Malaysia_v_Saudi_Arabia_(2018_FIFA_World_Cup_qualifying)

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC second round

International football competition

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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Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Iran (40) Japan (50) South Korea (57) Australia (63) United Arab Emirates (68)^{[note 2]} Uzbekistan (73) China (82) Iraq (86)	Saudi Arabia (95) Oman (97) Qatar (99) Jordan (103) Bahrain (108) Vietnam (125) Syria (126) Kuwait (127)	Afghanistan (135) Philippines (139) Palestine (140) Maldives (141) Thailand (142) Tajikistan (143) Lebanon (144) India (147)
Pot 4	Pot 5
East Timor (152) Kyrgyzstan (153) North Korea (157) Myanmar (158) Turkmenistan (159) Indonesia (159) (D) Singapore (162) Bhutan (163)	Malaysia (164) Hong Kong (167) Bangladesh (167) Yemen (170) Guam (175) Laos (178) Cambodia (179) Chinese Taipei (179)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Saudi Arabia	8	6	2	0	28	4	+24	20	World Cup qualifying third round and Asian Cup	—	2–1	3–2	2–0	7–0^{[lower-alpha 1]}
2	United Arab Emirates^{[lower-alpha 2]}	8	5	2	1	27	4	+23	17	World Cup qualifying third round and Asian Cup	1–1	—	2–0	10–0	8–0
3	Palestine	8	4	2	2	24	5	+19	14	Asian Cup qualifying third round	0–0	0–0	—	6–0	7–0
4	Malaysia	8	2	0	6	7	29	−22	6	Asian Cup qualifying play-off round	0–3^{[lower-alpha 3]}	1–2	0–6	—	3–0^{[lower-alpha 1]}
5	East Timor^{[lower-alpha 1]}	8	0	0	8	0	44	−44	0	Asian Cup qualifying play-off round	0–10	0–3^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0–3^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0–3^{[lower-alpha 1]}	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	8	7	0	1	29	4	+25	21	World Cup qualifying third round and Asian Cup	—	5–1	3–0	7–0	5–0
2	Jordan	8	5	1	2	21	7	+14	16	Asian Cup qualifying third round	2–0	—	0–0	3–0	8–0
3	Kyrgyzstan	8	4	2	2	10	8	+2	14	Asian Cup qualifying third round	1–2	1–0	—	2–2	2–0
4	Tajikistan	8	1	2	5	9	20	−11	5	Asian Cup qualifying play-off round	0–3	1–3	0–1	—	5–0
5	Bangladesh	8	0	1	7	2	32	−30	1	Asian Cup qualifying play-off round	0–4	0–4	1–3	1–1	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Qatar	8	7	0	1	29	4	+25	21	World Cup qualifying third round and Asian Cup	—	1–0	2–0	4–0	15–0
2	China	8	5	2	1	27	1	+26	17	World Cup qualifying third round and Asian Cup	2–0	—	0–0	4–0	12–0
3	Hong Kong	8	4	2	2	13	5	+8	14	Asian Cup qualifying third round	2–3	0–0	—	2–0	7–0
4	Maldives	8	2	0	6	8	20	−12	6	Asian Cup qualifying play-off round	0–1	0–3	0–1	—	4–2
5	Bhutan	8	0	0	8	5	52	−47	0	Asian Cup qualifying play-off round	0–3	0–6	0–1	3–4	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	8	6	2	0	26	3	+23	20	World Cup qualifying third round and Asian Cup	—	2–0	3–1	6–0	4–0
2	Oman	8	4	2	2	11	7	+4	14	Asian Cup qualifying third round	1–1	—	3–1	1–0	3–0
3	Turkmenistan	8	4	1	3	10	11	−1	13		1–1	2–1	—	1–0	2–1
4	Guam	8	2	1	5	3	16	−13	7		0–6	0–0	1–0	—	2–1
5	India	8	1	0	7	5	18	−13	3	Asian Cup qualifying play-off round	0–3^{[lower-alpha 1]}	1–2	1–2	1–0	—

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC second round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	8	7	1	0	27	0	+27	22	World Cup qualifying third round and Asian Cup	—	5–0	0–0	5–0	3–0
2	Syria	8	6	0	2	26	11	+15	18	World Cup qualifying third round and Asian Cup	0–3	—	1–0	5–2	6–0
3	Singapore	8	3	1	4	9	9	0	10	Asian Cup qualifying third round	0–3	1–2	—	1–0	2–1
4	Afghanistan	8	3	0	5	8	24	−16	9	Asian Cup qualifying third round	0–6	0–6	2–1	—	3–0
5	Cambodia	8	0	0	8	1	27	−26	0	Asian Cup qualifying play-off round	0–2	0–6	0–4	0–1	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Thailand	6	4	2	0	14	6	+8	14	World Cup qualifying third round and Asian Cup	—	2–2	1–0	4–2
2	Iraq	6	3	3	0	13	6	+7	12	World Cup qualifying third round and Asian Cup	2–2	—	1–0	5–1
3	Vietnam	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	7	Asian Cup qualifying third round	0–3	1–1	—	4–1
4	Chinese Taipei	6	0	0	6	5	19	−14	0	Asian Cup qualifying play-off round	0–2	0–2	1–2	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	8	8	0	0	27	0	+27	24	World Cup qualifying third round and Asian Cup	—	1–0	3–0^{[lower-alpha 1]}	4–0	8–0
2	Lebanon	8	3	2	3	12	6	+6	11	Asian Cup qualifying third round	0–3	—	0–1	1–1	7–0
3	Kuwait	8	3	1	4	12	10	+2	10	Disqualified^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0–1	0–0	—	9–0	0–3^{[lower-alpha 1]}
4	Myanmar	8	2	2	4	9	21	−12	8	Asian Cup qualifying third round	0–2	0–2	3–0^{[lower-alpha 1]}	—	3–1
5	Laos	8	1	1	6	6	29	−23	4	Asian Cup qualifying play-off round	0–5	0–2	0–2	2–2	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uzbekistan	8	7	0	1	20	7	+13	21	World Cup qualifying third round and Asian Cup	—	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–0
2	North Korea	8	5	1	2	14	8	+6	16	Asian Cup qualifying third round	4–2	—	0–0	2–0	1–0
3	Philippines	8	3	1	4	8	12	−4	10		1–5	3–2	—	2–1	0–1
4	Bahrain	8	3	0	5	10	10	0	9		0–4	0–1	2–0	—	3–0
5	Yemen	8	1	0	7	2	17	−15	3	Asian Cup qualifying play-off round	1–3	0–3^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0–2	0–4	—