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Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian qualifiers preliminary round 3
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This page provides the summaries of the matches of the group stage of the Asian football qualifiers for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
The 12 teams in this round were divided into three groups of four teams each and played on a home-and-away format. The group winners from each group will advance to the main tournament in London. Three second-placed teams from this round will play each other in a playoff at a centralised venue from 25 to 29 March 2012 and the winners of this group will meet the representatives of Africa for a berth in the Olympics.
The group stage draw took place on 7 July 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[1]
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The matches were played between 21 September 2011 and 14 March 2012.[2]
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| Team qualify for the 2012 Olympics |
| Team advance to the Play-off round |
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Group A
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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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 South Korea |
6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 12 |
 Oman |
6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
 Qatar |
6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 7 |
 Saudi Arabia |
6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 3 |
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More information South Korea, 2 – 0 ...
| South Korea | 2 – 0 | Oman |
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Yoon Bit-Garam  24' Kim Bo-Kyung 74' |
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More information Saudi Arabia, 1 – 1 ...
| Saudi Arabia | 1 – 1 | Qatar |
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| Dagriri 12' |
Report | Al Nahoyi 89' |
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More information Qatar, 1 – 1 ...
| Qatar | 1 – 1 | South Korea |
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| Majid 43' (pen.) |
Report | Kim Hyun-Sung 68' |
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More information South Korea, 1 – 0 ...
| South Korea | 1 – 0 | Saudi Arabia |
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| Cho Young-Cheol 33' (pen.) |
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More information Oman, 3 – 0 (awarded1) ...
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More information Qatar, 2 – 2 ...
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More information Saudi Arabia, 1 – 1 ...
| Saudi Arabia | 1 – 1 | South Korea |
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| Khudari 60' |
Report | Kim Bo-Kyung 90+1' |
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More information Oman, 0 – 3 ...
| Oman | 0 – 3 | South Korea |
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| Report | Nam Tae-Hee 1' Kim Hyun-Sung 68' Baek Sung-Dong 72' |
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More information Qatar, 2 – 1 ...
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More information Saudi Arabia, 1 – 1 ...
| Saudi Arabia | 1 – 1 | Oman |
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| Al-Muwallad 57' |
Report | Al-Hadhri 43' |
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- 1 Qatar adjudged to have played Abdelaziz Hatem when he should have served a suspension. Original result was 1–1.[3]
Group B
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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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 United Arab Emirates |
6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 14 |
 Uzbekistan |
6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 8 |
 Iraq |
6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 5 |
 Australia |
6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 4 |
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Attendance: 4,110
Referee: Malik Abdul Bashir (Singapore)
More information United Arab Emirates, 3 – 0 (awarded1) ...
| United Arab Emirates | 3 – 0 (awarded1) | Iraq |
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| Report | Abdul-Raheem 21' Sabah 77' |
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More information Uzbekistan, 2 – 0 ...
| Uzbekistan | 2 – 0 | Australia |
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| Turaev 27' Zoteev 85' |
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More information Iraq, 2 – 1 ...
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More information United Arab Emirates, 1 – 0 ...
| United Arab Emirates | 1 – 0 | Australia |
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| Abdulrahman 23' |
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More information Uzbekistan, 2 – 3 ...
| Uzbekistan | 2 – 3 | United Arab Emirates |
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| Zoteev 34' Musaev 47' |
Report | Khalil 51', 55' Saleh 90+3' |
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- 1 Iraq adjudged to have played Jasim Faisal when he should have served a suspension. Original result was 2–0 to Iraq.[4]
Group C
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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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 Japan |
6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 | +10 | 15 |
 Syria |
6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 12 |
 Bahrain |
6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 11 | −3 | 9 |
 Malaysia |
6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 16 | −13 | 0 |
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More information Syria, 3 – 1 ...
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Attendance: 200
Referee: Ali Al-Badwawi (United Arab Emirates)
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More information Syria, 2 – 1 ...
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More information Bahrain, 2 – 1 ...
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More information Malaysia, 0 – 4 ...
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Attendance: 14,205
Referee: Mohamed Abdelkarim Al-Zarooni (United Arab Emirates)
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
Mohamed Tayeb Al Alawi
- 2 goals
- Isa Ahmed
Keigo Higashi- Yuki Otsu
Kim Bo-Kyung- Kim Hyun-Sung
Abdulaziz Al-Maqbali
Fahad Al-Bulushi- Hassan Al Haidos
Omar Al Soma
Kenja Turaev
Ahmad Khalil
- 1 goal
- Hussain Farhan
- Saad Al Amer
- Sayed Shubbar
Mustafa Ahmad- Mohannad Abdul-Raheem
- Mohammed Saad Abdullah
- Nabeel Sabah
- Mizuki Hamada
- Genki Haraguchi
- Kensuke Nagai
- Yuya Osako
- Manabu Saito
- Hiroki Sakai
- Ryohei Yamazaki
- Takahiro Ogihara
- Hiroshi Kiyotake
- Baek Sung-Dong
- Cho Young-Cheol
- Nam Tae-Hee
- Yoon Bit-Garam
Ahmad Hazwan Bakri- Mahali Jasuli
- Nazmi Faiz
- Nasser Al-Shamli
- Hussain Ali Farah
- Qasim Said Sanjoor Hardan
- Hussain Al Hadhri
- Ahmed Al Nahoyi
- Ibrahim Majid
- Nasser Nabeel
Yahya Dagriri- Omar Khudari
- Ahmed Walibi
- Ahmad Al Douni
- Ahmad Al Salih
- Mohamad Fares
- Nasouh Nakdali
- Solaiman Solaiman
- Omar Abdulrahman
- Ahmad Ali
- Fozil Musaev
- Temurkhuja Abdukholiqov
- Oleg Zoteev
- Own goals
- Yuya Osako (for Syria)
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- "QFA | Qatar Football Association - QFA Press Release". Archived from the original on 2012-02-03. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
- "UAE Olympic team awarded win after Fifa find Iraq guilty". The National. 8 February 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
- "Bahrain arrive for Olympic qualifier". 2011-09-19. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2011-09-21.
- "Bahrain-Japan tie on Nov 22". 2011-08-10. Archived from the original on 2012-09-19. Retrieved 2011-08-10.