Season Description 44 Asian teams are affiliated with FIFA, but Cambodia, Philippines, Bhutan and Brunei decided not to take part, and Myanmar was banned from the competition, so a total of 39 teams took part, competing for 4.5 places in the World Cup.
The qualification was composed of three rounds.
First Round: The 14 last ranked teams according to FIFA were paired 2-by-2 and played home-and-away knock-out matches.
Second Round: The 7 winners joined the other 25 teams where those 32 teams were divided in 8 groups of four teams each. The teams in each group would play against each other home-and-away, and the team with most points in each group would advance to the Third Round.
Third Round: The 8 remaining teams were divided in two groups of 4 teams each, that would again play against each other in a home-and-away basis. The two teams with most points in each group would qualify to the World Cup. The two third placed teams would play-off against each other home-and-away. Winner of this play-off would play against the fourth placed team in the final round of CONCACAF in an intercontinental play-off for a place in the World Cup.
Round 1 Turkmenistan vs Afghanistan - 14:00:00 Chinese Taipei vs Macau - 06:00:00 Afghanistan vs Turkmenistan - 09:00:00 Bangladesh vs Tajikistan - 09:00:00 Mongolia vs Maldives - 05:00:00 Macau vs Chinese Taipei - 07:00:00 Laos vs Sri Lanka - 10:00:00 Pakistan vs Kyrgyzstan - 10:00:00 Tajikistan vs Bangladesh - 09:00:00 Kyrgyzstan vs Pakistan - 08:00:00 Maldives vs Mongolia - 10:35:00 Sri Lanka vs Laos - 12:30:00 Kyrgyzstan vs Tajikistan - 10:00:00 Vietnam vs Maldives - 10:00:00 South Korea vs Lebanon - 10:00:00 Japan vs Oman - 10:20:00 India vs Singapore - 10:30:00 China vs Kuwait - 11:30:00 Uzbekistan vs Iraq - 12:00:00 Malaysia vs Hong Kong - 12:45:00 Yemen vs North Korea - 13:00:00 Jordan vs Laos - 14:00:00 Turkmenistan vs Sri Lanka - 14:00:00 Iran vs Qatar - 14:30:00 United Arab Emirates vs Thailand - 15:15:00 Palestine vs Chinese Taipei - 15:30:00 Bahrain vs Syria - 15:30:00 Saudi Arabia vs Indonesia - 17:15:00 Japan vs North Korea - 10:30:00 Uzbekistan vs Saudi Arabia - 10:45:00 South Korea vs Kuwait - 11:05:00 Bahrain vs Iran - 15:35:00
Round 2 Chinese Taipei vs Uzbekistan - 07:00:00 North Korea vs United Arab Emirates - 07:00:00 Laos vs Iran - 10:00:00 Vietnam vs Lebanon - 10:00:00 Kyrgyzstan vs Syria - 11:00:00 Tajikistan vs Bahrain - 11:00:00 Maldives vs South Korea - 11:00:00 Singapore vs Japan - 12:00:00 Hong Kong vs China - 12:00:00 India vs Oman - 12:15:00 Sri Lanka vs Saudi Arabia - 12:30:00 Malaysia vs Kuwait - 12:45:00 Yemen vs Thailand - 13:00:00 Turkmenistan vs Indonesia - 14:00:00 Palestine vs Iraq - 14:05:00 Jordan vs Qatar - 16:30:00 North Korea vs Bahrain - 06:35:00 Iran vs Japan - 13:35:00 Saudi Arabia vs South Korea - 16:45:00 Kuwait vs Uzbekistan - 16:45:00
Round 3 South Korea vs Vietnam - 10:00:00 Japan vs India - 10:20:00 China vs Malaysia - 11:30:00 Thailand vs North Korea - 12:00:00 Indonesia vs Sri Lanka - 12:00:00 Iran vs Jordan - 14:00:00 Uzbekistan vs Palestine - 14:00:00 Oman vs Singapore - 15:45:00 Iraq vs Chinese Taipei - 16:00:00 United Arab Emirates vs Yemen - 16:00:00 Bahrain vs Kyrgyzstan - 16:15:00 Qatar vs Laos - 16:30:00 Kuwait vs Hong Kong - 17:30:00 Saudi Arabia vs Turkmenistan - 18:00:00 Lebanon vs Maldives - 18:30:00 Syria vs Tajikistan - 14:15:00 North Korea vs Iran - 06:35:00 Japan vs Bahrain - 10:30:00 South Korea vs Uzbekistan - 11:05:00 Kuwait vs Saudi Arabia - 16:45:00
Round 4 Chinese Taipei vs Iraq - 07:00:00 North Korea vs Thailand - 07:00:00 Laos vs Qatar - 10:00:00 Vietnam vs South Korea - 10:00:00 Tajikistan vs Syria - 11:00:00 Maldives vs Lebanon - 11:00:00 Singapore vs Oman - 11:30:00 India vs Japan - 12:00:00 Hong Kong vs Kuwait - 12:00:00 Kyrgyzstan vs Bahrain - 12:00:00 Sri Lanka vs Indonesia - 12:30:00 Malaysia vs China - 12:45:00 Yemen vs United Arab Emirates - 13:00:00 Turkmenistan vs Saudi Arabia - 14:00:00 Palestine vs Uzbekistan - 15:30:00 Jordan vs Iran - 18:00:00 Uzbekistan vs South Korea - 13:00:00 Iran vs North Korea - 14:35:00 Bahrain vs Japan - 16:30:00 Saudi Arabia vs Kuwait - 18:05:00 Uzbekistan vs Bahrain - 13:05:00 Uzbekistan vs Bahrain - 12:05:00 Bahrain vs Uzbekistan - 19:00:00
Round 5 Sri Lanka vs Turkmenistan - 13:00:00 Indonesia vs Saudi Arabia - 12:30:00 North Korea vs Yemen - 06:30:00 Laos vs Jordan - 10:00:00 Tajikistan vs Kyrgyzstan - 10:00:00
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