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2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification

Tournament details
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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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).

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.

Qualified teams

Country	Qualified as	Date qualification was secured	Previous appearances in tournament
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)

Notes:

Bold indicates champion for that year

Italic indicates host

Seedings

On 6 December 2007 the Asian Football Confederation announced the seeding for the preliminary round of the 2011 tournament:

• 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:

•  Afghanistan
•  Bangladesh
•  Bhutan
•  Brunei
•  Cambodia
•  Chinese Taipei
•  Guam
•  Kyrgyzstan
•  Laos
•  Macau
•  Mongolia
•    Nepal
•  Pakistan
•  Palestine
•  Philippines
•  Sri Lanka
•  Tajikistan
•  East Timor

Preliminary round

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.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lebanon	6–1	Maldives	4–0	2–1

Lebanon	4–0	Maldives
El Ali 5' Yaacoub 11' Atwi 13' (pen.) Ghaddar 39'	Report

Maldives	1–2	Lebanon
Shamweel Qasim 22'	Report	Korhani 9' Al Jamal 75'

Lebanon won 6–1 on aggregate and advanced to the group stage.

Qualifying round

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:

1. Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
2. Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
3. Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
4. Goal difference in all the group matches;
5. Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
6. Kicks from the penalty mark if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
7. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
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	—

Japan	2–1	Yemen
Okazaki 7' Tatsuya Tanaka 66'	Report	Al-Fadhli 47'

Hong Kong	1–3	Bahrain
Cheng Siu Wai 90'	Report	Abdullatif 10' Fatadi 37' Salman Isa 87'

Yemen	1–0	Hong Kong
Al Selwi 52'	Report

Bahrain	1–0	Japan
Salman Isa 24'	Report

Japan	6–0	Hong Kong
Okazaki 17', 74', 76' Nagatomo 28' Nakazawa 50' Túlio 67'	Report

Hong Kong	0–4	Japan
	Report	Hasebe 32' Satō 74' S. Nakamura 84' Okazaki 90+1' (pen.)

Bahrain	4–0	Yemen
Abdullatif 20' Fatadi 28' Salman 64' Al-Dali 75' (o.g.)	Report

Yemen	2–3	Japan
Al-Fadhli 13' Abbod 39'	Report	Hirayama 42', 55', 79'

Bahrain	4–0	Hong Kong
Abdullatif 35', 40', 44' Adnan 79'	Report

Yemen	3–0	Bahrain
Al Nono 5', 25' Al Abidi 86'	Report

Japan	2–0	Bahrain
Okazaki 36' Honda 90+2'	Report

Hong Kong	0–0	Yemen
	Report

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
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	—

Oman	0–0	Indonesia
	Report

Indonesia	0–0	Australia
	Report

Kuwait	0–1	Oman
	Report	Rabia 64'

Australia	0–1	Kuwait
	Report	Neda 38'

Australia	1–0	Oman
Cahill 74'	Report

Oman	1–2	Australia
Ayil 15' (pen.)	Report	Wilkshire 43' Emerton 82'

Kuwait	2–1	Indonesia
Al-Mutawa 61' (pen.), 87'	Report	Bambang 33'

Indonesia	1–1	Kuwait
Budi 45+4'	Report	Ajab 72'

Indonesia	1–2	Oman
Boaz 45'	Report	Bashir 32' Sulaiman 52'

Kuwait	2–2	Australia
Bandar 40' Naser 44'	Report	Wilkshire 3' Heffernan 5'

Australia	1–0	Indonesia
Milligan 42'	Report

Oman	0–0	Kuwait
	Report

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
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	—

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.

Malaysia	0–5	United Arab Emirates
	Report	Omar 29', 45+1' (pen.) Matar 62', 76' A. Khalil 85'

United Arab Emirates	0–1	Uzbekistan
	Report	F. Tadjiyev 30'

Uzbekistan	3–1	Malaysia
Djeparov 46' Geynrikh 57', 65'	Report	Zaquan Adha 68'

Malaysia	1–3	Uzbekistan
Baddrol 73'	Report	Gafurov 33' Nasimov 59' Kapadze 74'

United Arab Emirates	1–0	Malaysia
A. Khalil 90+3'	Report

Uzbekistan	0–1	United Arab Emirates
	Report	Al Manhali 90+2'

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
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	—

Vietnam	3–1	Lebanon
Nguyễn Minh Phương 12' Lê Công Vinh 30' Nguyễn Vũ Phong 70'	Report	Moghrabi 75'

Syria	3–2	China
Al Sayed 8' (pen.), 24' Al Khatib 39' (pen.)	Report	Qu Bo 51' Liu Jian 90+4'

China	6–1	Vietnam
Gao Lin 2', 20', 84' Du Wei 27' Jiang Ning 37' Hao Junmin 47'	Report	Nguyễn Vũ Phong 11'

Lebanon	0–2	Syria
	Report	J. Al Hussain 37' Al Khatib 78'

Vietnam	0–1	Syria
	Report	Rafe 90+4'

Lebanon	0–2	China
	Report	Yu Hai 44' Qu Bo 73'

Syria	0–0	Vietnam
	Report

China	1–0	Lebanon
Du Wei 21'	Report

China	0–0	Syria
	Report

Lebanon	1–1	Vietnam
El Ali 20'	Report	Pham Thanh Luong 40'

Vietnam	1–2	China
Lê Công Vinh 76' (pen.)	Report	Yang Xu 35' Zhang Linpeng 43'

Syria	4–0	Lebanon
Al Zeno 4' Al Ahga 10' J. Al Hussain 47' A. Al Hussain 60'	Report

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
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	—

Iran	6–0	Singapore
Gholamnejad 43' Bagheri 52' Rezaei 55' Zare 80' Nouri 82', 83'	Report

Jordan	0–0	Thailand
	Report

Singapore	2–1	Jordan
Casmir 21' Alam Shah 63'	Report	Aqel 41' (pen.)

Thailand	0–0	Iran
	Report

Singapore	1–3	Thailand
Fahrudin 84' (pen.)	Report	Suksomkit 12' (pen.), 81' Chaiman 75'

Iran	1–0	Jordan
Nekounam 72'	Report

Thailand	0–1	Singapore
	Report	Đurić 38'

Jordan	1–0	Iran
Amer Deeb 78'	Report

Singapore	1–3	Iran
Alam Shah 32'	Report	Aghili 11' (pen.) Madanchi 12' Rezaei 63'

Thailand	0–0	Jordan
	Report

Iran	1–0	Thailand
Nekounam 90'	Report

Jordan	2–1	Singapore
Al-Saify 9' Anas 60'	Report	Alam Shah 48'

Goalscorers

6 goals

• Shinji Okazaki

5 goals

• Ismael Abdullatif

3 goals

• Gao Lin
• Sōta Hirayama
• Noh Alam Shah

2 goals

• 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)

References

1. Australia, Japan top seeds for 2011 Asian Cup draw
2. Regulations AFC Asian Cup 2011 – Qualifiers Archived 27 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Asian Cup qualifying Group C recast". AFC. 15 September 2008. Archived from the original on 18 September 2008. Retrieved 15 September 2008.

External links

• Schedule & Results

• 2011 AFC Asian Cup
• AFC Asian Cup qualification
• 2009 in Asian football
• 2010 in Asian football