 goals) |
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Six other teams also qualified for the finals, even though they did not take part in the qualifiers:
- The host nation: Qatar;
- The top three finishers in the 2007 tournament: Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Korea Republic;
- The winner of the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup: India;
- The winner of the 2010 AFC Challenge Cup: Korea DPR.
Team qualified for Asian Cup
Team failed to qualify
More information Country, Qualified as ...
| Country | Qualified as | Date qualification was secured | Previous appearances in tournament1, 2 |
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 Qatar | Hosts | 29 July 2007 | 7 (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, 2007) |
 Iraq | 2007 AFC Asian Cup winner | 25 July 2007 | 6 (1972, 1976, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007) |
 Saudi Arabia | 2007 AFC Asian Cup runner-up | 25 July 2007 | 7 (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007) |
 South Korea | 2007 AFC Asian Cup third place | 28 July 2007 | 11 (1956, 1960, 1964, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007) |
 India | 2008 AFC Challenge Cup winner | 13 August 2008 | 2 (1964, 1984) |
 Uzbekistan | Group C runner-up | 18 November 2009 | 4 (1996, 2000, 2004, 2007) |
 Syria | Group D winner | 18 November 2009 | 4 (1980, 1984, 1988, 1996) |
 Iran | Group E winner | 6 January 2010 | 11 (1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007) |
 China | Group D runner-up | 6 January 2010 | 9 (1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007) |
| Japan | Group A winner | 6 January 2010 | 6 (1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007) |
 Bahrain | Group A runner-up | 6 January 2010 | 3 (1988, 2004, 2007) |
 United Arab Emirates | Group C winner | 6 January 2010 | 7 (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2007) |
 North Korea | 2010 AFC Challenge Cup winner | 27 February 2010 | 2 (1980, 1992) |
 Australia | Group B winner | 3 March 2010 | 1 (2007) |
 Kuwait | Group B runner-up | 3 March 2010 | 8 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004) |
 Jordan | Group E runner-up | 3 March 2010 | 1 (2004) |
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Notes:
- 1 Bold indicates champion for that year
- 2 Italic indicates host
On 6 December 2007 the Asian Football Confederation announced the seeding for the preliminary round of the 2011 tournament:[1]
More information Automatic Qualifiers, Other Teams ...
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- Teams marked '*' withdrew prior to the draw. All of them participated in the 2008 and 2010 AFC Challenge Cup, and therefore had a chance to qualify via those two tournaments.
- India (marked '**') were drawn into Group C of the qualifiers, but withdrew from the qualifiers following their victory in the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup which automatically qualified them for the final tournament.
- Maldives (marked '***') were the only other team that entered the Asian Cup qualifiers who could also qualify via the 2010 AFC Challenge Cup, but they were eliminated from the Asian Cup qualifiers before the group stage.
- The following teams did not enter main qualification, but could qualify via the AFC Challenge Cups if they chose to enter:
The preliminary round reduced the number of non-automatic qualifiers to 20. Following the withdrawals of Korea DPR, Myanmar and Turkmenistan, only two teams were involved. The two lowest ranked AFC teams, Lebanon and Maldives, played home-and-away matches in April 2008. The away goals rule would be applied, and extra time and penalty shootout would be used to decide the winner if necessary. The winner of the preliminary round advanced to the qualifying round, where it was joined by the 19 teams seeded 4th to 22nd.
More information Team 1, Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score ...
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More information Lebanon, 4–0 ...
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Lebanon won 6–1 on aggregate and advanced to the group stage.
The 20 teams were divided into five groups of four. Teams played each other home and way in a round-robin format. The top two in each group advanced to the 2011 tournament where they were joined by the other qualifiers — Qatar, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, India and North Korea.
Seedings
The following teams were drawn at this round:
Tiebreakers
The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss) and tie breakers are in following order:[2]
- Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
- Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
- Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
- Goal difference in all the group matches;
- Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
- Kicks from the penalty mark if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
- Drawing of lots.
More information Team, Pld ...
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
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| Japan |
6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 4 | +13 | 15 | — | 2–0 | 2–1 | 6–0 | |
| Bahrain |
6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 12 | 1–0 | — | 4–0 | 4–0 | |
| Yemen |
6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | −2 | 7 | 2–3 | 3–0 | — | 1–0 | |
| Hong Kong |
6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 18 | −17 | 1 | 0–4 | 1–3 | 0–0 | — |
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More information Japan, 2–1 ...
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More information Hong Kong, 1–3 ...
| Hong Kong | 1–3 | Bahrain |
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Cheng Siu Wai  90' |
Report | Abdullatif 10' Fatadi 37' Salman Isa 87' |
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More information Japan, 6–0 ...
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More information Hong Kong, 0–4 ...
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More information Bahrain, 4–0 ...
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More information Yemen, 2–3 ...
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More information Bahrain, 4–0 ...
| Bahrain | 4–0 | Hong Kong |
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| Abdullatif 35', 40', 44' Adnan 79' |
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More information Team, Pld ...
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
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| Australia |
6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 11 | — | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| Kuwait |
6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 9 | 2–2 | — | 0–1 | 2–1 | |
| Oman |
6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 1–2 | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | |
| Indonesia |
6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | — |
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Attendance: 13,000
Referee: Tayeb Hasan Shamsuzzaman (Bangladesh)
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Mohamed Omar Al Saeedi (United Arab Emirates)
More information Oman, 1–2 ...
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More information Kuwait, 2–1 ...
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Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Valentin Kovalenko (Uzbekistan)
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More information Kuwait, 2–2 ...
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More information Team, Pld ...
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
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| United Arab Emirates |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 9 | — | 0–1 | 1–0 | |
| Uzbekistan |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 9 | 0–1 | — | 3–1 | |
| Malaysia |
4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 12 | −10 | 0 | 0–5 | 1–3 | — |
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Following their victory in the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup, India was given a bye to the final tournament and removed from this group prior to the first match. They were not replaced.[3]
More information Malaysia, 0–5 ...
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More information United Arab Emirates, 0–1 ...
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More information Uzbekistan, 3–1 ...
| Uzbekistan | 3–1 | Malaysia |
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| Djeparov 46' Geynrikh 57', 65' |
Report | Zaquan Adha 68' |
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More information Malaysia, 1–3 ...
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More information United Arab Emirates, 1–0 ...
| United Arab Emirates | 1–0 | Malaysia |
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| A. Khalil 90+3' |
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More information Uzbekistan, 0–1 ...
| Uzbekistan | 0–1 | United Arab Emirates |
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| Report | Al Manhali 90+2' |
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Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Tayeb Hasan Shamsuzzaman (Bangladesh)
More information Team, Pld ...
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
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| Syria |
6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 14 | — | 3–2 | 0–0 | 4–0 | |
| China |
6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 13 | 0–0 | — | 6–1 | 1–0 | |
| Vietnam |
6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | −5 | 5 | 0–1 | 1–2 | — | 3–1 | |
| Lebanon |
6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 13 | −11 | 1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | — |
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More information Vietnam, 3–1 ...
| Vietnam | 3–1 | Lebanon |
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| Nguyen Minh Phuong 12' Le Cong Vinh 30' Nguyen Vu Phong 70' |
Report | Moghrabi 75' |
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More information Syria, 3–2 ...
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More information China, 6–1 ...
| China | 6–1 | Vietnam |
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| Gao Lin 2', 20', 84' Du Wei 27' Jiang Ning 37' Hao Junmin 47' |
Report | Nguyen Vu Phong 11' |
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More information Vietnam, 1–2 ...
| Vietnam | 1–2 | China |
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| Le Cong Vinh 76' (pen.) |
Report | Yang Xu 35' Zhang Linpeng 43' |
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More information Syria, 4–0 ...
| Syria | 4–0 | Lebanon |
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| Al Zeno 4' Al Ahga 10' J. Al Hussain 47' A. Al Hussain 60' |
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More information Team, Pld ...
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
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| Iran |
6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 2 | +9 | 13 | — | 1–0 | 1–0 | 6–0 | |
| Jordan |
6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 1–0 | — | 0–0 | 2–1 | |
| Thailand |
6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0–0 | 0–0 | — | 0–1 | |
| Singapore |
6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 15 | −9 | 6 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–3 | — |
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More information Singapore, 1–3 ...
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Luke Wilkshire
Salman Isa- Abdulla Baba Fatadi
Qu Bo- Du Wei
Mohammad Nouri- Gholamreza Rezaei
- Javad Nekounam
Bader Al-Mutawa
Mahmoud El Ali
Maher Al Sayed- Firas Al Khatib
- Jehad Al Hussein
Sutee Suksomkit
Mohamed Omer- Ismail Matar
- Ahmad Khalil
Alexander Geynrikh
Nguyễn Vũ Phong- Lê Công Vinh
Zaher Farid Al-Fadhli- Ali Al Nono
- 1 goal
- Tim Cahill
- Dean Heffernan
- Brett Emerton
- Mark Milligan
- Hussain Salman
- Sayed Mohamed Adnan
- Hao Junmin
- Jiang Ning
- Liu Jian
- Yu Hai
- Yang Xu
- Zhang Linpeng
Cheng Siu Wai
Bambang Pamungkas- Boaz Solossa
- Budi Sudarsono
- Majid Gholamnejad
- Karim Bagheri
- Maziar Zare
- Hadi Aghili
- Mehrzad Madanchi
Yuji Nakazawa- Marcus Túlio Tanaka
- Yuto Nagatomo
- Tatsuya Tanaka
- Makoto Hasebe
- Shunsuke Nakamura
- Hisato Satō
- Keisuke Honda
Hatem Aqel- Amer Deeb
- Odai Al-Saify
- Anas Bani Yaseen
- Musaed Neda
- Ahmad Ajab
- Fayez Bandar
- Yousef Nasser
- Nasrat Al Jamal
- Akram Moghrabi
- Ali Yaacoub
- Abbas Ahmed Atwi
- Mohammed Ghaddar
- Mohamad Korhani
Mohd Zaquan Adha- Baddrol Bakhtiar
Shamweel Qasim
Khalifa Ayil- Hassan Rabia
- Fawzi Bashir
- Ismail Sulaiman
Agu Casmir- Mustafic Fahrudin
- Aleksandar Đurić
- Abdelrazaq Al Hussain
- Raja Rafe
- Mohamed Al Zeno
- Abdul Fattah Al Agha
- Therdsak Chaiman
- Sultan Bargash
- Farhod Tadjiyev
- Server Djeparov
- Anvar Gafurov
- Bahodir Nasimov
- Timur Kapadze
- Nguyễn Minh Phương
- Phạm Thành Lương
- Sami Abbod
- Akram Al Selwi
- Mohammed Al Abidi
- Own goal
- Aref Thabit Al-Dali (1) (playing against Bahrain)
- Regulations AFC Asian Cup 2011 – Qualifiers Archived 27 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- "Asian Cup qualifying Group C recast". AFC. 15 September 2008. Archived from the original on 18 September 2008. Retrieved 15 September 2008.