2018 Fifa World Cup Qualification – Afc Second Round

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC second round
Tournament details
Dates	11 June 2015 – 29 March 2016
Teams	39 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	152
Goals scored	507 (3.34 per match)
Attendance	2,293,258 (15,087 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mohammad Al-Sahlawi; (14 goals)
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Format

A total of forty teams (teams ranked 1–34 in the AFC entrant list and six first round winners) were divided into eight groups of five teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The eight group winners and the four best group runners-up advanced to the third round of FIFA World Cup qualification as well as qualify for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup finals.

A total of 24 teams eliminated from World Cup qualification in the second round competed in the third round of 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification (which was separated from the third round of 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification), where they were divided into six groups of four teams and competed for the remaining slots of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. The 24 teams consisted of the sixteen highest ranked teams eliminated in the second round, and the eight teams that advanced from the play-off round of 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification which were contested by the remaining twelve teams eliminated in the second round.

Seeding

The draw for the second round was held on 14 April 2015, at 17:00 MST (UTC+8), at the JW Marriott Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of April 2015 (shown in parentheses below). The 40 teams were seeded into five pots:

Pot 1 contained the teams ranked 1–8.
Pot 2 contained the teams ranked 9–16.
Pot 3 contained the teams ranked 17–24.
Pot 4 contained the teams ranked 25–32.
Pot 5 contained the teams ranked 33–40.

Each group contained one team from each of the five pots. The fixtures of each group were automatically decided based on the respective pot of each team.

As the seeding order was based on the most recent FIFA Rankings prior to the draw, it differed from the order in the AFC entrant list, which was based on the FIFA World Rankings of January 2015. Among the six first round winners, three were seeded higher than pot 5 (India in pot 3, Timor-Leste and Bhutan in pot 4), on the basis of ranking points gained from the first round matches, while the other three (Yemen, Cambodia and Chinese Taipei) were seeded in pot 5.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Iran (40) Japan (50) South Korea (57) Australia (63) United Arab Emirates (68) 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)

Notes

Bolded teams qualified for the third round.
(D): Disqualified after draw

Groups

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification tiebreakers
In league format, the ranking of teams in each group was based on the following criteria (regulations Articles 20.6 and 20.7): Points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss) Overall goal difference Overall goals scored Points in matches between tied teams Goal difference in matches between tied teams Goals scored in matches between tied teams Away goals scored in matches between tied teams (if the tie was only between two teams in home-and-away league format) Fair play points first yellow card: minus 1 point indirect red card (second yellow card): minus 3 points direct red card: minus 4 points yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points Drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee

Group A

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
2	United Arab Emirates	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	1–2	0–6	—	3–0
5	East Timor	8	0	0	8	0	44	−44	0	Asian Cup qualifying play-off round	0–10	0–3	0–3	0–3	—

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
Notes:

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2018 Fifa World Cup Qualification – Afc Second Round

Format

Seeding

Groups

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Ranking of runner-up teams

Ranking of fourth-placed teams

Goalscorers

Notes

References

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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	1–2	1–2	1–0	—

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	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	0–1	0–0	—	9–0	0–3
4	Myanmar	8	2	2	4	9	21	−12	8	Asian Cup qualifying third round	0–2	0–2	3–0	—	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	0–2	0–4	—