2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)

2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)

Tournament details
Teams	39 (from 1 confederation)

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the Asian Zone (AFC). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification.

The Asian Football Confederation was allocated four qualifying berths for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, and one place in a play-off, however South Korea and Japan, the co-hosts, qualified automatically, leaving 2.5 spots open for competition between 40 teams. Myanmar withdrew from the tournament after being placed in Group 2 but before any matches had been played, therefore reducing the group to 3 teams.

Afghanistan, Bhutan, North Korea and Timor-Leste did not participate in the qualification process.

Asia's two remaining automatic qualifying berths were taken by Saudi Arabia and China. Iran failed to become a third Asian representative in the World Cup after losing their AFC/UEFA playoff against Republic of Ireland.

Tournament structure

There were three rounds of play:

• First Stage: The 39 teams were divided into 9 groups of 4 teams each, and 1 group of 3 teams. The teams played against each other twice, except in Group 2, where the teams played against each other once. The group winners would advance to the Final Round.
• Second Stage: The 10 teams were divided into 2 groups of 5 teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify. The runners-up would advance to the AFC Play-off.
• Play-off: The 2 teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winner would advance to the UEFA/AFC Intercontinental Play-off.

First round

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners qualify for the Second round

Group 1

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Oman 6 5 1 0 33 3 +30 16 Syria 6 4 1 1 40 6 +34 13 Laos 6 1 1 4 3 40 −37 4 Philippines 6 0 1 5 2 29 −27 1

Laos – 0–7 2–0 0–9 Oman 12–0 – 7–0 2–0 Philippines 1–1 0–2 – 1–5 Syria 11–0 3–3 12–0 –

Group 2

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Iran 2 2 0 0 21 0 +21 6 Tajikistan 2 1 0 1 16 2 +14 3 Guam 2 0 0 2 0 35 −35 0

Guam – – – Iran 19–0 – 2–0 Tajikistan 16–0 - -

Group 3

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qatar 6 5 1 0 14 3 +11 16 Palestine 6 2 1 3 8 9 −1 7 Malaysia 6 2 1 3 8 11 −3 7 Hong Kong 6 1 1 4 3 10 −7 4

Hong Kong – 2–1 1–1 0–3 Malaysia 2–0 – 4–3 0–0 Palestine 1–0 1–0 – 1–2 Qatar 2–0 5–1 2–1 –

Group 4

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Bahrain 6 5 0 1 9 4 +5 15 Kuwait 6 4 1 1 9 3 +6 13 Kyrgyzstan 6 1 1 4 3 9 −6 4 Singapore 6 0 2 4 3 8 −5 2

Bahrain – 1–2 1–0 2–0 Kuwait 0–1 – 2–0 1–1 Kyrgyzstan 1–2 0–3 – 1–1 Singapore 1–2 0-1 0–1 –

Group 5

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Thailand 6 5 1 0 20 5 +15 16 Lebanon 6 4 1 1 26 5 +21 13 Sri Lanka 6 1 1 4 8 20 −12 4 Pakistan 6 0 1 5 5 29 −24 1

Lebanon – 6–0 4–0 1–2 Pakistan 1–8 – 3–3 0–6 Sri Lanka 0–5 3–1 – 0–3 Thailand 2–2 3–0 4–2 –

Group 6

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Iraq 6 4 2 0 28 5 +23 14 Kazakhstan 6 4 2 0 20 2 +18 14 Nepal 6 2 0 4 13 25 −12 6 Macau 6 0 0 6 2 31 −29 0

Iraq – 1–1 8–0 4–2 Kazakhstan 1–1 – 3–0 4–0 Macau 0–5 0–5 – 1–6 Nepal 1–9 0-6 4–1 –

Group 7

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Uzbekistan 6 4 2 0 20 5 +15 14 Turkmenistan 6 4 0 2 12 7 +5 12 Jordan 6 2 2 2 12 7 +5 8 Chinese Taipei 6 0 0 6 0 25 −25 0

Chinese Taipei – 0–2 0–5 0–4 Jordan 6–0 – 1–2 1–1 Turkmenistan 1–0 2–0 – 2–5 Uzbekistan 7–0 2–2 1–0 –

Group 8

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts UAE 6 4 0 2 21 5 +16 12 Yemen 6 3 2 1 14 8 +6 11 India 6 3 2 1 11 5 +6 11 Brunei 6 0 0 6 0 28 −28 0

Brunei – 0–1 0–12 0–5 India 5–0 – 1–0 1–1 UAE 4–0 1–0 – 3–2 Yemen 1–0 3-3 2–1 –

Group 9

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts China 6 6 0 0 25 3 +22 18 Indonesia 6 4 0 2 16 7 +9 12 Maldives 6 1 1 4 8 19 −11 4 Cambodia 6 0 1 5 2 22 −20 1

Cambodia – 0–4 0–2 1–1 China 3–1 – 5–1 10–1 Indonesia 6–0 0–2 – 5–0 Maldives 6–0 0-1 0–2 –

Group 10

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Saudi Arabia 6 6 0 0 30 0 +30 18 Vietnam 6 3 1 2 9 9 +0 10 Bangladesh 6 1 2 3 5 15 −10 5 Mongolia 6 0 1 5 2 22 −20 1

Bangladesh – 2–2 0–3 0–4 Mongolia 0–3 – 0–6 0–1 Saudi Arabia 6–0 6–0 – 5–0 Vietnam 0–0 4–0 0–4 –

Second round

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners qualify for the 2002 FIFA World Cup
	Runners-up advance to the AFC play off

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Saudi Arabia 8 5 2 1 17 8 +9 17 Iran 8 4 3 1 10 7 +3 15 Bahrain 8 2 4 2 8 9 −1 10 Iraq 8 2 1 5 9 10 −1 7 Thailand 8 0 4 4 5 15 −10 4

Bahrain – 3–1 2–0 0–4 1–1 Iran 0–0 – 2–1 2–0 1–0 Iraq 1–0 1–2 – 1–2 4–0 Saudi Arabia 1–1 2–2 1–0 – 4–1 Thailand 1–1 0–0 1–1 1–3 –

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts China 8 6 1 1 13 2 +11 19 UAE 8 3 2 3 10 11 −1 11 Uzbekistan 8 3 1 4 13 14 −1 10 Qatar 8 2 3 3 10 10 +0 9 Oman 8 1 3 4 7 16 −9 6

China – 1–0 3–0 3–0 2–0 Oman 0–2 – 0–3 1–1 4–2 Qatar 1–1 0–0 – 1–2 2–2 UAE 0–1 2–2 0–2 – 4–1 Uzbekistan 1–0 5–0 2–1 0–1 –

Play-off

Iran  v  United Arab Emirates

25 October 2001 17:30 UTC+04:30

Iran	1 – 0	United Arab Emirates
Bagheri  45'	Report

Azadi Stadium, Tehran Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Kim Young-Joo (KOR)

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United Arab Emirates  v  Iran

31 October 2001 18:30 UTC+04

United Arab Emirates	0 – 3	Iran
	Report	Daei  7' Bagheri  76' Minavand  79'

Al-Nahyan Stadium, Abu Dhabi Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Toru Kamikawa (JPN)

Iran win 4-0 on aggregate and qualify for the UEFA / AFC Intercontinental Play-off

Goalscorers

11 goals

Hani Al-Dhabit

Said Bayazid

Talal Al-Meshal

10 goals

Ali Daei Obeid Al-Dosari

Kiatisuk Senamuang Yaser Salem Ali

Jafar Irismetov

9 goals

Hesham Mohammed

Yaqoob Juma Al-Mukhaini

8 goals

Sami Al-Jaber

Mirjalol Qosimov

7 goals

Xie Hui Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail

Nirajan Rayamajhi Mohammed Salem Al-Enazi

Bashar Serur Seksan Piturat

6 goals

Ali Karimi

Emad Mohammed

5 goals

Yusuf A'Amer Al Sadi Esam Abu Touk Mubarak Mustafa

Roda Antar Fawzi Bashir

Abdullah Bin Shehan Nguyen Hong Son

4 goals

Fan Zhiyi Li Weifeng Qi Hong Jo Paul Ancheri Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto Uston Nawawi

Oleg Litvinenko Haitham Zein Wartan Ghazarian Akmal Rizal Ahmad Rakhli Nihad Haj Mohammed Nasser

Sukhrob Khamidov Kakha Gogoladze Saeed Al Kass Nikolay Shirshov Adel Al-Salemi

3 goals

Xu Yunlong Farhad Majidi Ahmad Kadhim Assad Ruslan Baltiev Igor Avdeyev Konstantin Gorovenka Jasem Al Huwaidi

Moussa Hojeij Santos Taqi Mubarak Mohammed Khamis Al-Araimi Majdi Shaaban Samir Gohar Zaman Mohammad Al-Shalhoub

Imthyas Raheem Mouhanad Bouchi Jomard Moussa Rustam Khojaev Mohammad Omar Vladimir Maminov Abdulsalam Al Ghurbani

2 goals

Mohamed Salmeen Husain Mohammed Hussain Ali Ahmed Rokonuzzaman Kanchan Chea Makara Wu Chengying Yang Chen Li Jinyu Qu Bo Ma Mingyu Hao Haidong Jules Alberto Baichung Bhutia I. M. Vijayan Bambang Pamungkas Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht Sabah Khalaf Badran Al-Shagran Rateb Al Awadat

Maksim Shevchenko Dmitriy Byakov Khalaf Al-Mutairi Ilia Kovalenko Faisal Antar Marcílio Ali Umar Adam Abdulativ Hairuddin Omar Basanta Thapa Hari Khadka Emad Abou El-Kair Mohammed Al-Jeesh Imad Ayoub Ahmed Khalifa Waleed Hamza Jassem Al-Tamimi Abdul-Aziz Hassan Dhahi Noubi

Hussein Sulaimani Abdullah Al-Waked Kasun Jayasuriya Channa Ediri Bandanage Raghdan Shehadeh Khaled Zaher Therdsak Chaiman Alier Ashurmamadov Zaker Berdykulov Djumadurdy Meredov Wladimir Baýramow Subait Khater Faisal Khalil Georgi Georgiev Nguyen Luong Phuc

1 goal

Khamis Eid Mohammad Hassan Talal Yousef Ghazi Alkhwari Khaled Al-Dossari Abdallah Marzouki Li Bing Li Xiaopeng Yu Genwei Sun Maozhen Chan Ho Man Feng Ji-zhi Keung He-chi Abdul Hakim Agung Setyabudi Bima Sakti Samel Nasa Aples Tecuari Eko Purdjianto Ismed Sofyan Habib Jaafar Haider Abdullah Amer Mhasen Haidar Majid Leith Husein Qahtan Chathir Drain Mehdi Hasheminasab Sirous Dinmohammadi Mehdi Mahdavikia Mehrdad Minavand Belal Al Laham Mahmoud Shelbaieh Ghanem Yousef Aldayeh Rafael Urazbakhtin Yevgeniy Lunev Askhat Kadyrkulov Naser Al-Sauhi Bashar Abdullah Ali Asel

Faraj Laheeb Zamirbek Jumagulov Phengta Phounsamay Valasine Dalaphone Chanthy Souksombaph Mohammad Kassas Korken Yenkibarian Kit Leong Cheong Kim Meng Leong Ali Shiham Ashraf Luthfy Ismail Naseem Mohamed Jameel Rosdi Talib Irwan Fadzli Idrus Bayarzorig Davaa B. Buman-Uchral Bal Gopal Maharjan Deepak Lama Nasser Zayid Mohammed Khamis Taqi Al Siyabi Samir Said R. Salem Badr al-Mahrooqi Muhammad Arshad Muhammad Riaz Fadi Abulatifa Jamal Al-Holi Yanti Barsales Jimmy Dona Dahi Al Naemi Abdul Nasser Ali Al Obaidly Marzouk Al-Otaibi Mohsin Harthi Al Hasan Al-Yami Abdullah Jamaan Ibrahim Al-Harbi Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi

Noh Alam Shah Mohd Noor Ali Ishak Ratna Weerarathne Kassun Tarek Jabban Maher Malki Faras Al Khatib Maher Al Sayed Thawatchai Damrong-Ongtrakul Niweat Siriwong Surachai Jirasirichote Surachai Jirasirichote Sutee Suksomkit Worrawoot Srimaka Tokhirjon Muminov Denis Knitel Rahmatullo Fuzailov Shukhrat Jabbarov Rustam Usmonov Rejepmyrat Agabaýew Goçguly Goçgulyýew Yuri Borodolimov Gurbangeldi Durdyýew Mohammad Ibrahim Hussain Abdulsalaam Jumaa Fahed Masoud Gharib Hareb Fahd Ali Zuhair Bakhit Aziz Al-Anbari Abdulrahman Ibrahim Maxim Shatskikh Alexei Dionisiyev Ulugbek Bakayev Andrey Akopyants Nguyễn Trung Vĩnh Nguyen Van Sy Anwar Ahmed Adel Abdullah Ali Aboud Awad

Own goals

Feng Ji-zhi (playing against Qatar) Surachai Jirasirichote (playing against Lebanon)

Nabil Ashoor (playing against Uzbekistan)

Ali Momin (playing against UAE)

7 goals Karim Bagheri

External links

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